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| The Force Unleashed PC requirements revealed by Joseph |  | | PALGN News: The Force will need to be strong in your desktop for this one. | | [View Article] |
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Unless this ends up looking better than Crysis, and I think it's pretty much guaranteed that it won't, these requirements are completely unreasonable. I mean, are they trying to get people to avoid buying the PC version? Look how much our game won't run on your PC, guys!
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I don't think they are setting the specs so high because they want to, moreso because their lazy. They really just don't want to do the leg work to convert it over. 25Gb of HDD is crazy!
I have a computer that can run this fine but I doubt I will be loading it up. More of a console game with it's first person and autoaim.
| PALGN wrote: | | NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives. |
I will keep that in mind. 
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and I quote;
"NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives."
FAIL.
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Fucking hell. Lazy port for the win?
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23.8gb - remember when games used to fit on a 3.5" disk ?
/sings Those were the dayyyyyyyyyyyys
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| Zhou wrote: | and I quote;
"NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives."
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This is pretty common for PC releases of the last 24 months. It is still fail though. Virtual drives have their legit uses but everyone just seems to label them a piracy tool. And wow, those min reqs are steep.
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| XtremeXfactor wrote: | 23.8gb - remember when games used to fit on a 3.5" disk ?
/sings Those were the dayyyyyyyyyyyys |
..have you noticed the jump in graphics and everything else? 
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those HDD requirements are HUGE, for that reason alone im put off the PC version, playing it is one thing, but im not giving that much disc space to a single game
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I don't understand the disparity between the two brands of videocard in the 'recommended' requirements. The 9800GT is not equivalent to the 4870 at all.
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| matrix-cat wrote: | | Unless this ends up looking better than Crysis, and I think it's pretty much guaranteed that it won't, these requirements are completely unreasonable. I mean, are they trying to get people to avoid buying the PC version? Look how much our game won't run on your PC, guys! |
It just looks like it's a poor port.
I expect the engine to be horribly unoptimised and requiring beastly PCs to get stable framerates at high resolutions. Not because the game pushes the limits, but because the engine is balls.
Same goes for the disk space. It shouldn't take up that much but it's probably uncompressed.
Eh, I'm only half interested in this, less so now than before. It should have been out on PC at launch.
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25gig? I thought GTAIV was ridiculous and I have a doubt that TFU would look much better.
I was thinking of picking this up since I never picked up a console version but 25gig is a stupid amount of space to take up.
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After having exposed myself to the mediocrity that was TFU for Wii, I think I'm going to buy this anyway. My PC can run it, so why not?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Ridiculous port job.
They fit the game onto a regular DVD9 for the 360, but now need 24 GB?
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get over it, if your not upto spec, then dont get it! buy a ps3!
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| matrix-cat wrote: | | Unless this ends up looking better than Crysis, and I think it's pretty much guaranteed that it won't, these requirements are completely unreasonable. I mean, are they trying to get people to avoid buying the PC version? Look how much our game won't run on your PC, guys! |
Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but after reading post this I have to ask. I'm not sure what my computer specifications are, but I can play Crysis on mostly highest settings - Will I be able to play this game???
thanks!
I don't know if I even will pick it up though unless it has a good story, sci fi bores me usually But all the powers look fun. and wow 25GB is a lot!! I have more than enough space but it seems like a bit much for a game.
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Recommended 2.8 Duel Core? Lol, Crysis needs a 2.4 Duel Core processor, plus 25 gigs HDD space? WoW doesn't even use that much and it has a hell of a lot more content.
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| PixieGirl wrote: | | Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but after reading post this I have to ask. I'm not sure what my computer specifications are, but I can play Crysis on mostly highest settings - Will I be able to play this game??? |
Who knows? From the sounds of these specs the engine is going to be poorly optimised for PC hardware, and as a result it might look not even remotely as good as Crysis but still end up running worse.
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Times like this I am so glad to be a hybrid gamer, lol.
PixelGirl, I like to use sites like YouGamers and SystemRequirementLabs to see if my computer meets the requirements rather than doing the guess work.
For The Force Unleashed benchmark, here is the link http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10363/
Here is my dreaded result of my computer being able to handle TFU, back to old school PC gaming for me!!!
I knew this going to happen because my gaming device is 4 years old. [Link to prove my fail PC]
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I can't even load those sites right now IslandWolf because I downloaded too much and the internet people are punishing me with slow internet
but I think i'll probably get this for the Xbox 360 because it will probably be much better on there if its a bad PC port.
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Wow... they only support the 2-3 latest generations of video cards. It definitely sounds like they didn't put any effort into down-scaling the engine. Most other games tend to support at least one more generation of video cards, if not several more.
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Yeah, just get it on Xbox PixieGirl (forgot there was another Pixie :/), not only will it run better, but it'd be a damn sight cheaper, can pick ip up for around 30 bucks second hand.
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| Sin Ogaris wrote: | | Yeah, just get it on Xbox PixieGirl (forgot there was another Pixie :/), not only will it run better, but it'd be a damn sight cheaper, can pick ip up for around 30 bucks second hand. |
Ohhh you might want to hang off until the ultimate sith edition comes out since i have heard it will contain stuff only in that package and not dlc.... Yeah it pissed me off to but i would hang off till it comes out on console.
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Hahahahahahaha. The lowest end card they recommend you play it on would be an Nvidia 8800 GTS. And these big publishers wonder why many PC games sell so poorly.
I mean.. I'd like to think my PC is half decent. It runs everything maxed out. But, besides my graphics card, I'm on the minimum requirements end of the scale. And even if I got this for free or pirated it - I will never, ever sacrifice 23.5GB of HDD space for one game. Maybe five years into the future when they all require that, but not now when 10GB is the absolute top end of the scale.
Honestly what are these publishers thinking? What kind of niche market are they attempting to corner? Many PC gamers aren't rocking 8800 cards, let alone GTX 280s. Take a look at all the winners in the PC gaming sector - in particular Blizzard and Valve. What do they have in common, besides being able to produce high quality games? Their games run on a wide range of hardware. Even flagship products like TF2 will run on Intel integrated graphics hardware. I'm not saying this should be able to - but requiring an 8800 card at minimum is just f**king insane.
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The game was made for the 360 and PS3, both of which are far below the minimum requirements for the PC version. The best I can guess is that the PC version is just the console version packaged with an emulator, there's no other way it could require such hardware.
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