The president of the PC Gaming Alliance no less as come out swinging, at least in verbal terms, at the ”uneducated response” from the company on PC gaming.
What’s caught his ire is the lack of the Force Unleashed unleashing the force on desktops. LucasArts said it was down to the range of PC specs, and not enough high end machines.
Naturally such a stance has been festering in the mind of Randy Stude, PCGA president. ”That’s not an educated answer,” he told VideoGamer.com.
”In the last several years there have been at least 100 million PCs sold that have the capabilities or better of an Xbox 360. It’s ridiculous to say that there’s not enough audience for that game potentially and that it falls into this enthusiast extreme category when ported over to the PC. That’s an uneducated response.”
”If they’re making games for the Wii, Xbox and PS3 they’re scaling their experience to meet all three of those platforms. They’re good on the Wii, better on the Xbox 360 and the best on the PS3” Stude added. ”There’s no argument that they could give not to be able to support good better and best on the PC.”
And now the gloves fly off as if removed by the power of the mind. ”LucasArts hasn’t made a good PC game in a long time,” he stated. ”That’s my opinion.”
Ouch, but he adds a little more to the fire saying he thinks that ”the last good PC game they made was probably Jedi Knight 2, and even their strategy games weren’t that great.”
The Emperor himself would feel that one I think. ”They’re not really creating product within LucasArts themselves,” he explained. ”They’re going at it job shopping their IP.”
”There’s no development team necessarily within LucasArts any more, they’ve basically turned into an intellectual property machine and supporting the PC, why should they? It really doesn’t fit their property.”
Molyneux recently came under fire for describing the PC markets as ”in tatters” but the fact he’s skirted around the issue of a PC Fable II would seem to suggest it’ll see desktops soon enough. That should get him back in Stude’s good books.
Source: VideoGamer.com
