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    • Looks like Mass Effect is coming to the PC sooner than expected - in May 2008.



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      • And it would appear, that the pc version has fixed some of the issues users had with it.

        * Optimized controls designed specifically for the PC.
        * High resolution visuals - Mass Effect for the PC features highly detailed textures, characters and environments.
        * Fully customizable controls - PC gamers can re-map the control scheme any way they like.
        * Run & Gun Control - Players can assign biotic powers or skills to 'hot keys' allowing them to play Mass Effect with a heavier focus on action.
        * New decryption mini-game.
        * New inventory screen GUI and functionality - The enhanced inventory system makes it easier for players to equip and modify their weapons and armor.

        I hope they aren't using the Bioshock hack game as the model for their decryption mini-game. Yuck.


        I still havn't picked it up for the 360, but will in the near future, I expect. This doesn't dissuade me, my pc is aging, and I have no desire to upgrade it for another 2 years.

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        • Mass Effect is great but sooooo yesterday.

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          • Originally posted by Sharpe
            Looks like Mass Effect is coming to the PC sooner than expected - in May 2008.



            http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080212/20080212005536.html?.v=1

            I knew it. RPG's also don't usually loose anything when going to the PC so its a no brainer not to buy the consol versions.
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            • Heraclitus: It's always expected to be coming to the PC, just later. It got bumped up since EA bought the company, and we all know how great they are with QA.
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              • Well, yes but there was some PR talk of a Xbox360 exclusive.
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                • Same way KOTOR was an Xbox 360 exclusive.
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                  • Yes, duh. I dare say KOTOR was better on the PC.
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                    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                    • Originally posted by Sharpe
                      Looks like Mass Effect is coming to the PC sooner than expected - in May 2008.



                      http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080212/20080212005536.html?.v=1
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                      • Sorry I couldn't resist this quote from Asher back on Nov 20/07


                        This makes no sense. The issues will be fixed on the 360 via patches fixed on the PC port (which is probably at least a year a way, if at all , due to an exclusivity agreement). Plus, PC versions are always more buggy due to the increased complexity in the machines they run on.

                        The only advantage the PC has here is ease of piracy, which is what's killing the platform too.
                        Though in all fairness the EA acquisition changed the game situation and made a PC port inevitable and probably pushed it up sooner than originally expected, if for nothing else to hype the next part of the series.

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                        • Originally posted by Sharpe
                          Sorry I couldn't resist this quote from Asher back on Nov 20/07
                          I'm sure a lengthy explanation is forthcoming.

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                          • It would've been at least a year away, had EA not acquired. There's nothing wrong with that quote, given what was known at the time.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                            • Wasn't it known in October that E.A bought Bioware.
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                              • Yes, but the information at the time said MS owned Mass Effect completely, which apparently is not the case if this is being published by EA.
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