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Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk
Can (or could) you not run a PC combat sim as simple as IL-2 without Perepherals or a top-end graphics card? Hell yes. I did for ages!!! Sure it helps; but it also helps if you spend over 100 quid on a large 360 hard drive (that does nothing more than a bog-standard PC drive for about 20 - 30 quid), mouth watering console flight sticks etc.
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I don't really understand your point in this paragraph. Are you saying you can play IL2 on a rubbish PC? And your talk of hard drives is lost on me - I'm on PS3 so don't know how a hard drive affects 360 performance.
My first point, weak as it may be, still stands - can you play the game, to equal graphical quality, on a PC for the same price as you can on a PS3 or XBox 360?
Maybe you have forgotten how you opened this thread...
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Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk
Before the loyal disciples jump in with all guns blazing, I am a fellow gamer that has grown tired of the pc community, having to shell out constantly for upgrades etc in order to stay at the cutting edge of gaming & like many other gamers, I now want to enjoy a great experience on a great console, from the comfort of the sofa in front of a nice big LCD HD TV.
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My second point is also valid. It is well known that this is the first console outing for this franchise. That requires new engine technology. Although their proprietary engine already works for PC and 360, they still need to build a PS3 engine from the ground up. Whether you're aware or not, it is not an easy machine to work with, and I think the quality of their product shows they've done an incredible job. Especially if you look at the size of the team in the credits and compare it to the ridiculously bloated teams you see on other projects. Very few publishers want to fund years and years of development before a project starts making a return. Hunt around for the information and you will see that the sequel to this game is the point where they can start adding all the nice things like replays and what have you.
And it's pretty derrogatory towards the developers to label it as a "simple" game. Bejeweled is simple. Any form of 3D engine is very far from simple. And getting anything to run on a broad range of PC hardware is also very far from simple.
I fail to see what you're hoping to achieve with this thread. We all know PC and console gaming are not the same thing. We all know there are a different category of games released to each market, although there is some overlap. To my mind, console gaming is a half-way house between coin-op arcades and PC games. The sooner people realise, maybe the less whining about how it's not the same as the PC versions we'll have to put up with, because quite frankly I'm sick to death of hearing about how BoP is not up to the IL2 standard. It is my first experience with the franchise and a very pleasing one.