LucasArts confirms Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo…
May 13, 2008 · Print This Article
Well this is some huge news for Force Unleashed Fans! A lot of people have been asking me if there will be a demo version for The Force Unleashed and well, it looks like you have all got your answer! LucasArts has confirmed that there will be a Demo for release sometime in the near future.
VideoGamer.com has posted a great interview with Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. Also in the interview they finally give us some insight into why there will not be a PC version of The Force Unleashed.
“LucasArts is planning an Xbox LIVE and PSN demo for upcoming Star Wars game The Force Unleashed.
Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, revealed the news in an interview with VideoGamer.com at a recent press event in London. The details and timing of the demo are, however, still under wraps.
“I’m not certain about the specifics, but we definitely want to get this game out into people’s hands,” Suey told us. “There are people who are excited about it, who are going to play it right away, whether they play it (the demo) or not. But I think something that is wonderful is that the gameplay itself is so engaging, people who aren’t Star Wars fans or who aren’t even hardcore gamers, once they get their hands on some of the gameplay and how it works, are really going to be won over by it.”
When asked directly if LucasArts planned to release a demo, Suey replied: “Yeah. We definitely want to get it out there.”
When asked about the PC version, this was the response:
“VideoGamer.com: No PC…
CS: No PC as well, yes.
VideoGamer.com: We’re a multiplatform website and some of our PC-owning readers have complained about this.
CS: And that’s something that every time I read that, we do hear that complaint, it hurts. Our goal was we wanted to get this game to as many people as possible. I definitely wish it had been possible. However the PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn’t be the same game. On the other hand if we made that game for as many people as possible, because we are trying to make mass market games, something that everybody can enjoy, well then it’s not taking advantage of what those $4,000 systems can do. So one way or the other depending on how you build that lead PC SKU, it’s not going to be for the same amount of people, it’s going to be not as good or only for a select few people.
That said we’re definitely not out of the PC market. It’s just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles.
VideoGamer.com: Do you guys have any message to your PC-owning fans, because you guys have a heritage on PC?
CS: Absolutely. We started on the PC. Unfortunately that goes back to the point of such a variance of the platform. There wasn’t such a variance at that time and it made a lot more sense to develop on PC. The message is that we’re not shutting the door on PC at all. Just for this project it happens to be that we don’t have a PC SKU. I really hope that everyone can experience this game on a platform eventually.
VideoGamer.com: Might there be a PC version in the future?
CS: No. And if there was no-one has told me about it yet! I’ve got my head in the sand as far as this project goes. We only don’t have a PC version for this product.
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Who says that PC must be about 4000$ to play Star Wars: the force…
My computer cost about 2000$ and every game(New like Crysis-graphics not demanding as they say) worked so easily. In that 2000$ custom made PC I have: 6GB RAM, 1GB RAM nVidia graphics card, AMD athlons dual core 6400+.. Now you tell me how the hell star wars couldn’t work on PC that doesn’t cost 4000$!!!!
So regarding the $4000 PCs they say are required, are these the machines they were using for testing? It would be great to know the specs. The hardware advances over the past few years have really opened up what can be done with a PC. If they really are concerned about the game play, set the minimum requirements to require specific hardware. This can ensure the true game play is allowed. If the PS2, NDS, Wii and PSP can play this game, surely hardware from the past 3-5 years can handle it. Currently you can custom build a PC under a $1000 with similar to better capabilities. We love the work being done! We, PC gamers would love to be able to experience it.
I just built a PC for $1300 with an ATI HD4870 and Quad Core. The $4000 must be a joke. I could but Quad HD4870 for less than $4000. Give me a break.
My guess is for Piracy purposes and such and they just don’t want to admit it.
Yup, it’s 100% about copy protection and nothing else. I can play Crysis as smooth as silk on a $au1,400 system, and Crysis is too intensive to run on 360 and PS3 (Far Cry 2 for consoles will run on a modified version of the engine, less advanced than the PC one).
My PC has significentaly more grunt than my 360 and my PS3. Want proof? Easy – my PC plays Gears of War flawlessly at 1680×1050 resolution. What does the 360 run it at? 720? Maybe 1080i at a stretch? And still with occasionally frame rate hiccups? My PC runs it with anti-aliasing as well. Why is it that no 360 or PS3 games can anti-alias their games, but my PC can do it at higher rez?
It disgusts me that these people can tell bald-faced lies. Tell the truth, you wankers. Say “We’re paranoid about piracy so we’re not doing a PC version. We know PC gamers made us, but they can get f–ked now – we have no interest in repaying their loyalty.”
What is a “PSN” demo?
$4000 PC, are they kidding?? They are releasing this for the PS2, PSP and the Wii and they say that PC gamers might end up with a crappy experience because of their budget PC. I can build a $400-500 PC which would make a PS2 cry.
Any PC experience is better than a PS3 experience. I don’t want RSI and I don’t want mangled thumbs, or lack of precision (for which the console has to guess where you’re aiming…controller now that’s ironic) which it brings. Or “Next Gen” graphics which I can get on five year old PC.
If they don’t think they can make enough money out of PC’s then just say that. Don’t ask the audience who has been buying Star Wars PC games since the beginning to kindly remove our pants and bend down while you lie to us and tell us that we are being deprived of an incredible experience for our own good. “Now go and buy a PSP like a good boy, it’ll be a better experience on a few inch screen and only a few annoyingly painful buttons!”
