Windows Dead Space 3 on PC to be straight port, no additional features added

[johnnyboy700]

Was there much additional PC content in either of the previous games?

The only thing I recall being discussed was the control problems that some folk had.

[Jedra]

Originally Posted by DeckerdBR

While the introduction of some QTE is a clear miss step, you arr wrong about TW2 being a console game.

The fighting of monsters is part of the lore and the game has been well optomised to take advantage of pc hardware up and down the scale, has a well thought out set of controls and interface and allows a lot of customisation in terms of graphic settings.

It's clarly a game designed for the PC in the first instance and later ported to consoles after a year.

Compare that to something like mass effect 3
.... then you will know a true multiplatform game that was designed with the lowest common in mind

That's not what I meant. I know Witcher 2 was produced for PC first. My point was that in the design of the Witcher 2, they knew it was going to be ported to consoles and they designed in game-play elements which would be more at home in a console release for 'atypical' console audiences. In terms of an 'RPG', which is what I would consider the Witcher series to be, these elements did not fit for me. I was disappointed with the game because I felt I was being pushed along in a more linear fashion than the previous game. I think they hid this quite well, but it was obvious that there was actually less choice and less 'Role Playing' than the game purported to provide. I think they did what every other game publisher does and made compromises to expand their audience. They didn't do as bad a job as the awful Dragon Age 2, but it was a similar tactic.

Regardless of where the game starts life, if you make design choices to cover PC and consoles then compromises will have to be made. CD Projekt, for me, made the wrong compromises. An example of good multi-platform design is BF3. This game was obviously designed to be multi-platform, however the design concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of the target hardware resulting in a game that plays and looks great on the PC, but scaled down really well for the consoles. Playing BF3 on an Xbox, you do not get the impression you have been short-changed with game play or graphics, while on the PC you feel as though the game is making the absolute most of the resources available. DICE did an excellent job on this and showed respect to all gamers on all platforms.