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[dfyb]

Lost Planet's system requirements turned out to be much lighter than I expected, and with everything turned off the game features good framerates even on the minimum required machine.

I don't see why GeoW can't do the same, specially when it's motion blur and shadowing algorithms are actually simpler than LP's.

epic is also much more familiar with creating engines for PC -- gears shouldn't be any harder to run than UT3.

edit: also :lol @ people going "nobody has a rig that can play it!" as if PC gamers have never upgraded.

 

[Skilotonn]

Remember when Xbox fans schooled me that it would take 4 years for Gears PC to come out?

:lol

Yeah.

Mass Effect next.

So where's the release date again Borys? :lol

About you being right - Mark Rein himself hinted at it a long time ago - you weren't being right about it coming to PC, you were just being hopeful...





...like always!

Another example of your "dear God I hope so"-ness is a simultaneous release of GoW2 for 360/PC...

You know, instead of begging for late ports, you could just buy it right away on 360 instead of posting the same old pathetic revenge trolling that we've all grown tired of - I don't even think the rest of the handful of PC loyalists on here like you... :lol

Grow up man, seriously. Play the games you lust for early, and save us the reading of embarassing yourself on those once-in-a-blue-moon 360-to-PC ports...

 

[kylej]

Cool, so that's what the content that was cut from the 360 version to make a November release date looks like.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Cool, so that's what the content that was cut from the 360 version to make a November release date looks like.

:lol :lol

Forced holiday release dates ftl.

 

[Kabouter]

Cool, so that's what the content that was cut from the 360 version to make a November release date looks like.

I hope it makes it to 360 as downloadble content, don't feel like buying a game I already own.

 

[ice cream]

don't feel like buying a game I already own.

Ok. Then don't.

 

[Kabouter]

Ok. Then don't.

...
I hate GAF sometimes.

 

[Neodiablo22]

This sounds like unreal 2003 to unreal 2004 all over again.

 

[Imperial Hot]

Hopefully they will announce Gears of War for the PC, as well as the additional content for the 360 at E3.

That would be ****ing awesome.

 

[starship]

Links don't work for me. Anyone can mirror the 720p video?

 

[painey]

I dont think there will be any more DLC for Gears on 360, I think the next new content will be a Gears 2.

 

[InterMoniker]

Gears will come to the PC. Everybody knew this. Will it matter to the 360? No lol

Will it come this year? Probably not. 2008? Probably. What comes in 2008? Gears of war 2 for the 360 probably.

So who cares? Well i guess the PC players who didn't play it on the 360.

Good for them.....

Is this bad news for 360 or Gears of war fans? No....

So, why do some people act that this is by some means, a bad thing!?

Whoa! o_0 Just like Halo.

 

[KTallguy]

There are thousands of PC gamers that didn't play Gears yet. They will now.
God I love being right.

:lol

I hope MS announces Gears 2 as a simultaneous 360/ PC release.

Most likely never ever ever...

Mass Effect next.

That would be awesome.

 

[ToyMachine228]

I hope MS announces Gears 2 as a simultaneous 360/ PC release.

You won't hear a peep about Gears 2 until after Halo 3 ships. Don't want to blow your big loads all at once. The earliest we'll see Gears 2 on the shelf is Fall 2008.

 

[Brofist]

So where's the release date again Borys? :lol

About you being right - Mark Rein himself hinted at it a long time ago - you weren't being right about it coming to PC, you were just being hopeful...





...like always!

Another example of your "dear God I hope so"-ness is a simultaneous release of GoW2 for 360/PC...

You know, instead of begging for late ports, you could just buy it right away on 360 instead of posting the same old pathetic revenge trolling that we've all grown tired of - I don't even think the rest of the handful of PC loyalists on here like you... :lol

Grow up man, seriously. Play the games you lust for early, and save us the reading of embarassing yourself on those once-in-a-blue-moon 360-to-PC ports...

you sound a little bitter, is the 60 fps thing bothering you that much

 

[jett]

I wonder if the pc port will have global lighting like it was originally supposed to have.