And perhaps George should be looking for a new developer for the next game. One who can manage to do what just about every other developer out there is doing, make the public happy and create a truly cross platform game!!!
END RANT
chris – a PSN demo is like xbox live except play station 3 PSN (Play Station Network)
Well, I think the other posters said about everything I thought about when I read the interview. I have played many of the star wars games and liked them all. I would definetly buy this one as well. But it’s not coming to PC, then I can’t play.
It just won’t happen that I will buy a console solely for gaming. And I like playing games on the PC which gives a far better gaming experience than any console. I can also upgrade it when I need to and get the boost I’m looking for. I bet any PC sold today with an upgraded GPU will beat the 360 and PS3.
But the sadest about this is that they actually tried to get us believe that PCs in general are too weak. And yet they are releasing it on wii and ps2. The only thing you proved so far is that you apparently are able to tell any lie to make the decision to dich PC gamin a legitim choice. Tell the truth instead!!! Tell the real reason for why you made this choice. What you are doing now is to loose even more fans. I hope you realise that many of the readers has been around for awhile and will see right through your lies regarding PC performance and so on. It’s just so lame.
“We started on the PC. Unfortunately that goes back to the point of such a variance of the platform. There wasn’t such a variance at that time and it made a lot more sense to develop on PC. ”
Ok, if you would have sticked to this one I maybe would have said ok. Isn’t going from a wii to a PS3 a big variaty?
But I will give you a chance: Tell me the specs of the $3500 PC that is so much weaker than the PS3, XBOX360, PS2 and even the Wii.
My guess. $5 cpu (e.g. an old pentium 2), a similar valued gpu, 32MB of RAM… and… tadaaa. a $3485 screen=).
I can see clearly now. It won’t be a good gamin experience.
This was just a joke. Now tell me that you were joking as well.
Does Everyone Here Own A Pc Only? But seriousely come on a Ps2 Release And No PC Thats just wrong! especially for such a great looking game like this! Hooray two days until demo comes out!
Bull shat f a xbox360 and a ps3 my comp smokes them,and does not fail on me every time i load it like all xbox a play station do, this shat is just racist on PC gamers the best gamers out there. lot of sales this games losing out on rofl
Agreed with everything posted here, $4000 for a computer that may run unleashed, please. My system was worth about $1800 when i built it, and it runs Directx10 Crysis, with anti-aliasing at 1680×1050 (or something like that eheh) absolutely fine, though i admit had better performance on Xp with Dx9, but thats beside the point.
What is most sad about all this i think, is the fact that most game developing studios are only in it for the profit in the end, with customer satisfaction coming in at a third prioty maybe. They say they want to get this game to as many people as quickly as they can. Why not spend the extra effort to make it PC compatible, those people who don’t have a PC to play it on won’t buy it, and those that do will almost certainly buy it. Game developers, especially that of Lucas Arts are sitting on so much money as it is, and make enough profit on console sales to, in my opinion, justify giving the PC platform a decent game. (Crysis has managed to scale performance just fine, and the core gamplay is still rather good, jsut a side note.)
Of course there will always be the console vs PC ‘war’, but shouldn’t it be the developers consideration to make availible their titles for all, and let the end comsumer choose. One can easily build a decent PC system for the cost of a modern console these days.
But at the end of the day, thats what we’re stuck with, we ourselves aren’t developers, so we can’t complain too much, though we shall have our say.
want some cheese with that wine
wow…bunch of PC elitists in here. Get off your high horses. There are plenty of games that go on PC that dont make it to console.
It is kinda stupid they can put it on the wii and not the PC, but that is beside the point.
You guys need to relax a little. Sounds like you all have a hard on for your computers the way you described them.
Anyways, cant wait for the demo to come out today. Gonna be awesome on my 360.
BTW, Dan made some really good points.
What a lot of marketing BS.
That’s what scalable settings are for in a game. The PC reality is if you want a top end PC experience then you go get a top end PC, otherwise make do with what you’ve got.
F^&k*&g c*#ts.
It’s absolutely preposterous to pretend that you would need a $4000 dollar computer to run this game fine, and that’s the other thing, with the way companies make console games these days they focus on graphics over framerate. It makes it so much harder to play a game that runs at 22 frames per second average rather then being able to turn down some options on a pc version and get much more satisfying framerates. I always liked the fact that you could customize your pc game experience with the graphics options. I’m betting the main reason they aren’t doing this on the pc is because they don’t want to have all of the Euphoria engine specifics being crowbarred out of the game.
And like has been said before, seriously, a PS2 version but no pc? A Wii version, but no pc? A PSP version, but no pc?! When was the last time I played Crysis on my PSP, oh, that one time I- Never! I have never played a graphically competent game on the PSP!.
End Rant.
I’m deeply saddened to heard that it will not be coming to the PC… I think it should be. If anyone agrees, please try to help do something about it. Here is a link to a petition to get TFU for the PC: http://www.petitiononline.com/g5d4iu5f/petition.html
- Austin
CS has no idea what he’s talking about. I have yet to see footage of TFU that beats any of the current games out there. I spent <$1000 on my rig and it runs Unreal Tournament 3 on max settings and averages 80fps online or otherwise. That’s with Winamp running, Teamspeak and XFire. I spent that amount over 6 months ago, those same components would now cost you <$800. This is just a lame excuse to get out of beta testing. I’m glad companies like ID are still around…
ok so no pc right? but let me tell u this the wii cost 200 dollars the xbox cost 300 and ps3 cost like about 600 they all r going to have ddm Euphoria and havok 4000 dollar cpu my ass let me just say come get ur UBER BS ona stick!
