Until there's an official statement, this is slapped with a rumor tag, but one of our Destructoid Community Bloggers has seemingly discovered that his videogame store will be receiving copies of BioWare's Mass Effect for PC.
The discovery came from an EA newsletter which arrived at the store where Dtoider myaimistrue works. It lists the game as MASS EFFECT PC DVD 5030945065685 EAN07706226 TBC TBC ACTION 18+ 25 SWE ENG. Complying with one of the cardinal rules of the Internet (pics or it didn't happen), he also provided a shot of the newsletter itself, which can be viewed below.
This isn't very hard to imagine being true, since a game like Mass Effect should be quite comfortable with PC controls, if only because the 360 control mapping was bloody awful (once again, the back button threw grenades and there were three buttons to draw your weapon). A good few gamers wanted to see this come to their computers and now it looks like it'll be happening.
Destructoid will keep you mouse n' keyboarders posted when there's more news to go on.
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9:54 AM on 02.05.2008
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Need as Crysis computer though.
Although I heard it's a mass of shit.
I will finally play alien lesbian sex, happy happy happy happy.
btw what Z stands for in OMG?
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microsoft doesn't seem to care about the pc gaming market anymore. last week valve announced steam works and yet not a word from microsoft. the whole games for windows initiative failed. they took the keys outta the car and said "bye. see ya. casual games whatever". it just shows where their emphasis has been all along, on the 360.
Ya, i would say that most Mac users are going "windows on mac' and not PC; afterall, all the newest Mac's come with the hardware necessary to use bootcamp and put windows on a Mac, and thus access to all PC games... Though ofcourse, that still helps microsoft as microsoft is in the computer game for the sake of it's OS not any hardware... so MS wins whether people choose PC or Mac
i really this is probably the reason i'd choose PS3 over 360... i can run a lot 360's must have's on a PC, and yet, the PS3's must have titles will remain as PS3 exclusives and never see a port to the PC... frankly, i wonder if we should really call them 360 "exclusive" if they come out for the PC aswell (a lot of People tend to use the term "exclusive" only on the console level and not consider PC to be multiplatform)
no offense, it's just that you stated so many times about how much you hated it and i keep seeing you come back to it.
sorry if this has already been asked, just curious.
Games for Windows failed because it offered nothing that PC gamers got for free and was pretty much Vista-only. I don't like Games for Windows either, but it doesn't mean that MS has abandoned PCs, just that it's abandoned Games for Windows. Their ultimate objective is clearly to combine the Windows PC and 360 platforms along with Media Center functionality to create the kind of all-function network where you turn to something made by MS for anything you want to do. It makes zero sense at all for them to segregate those markets (console v. PC). The easiest way to get there is to make 360 games and make sure PC users get them too. PC-centric development is harder going PC-to-360 than 360-to-PC.
you're absolutely right. maybe i was exaggerating a bit. but your comments basically confirm what i said about games for windows.
you're prolly right about that they haven't abandoned pc gaming forever and that they just failed on gfw. they haven't exactly nurtured that market this generation, and i am very skeptical about their future approach. i am being cynical and i have been paranoid ever since their ces presentation.
i hope they can make the integration of everything digital in your house to be microsoft, and actually make the connectivity that they've been preaching about for so many years to actually work.
i'm seeing their ces presentation as a bad sign, and i am worried about them not responding to valve's steam works. i hope they're hard at work, because the last thing i want is for them to abandoned the pc gaming market.
Not surprised. I'm glad my PC gaming friends can get in on the fun.
I don't really get the console hate in the comments though, since a 360 costs the same as a graphics card, and its way more comfortable to play on the couch rather than a PC desk, even if i DID have a PC that could run it I would probably get it for 360 <shrugs>
I got very little slowdown in the game, if at all, so that wasn't an issue for me. Texture popup was evil, though ;)
Also, the PC hardware config (what with a HDD AND ALL) should make those elevators everyone seems grumpy about disappear.
We understand you hate it, maybe you should leave anything related to Mass Effect for other D-toid staffers. People who whine about you bashing Mass Effect all the time really have alot of merit in their complaint by now.