No Dead Space 2 for PC? - UPDATED

[FightThePower]

Not that bothered. Dead Space was good, but not spectacular.

Very disappointed they said they are focusing less on Survival Horror because there was barely any to start off with.

 

[drizztmainsword]

Yes it does. And it's wrong for doing so for the reasons I described.

If taking a picture of a bunch of things is all it takes for you to believe something is fine, then there's a lot of stuff in this world that has undergone massive decline that I can easily prove (incorrectly) to you is doing fine.

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

 

[geldonyetich]

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

If sales figures and a massive deluge of titles avoiding the PC isn't evidence enough for you, I doubt anything I could come up with would convince you otherwise.

Besides, I doubt you'd be willing to undergo the equivalent effort to find evidence to prove to me that it's not. Lacking such reciprocity, I'll not waste my time.

 

[jubosu]

I am just going by my experience but as a longtime PC gamer and very limited console user, I will not miss this

As for getting screwed over in MW2, I dont see it as an issue for me personally or anyone i play with there are few problems we encounter and they seem to have smoothed out the switches between hosts to a point where I see that problem as a non issue.

 

[solidstatemind]

First: Just because you don't happen to like the original game doesn't mean that it's "not a loss", it means it's not a loss to you. You solopsistic fools really need to realize that you are not really the center of the universe before reality kicks your balls up around your ears.

Second: This is not about porting, this is about support. If it works on an XBox 360, it'll run on a PC, technically. However, EA would have to worry about how the program interacts with a wide variety of graphics cards/drivers, rather than just the standard set of hardware of a console. I think the beancounters at EA are thinking that they will see a significant drop in the amount of support-hours they have to devote to the game post-release if they don't do a PC version... and their probably right to an extent, sadly. However, I think that they are still using somewhat specious logic there-- while more and more of the target demo do happen to own both a PC and a console, I would be shocked if a substantial number still didn't.

I still think it's a dumb idea by EA, and I'm disappointed by it. I really enjoyed the first game and thought they did a stellar job of creating a good atmosphere and environment and an really interesting story, but it is extremely difficult for me to play this sort of game without a mouse and keyboard.

 

[Abedeus]

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

If sales figures and a massive deluge of titles avoiding the PC isn't evidence enough for you, I doubt anything I could come up with would convince you otherwise.

Besides, I doubt you'd be willing to undergo the equivalent effort to find evidence to prove to me that it's not. Lacking such reciprocity, I'll not waste my time.

Steam grew by 25% in the last year.

Your argument and existence is void and null.

 

[geldonyetich]

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

If sales figures and a massive deluge of titles avoiding the PC isn't evidence enough for you, I doubt anything I could come up with would convince you otherwise.

Besides, I doubt you'd be willing to undergo the equivalent effort to find evidence to prove to me that it's not. Lacking such reciprocity, I'll not waste my time.

Steam grew by 25% in the last year.

Your argument and existence is void and null.

You don't really know how to hold an argument if taking a single retailer and a percentage that means nothing (25% of what - revenue? Overall sales?), without bothering to cite your data, is your means to render another person's argument "void and null."

Not to mention you're seeing arguments where there are none. Not to advertise my Blog, but I've put more thought into this [http://dsob.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/the-death-strangulation-migration-of-pc-gaming/] than you know.

Honestly, what you just did here is... no, I don't think you'd understand how pathetic it was.

Besides, I didn't say that PC gaming was dying, per se, so much as that picture was ridiculous because it asserts that the situation behind the titles shown in the picture is the same. Things are much different now.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll not return to this or any other message board until I finished BioShock 2 (PC) for fear of spoilers. You can interpret that as me fleeing with my tail between my legs if your ego is really that weak as to require delusion to reinforce it.

 

[drizztmainsword]

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

If sales figures and a massive deluge of titles avoiding the PC isn't evidence enough for you, I doubt anything I could come up with would convince you otherwise.

Besides, I doubt you'd be willing to undergo the equivalent effort to find evidence to prove to me that it's not. Lacking such reciprocity, I'll not waste my time.

Every single game I am looking forward to is coming out for the PC. The PC is where we will see innovation of the games industry, likely by the efforts of phenomenal independent developers. The PC is where you go if you want to play and RTS. It's where you go to play an MMO. Any shooter worth its salt plays better on PC (and no, MW2 is *not* worth its salt, it's rather horrid). And of course the market share of PCs is going to be smaller than consoles; PCs are bleeding expensive to maintain (but it's worth it because computers can do so much more). The only real issue with PC gaming is the piracy and attempts to thwart it. DRM just causes problems for legitimate consumers; pirates can hack the DRM out of a game and have it on the internet within hours. The only "good DRM" I've ever seen is Steam, and lo and behold, Steam is doing quite well for Valve now isn't it.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

As someone who plays shooters almost exclusively on the PC I'm happy about this, no I'm not going to try and say it's bound to be crap or that first one sucked. I'd just rather them not butcher a game by slapping a .exe on the xbox 360 port and calling it a PC game, it only ever leads to disapointment. PCs are not consoles, they don't work properly with things like matchmaking and autoaim (yes AvP, you've wounded me deeply).