I must agree with all the above posts, (apart from the standard trolls “quit whining” ones), seriously, if this is being released on Wii and PS2 then it’s a downright insult not to release it on PC.
Also you’ve made a GLARING contradiction in your statement CS.
You say at first that, fair enough, if you made it full spec it’d take an average gaming PC to play (though you seem to rate this at $4000 (my posterior)) and this would be unfair as it were. THEN you go on to say that you’re not going to release a low-spec cut down version because it won’t put full use of the standard gaming PCs out there. This is utter twoddle.
It’d be entertaining to see how you’d've handle Crysis,
it’d be something like “Hey we’ve got an amazing game but its never going to be released properly because not absolutely everyone can play it, but we’re releasing incredibly cut down versions for some other consoles that have no-where near half the power of the standard PC.”
It’s as if you’ve created a super-drug for fitness but refusing to release it to it’s full potential because some people won’t be able to afford it.
And btw, I’m not willing to re-mortgage my house just to buy a flipping PS3 for this game. You could quite happily build a PC that would dance a merry jig whilst running this game for the same price as buying that incredibly shiney doorstop.
(p.s before I get nuked, I have no problem with PS3/XBOX360 owners, I just personally don’t want one and find it insulting that they expect us to go out to buy consoles for a game your PC could easily run with its keyboard tied around it’s fans).
(p.p.s A friend of mine has recently had a machine built for him -it’s capable of playing Unreal Tournament 3 and Crysis absolutely fine (haven’t had exact benches as he lives about a hundred miles away). This cost him £350, now tell me, where did the $4000 come in?)
Sorry to double post but I’ve just realised another glaring fact.
You say that you’re not releasing it on PC because you want to get it out to all the people, surely releasing it at high specification for PC now would mean more future purchases as the hardware becomes cheaper, also it means you’re cutting out a massive percentage of your market, at least a good 15%. Plus the loss of all the future sales of people who’ve felt so let down by this urination over one of the things they loved that they refuse to buy your products in future.
(I’m willing to wager company’s playing silly buggers like this was the original cause for piracy or at least a major contributor(I have never pirated anything in my life though am massively tempted thanks to this foolishness))
This is Ridiculous!
This is the biggest pile of bull I’ve ever seen offered as an excuse for lack of a PC version.
The game is going to be available on Wii, PSP, and as an iPhone app. Obviously all of those platforms will give different experiences, and obviously if they can handle it, a PC can as well. If an iPhone and a PSP can handle it a PC can handle it while encoding a DVD, mowing my lawn and juggling cocker spaniels.
I believe that it is more to do with the earlier post about copyright protection regarding PC games.
The PC gaming market is at least as big as any othersingle platform, especially given the ability to download games directly from providers to PC.
It is also fact that there are very few games that have not been cracked and available by various peer to peer sources.
The company would lose money everytime a person uses a pirated copy (I know it is possible to pirate other platforms).
The other matter is that some/most console games command a higher price per unit than a PC version and when you are selling vast quantities this means BIG money.
All the porting, $4000 PC needed is simply nonsense and ‘smoke and mirrors’ and most of us know that and why.
I am a bit of a take my ball home type of person and it leaves me with a bitter taste regarding any future PC games LucasArts may release. In this instance I will give my hard earned money and buy the witcher enhanced version and Crysis and will definately not be buying a console ‘vote with your wallet’.
Regards to all.
“On the other hand if we made that game for as many people as possible, because we are trying to make mass market games, something that everybody can enjoy, well then it’s not taking advantage of what those $4,000 systems can do. So one way or the other depending on how you build that lead PC SKU, it’s not going to be for the same amount of people, it’s going to be not as good or only for a select few people.”
Mass market game…something perhaps applying to all systems?? not all systems accept 1….
as for making a game for as many people as possible…wait…wouldn’t that fit into the category of pc users…i mean we are people and we are many…
as for not taking advantage of $4000 pcs…lets assume a good PC did cost $4000 for a minute…you want to use a pc to the max…like your doing with every other system cause there standard….hmmm…how about just making the game with the same specs as a ps3 with the option to scale up or down from the ps3′s max settings.
If your wanting to get the game to as many people as possible, sure, consoles are a good way…to get the game to a lot of people…but not as many as possible. You take out pc games and you suddenly loose out on the “as many as possible” line.
