DICE: Battlefield 3 Looks Better on Consoles Because We're Making it for PC
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Is this really the same company that made Bad Company? Is the BF1942 and BF2 DICE really back? Sure seems like it, this is the most sense I've seen out of the industry in years.
Hell yeah! Finally somebody with their head on straight who wants to do things right.
Publishers & developers take note: THIS is how you reduce PC game piracy ? by earning the customer?s confidence and respect. Not by forcing terrible DRM or by making PC games as jumblefuck console ports. Sad that even Crytek apparently no longer understands this.
That said, I?m still not running out and preordering, seeing as how other devs have made pretty similar statements, and then more or less gone back on their word with the actual game (I?m thinking of the completely borked versions of Crysis, Homefront, and some other games, who developers made similar statements before release). Will wait to hear reviews on the PC version until I buy.
However, this makes me very happy and gives me a ton of respect for DICE.
They have the same hardware. The only difference now is the OS. But seeing as how you can easily dual-boot Windows 7, even that is negligible. My girlfriend just got an iMac, YES AN IMAC, that is better than my gaming PC in specs.
In fact, let me post an image for all you bombaclots who still think Macs are drastically inferior in hardware as compared to PC's for some reason:
Yeah it's overpriced as fuck, but as far as hardware goes, it's pretty damn good. Also factor in the price of a screen like that would cost you separately.
If you can't see the image, it's 27" screen imac w/
2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
256GB Solid State Drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM
Publishers & developers take note: THIS is how you reduce PC game piracy ? by earning the customer?s confidence and respect. Not by forcing terrible DRM or by making PC games as jumblefuck console ports. Sad that even Crytek apparently no longer understands this.
That said, I?m still not running out and preordering, seeing as how other devs have made pretty similar statements, and then more or less gone back on their word with the actual game (I?m thinking of the completely borked versions of Crysis, Homefront, and some other games, who developers made similar statements before release). Will wait to hear reviews on the PC version until I buy.
However, this makes me very happy and gives me a ton of respect for DICE.
You do realize that most Macs would fall in to at least the Upper mid-range PC category, right?honeybakedham said:
They have the same hardware. The only difference now is the OS. But seeing as how you can easily dual-boot Windows 7, even that is negligible. My girlfriend just got an iMac, YES AN IMAC, that is better than my gaming PC in specs.
In fact, let me post an image for all you bombaclots who still think Macs are drastically inferior in hardware as compared to PC's for some reason:
Yeah it's overpriced as fuck, but as far as hardware goes, it's pretty damn good. Also factor in the price of a screen like that would cost you separately.
If you can't see the image, it's 27" screen imac w/
2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
256GB Solid State Drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM