No Bioshock PC Demo?

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#1 jakyl996
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I can't believe that the Xbox demo coming out before the PC demo is not a calculated move. Either way this sucks.

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#2 Ontain
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Of course it was calculated. pc gaming is getting sold down the river for the consoles.
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#3 Platearmor_6
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Considering the demo would have to go through MS's quility control for XBL it must have been ready to put out for 360 a while ago.
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#5 henri1960
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Pc demo is coming on friday
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#6 smokeydabear076
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Pc demo is coming on fridayhenri1960
Where did you see that?
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#7 waza000
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the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

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#8 jakyl996
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the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

waza000

Sounds fishy to me. The game has gone gold. It's coming out in a week and the PC demo is having compatiblity issues? Rings false to me.

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#9 firefly026
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[QUOTE="waza000"]

the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

jakyl996

Sounds fishy to me. The game has gone gold. It's coming out in a week and the PC demo is having compatiblity issues? Rings false to me.

That's exactly what I thought when they made the announcement. They even mentioned that they were still optimizing the demo, which scared me. I'm hoping they just designed a different area of the game for the demo, which would explain why they're still working on it.
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[QUOTE="waza000"]

the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

jakyl996

Sounds fishy to me. The game has gone gold. It's coming out in a week and the PC demo is having compatiblity issues? Rings false to me.

QFT

Thankfully, we'll all know in a week!

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#11 jakyl996
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That's exactly what I thought when they made the announcement. They even mentioned that they were still optimizing the demo, which scared me. I'm hoping they just designed a different area of the game for the demo, which would explain why they're still working on it.

That could be true. I seem to remember reading that is was the same content as the Xbox demo but that doesn't mean it's not new content that needs tweaking for the PC. Still feels like the PC is getting the short end of the stick. I say we Boycott all console games. Also, smash your Xbox360, make a video of the destruction and put the video on Utube.

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[QUOTE="jakyl996"][QUOTE="waza000"]

the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

Jack_Summersby

Sounds fishy to me. The game has gone gold. It's coming out in a week and the PC demo is having compatiblity issues? Rings false to me.

QFT

Thankfully, we'll all know in a week!



Lets boycott BioShock if it comes out before the demo becomes totally bug free :P
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ok
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#14 firefly026
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[QUOTE="Jack_Summersby"][QUOTE="jakyl996"][QUOTE="waza000"]

the Devs did pronounce themself about that

they say they have problems with drivers stuff ... making the demo compatible with the more people/computer as possible

anshul89

Sounds fishy to me. The game has gone gold. It's coming out in a week and the PC demo is having compatiblity issues? Rings false to me.

QFT

Thankfully, we'll all know in a week!



Lets boycott BioShock if it comes out before the demo becomes totally bug free :P

The demo could be buggy as hell, as long as the game itself is bug free.
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Lets boycott BioShock if it comes out before the demo becomes totally bug free :Panshul89

lol

Of course, they aren't charging me for the demo, so they don't owe me a bug-free demo. Now the retail game, on the other hand, had better be in damn good shape or get properly patched ASAP.

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[QUOTE="anshul89"]Lets boycott BioShock if it comes out before the demo becomes totally bug free :PJack_Summersby

lol

Of course, they aren't charging me for the demo, so they don't owe me a bug-free demo. Now the retail game, on the other hand, had better be in damn good shape or get properly patched ASAP.


Jack Bauer, I was joking ! :|
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Yeah, we've been through this in another thread, but I can't say it enough. I don't trust a game that can't get a playable demo out on time. It bodes ill for the optimization of the game. All these silicon freaks with 8800 cards and quad-core processors don't have to worry, but I've got EXACTLY the minimum specs. I mean to the number. I will not buy this game on launch because I do not trust this minimum spec. Every game demo using this engine on the 360 has come out as a chuggernaut on my desktop and a slightly-better specced laptop. It's been said elsewhere. One developer is trying to sue the people who made the Unreal engine because they supposedly optimized it for the 360 and are leaving PC developers jacked.
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#18 Jack_Summersby
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[QUOTE="Jack_Summersby"]

[QUOTE="anshul89"]Lets boycott BioShock if it comes out before the demo becomes totally bug free :Panshul89

lol

Of course, they aren't charging me for the demo, so they don't owe me a bug-free demo. Now the retail game, on the other hand, had better be in damn good shape or get properly patched ASAP.