Im currently going to college for Game and simulation programming. Hopefully once I’ve gotten my degree, I wont work for a company whos willing to destroy their fan base because suddenly their games are too good for them…because really, is that not whats happening??? people blame piracy and other BS like that…those people are ignorant to the real facts…the real money for the time being is in consoles…well, consoles will only take you so far…and we the pc owners who need some diversity with our systems instead of a dumbed down version of a PC that you toss in the trash after a few years because its completely outdated or just burns out…
Its a shame…i have nothing against consoles or people who buy them..but if your going to make a game for every platform…dont exclude the people who helped line your pockets…if we the pc gamers did not support your games from the start…you would not be where you are today…
BTW, i have owned every console up until the ps3/xbox 360 due to me learning its much cheaper to build a custom pc than it is to buy a console. A console is oudated the second its plans are finalized…a pc…well…they in the least can be upgraded and have multiple uses…i could make a $400 USD pc that would outperform an xbox/ps3…maybe thats what you meant…$400 not $4000……
Erm… OK – firstly I have a decent PC that can play Crysis (the PC litmus test) on a 22″ 1680×1050 resolution. It looks beautfiul. I also have a PS3 that I used to play SW:TFU. It looks good, but nowhere near as good as the above resolution on a PC.
Anyway, whilst it sucks that its not coming out on the PC, I have to say I’m not that arsed, I mean sure its a decent game, but what with the conversion of Mass Effect (good game, but flawed graphical experience).
I would be sad to see a crap port from the 360 on the PC, but then I don’t use my PS3 for Word Processing, surfin’ the net, using Sonar for making tunes, minesweeper et al.
I bought the PS3 for the Blu-ray and also the console aspect, the game is just that, a game to play, put down and then play again. I prefer to use my pimped PC to hammer home some RTS like Company of Heroes or Silent Hunter IV or whatever the hell I want.
You want the game so bad? Buy it on the PS3 or Xbox, the wii may be good too. But I don’t care, lifes too short for bickering of which version and what system blah blah blah
Total BS because they are putting it out for the Wii and DS so they must be OK with a “dumbed” down version. Wow way to burn all your true fans. That just sucks. We will see if after they have made a bunch of cash with the con. versions if they put one out for the PC, most likely with bad ported over controls. Prof that L.A. is going down! Booooooo!
I love being excluded.!! So I’m going to exclude Lucas from getting any of my cash. Apparently they have lost sight of who keeps them going.
Have a nice day!
The market has spoken: Why do you think gaming consoles have cannibalized PC games sales? These guys are a business: they need to make money… so they make the games people want on the systems they want (i.e. pay for) So there yougo
I have a 360 and a wii, but i won’t be buying this game simply because it’s not being made for pc. I do most my gaming on the pc. I don’t know what the reasoning is behind a no pc release. It doesn’t make sense any way I look at it. If it’s because of piracy? The game will have a 360 or PS3 iso on a torrent or newsgroup as soon as it hits the shelf. More people have pc’s than consoles? If they are trying to reach more people that doesn’t make sense. I’m not mad about it, I’m saving $60. I just don’t see how it could be better for business to not sell thousands of pc units.
I love Star Wars games.
Very Dissapointing! ( Shame on you )
This all bulls—t, LucasArt is truely a traitor!!!!
In my country, you can play a high end games such as crysis or assassin’s creed with high performance only by $700 – $1000 PC.
How could they said that they try to make everybody enjoy the game, well, I tell you that 90% gamers in Indonesia DO NOT BUY a stupid next-gen console, or silly console like WII, PS2 and handhelds such as DS, PSP. Most of them are PC GAMERS.
Maybe someday LucasArt will try to make a movie or games without using computer system…And someday I’m sure that they will try to make hard rendered animation by using a PS3…(GODDAMMIT, THEY SUCH A FOOLS!!!!)
worst choice ever not being on pc. mine cost $2000 and it creams my mates ps3 in everything, at least they will never have crysis. SUCKERS
i would have bought the game to. but now im going to have to find my self a ps3 emulator and burn it. where your profit now! MWHAHAHAHAHA
I have worked in the computer field for 10 years. I switched to a console because I was tired of not having a computer (high end 2 years ago) that could not play current games on the PC. Look at the side by side comparison. I don’t have to upgrade my console until the next one comes out – which I don’t have to buy just then….so let’s say the 360 will have a shelf life of 5 years minimum. If I had a PC that was maxed out now – in 2-3 years I could not play any high end game WITHOUT upgrading my PC.
Yes – the console is not harware upgradable – but being so is making it safer for developers because they don’t have to worry about the 9000 video cards out there and making their games work on them. So if I were develping a game and have a solid, stable, non-changing hardware box to work with OR trying to make a game where you could have thousands of combinations of hardware in a PC….hmm?
It all comes down to money – if you can afford the 24 inch dual screen monitors running on dual SLI video cards and 4 gig of memory so you can play Crysis at it’s highest setting your going to have to pay for it. But you can’t tell me having a PC is cheaper than having an XBOX. For a bonus – I can rent a FULL copy of any game I want to try it out and possibly beat without having to buy it AND stay in copyright laws.
I was on the PC side of gaming for many years but couldn’t afford to keep up. With the Xbox360 I can now.
Talk about a big load of crap !!!
If this game runs on Wii , PS2 and DS.. it can surely run on a PC that’s not top of the line.
Why are developpers so scared of making games for the PC ?
If the game is developped for the XBox 360, I can’t believe that the code is that different from PC.
Come on, get you $#!* together !!