 

[Imperial Hot]

I wonder if the pc port will have global lighting like it was originally supposed to have.

It hurts....I want Global Lighting!

 

[Deacan]

Hope Xbox 360 users get the extra stuff, but I don't really care as come September the grand daddy will come home.

I will admit I wonder what Gears of War will feel like on a keyboard, the aiming will be better no dout (Snipers in mutiplayer with mouse = Oh Hell no) but movement am not so sure.

 

[Kabouter]

Hope Xbox 360 users get the extra stuff, but I don't really care as come September the grand daddy will come home.

Settlers VI: Rise of an Empire is not on 360 sadly ;(. So september will be barren

 

[Skilotonn]

you sound a little bitter, is the 60 fps thing bothering you that much

Bitter? Not at all... if you want to call someone bitter, that would be Borys himself... you must not be familiar with him...

About the 60fps, looking at it again, it probably isn't even 60fps... I'd check to compare it on the 360 right now, as it's already smooth as is, but I don't have my 360 now...

 

[Deacan]

I failed to add I am a Xbox 360 user hehe, I used to PC game by in the golden age of Quake 2, Tribes, UT, TFC ect.

But now days my PC is just a notebook, the only thing I really miss are mods and custom maps.

Conc Jump maps ftw!

 

[CrunchinJelly]

It hurts....I want Global Lighting!

Whaaa?

A quick look on Wikipedia revealed what Global Illumination is, and... wow:

The difference is huge, but I wonder how it would look in a game.

 

[gregor7777]

First Day Re-Buy

 

[Kabouter]

The difference is huge, but I wonder how it would look in a game.

Buy stalker and turn it on via an ini tweak.
Crazy demanding, but looks sooooooooooooooooo good.

 

[gregor7777]

Buy stalker and turn it on via an ini tweak.
Crazy demanding, but looks sooooooooooooooooo good.

Didn't know that existed...so it overrides Full Dynamic Lighting setting in Options? Or are they seperate things?

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Sounds and looks awesome.

Oh and it's definitely 60 FPS, not sure how that can be disputed(check how fluid Marcus's roll is around the 24 second mark)

Then again I don't own a gaming capable PC so guess all I can do is hope for the new content to be available on the 360.

 

[gregor7777]

Sounds and looks awesome.

Oh and it's definitely 60 FPS, not sure how that can be disputed(check how fluid Marcus's roll is around the 24 second mark)
.

LOL, umm what? Have you ever played a PC game?

PC games aren't limited to arbitrary 30/60 FPS locks...it may have been 86 fps, 41 fps, 112 fps...who the hell knows?

 

[Kabouter]

Didn't know that existed...so it overrides Full Dynamic Lighting setting in Options? Or are they seperate things?

Overrides I think.
You can also turn on blur (configurable how much blur you want) in the ini btw, also a nice added effect that DOESN'T cost much performance.

 

[gregor7777]

Overrides I think.
You can also turn on blur (configurable how much blur you want) in the ini btw, also a nice added effect that DOESN'T cost much performance.

Cool, do they play nice with the Float32 mod? I hear it's being packaged into the next patch.

 

[Kabouter]

Cool, do they play nice with the Float32 mod? I hear it's being packaged into the next patch.

They do, but you're gonna want an expensive piece of graphics hardware for global illumination. It's 8800/2900 territory pretty much. My 7800GTX can't handle it at all in the more heavily lit areas of the game.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

LOL, umm what? Have you ever played a PC game?

Um..yeah?

PC games aren't limited to arbitrary 30/60 FPS locks...it may have been 86 fps, 41 fps, 112 fps...who the hell knows?

It may have been 60 fps too. Sheesh.
Actually hell it may have been somewhere between 58 and 62 fps for all I care.

 

[Borys]

Dudes thinking about global illumination in Gears PC: just stop.

 

[SSM25]

I bought a 360 just for gears, I'm starting to feel bad about it

 

[gregor7777]

Um..yeah?



It may have been 60 fps too. Sheesh.
Actually hell it may have been somewhere between 58 and 62 fps for all I care.