Jack Bauer, I was joking ! :|

I know that's why I said lol first :-)

And it's Jack SUMMERSBY, to YOU!!!

(ok, Jack Bauer is THE MAN (hence the avatar) so that's cool too :-)

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Yeah, we've been through this in another thread, but I can't say it enough. I don't trust a game that can't get a playable demo out on time. It bodes ill for the optimization of the game. All these silicon freaks with 8800 cards and quad-core processors don't have to worry, but I've got EXACTLY the minimum specs. I mean to the number. I will not buy this game on launch because I do not trust this minimum spec. Every game demo using this engine on the 360 has come out as a chuggernaut on my desktop and a slightly-better specced laptop. It's been said elsewhere. One developer is trying to sue the people who made the Unreal engine because they supposedly optimized it for the 360 and are leaving PC developers jacked.Srinivassa

It's wise to be cautious.

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#22 Astropyr
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Buy a 360 and enjoy the game the way its meant to be played!
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#23 Broddan
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Buy a 360 and enjoy the game the way its meant to be played!Astropyr

With horrible controlls? No thanks, I'm buying the PC verision to play it in full glory with keyboard and mouse :P

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no he means enjoy the game without mods.....lol
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#25 Broddan
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no he means enjoy the game without mods.....lolnutcrackr

You know, you don't have to get the mods if you don't want to...

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#26 anshul89
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[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]no he means enjoy the game without mods.....lolBroddan

You know, you don't have to get the mods if you don't want to...



nutcrackr was being sarcastic :)
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#27 Srinivassa
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Buy a 360 and enjoy the game the way its meant to be played!Astropyr
Yeah, this is seriously what I'm debating since it's going to cost me $900+ to build a PC that will play all the games the 360 does for $350. I'm a LOOOONG time PC gamer, so submitting to this simple logic is going to be rough on me.
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[QUOTE="Astropyr"]Buy a 360 and enjoy the game the way its meant to be played!Srinivassa
Yeah, this is seriously what I'm debating since it's going to cost me $900+ to build a PC that will play all the games the 360 does for $350. I'm a LOOOONG time PC gamer, so submitting to this simple logic is going to be rough on me.

Well if you are gonna buy a sub par system. Then go ahead and buy a 360, but if you actually buy a good system for around ~1,300+ take or minus, I think it would be way better than playing on the 360.

lol@ the dude who said 360 is the way it is meant to be played. Keyboard/Mouse ftw!

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#29 firefly026
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[QUOTE="Srinivassa"][QUOTE="Astropyr"]Buy a 360 and enjoy the game the way its meant to be played!bignice12

Yeah, this is seriously what I'm debating since it's going to cost me $900+ to build a PC that will play all the games the 360 does for $350. I'm a LOOOONG time PC gamer, so submitting to this simple logic is going to be rough on me.

Well if you are gonna buy a sub par system. Then go ahead and buy a 360, but if you actually buy a good system for around ~1,300+ take or minus, I think it would be way better than playing on the 360.

lol@ the dude who said 360 is the way it is meant to be played. Keyboard/Mouse ftw!

First person shooters were made to be played with the keyboard/mouse combination. That being said, some people actually enjoy using a gamepad more than they do a mouse and keyboard.
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#30 karmageddon2k4
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FPS games are becoming a lot better on consoles then they used to be. The controls are mapped fairly well now. Bioshock is very easy to pick up on the 360. Also i find it funny people can say the 360 is subpar. It's better than the majority of people's computers and is far cheaper than a comparable rig. I own a high end gaming computer that ran me 4k and i'll say beats the 360 but the 360 is still an incredibly powerful system that is even more powerful when you factor in developers can do far more optimization to get more out of the system then they can a pc since they have to generalize the code to work on varying hardware in the pc market.
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#31 FlaminDeath
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MUST HAVE DEMO im startin to get the shakes from lack of gaming!
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#32 Srinivassa
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Yeah, I loves me some PC gaming, but it's getting harder to do the math to justify it. 360 looks great, prolly better than my current PC. Spending between $600 and $1000 more just for mouse and keyboard plus a little graphical polish just isn't economical. Part of me still wants to do it though. I can feel the PC's dark pull on my pocketbook.