YOU ALL NEDD TO STOP WHINING ABOUT PC! DO YOU TRULY THINK IT WOULD EVEN BE “FUN” ON THE PC?! LIKE WHAT PRESSING A BUNCH OF TINY SQAURE KEYS SIMULTANIOUSLY TO FORM A COMBO IF YOUR LUCKY?! seriously guys get over it and go star at yur OH SO PRECIOUS 6 GB RAM INTEL SUPER GRAPHICS WATEVER FOR 24/7!
end rant lol
“Puerto Boboche on September 16th, 2008 4:58 pm
Talk about a big load of crap !!!
If this game runs on Wii , PS2 and DS.. it can surely run on a PC that’s not top of the line.
Why are developpers so scared of making games for the PC ?
If the game is developped for the XBox 360, I can’t believe that the code is that different from PC.
Come on, get you $#!* together !!”
Yeah i concur dude they got this game for PS2 and wii and DS have you seen the screenies for PS2 OH MY GOD BECKEY! it looks like shit my 6 gig processer 4 gigs ram 120mb physx card my new 900 series nvidia geforce 640mb g-card and all my others bells and whistles can blow PS3 XBOX360 out of the water i know damn good and well it will destroy PS2. So that guy and lucasarts can kiss my !#@$@#@ !@#$#@$ they have my last dime. I guess i wont buy any thing lucas arts any more. I guess they r affraid the game will get down loaded to death but guess what if a game is worth it people pay far more then they down load. Just greedy corperate @#$ holes for ya…….
The use of him saying $4000 pc is a figure of speech. And be more realistic with this awesome game coming out how many people do you think will buy a system for this game, even if its just a psp or ps2. Its like when halo 3, or halo for that matter, came out i know at least 10 of my friends who went out and bought a 360 just for that game.
What?!?! I can’t believe this!! You mean to tell me a game is NOT being developed on a certain platform (PC) just because you don’t want us to have a “lackluster experience”?!?! Are you completely DE-RANGED?!?! Since when did developers give a rat’s scrawny backside what “we the people” have to play your games on? Developers have been doing this crap since way, way, waaaaay back….or did you forget? Let us (the consumer) decide when it’s time to upgrade or not, whether to play your game or not; don’t just take that away from us by not even developing it in the first place.
And a decent PC nowadays can’t handle Force Unleashed, but a PS3 and an XBOX360 can?! Come on, feed us another one, if we’re so gullible. You have got to be kidding us… No, wait, you’re kidding yourselves. For some reason, you are too lazy/mentally-challenged/shortsighted to even make the attempt. You pick – no, wait, that might be too big a decision for you. Let me answer for you – make that freakin’ game, IDIOTS!!!!
I am in utter shock that the PC community is “rewarded” in this manner for all the faithful years and hard-earned money we’ve fed into the Lucasarts war-machine over the years. And to think I was just about to re-install two of my favorite games ever (JK: Outcast and JK: Jedi Academy)…but, somehow, I’m no longer in the mood. I think I’ll just burn my discs in a ritual bonfire this weekend, that’s how depressing this whole “development” is – or lack thereof.
You guys at Lucasarts really suck hairy wookiee balls. Unbelievable. I sure hope someone at Lucasarts comes to their senses soon and fixes this fiasco. You’ve lost a lot of future revenue from this formerly-avid fan, so just figure that into your little bottom-line. I hope you all rot in console hell with nothing but “Barbie’s Playtime” on a scratched Gamecube disc to occupy your eternal damnation. I hope a bantha craps in your morning coffee, you corporate jerk-offs!!
Should’ve been harder on them….
Its just the market of control by Sony and Microsoft and to a lesser extent Nintendo. I remember Halo always being released on the console and waiting for a year for the PC platform.
Gamers would just rush to the stores and grab a console of their choice just to play the games that don’t get a PC release. It’s becoming very common now. Console cost much cheaper than a good enough gaming rig.
I own a quad core, with a 9800gtx card and a superb board and have been playing Crysis and Mass Effect at high levels with no problem. And it does not cost more than 2000. 4000 is more of like Alienware’s Rig. “Best on the Planet”
Thankfully though i own a PSP slim and currently playing Force Unleashed. Great game to get if you own a PSP despite not having the graphics compared to Xbox360 or PS3.
Belief me, give it within a year, Lucasarts would definately release this game on the PC. Maybe with more extra’s just like Mass Effect. Have seen the game played on the 360. And i know my PC can run this game without any problems.
Do a search on ANY torrent site , this game is being pirated just as much if not more for consoles as it would for PC. So if Piracy is the (lame) excuse…
…I ask… any good emulators?
To ALL PC Gamers: The reason why it was not released for PC is because they developed it for Console, if you watch trailors of the games etc you quickly realize its nothing more then smashing 3-4 keys on a pad with some cool animations. They didnt release it for PC because they knew if they did the reviews would go trash, PC gamers are used to a more High End game with quality and skill WoW notwithstanding. If you REALLY want to play it, go buy a console. PC Gamers generally have a much larger financial base then their poorer, mass gaming console counterparts. Ive played the game on my friends Xbox360, and i probably wouldnt buy it even if it were released for my PC. Which solidifys my point, however i think they’ve already destroyed their pc fanbase for not announcing JK4. PC Gamers dont worry, Lucas being stupid only opens the door for a more “High-End” SW game in which the real challenge for the developer is trying to water it down enough to be able to run smoothly on 5 year old PC hardware, aka Consoles.