LOL, sorry if that came across harshly, it wasn't my intention.

My point mainly is that some 360 owners in this thread are complaining that the PC version will be running at a strict 60fps as opposed to the 30 fps on the 360.

Where in reality, even with a pretty good gaming system most users will be playing the game near 30-40fps because of high end system requirements.

OAN, if I can play this and UT3 at around 40 fps at around a 720p resolution with my current system I'll be the happiest guy around.

 

[Jonsoncao]

I bought a 360 just for gears, I'm starting to feel bad about it

at least a 360 is much cheaper than an 8800gtx

 

[SSM25]

Not if you already have a good rig

 

[gregor7777]

My 7800GTX can't handle it at all in the more heavily lit areas of the game.

That's exactly what I have as well...except I have 2 of them in SLI.

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

Totally expected, and classic Microsoft troyan strategy: publish a game on Xbox, and about 6-10 months before the sequel comes again as an Xbox exclusive, publish the first game on PC too. PC gamers without an Xbox will try it, and eventually will want to buy a 360 to play the sequel. They did it with Halo and Halo 2, and will do it again with GOW, with Epic's help.

 

[Kabouter]

Totally expected, and classic Microsoft troyan strategy: publish a game on Xbox, and about 6-10 months before the sequel comes again as an Xbox exclusive, publish the first game on PC too. PC gamers without an Xbox will try it, and eventually will want to buy a 360 to play the sequel. They did it with Halo and Halo 2, and will do it again with GOW, with Epic's help.

/me looks at nickname
/me thinks
......say, you don't play Cybernations do you?

 

[p3tran]

I bought a 360 just for gears, I'm starting to feel bad about it

either enjoy it more with halo3 & gears2 etc, or sell it when gears releases on pc.

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

/me looks at nickname
/me thinks
......say, you don't play Cybernations do you?

No, me simply loves Transmetropolitan

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

I bought a 360 just for gears, I'm starting to feel bad about it

You are feeling bad because you played GOW with an year and a half in advance of when you'd have played it on PC? What are you, LTTP-man?

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Here's a hint:

shut the hell up.

There are thousands of PC gamers that didn't play Gears yet. They will now.

Borys, you're still quite the charmer.

Anyway, we already knew it was coming out for the PC. If you want to pat yourself on the back because you knew something that was common knowledge, go right ahead. And I don't want MS to waste a lot of time in the conference talking about an old game 'cause if I have to hear about Gears of War I'd rather hear about the sequel (you know, something new), but you just know they're going to trump this up as a major event when it really isn't.

 

[michaeld]

LOL@ all the cry babies with their undies wadded up. Who gives a crap(besides the cry baby tools in here) if it goes to the pc? How does that take away from your experience?

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

LOL@ all the cry babies with their undies wadded up. Who gives a crap(besides the cry baby tools in here) if it goes to the pc? How does that take away from your experience?

I don't think anyone here is doing that. :/

 

[RiskyChris]

LOL@ all the cry babies with their undies wadded up. Who gives a crap(besides the cry baby tools in here) if it goes to the pc? How does that take away from your experience?

Who are you talking to?

 

[SSM25]

You are feeling bad because you played GOW with an year and a half in advance of when you'd have played it on PC? What are you, LTTP-man?

Yes I am, I also enjoy playing games at good stable framerates

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Yes I am, I also enjoy playing games at good stable framerates

*looks at post history*


Yeah.

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

Yes I am, I also enjoy playing games at good stable framerates

Stealth troll confirmed.

 

[SapientWolf]

Yes I am, I also enjoy playing games at good stable framerates

I hope this is going to be a top notch port instead of the XBox 360 shovelware that PC gamers have been getting so far. GRAW won't even run at a steady 60fps on an 8800GTX/Core2DuoQuadcore. Lost Planet ran even worse and didn't look nearly as good.

Ideally, you can lock the framerate to your refresh rate. If you can't then it won't look nearly as smooth. I'm not lying when I say that 200fps doesn't look too much better than 50fps.