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More?
Much more?
Less?
Only the good ones?
More?
Much more?
Less?
Only the good ones?
EDIT: I know you're on one. I mean one capable of playing games obviously.
But should games like Doom 3, Half-Life 2 etc.. be tarted up for a 'Live' Xbox version, or should they just rack in the sales from the PC versions and not bother?
2 examples from my point of view...
Deus Ex: Invisible War - completely f**ked up to make "a more user friendly interface" according to Warren Spector, confined environments, technically poor, a classic example of how PC games turn out average when ported to consoles. Seeing as development was done in-step with the PC version it wasn't hard to see where it went all wrong.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - granted, I thoroughly enjoyed it, decent game but it could've been so MUCH more. Again, this suffered (albeit no where near as badly) the same painful transition onto the Xbox with joint development. If you take a look at both versions, the PC version on a high end PC is clearly far better across the board. If this had been a solely a PC project you would be looking at a modern day master-piece but instead it is just a decent game.
I see no problem with porting games like Rainbow Six when the PC version was developed on its own and was nearly a completely different style of game in its own right. This was the pure bread tactical version where as the Xbox version was aimed more towards the arcade market. Both excellent versions for different reasons. The PC version has a stellar single player that is one of the most time consuming yet enjoyable games over the past few years, buggy as hell online. The Xbox version had a top notch online section which wasn't without its bugs but was generally better suited.
> I'd like to see some more. The main PC games that I miss on Xbox are
> strategy games such as Command & Conquer. It would be great on
> Live.
All console strategy games suck muchos. The extremely low resolution doesn't help.
C&C Generals wouldn't even get off the ground on Xbox. Bump up the settings on that and you are looking at one hell of a technically impressive game.
Now whilst I realise that would only be at lowest graphics quality, all things considered, lowest graphics quality in Generals would still be pretty decent, for a strategy game on a console anyway. Certainly the next generation of consoles would easily be able to run them.
Doom 3 should be good because it is being coded for Xbox, not being ported. Some things in computers port just fine. Some bits of code just don't change. But some things do, and that should be properly taken into account, if necessary redesigned, not just squashed to fit like many ports.