Ubisoft to Distribute RE4 For PC

Gamasutra has the word that Ubisoft will be distributing Capcom's titles for PC audiences. From the article: "The deal covers North American and European territories; no details on which company would distribute the PC games in Japan, if any, were given. The first of the three titles to hit shelves will be Onimusha 3, the oldest of the games, so presumably the deal has been in the works for some time. Still unclear is whether Capcom is porting the games to PC internally, or whether a third party is handling the console-to-PC conversions. Onimusha 3 will be released in both territories in February 2006."

Comments

Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[BlueStrat]

If Ubi is sticking with Starforce for these releases, I'm giving up on Ubi games. I'd like to keep my CD/DVD burner intact, thankyou.
(Referring to the recent /. article about Starforce disabling/damaging CD/DVD burners here:http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/3 1/1721241)

Re:Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[purple_cobra]

The terms and conditions attached to that 'challenge' rendered it impossible to claim...
My personal experience of Starforce hasn't been pleasant and, as such, I won't buy any games infected by that crapware. I'm also happy to direct friends away from Starforce-polluted titles, and encourage them not to support companies which use this method of copy-protection.
I'm a fan of the Resident Evil series and it would have been great to see it running on a PC, but Ubisoft will almost certainly use Starforce to 'protect' these releases so it looks like I won't be buying the PC version of RE4.

Re:Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[cowwie]

Yes, I'm sure people are just JUMPING at the chance to pay their own money to fly to Moscow with thier own equipment to prove under Starforce's conditions that their product is flawed. They make it so easy, it's an absolute wonder that a ton of people haven't claimed it yet.

I'll offer $10,000 to anyone that can prove Katie Holmes isn't my sister, but to collect on it you have to meet me on the surface of Jupiter and perform all the necessary genealogical lookups there.

Re:Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[mobby_6kl]

Halfway through Onimusha 3, no starforce noticed ;)

What about the chainsaw?

[Rob T Firefly]

Will PC gamers get one of those neat bloody chainsaw controllers to play with?

I like this!

[WidescreenFreak]

Personally, I'm very pleased to hear this. I spend 95% of my gaming time on a PC. Only recently have I been able to go back to consoles, but that's strictly to appease my five-year-old daughter who loves Mario Kart 64. I'm sorry, but I would rather buy a new video card (sub-$200) than plunk down twice that for a new PS2, accessories, and games. The used console market might help to swing that in the future, though.

There are a number of really cool console games that I'd love to play, but I'm not going to buy an entire console just for a single game. I wouldn't even force myself to upgrade my PC if it was just for a single game. So, to see good console games like Onimusha 3 and (drool) Resident Evil 4 being released for the PC is very welcome.

As to StarForce, Ubi is just the distributor, not the developer. I know that StarForce games like most recent Splinter Cell were developed by Ubi. They had more to lose by piracy of their games. If Capcom is the actual developer, does Ubi have any real say as distributors? Besides, after the crap that has recently happened with Sony's rootkit, I would think that fewer and fewer people would be willing to tolerate suddenly losing devices due to the StarForce protection. Ubi should tread lightly when it comes to that.

Re:I like this!

[WidescreenFreak]

I'm not against getting a GameCube, particularly with Nintendo's primary push towards the kinds of games that I would let my daughter play. However, in my opinion (which I know will be taken totally the wrong way by console fan-boys) a console is just a console. Yes, I know, that's what it's meant to be. But my PC is far, far more than just a gaming machine, which is why I prefer to dump my geek cash into that. And because I have enough systems laying around (minimum of 1.4 GHz) for every member of my family and more, another piece of hardware is difficult to justify. Unfortunately, saying anything not 100% positive towards consoles has a tendency to bring out the venom in a lot of Slashdotters, which is why I normally drift away from console/PC transition stories.

And I don't know about anyone else, but I am fed up wrestling with PC games to get them to work correctly.

I really need an explanation to that one. I haven't had to wrestle with PC games to get them to work since the days of DOS and Windows 95. Either you're talking out of an orifice that isn't meant to engage in speech, or you have a really low level of tolerance. If you're referring to hardware problems, there are a ton of reasons why that would be a problem, not the least of which is buying non-standardized hardware or looking at price above all else. Sorry, but that's just the way it's been in the PC world for over a decade. Don't know if that the case with you, but that's been my experience over the past 17 years that I've been building PCs.

Re:Had to be said...

[jclast]

Marathon - Great PC game. Mac exclusive.
WoW - Playable on a Mac.
Doom 3 - Playable on Linux.

I don't think PC game means what you think it means.

So maybe I can finally play RE4...

[DoktorSeven]

despite owning both a Gamecube and PS2. Reason? Hopefully will be able to aim with a mouse, rather than the horribly imprecise analog controllers.

I've tried to play RE4 for Gamecube, but ultimately the frustration of trying to use an oversensitive analog stick to do something that requires precision -- aiming -- made me quickly give up the game in frustration, just like most console shooter games. The precision of the mouse for aiming just can't be beat.

And yep, I know bazillions of console fanboys will jump on me and tell me I'm wrong, how aiming with the analog stick is just as good (or better) than the mouse, etc. You do know lying gives you cancer, right? Okay, I'm kidding about the lying giving you cancer. But seriously, I just don't see it. You people must have robot implants that give you superhuman precision or something. Don't think I'm anti-console either, I do own both the Cube and PS2. No games that require your robot-enhanced precision, though.

I (for one) welcome our new robot implant-enhanced overlords.