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BrownMasterV:
I have jizzed.


--- Quote ---If you play Portal 2 on PS3, you can play with people on a PC. Neat! And to make sure as many people as possible are doing just that, the PS3 version of the game will include the PC version.

All players have to do once they get the game is link their PlayStation Network and Steam accounts. Once that's done, they'll have a Steam Play (so, PC and/or Mac) version of the game ready to download in their library list.

This cross-platform play even extends to giving PS3 users the ability to chat to PC gamers, and vice-versa. Oh, and PS3 users can even save their game in the Steam Cloud, meaning Valve has them tucked away in their servers in case something ever goes horribly wrong with your PS3.

That's a whole lot of "firsts" for both Steam, the PC multiplayer service of choice, and Sony's PlayStation Network. Not to mention a free copy of the game you can, for example, take with you on a laptop when you're not on your couch with the PS3.

And if all this works, and works well, let us welcome out glorious cross-platform future with open arms!
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Now I can finally get a console! The only thing keeping me from it was the cost of games/DLC.

I <3 Steam!

blubart:
to play the devils advocate:
yay! more dumbed down PC games incoming...

TMRNetShark:

--- Quote from: blubart on January 19, 2011, 02:27:18 AM ---to play the devils advocate:
yay! more dumbed down PC games incoming...

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*cough* what? Are you that much of a PC fan to really say that Console games are dumbed down? So you think Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, MGS4, Resident Evil 4, Uncharted 2, Halo Series, Okami, God of War, Shadow of Colossus, and the countless great games on consoles are dumbed down compared to good PC games?

I love PC gaming, don't get me wrong, but saying that Console games can't stand up to PC games is also a very one sided. There are plenty of games that are better on consoles than they were on PC (Resident Evil 4 and Halo's 1 and 2 are just a few examples). At the same time, there are obviously games that are on consoles that were willfully better on the PC (Dragon Age and Half Life 2 are just a few examples). Saying one is better than the other is no way to look at it. I personally hope to see MMO's see cross platforming in the near future!

fohfoh:
This is interesting news... but no. My HG hip detector didn't go off for it.

yooo ~ HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!

blubart:
where did i say console games are dumbed down? (if i read my own comment correctly i was talking about PC games...)

it's a matter of fact that console and pc are game platforms with distinctive differences. while console games tend to have problems with fast+precise screen movements or with detailed/multi-structured option panels, PC games have problems when it comes to fine grained accelerations or comboactions.

unfortunately the general strategy for a multi-platform games seems to be to completely disregard the advantages and disadvantages of the platform PC and instead just create a console game that more by chance runs on a PC too ("oh, the mouse control plays like crap? - well, just buy yourself a gamepad, lol" "what? you don't want the targeting assistant? - then switch it off (great new pc "feature") and live with the crappy slow manual targeting - no, we don't plan to fix that").

thus everything that blurs the line between console and pc imo results in a drop of quality at least in the PC segment. the same likely applies to some ported-from-pc console games too, only that they are forced to at least try to change something because they can't just tell a console user to buy a mouse.

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