If they don't have the time or resource to release a PC version, it's far better that they don't. At least this way nobody is going to get screwed by buying a console game on the PC. I can rest easy knowing that in this instance, my instinct of buying on my prefered platform isn't going to lead me to an inferior version. It's not like there's any shortage of other PC games.

Amen. I'm getting really sick of multi-platform games having crap like autoaim and mouse smoothing on by default and sometimes not configurable without manually editing config files, or even not at all (BioShock and Borderlands, among other things, I'm looking at you). If I wanted my mouse to handle like an analog stick, I'd be playing the game with a controller. On a console.

Complaints of console-itis in Dead Space were why I ended up not buying the PC version on sale recently, even though it was ridiculously cheap. I'm totally fine with console games in general (and have a whole shelf full of them), just on a console, not my PC. I just want stuff to take advantage of the platform it's on and not feel like a crappy port, whether it's gone from console to PC, PC to console, or one console to another. Same reason I can't stand the Mac version of Firefox, too, since it always felt so out of place (although I hear they've finally been making some progress on that).

 

[CUnk]

I regret paying $10 for Dead Space on my PC. I can't even be bothered to finish it.

So I am not saddened by this news. Good riddance actually.

 

[Abedeus]

Sorry, your meaning is hiding behind your grammar again. Are you agreeing with or denouncing the thought of PCs being fine? If you think that the PC platform is faltering, I'd ask you to come up with evidence rather than rant over some silly picture.

If sales figures and a massive deluge of titles avoiding the PC isn't evidence enough for you, I doubt anything I could come up with would convince you otherwise.

Besides, I doubt you'd be willing to undergo the equivalent effort to find evidence to prove to me that it's not. Lacking such reciprocity, I'll not waste my time.

Steam grew by 25% in the last year.

Your argument and existence is void and null.

You don't really know how to hold an argument if taking a single retailer and a percentage that means nothing (25% of what - revenue? Overall sales?), without bothering to cite your data, is your means to render another person's argument "void and null."

Not to mention you're seeing arguments where there are none. Not to advertise my Blog, but I've put more thought into this [http://dsob.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/the-death-strangulation-migration-of-pc-gaming/] than you know.

Honestly, what you just did here is... no, I don't think you'd understand how pathetic it was.

Besides, I didn't say that PC gaming was dying, per se, so much as that picture was ridiculous because it asserts that the situation behind the titles shown in the picture is the same. Things are much different now.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll not return to this or any other message board until I finished BioShock 2 (PC) for fear of spoilers. You can interpret that as me fleeing with my tail between my legs if your ego is really that weak as to require delusion to reinforce it.

By "Steam" I mean number of people buying at Steam. Meaning that the number of customers was up, up, up this year for Steam.

 

[Kickballs247]

PC gamers get enough great stuff. Like they'll miss this "survival shooter". Note: Dead Space was NOT survival horror. There is no horror in "startle" scares. Just surprise and flinching.

Survival because you do have to scrounge for ammo and explore. Shooter, because you see alien, you shoot it. And they made action the primary focus. While insulting me with so called "puzzles".

That said, I had a good time with the first game. But it wasn't a horror game. Unless gore=horror.

I am glad to see I am not the only one who feels this way. I thought Dead Space was one of the most over rated games to come out in the past couple of years. I can see now it was just the console users that thought it was a "scary masterpiece" instead of a generic startle fest.

 

[ThePeaceFrog]

Just one point - "Dead Space 2 is being developed for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC" thats what it says on the official EA site anyway. :/

 

[Callate]

Oh, well, I guess I'd better run out and buy an XBox 360 to play it, then.

(rimshot)

You're beginning to piss me off, EA. If Bioware ever leaves you guys, I am not sticking around to play your stupid sports franchises. I don't demand that every game be re-textured to look its best at 1280x1024 and above, but if you guys aren't even going to try...

You've dumbed down the C&C franchise into a twitchfest. You've abandoned PC gamers midway through one of the few new IPs you've created in the last several years. I've been loyal to your brand for decades, but you're running out of slack for this gamer.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I regret paying $10 for Dead Space on my PC. I can't even be bothered to finish it.

I don't like to dismiss other people's opinions outright (well, I do, but I try not to) but I'm having a hard time taking this statement seriously.

 

[mayney93]

omg, i cant believe that sup com is on the happily dying picture, that game is awesome , and made by my fave game devolper, gas powered games ^^

 

[dochmbi]

No problem, at the end of this generation I'm going to grab a used ps3 and xbox 360, pirate all the games I missed, play them, then resell the consoles again.

 

[Keralastic]

It's official.

Love is over.

I guess I'll just grab it for the PS3 like I did for the first, but I won't be able to truly enjoy it as much as I could.

Remember when devs actually cared about the players? Those were good times.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Ah thats a pity, I liked the first dead space.... ah well, more time for other games I suppose. I still have yet to finish the first one.