Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Comments by John Walker
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projectmayhem
02/07/07 @ 13:04
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this provides essentially the same experience as the 360 (bland and hollow at best), but worse.
this "games for windows" 360 ports lark (of which my experience is halo2 and this) needs to figure out that there are better multiplayer experiences that are FREE, and that not everyone with a PC has a 360, or wants to use a 360 controller. lazy ports at a luxury item price. piss off microsoft... |
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This reminds me of why I hate PC gaming, you spend hours fiddling about trying to get the thing running as well as possible, then you can't be arsed to play the game. Or maybe it's just that tweaking the settings is more fun than playing.
The snowy levels of any game are usually pretty crap, so perhaps Lost Planet was doomed from the start. |
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This reminds me of why I hate PC gaming, you spend hours fiddling about trying to get the thing running as well as possible, then you can't be arsed to play the game. Or maybe it's just that tweaking the settings is more fun than playing.
This is a Capcom PC port. It's hardly indicative of PC gaming as a whole. |
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This reminds me of why I hate PC gaming, you spend hours fiddling about trying to get the thing running as well as possible, then you can't be arsed to play the game. Or maybe it's just that tweaking the settings is more fun than playing.
I play PC games almost exclusively, and I cannot remember the last time I had to spend hours fiddling to get a game to work. And the settings tweaking is accomplished pretty easily as well. Perhaps you're ideally suited for consoles. |
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I never bothered with Lost Planet on the 360. The demos were OK, although the mutliplayer one was dull, dull, dull, but the game took so long arriving that I lost interest in it! Now I'm really glad I never bothered with it as the numerous videos I've seen make it look pretty but very boring, little more than a generic shooter with next-gen visuals.
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At least it looks the part, unlike the PC port of RE4. Sounds like they've done a decent enough job on a game that has already aged a bit.
It's not their fault you can break the original 360 game design by using a mouse (it even sounds like they've tried to discourage the mouse option). What were the staff writing the port to do; cripple the controls? |
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@Bluebird - The Xbox 360 might have a triple-core 3GHz PowerPC but I've read that it's the equivalent of a Celeron processor and not as impressive as it first sounds. I'd wager that a Core2Duo CPU running at 2.4GHz packs in more grunt that the 360's CPU but, whatever, games these days are less about CPU performance and more biased toward GPUs and that's where the 360 scores well as its Xenos graphics chip was ahead of its time. Lost Planet's engine was obviously written for the 360 so that's why it doesn't perform so well on the PC. It's the same reason that PC developed games don't run so well on the 360, i.e. Prey, Quake 4, Battle For Middle-earth II and C&C 3 for example.
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PearOfAnguish
02/07/07 @ 16:48
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PS3 = all the above, dumbass
You can play games on a PS3? Where are they?? |
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@miiiguel
PC = Work? Hehe, you probably confuse "Work" with "surfing porn". Never mind, smart arse...could happen to anybody, but you know that's maybe the reason why you don't find the time to fire up good stuff like HL2, Stalker or WoW;-) Oh and btw, have you heard of Crysis and Starcraft 2? No? Thought so... |
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It's not their fault you can break the original 360 game design by using a mouse (it even sounds like they've tried to discourage the mouse option). What were the staff writing the port to do; cripple the controls?
Bioshock on the PC is made harder by the devs to compensate for the greater accuracy of the mouse. So it's very well possible, but it's an effort, of cause. |
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YourMessageHere
02/07/07 @ 18:10
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"It's not their fault you can break the original 360 game design by using a mouse (it even sounds like they've tried to discourage the mouse option). What were the staff writing the port to do; cripple the controls?"
Errr yes, it is their fault, they're supposed to be making it playable. You wouldn't expect a PC game ported to a 360 to fail to use the 360 pad properly and continually refer to a key on a keyboard you weren't using, would you? Why should PC gamers not expect their native controllers to be supported equally well? Surely this is crippling the controls in a way. Oh and good review. |
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Waffleaber
02/07/07 @ 19:10
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I downloaded the demo of this on steam. It is bizarre when a pc game instructs you to "push the X button" to get into the mechs and you have to scour the keyboard trying to find which button IS X (not actually x if you hadn't guessed)
Strangely it never happens the other way round just goes to show you everybody hates the PC. |
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Well all this confirms an opinion I have had since long - playing shooters on PC is easier, less of a challenge due to mouse and keypad combo.
That said, you can always build compensations, something which Capcom were apparently to lazy to do. And don't even get me started on the whole DX10 fiasco. PS3 is not the only overpriced toy outthere - this whole DX10 scandal, perpetrated by MS and hardware suppliers, is far costlier and far more dangerous than that. Come to think of it, so is the iPhone - no one complains THAT being overpriced. |
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just got around to playing the 360 version last night as i was given a free copy.
Lucky that. Aside from the very lovely visuals, i got bored pretty much after the second boss. For all its looks and promise Lost Planet has absolutely no atmosphere! And having to replay the whole damn level again after i failed to shoot the obvious "glowing red tail for massive damage bit" just made me reach for that home button... Metroid Prime is still the benchmark for bug bashing on alien worlds. |
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Well all this confirms an opinion I have had since long - playing shooters on PC is easier, less of a challenge due to mouse and keypad combo.
Um, sorry, but that's just complete nonsense. It entirely depends on how the game is designed, and most PC shooters aren't straight 1:1 ports of consoles, just like console shooters aren't straight 1:1 ports from PCs. Which is why the reviewer obviously felt obliged to mention that it is indeed the case here and the game is too easy. Just like reviewers complained about the too easy console versions of FEAR because of very generous auto-aim and hitzones. That doesn't mean that STALKER is easier than Gears of War though. |
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