The Force Unleashed

On the plus side, Microsoft have just slashed the price of the Arcade version of the X360 in the US. They aren't making similar cuts in Europe, however.

If this game was coming out on the PC I would be chomping at the bit in ways I haven't since the original JK came out.

On the 360, I'll probably buy it, then sit and watch my son play it with a deep sigh and a feeling of 'meh'.

In the meantime, I find myself intrigued by Fallout 3, which is a PC, gamma-world looking RPG- just what I've been pining for...

I'm gutted this isn't coming out on the PC. A real kick in the teeth for all PC gamers who've been buying LucasArt games for years, long before the Playstation and XBOX ever existed.

The official line that I heard is that it's not being release on PC because most PCs today are not capable of handling the Physics requirements.

Sounds like borderline bullshit to me.

Well, there's a certain logic to it. The folk who made Age of Conan slipped up a tad by making the system requirements so high most people would need to buy a new PC to play the game... which was one of the main reasons I went for a console in the first place - no worrying about whether your graphics card can handle a new game, etc. I suspect there'll be a PC version once surveys suggest enough PC users have moved on to systems that could handle the game without an upgrade.

I've noticed a lot of video game companies build games that only the top of the line PCs can run. I am not sure why they do this, but after a few years, people still buy it, after they get a new PC, albeit at a discounted price. Maybe that is their plan?

That is the official word, and while I have no idea how accurate it is it does make a kind of sense.

With graphics you can just turn off fancy effects and it doesn't alter the gameplay one bit. With cpu intensive physics and ai calculations you can't really scale things down without it altering how the game actually works.

My guess is that it is a combination of that, and the fact that The Force Unleashed is very obviously a console game in feel. The PC is my favorite gaming platform but I cannot imagine playing TFU with a mouse and keyboard.

True, but I have a 23" Acer LCD Flat Panel.
I'd rather use that.


J.

This isn't new. The 2 Lego Star Wars games were on PC but when Lucasarts consolidated the games and threw in extra levels they decided they couldn't be bothered with a PC version. I don't understand why they have suddenly started doing it this way, but there you go.

I think it has to do with piracy. A console game is much harder to pirate. I'd like to see sales records of PC released games vs. console games. If sales on the PC platform are much lower, they probably just abandoned it because they thought the game would be pirated to hell. The rest is just PR bullshit to keep the legit PC gamers less enraged.

Yeah, but their approach is inconsistent. Lego Indiana Jones still came out on PC.

Targeting system not so hot? Yeah, I'll wait for a PC conversion. I can barely target with my PSP as it is.


J.

I bought a used PSP, and I use it mostly for music, [-]porn[/-] movies on the go, the occasional game, and portable internet browsing. It will be some time before I get any other game system. I really am a PC gamer. I had bought a dual core system just so I could play the newer PC games.


J.

Bailey?? WTF??

I played the demo a week or so ago, and while it was pretty cool, it got boring rather quickly. It basically just turned into button mashing after a while, and the moves got repetitive. The aiming does kinda suck, but you get used to it. I suppose I should try playing on the harder settings, but the amount of damage I was able to take was laughable. I guess if you weren't instructed to kill everything in the level, you could basically just walk through the level and not need to attack anyone on Easy mode. The physics engine and all was impressive, and I liked how the storm troopers grab onto each other when being flung across rooms. Graphics were also pretty good.

I can see the game being more exciting in later levels and/or on harder difficulty settings, but my first time playing that first level, the novelty wore off soon.

I'm not gonna rush to go buy it tomorrow, but I would definitely rent it or buy it if it comes down in price.

1) Those are the PS3/360 versions

2) 1UP/EGM gave all SKU's of the game a score that is right at the bottom end of all the reviews that have come out up to now, there are plenty of better reviews as well.

That's the user ratings.

When someone buys the game and plays through it, lemme know what you think. I've also read that the game only lasts about 8 hours. Not enough gameplay to warrant a $50-60 purchase for a console, IMHO.

I just watched the X-Play review on G4.

2 out of 5 stars.
The game sucks. Hard.

They even brought in a guest host to do the review. I know G4 just got back from Toyko, maybe Sessler had jetlag. My bet is that nobody wanted to go near this bomb so they had a noname fill in to deliver the bad news.

Cut scenes are cool. Story is canon. But the game play sucks.

And it seems the game is rather short. You can decide whether or not that's a blessing.

My favorite part ? The bonus level is named "default text" and half the collectables don't work.

X-Play claims it looks like someone just stopped working on the game and went home.

The part where you rip the star destroyer out of the sky was labeled boring and uninteresting.

Oh well.

http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/1832/Star_Wars_The_Force_Unleashed.html

That's the review and it got hammered.

I wonder how much money they paid Game Informer to sing such praise all this time.

Ouch. I'm out on this one. The lack of a PC version pissed me off to begin with.

Man, that's a lot of hype for a bomb. Bailey!!!

Maybe they should have skipped the media blitz and actually WORKED ON THE GAME.

If I ever get a console system (not likely) and they don't make a PC port, I may eventually get the game, but only after it's marked way down. I'd be willing to pay full price for a PC game, but not for a console game, and definitely not for a PSP game.


J.