well the thing is you can scale the settings way past what you should. Dont try to max it and you should be fine, or atleast better than console. The console version runs at really low settings and the framerate crawls at about 25 fps and can dip to near single digits. Playing with a gamepad makes it less noticeable. The console version settings are something like this

Draw distance 21

Detail Distance 11

Traffic Density 33

Texture quality between medium and low (why we dont get the exact setting I dont know)

Trilinear filtering

shadows medium (but shadows are actually done completely differently)

Reflection medium

vsync off

definition off

and the console version still has plenty of framerate issues, and pretty much never runs at 30 fps.

hmm, that feels like making a deal with the devil.

Some new Darksiders pc details http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-511228.aspx

I would also like to ask, how do you think about the competittion Darksiders pc version will have at the time of release? There are some great pc games that will be released in June including Singularity Transformers , Prince of Persia, Blaz Blue et.c. Please do not buy any of these games before darksiders. We must support the game in order to see more hack n slash for pc.

STOCKMAN22

The console royalty fee is surrounded in "mystery", I found a decentish article here on the breakdown costs of a $60 game :-

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/anatomy-of-a-60-dollar-video-game.html

http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/19/ps3-xbox360-costs-tech-cx_rr_game06_1219expensivegames_print.html

basically it works out as :-

Retailer Margin = $15

Returns = $7

Distribution = $4

Platform Royalty = $7

Publisher = $27

Now the Royalty fee of $7 seems to be PER DISC in the case of the xbox 360. So if a developer makes a 2 disc game then $14 goes to Microsoft (Carmack stated several times that more discs = greater licence fees). It is also reasonable that the Sony Royalty fee is higher, I remember reading an article a while back where the royalty fee for PS2 games was $7.50. So it is quite easy to see how the $10 difference is down to the royalty fee that PC gamers do not have to pay for.

As for it being more expensive to develop games on the PC, it is actually the reverse. To develop games on the console you need a developers kit which isn't cheap and can go upwards to $1 million PER KIT. If you develop a game on the console you will have to have several developers kits so before you even do a single line of code you will have a hefty multi million pound bill. The PC well all you need to develop a game on the PC is well a PC really. It doesn't take a genius to see that for the price of 1 console developer kit you could outfit an entire department with top of the range PC's.

If anything PC games should be getting cheaper, the PC community has pretty much moved over to Digital Distribution (nearly 80% of all game sales on the PC are now via DD). Yet the publishers still factor things like "distribution and returns" into their figures ???? tell me how many "returns" do they get from a digital distribution site I wonder ?

At the end of the day I am not against a price rise if it is justified, but it is important that there should be a difference in price tag between the PC version and the console version. There is a clear reason why a console game is $10 more it is down to royalty fees and extra costs incurred (ie million dollar developer kits) the PC does not have these costs so why should we pay the same as the console user ?

charmingcharlie

More back on topic, the idiots over at activision and ubisoft see console owners paying 60 bucks, so they figure they will charge pc gamers the same...

well if youre going to play call of duty, 4 is the best one to play.

no just the game callled outcast, it seems like it was an overlooked classic.

I got an email thats its now available on gog.com, is it worth playing today?

[QUOTE="kevy619"] wow really. You can think whatever you want, but really? That's like saying transformers 2 is the best movie of all time.dakan45

I like transformes 2, but thats just happens, nothing serious about that. But seriously point me one first person shooter that does presantation and action in story better than cod4. I cant think of another game that the developers throw so many awesome parts during the compagin. In all those non linear open world game all you do is screw around without anything epic hapenning, just missions and sidemissions.

Believe it all you want, it's not going to make it true... :PDoom_HellKnight

Depends on what you mean by "true" if you ask 90% of the gaming crowd they will agree, therefore by the logic of the gaming population, its "true" by the logic of a better logical example.....well, feel free to point out an fps that does it better, because i cant seem to find any fps that does it better.

24.95 on d2d right now, I think it might be time for me to pick this up.

well they are both perfect games, I cant choose.