id's RAGE gimped to accomodate the Xbox 360

[vlad321]

LOL MATURE said:

vlad321 said:

LOL MATURE said:
^ How did consoles do that? Wouldn't it be the developers just failing?

 

I don't see how it's developers failing. id is doing what they can outside of throwing more money into M$'s face. You have to remember that if anyone can optimize a system's hardware it would be Carmack and his team. UT3 was gimped because PS3 and iI guess soon the XBOX360 crowd are used to FPS games that are slow with horrible controls and weapon mechanics. If UT3 was anything like UT2004 then it would be unplayable by most players on consoles save the ones that are the most experienced, and even then I doubt they would enjoy it that much. There's just things you can do with a PC that you can't do with a controller easily(example: double jumping while strafing and having a dead on aim on a target at the same). Also FPS games on consoles feel like molasses compared to Quake and UT on the PC. It's not developers failing, it's consoles creating restrictions.

 

 How did controls for a console mess up the controls to a PC?

Many game mechanics were altered between UT2004 and UT3 and many of those were so they could acommodate the console crowds. Weapons were changed, speed was changed, even though the PS3 versin is still 30% slower than the PC version, and some may argue this but double jumping/dodging was also removed. Overall it felt even less fun than the original UT which came out back in '98. It just had newer shinier surfaces. Most people that I know who played either competatively or were part of the more skilled crowd are still playing UT2004. Also the best place where you can see how controls affected the PC version is the menu. When it launched the menus in UT3 were a joke, huge lettering, you have to scrol through pages of crap to get to what you want. no UTWindows no nothing. Sensitivity was only by integers (PC gamers likee their mouse sesitivity to be perfect) and there were basically no video options visible. You had to go to the .ini file and change the options from there to actually play the game the way you wanted it. Unacceptable, and all because of the PS3 and future Xbox360 versions.