PLUS NO MULTIPLAYER. Without Multiplayer, games have little to no continual playability, you pay 60 bucks, you beat it in 4-6 hours, and your done. I’ve played Console games ported to the PC before, and i can tell you it was the most boring, horrible, trashy experiance of my life. with the exception of Halo Combat Evolved, which was acceptable but by no means PC Worthy.
I guess this is one I won’t be buying and playing any time soon. No console for me thanks. Oh and BTW I can build a computer that can run rings around any console for under a grand. It can also be used for much more than gaming. Marketing garbage!
$4000? Ok, now then, let’s be honest with ourselves, if we’re talking about “watering down, experiences.” For instance, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
How long did it take for these games to finally reach the so-called next-gen systems? I’m too tired at 5:27 AM trying to keep myself awake to let my kids to school on time to look that up, so I’ll let someone else find that little nugget.
Let me put it this way…My computer runs Oblivion just fine…with some noted exceptions for my “ancient” system…
Turning off shadows, yes it doesn’t appear as “REAL” but the frame-rate boost is tops! Also, with full bump-mapping and lightwave mapping, you can still see effects of shadows on the terrain and NPCs…watch me trawl an Aylied ruin or cave sometime, it’s f’ing dark in there, a little light here and there, a torch, or a light-spell, and I still see shadows…not the NPCs or my own, but the full dynamic level shadows that make the environment more “real”. On my ancient system, this works wonders.
Also I have to lower the rendering distances of objects and environments…big deal…most of the things to be seen that the sliders allow to be rendered is only for more “pre-loading” of the world map’s “cell” As opposed to a WYSIWYG view just by staring out the eyes of your player character…and I can STILL sneak up on ANY NPC because I can STILL spot him before he can remotely sense or see me.
My only other rending limiter I impose is the resolution…yes I play at 640 x 480, and when you see my rig’s spec’s you’ll see why, but even Oblivion, rendered on DX9, on a 640 x 480 resolution has far more stunning visuals then anything a PS2 could touch…I mean, the screenies on the TFU’s site for the PS2 are just horrendous, and the Wii is supposed to be a port of such inferiority? Marketing rubbish.
Now, if I can half-full-tilt run Oblivion, I’m quite sure I could play TFU for the PC on even my back-assward rig, with nothing more than shadows turned down, and a few less mip-maps. True, what you’ll see for my actual CPU is crap for running that kind of AI, but even with this backwater rig, the motherboard can support a higher capability processor than what I could afford to put in it at the time…
Now, without further ado, let me allow you all to point at me and laugh:
Bear in mind, all of this was purchased and assembled by yours-truly back in the early January of ’01!! Only exception is the video card.
CPU: AMD T-Bird Socket A 2600+ 133 Mhz external clock version, 2.09 Ghz internal clock (now THAT’s ancient, and still kicks ass!)
Motherboard: Nforce2, 200 Mhz FSB, the AVN8X edition, if I’m remembering that serial this late(early?) in the morning…
RAM: 3200 DDR2 512×2, essentially 1 GB or RAM, although i do have some rather “custom” timings, I wouldn’t call them overclocked.
HDD: (Another laugh) EIDE ATA100 120 GB…the only mercy is the 7200 RPMs
Video: BFGtech edition (Factory Overclocked) GeForce6600 OC…the OC designation meaning the overclock. Their are only two major differences between the OC and the standard version of the same card. The standard had a 500Mhz GPU core, whereas the OC had twin cores at 400Mhz, the RAMDAC speeds were only minimally tweaked…look it up if you care too, all I knew was a factory overclocked card was available for the same price as the standard, for a “minor” upgrade in onboard VRAM performance.
So while CS wants to market BS his way to helping the console manufactuers sell more systems (i’m quite sure there was a LOT of backroom deals going on) then LA can kiss my rosy red arse. I can’t believe I actually LIKE the NGE of SWG, and that is one FASTLY sinking ship. Add some crappy card game, it’s still the same ol’ Galaxies, well, not maybe the “same” Galaxies as many of you elders have played in the past, but the reason I played it, and the ONLY reason I played it, was because it was Star Wars, and all I had to do to start playing it was download a trial program to a computer that can handle it deliciously at launch.
I can afford to put more money in my PC, because simply a PC is used for everything these days…Phone, Gaming, Word Processor, Firefox, etc, etc. I can use it for ANYTHING these days with the right peripheral and drivers. In the long run, it’s more cost effective to stick with the PC, but then again…I’m a systems/network engineer, so I always buy for the future. This system of mine has lasted for 7 years, and all it’s needed was a video card upgrade, which, was only $179 at the time, 4 years ago. Before that, my system cost me about $500, and this was with full retail pricing for very new hardware, again, at the time. Cutting Edge will always cost more…anyone remember the Panasonic 3DO? Yes? No? $300 when I bought it, and now it’s a relic, a fad, that still…although had a few decent games, was just another junk heap on somebody’s shelf re-sold used at the flea-market for $20, and includes a game, AND they have a few titles in stock of the old system.
A true die-hard gaming system, if it doesn’t break, will earn it’s worth, as long as you like the games for it. I still play NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy. All had great titles. All systems will all have great titles, so knock off the bashing of PC vs. Console. PC games are entertaining, Consoles are entertaining, we are gamers, it’s the games, not the hardware that makes a good system.
