Comments on: Mass Effect 2: gripping till the fat space lady sings http://www.techcentral.co.za/mass-effect-2-gripping-till-the-very-end/12633/ South Africa's quality technology news source Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://www.techcentral.co.za/mass-effect-2-gripping-till-the-very-end/12633/comment-page-1/#comment-3156 Greg Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:51:43 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12633#comment-3156 Maybe off topic, but has anyone else noticed that PC gaming is gaining momentum again? For a few years there, it seemed like the majority of PC games felt like ported console games - they didn't even take the time to give most of them decent textures, and just shoved the substandard (for PC resolution) models and textures in - but more and more games seem to have spectacular PC versions now. I think the "Games for Windows" thing introduced in Vista is starting to pay off, it's been a long time since I heard anyone complain about getting a game to work on a PC. The big question mark over the industry is how many games is Steam selling - some estimates I see quote up to half of PC games sold aren't being accounted for because of digital distribution. If this is true, it's quite amazing, and would actually make the PC the top selling platform. Maybe off topic, but has anyone else noticed that PC gaming is gaining momentum again? For a few years there, it seemed like the majority of PC games felt like ported console games – they didn’t even take the time to give most of them decent textures, and just shoved the substandard (for PC resolution) models and textures in – but more and more games seem to have spectacular PC versions now.

I think the “Games for Windows” thing introduced in Vista is starting to pay off, it’s been a long time since I heard anyone complain about getting a game to work on a PC. The big question mark over the industry is how many games is Steam selling – some estimates I see quote up to half of PC games sold aren’t being accounted for because of digital distribution. If this is true, it’s quite amazing, and would actually make the PC the top selling platform.

]]> By: Robert MacLean http://www.techcentral.co.za/mass-effect-2-gripping-till-the-very-end/12633/comment-page-1/#comment-3151 Robert MacLean Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:48:28 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12633#comment-3151 I'm playing it on the PC at the moment and loving it. Not having the texture issues you stated in the score above, so maybe that is a memory limitation on the XBox. The hacking computers mini game isn't too bad, but the planet scanning is horrible. What you have left out of the article, and it is important to the game, is the DLC content. BioWare has made a huge move with DLC having 2 out already - one which provides a small side mission but another which provides a whole new squad member (full with voice acting and cinematics). These really add so much depth and additional enjoyment and are free on PC version (for first time buyers, people buying it second hand will need to pay for the DLC). I’m playing it on the PC at the moment and loving it. Not having the texture issues you stated in the score above, so maybe that is a memory limitation on the XBox.

The hacking computers mini game isn’t too bad, but the planet scanning is horrible.

What you have left out of the article, and it is important to the game, is the DLC content. BioWare has made a huge move with DLC having 2 out already – one which provides a small side mission but another which provides a whole new squad member (full with voice acting and cinematics). These really add so much depth and additional enjoyment and are free on PC version (for first time buyers, people buying it second hand will need to pay for the DLC).

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