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6/7/12 at 1:52pm
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Did you know that nearly every multiplatform game demoed at E3 – especially during press conferences – is running on PC? I’ve asked, and so far, I’ve yet to get a “no.” Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 3, Metro: Last Light, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Crysis 3, etc, etc. Here’s the weird thing, though: no one talks about it. Presenters mainly brandish Xbox pads as their weapons of choice, and viewers – unless gifted with Thundercats-esque sight beyond sight – are none the wiser.

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6/7/12 at 1:53pm
If the Far Cry 3 demo was running on PC, it looked like crap.
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6/7/12 at 1:56pm
This has been the norm now for awhile I would say. I wish this article was up on every single gaming website in the world.

I'm really sick of seeing comments on sites like IGN from people saying, "Man! look at the new Splinter Cel! I am good with my Xbox 360 for another 3-5 years! They are so much better at optimizing the code for the older systems, so the graphics look better than ever!"

No stupid, it's because they're showing it to you on a PC.
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6/7/12 at 2:01pm
This is pretty much normal...they want every once of eye candy they can get out for the demo. The sad thing is that once they get the PC demo level working for E3 they went back to making optimizations for the console. So in the end we get a watered down console port.
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6/7/12 at 2:02pm
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This has been the norm now for awhile I would say. I wish this article was up on every single gaming website in the world.
I'm really sick of seeing comments on sites like IGN from people saying, "Man! look at the new Splinter Cel! I am good with my Xbox 360 for another 3-5 years! They are so much better at optimizing the code for the older systems, so the graphics look better than ever!"
No stupid, it's because they're showing it to you on a PC.

laughingsmiley.gif So true, so true!
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6/7/12 at 2:30pm
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This is pretty much normal...they want every once of eye candy they can get out for the demo. The sad thing is that once they get the PC demo level working for E3 they went back to making optimizations for the console. So in the end we get a watered down console port.

It's sad, but Im glad I enjoy PC gaming more than consoles. I wouldn't lie though, I do play with a small group of XLive friends and my father from time to time. Whom of which do not have a PC or only laptops not able to run games.
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6/7/12 at 2:36pm
Annnd so what? E3 is for investors who think Kinect and console games are hardcore. I don't know what else to say
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6/7/12 at 2:38pm
that sounds good for us, means we dont get a half assed port, but a game built on the PC first and ported to the consoles.
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6/7/12 at 2:41pm
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I hope for a lot of the games at E3 that they were running on consoles. That said, I did notice the NVIDIA-branded cases next to the stage.

But yeah, I hadn't thought about it the way the author did. Console gamers are looking at PC footage (Watch_Dogs, I mean, is there any doubt it was PC footage?), seeing something they'll never experience on a console.
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6/7/12 at 2:45pm
I like to see if consoles can properly render the rain effect on Watch dogs along with car collision.
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