In conclusion, if you can afford to, get a system you like, but don’t do it for just one game. Look at the other titles, see what else is out there, both now, on the clearance racks, and what’s in development. Smart shopping will get you what you want. PCs are a whole other ballgame, and their hardware will always be more superior. Sorry folks, PC’s are more modular, and more customizable, but we will have to pay for it, and video cards are like buying a new gaming console as it is. So just be thankful your PCs can do what they can do, and consoles will continue to sell.
Damn i’m tired cause I REALLY tried to bury a big axe there…but to be able to produce a game across such a “wide market base” and say that they don’t want to produce a PC version because of the limits of budget? Rubbish. It’s either backdoor business deals at work, or pure laziness.
Oh, I will always love PC gaming more, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Capcom’s classic Blue Bomber. Although, I’ve tended more to stick with the X series, hehe.
Good morning!
Why do we need Jerry Seinfeld for? this leads us to even greater laughs…so, medium pc’s couldn’t stand Euphoria and the game wouldn’t be the same…why do we have the game for nintendo ds, psp, ps2? they must have powerful processing units to sustain such a massive evolution. Or the argument of concern for those who need to turn down the gfx is simple bs.
I got one reason why this game would be an asolute blast on the PC……
MODS!!!
The same reason all other Star Wars games were a blast on PC.
I only own a PC. It’s old, yet I can play all the new games on pretty high graphics (Oblivion, C&C 3, Gears of War, Mass Effect). I only have an nVidia 7300 LE (though I overclock it). All it would take is $200 to buy say an 8800 GT card and I’d easily be able to play a hypothetical PC version of TFU on the highest graphics. Come on Lucasarts. You can do better than this. Give the PC community the PC version of TFU they deserve.
OK,
Copy protection ? Money ? OK . It’s a small investment. Guys open a pre-order site at Lucas Art for a TFU PC version. Please throw in a pricey collector one with all the content you have split on different platforms. Then do your math PBP, NPV, IRR, the whole shebang.
Dumb choice to loose market shares like that…
Cheers.
Yeah, well what about people like myself that spend their money on PC’s, so that I can play the most intense games and do everything else that a human wants a computer for.
How dare this happen. No I’m one of those very same people that doesn’t have the machine to play it!!
However it’s not the people without good PCs i’m fitting into, it’s the stupid, lower-end, lower-performance all-round worse to play games on Console!
Now you’re forcing me (and many others) to go out and buy a playstation or XBOX. Well too bad for the game now, I’m not buying playstation or Wii or XBOX and dido with your game!
people would gladly spend money on ungrading a PC (as they can do just about anything on it), rather than a stupid once off gaming console, that you NEVER get the fullest out of the game anyway. Console games these days look great, but never as good as a high-end PC! Sorry to all you guys out there with consoles, but they’re crap.
Let’s not forget that without PCs, there’s no consoles and esspecially NO GAMES! As they are all programmed on computers (PCs) essentially.
I’m a programmer myself and you guys, just lost another customer over the principle!
man, it would have been nice if someone from lucas had told us to bring boots. i/m up to my knees in some of the lamest ass shit i/ve ever heard.
so now you need a $4000 machine to play a game designed for a 7th gen console? i/m having a hard time with that one…not to mention that the game was released for the psp? someone explain to me where euphoria and direct x 10 are factors there…i/m con-fused.
way to follow suit on yet your latest in a long line of money grubbing ventures lucas. you suck at life.
I’m not going to go into detail like everyone else because i’m sure it’s all been said.
I’m so angry……..
This is part of the mentality that is going to kill pc gaming which is a shame because we can have a system for years instead of buying a new console every two.
Money grubbing indeed.
Wow i don’t have the words, i’m so darn angry….. I was looking forward to this game. Now i’ll never get to play it.
OK, if they didn’t want to release this on PC due to fears of piracy, dealing with extended testing for the variety of hardware, or some other honest answer, I’d be unhappy but satisfied with the answer. But this “it’d take a $4k computer to run it” is a complete cop out answer (as has been well said above). COP OUT! ABSOLUTE TOTAL COP OUT!!
I can take a bad answer as long as it’s honest, but don’t lie to my face.
Come on people! I can understand your anger at this bad placed joke (4000$ computer) but come on, TFU by no means any close in potential customer attractiveness to games like Crisis or other major brand, despite SW logo. It’s pure marketing, they evaluated possible expenditure(time and money) and revenue of porting TFU on PC and decided that profits are not worth it. Just simple as that.
I think when they just started working on TFU they misjudged capability of PC to evolve in period of time they set to produce game. Or another possibility: major flaw in producing plans which forced them to finish game much later than it was supposed to be finished originaly. Something like this happens all the time with projects intent to produce some kind of “revolution”. Just likre unique phisycs in TFU. In both cases we deal with major mistakes made porting TFU to PC not worth the expenses.
And what about “4000$ PC joke”? May be they are just repeating original several years old tesis that made them to forgo PC in advantage Wii, PS2 and PSP. Surely they are lot less expensive in terms of producing games for them.
