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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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Good stuff. I hope we get more create-a-character options so I can make the ugliest guy in the world so that the sex scene will just be that much funnier.
:) it's good that I've updated my pc with some fine 3870 ;P
Sweet.
Need as Crysis computer though.
Excellent, I hope it's true. This was the only 360 exclusive that I was missing out on.
Although I heard it's a mass of shit.
I remember being told that it was coming to PC after Xmas by my PC loving friend... i had no idea it hadn't been announced :o
YAY!
I will finally play alien lesbian sex, happy happy happy happy.
We won't have to buy this if our charm or intimidate is high enough, right?
Good stuff if true.
Really not that surprising considering the other Bioware RPGs all hit the PC.
I certainly hope it's true... i plan on get a new computer in a few months and i know i would be quick to get this if it comes out on PC... really, one of my main reasons for not getting a 360, many of the must have exclusives end up on the PC anyway... and i need a new PC FAR more than i need a game console
Good. Sex returns to where it is needed: The Personal Computer!
i heard sonic rpg is coming to pc
sounds..interestin'?..
btw what Z stands for in OMG?
Wait a minute, this isn't about Brawl at all!!
Hmm. It'll be interesting to see if this also has requirements like Assassin's Creed and other recent 360 ports...
Cool.
Well, DUH. I've said it before and I say it again: my largest misgiving about the whole 360 platform is that at some point, there's almost ALWAYS a PC port of the better titles. Some work out well (Gears) while others not (Lost Planet), but the patient get rewarded. Bioware's never neglected PC users, and Microsoft has absolutely NO reason NOT to encourage devs and publishers to port everything they can to the PC, as they have feet in both markets. It's more money in their pockets, and draws potential Apple users to go PC for the greater title stables (or buy Windows-Mac) to play them with. And since a 360 is essentially a PC with better Live and a crappy heat-dispersion system, it's easy and cheap. And since it came out some time ago that the 360's main purpose was to cement market share from Sony rather than provide a truly long-lived platform, it's pretty much decided. The last reason left for me to go 360 is Ace Combat 6.
DO WANT! Also, IMHO it should have been released simultaneously. It just makes sense.
Surfer Girl once stated that Mass Effect PC will be out on fall 2008, so this is not entirely new.
Sweeet! I can finally get my hands on some blue alien boobies. Yunno...and the rest i guess
OMG, Mass Effect with no frame rate drops and screen texture popping! Hell we might even get side missions that are actually worth doing!
Mass Effect - Frame Drop = 100% Awesome
Rosseh- its cause its development for console first then ported to PC. If it was other way around, console games wouldnt have any frame drop.
for those of us played it and want to actually play it without the frame rate hitting somewhere way down on the calvin scale, this is great news. it's also great news for real rpg people who get to experience this awesome game.
@unangbangkay
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.
@unangbangkay
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)
Will probably fix the texture pop problems that plague the 360
Excellent. I have the game for 360, but the more people that can play this amazing game the better.
how come when ever Mass Effect news comes up it's Jim posting it?
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.
BOOBS
I knew this day would come, and I'm damn excited.
My PC still can't run crap, so no Mass Effect PC for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
FUCK YEA! One less reason to buy a console! SHIT YEA!
I am with gyshall on this one.
Hoho, internet fame, here i come! *eerie silence*
Maybe now they'll fix all those shitty glitches. Or not, if it goes anything like the PC version of Gears Of War, that was glitchy as shit.
@xper
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.
Makes sense, it is Bioware after all. If this is true I do think the controls and menus will work better on the PC.
@unangbangkay
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.
This is lil old for me because I knew this for a month but... I like news :)
But ~SPOILER~Saren dies~SPOILER~ :O That obvs means that Xbox is better.
Not surprised. I'm glad my PC gaming friends can get in on the fun.
Yeah its nice to see PC gamers able to get in on this awesome game.
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 ;)
Fuck yeah! I've been asking for this for months.
I can't wait to illegally download it.
I'm not surprised at all.
Maybe there will be shorter ElevatorS!!!!
I'd be excited about this, except the KotoR ports ran like SHIT, so I don't know how I'm going to be able to run this.
Kind of obvious. @Wedge, KotoR I, the only one made by Bioware, ran awesome on my computer. Mass Effect will be very demanding though. Very, very demanding.
I was going to get a 360 mostly to play this. Looks like I don't need a broken console any more though.
Also, the PC hardware config (what with a HDD AND ALL) should make those elevators everyone seems grumpy about disappear.
I hope it comes out with extra content, but i'll buy the PC version again regardless.
I want this to happen.
Thanks for bashing Mass Effect... again.
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.
pc: No comparison to the 360 and ps3. Who agrees with me?
Not me the pc is cool. Im sure people will agree with that.
Mods for Mass Effect on PC? That'd be rather sweet.
You mean Mass Effect wasn't originally for the pc? All this time I thought Mass Effect was released on the pc
I agree that the PC has more control options than a console.
I love lots of options in my games. Consoles dont give me that.
Fuck yeah! Bow down to your PC Gaming overlords!
This is unsurprising. Both KOTORs and Jade Empire were (badly) ported to the PC so it only makes sense that Bioware would be porting another KOTOR-esque console RPG to the PC as well.
Yumplumbum, tell me your joking.... KOTOR was ported PERFECTLY onto the PC. Jade empire was as well, what fictional world do you live in?
@xper
True, the PC game market LOOKS to be petering out a little, but the truth of the matter is that major development studios are realizing several (obvious trends).
1. Consoles = cheap
2. PCs = multifunctional, and with the right controls/hardware, easily matches a console for gaming capability.
3. Consoles are becoming a hell of a lot like PCs (actually more like Macs since you can't open them up).
Conclusion. Consoles ARE PCs (Wii excepted), except with slower browsers, no MS word, and a uniform hardware profile (making development easier).
So what to do? Develop console, port it to the PC, and let PC players either get used to Keyboard+mouse or buy a 360 controller and plug it in. Easy-peasy. MS wanted that by trying to port Live to PCs, but it failed on that part. It's succeeding on most other fronts since most genres that are PC-centric (RTSs, quirky point-click adventure games, flash, and FPSs) are now in the technical reach of most platforms. C&C3 and CoD4 are proof of that. The last steps are cross-platform multiplayer that actually works and decent MMOs.
Now that you think about it, that's the one good thing about the Phantom's basic concept. It came with a lap keyboard and mouse.
I don't really care about this :P
I've got it on the 360, so I won't be getting it for PC :-)
perhaps Fox News will want this censored now too...don't sell to little children and the innocent!
Oh Saren, such a rascal.