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The problem is the cross platforming. They make a game for PC then "attempt" to bring it to a console, and vice versa. It just doesn't work.

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The games I've been seriously interested in (or if you will, addicted to, playing heavily for years and years) since moving from Atari computers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif to Micro$oft are:

Tigers on the Prowl / Panthers in the Shadows
Myth: The Fallen Lords / Myth II: Soulblighter / mods
Space Empires III / Space Empires IV Gold modded
Combat Mission (all)
Dominions PPP / Dominions II, Dominions 3

At the minimum, they all want a mouse, and not some retarded console controller. Keyboards are nice to have, too. Even the action games I've been moderately hooked on work better with keyboard and mouse, or joystick, than a console spaz blob.

Consoles are mainly a lame way to abuse customers and the art of computer gaming for crass corporate exploitation, in my opinion. Sort of good for some action games for kids, and to keep kids off the computer, but not much more except a big annoyance for gamers with eldritch tastes like mine. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

PvK

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I just don't get why console games still have 'save points'. I mean, consoles have had some sort of storage capability for years, and the next-gen ones seem to come with decently sized hard drives, so why the save points?

More to the point, why do they still have save points when the game is ported to the PC?

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So much anticipation...So much dissapointment...

Oh, and the *Real* Cyrodil is a jungle! Why can't they keep to their own canon?

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And removing the levitation spell? That's like removing flying from the superman movies. No thanks, I'll stick with Daggerfall, and a Space Empires that doesn't go into the console market.

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The 0-1 FPS refresh speed really gets me. 10 mins of moving the mouse a bit at a time to get it over a button, just does me in after about 5 mins. Yes, well I guess I need a newer computer. Paying around $50 for the privlege of playing the game and for all the great support from Aaron, easy call. Paying $2000+ dollars to get a new computer JUST so I can play this one game. Sorry.

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It is funny people still say $2,000 computer. A 2 grand system is pretty crazy these days. The system I am on is a 2.8ghz p4, 1.5gb ram (system was bought over 2 years ago for < $750 from Dell) and a 128mb AGP (no PCI-E here) Video card that was $150 3 years ago (so not top of the line then). No issues here with speed.

I cannot even play Supreme Commander due to the age of my video card http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Yeah, $2,000 for a good PC is so 1999... $750 is even overkill for SE5. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I got this entire system I'm running SE5 on (and applying that warppoint generator to) for $300 even in January.

And due to sheer laziness I haven't even bothered to put a real video card in yet. The onboard is good enough for procrastination to kick in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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From what I've looked into if you even want to sneeze at the newer games coming out you need to invest at LEAST $2000.