I also agree with most of You^
The most annoying facts:
1. You are trying to do a game for as many people as possible… and how the hell u will do that by making this game NOT for PC ? We cant count every pc and console and say which is bigger market but.. hey… from all of my friends i know >1LESS< people buy them. According to my calculations the stupid PSP version of THFU cost same price like Sacred2 + Fable 2 + PURE ^^^ thats 3 really nice games against 1. [ in my country]
2. Insane for me is creating a game on PC and testing it ( and now.. tell me how do u tested ur game in the middle of creating it…. u tryed to run console-game-format on pC? no….. u tryed to burn blue-ray disc every 1hour to test is everything is right ?? …no… you just clicked 1 little file with .exe extension and tested if that worked. The facts are.. they created this game on PCs, tested it on PC, compiled it for console (also on PC) and cut PC SW fans for having this game…. how nice of you
2b) And plz plz… dont tell us such things like we didnt have a pc version (according to section 2)… of course u can always say that u coded the game on 360, developed physX on Wii, compiled maps on ultra high resolution display of NDS, designed maps on ps3 using the analog pad and compile\record the game on blu-ray disc using ultra high performence Game boy Advance.
Paper accept every bull s*t but WE DO NOT!
3. U tell us that u doont wana a pc version becosue of the variety of hardware, that gamer can use. LOL. PS3, PS2, NDS, WII, PSP have all VERY DIFFERENT hardware, different gpu\cpu, different frequency, different file\compile types, different ways thoes consoles loads\runs the game. So u had to compile your game for so many consoles and so many hardware types ^
Mayby u forgotten that we, PC players have something like Microsomething Winwars etc. which will do everything for u and the hardware spec dont matter. If the DX, all drivers are properly installed, operating system\ Direct X do 95% work for you ^
Consoled do not have that ability, they do not have dx which handle all 3d\2d gfx commands dont matter the gfx card inserted.. so u had to compile the physx\gfx aspect in other way , for every type of console.
To sum up, all gfx\physx calculation done by the game are easier to compile, test, becouse of directX which is the same on all PC (of corse if the user isnt totaly… … …)
4. Now tell me how the hell… ps2 can run the game but pc for 4000$** cannot handle it ?
**pc for 4000$? Best intel core quatro x2, 2x cpu mainboard with crossfireX , 8 Gb Geil black dragon ddr3, 4x radeon HD4870x2, Creative xFi fatal1ty, 1500W power supply + 90 cans of beer for the money that left from 4000$)
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The reasons they presented sounds to me like they want to justify their stupidness or lazyness hymmm… byt if they ported game for so many diferent consoles, they arent lazy .. they are just stupid.
Happy Gaming, Luki Railwaywalker
His answer about the pc thing $4000 … where does he buy pc anyway? Come on PS2 have this game, and anyone with a cheap pc nowadays can play a ps2 game.
I don´t get it all….
I wanted to pre-order the “force unleashed” from the website and for that I’ve visit it from time to time…, in vain. When a game worth its money…, “hell with it”, I’ll pay even 60 bucks, but I won’t buy console for it.
Perhaps the reason for not releasing the game on Pc is either the piracy or the shares from selling gaming platforms. Who knows, maybe someone thought about one move to catch two birds
I’m not buying it, I’ll just move on…
One fan less…
It doesn’t cost $4000 to have a PC capable to play TFU, i built my computer from scrach and it cost me a little under $1000 and I could definently play TFU on it with over 100fps. What they should do is have it come out later on in the up coming year like what they r doing with Burnout Paradise, they waited about year & a half to put to PC version out because most PC’s couldn’t handle it, but now they can. Having TFU on my PC would rock! but it doesnt look like its going to happen anytime soon….
What a load of crap, if people want to run the game at full ball then they will upgrade (its always been like that with PC) we dont mind running it in less graphics (again its always been like that with PC)
ive got games from 10 years ago that i can only just run at full setting now (or recently), but thats why i love PC (you get an upgrade and ALL your games get a lift) can you play any 10 year old console games at HD resolutions… i dont think so
so yes bring it out and if it dont run well then ppl will upgrade (sooner or later) at least give us the option cause that just isnt fair.
PS nobody is buying this bullshit for why PC isnt getting some games lately, it isnt half obvious SONY, MICROSOFT, NINTENDO have gotten into the ear of the developer and organised some sort of monopoly where people are forced to buy their console
(which from what ive heard are struggling compared to previous gens)
shame on you guys for turning your back on your loyal fans (all this will do is lose you sales because PC users wont be forced into the console scene)
Ya know? By not developing this on PC, I’m thinking a few rebels, might just decide to port the x-box version to pc and make it available on torrent. Just to prove how wrong they are.
its funny that the argument is “consoles are harder to crack, you need to purchase a mod chip”… you cant even BUY a modchip for an xbox360, why? because nobody is making any, why? because you don’t need it, you just flash a different bios unto the DVD-ROM.
And once you cracked that console, you never have to crack individual games, you just copy them and run.
The consoles of today are just computers with DRM.
I Knew that Star Wars : The Force Unleashed was made for the WII. What I didn’t know was that the game was changed to accomodate the WII as far as the story line was concerned because the WII does not have the graphical power that all of the other consoles have. If the game can be made for the WII, a low end graphics system, there is no reason why it cannot be made for the PC. This is ludicris and upsetting for this to take place. Other gaming companies have not only designed next gen games for the pc, but they have designed them for the console versions too. So for Lucas Arts to tell us PC users that they will not because of graphical and low end PC users does not make sense. They need to get their heads out of their butts and work on this game for all of the PC users out there.