Shadowrun lands on Xbox and Windows May 29th

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Shadowrun lands on Xbox and Windows May 29th

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Right on the heels of Halo 2's Games for Windows Live debut on May 22nd comes the announcement that Shadowrun, whose signature feature will be Live Anywhere support, will be pitting the keyboard / mouse combo against the gamepad this month when it hits North American retailers on May 29th. Shadowrun will be the first game to support cross-platform play between Windows Fista and the Xbox 360.

The Xbox 360 version will retail for $60 while the Fista version will retail for $50. Additionally, cross-platform Live Anywhere play requires an Xbox Live Gold account for both Xbox Live and G4W Live -- Shadowrun Fista users can still enjoy online multiplayer with a Silver account, but will not be able to participate in matchmaking or Live Anywhere play. Are you WASD or gamepad?

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This makes me sad. Counter-Strike style X-Box port just screams shit to me. I might be pleasantly surprised though.
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"Requires Windows Fista"

Kthxbye :bored:
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spoodie wrote:"Requires Windows Fista"

Kthxbye :bored:
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I could understand a Fista-only requirement if there was a good reason for it (apart from trying to get people to buy the damn OS). Pretty sure that there isn't. I don't have an xbox 360. Therefore, I will not be purchasing/sweeping this game.

/tried Fista and loathed it in pretty much every way that matters
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eion wrote:/tried Fista and loathed it in pretty much every way that matters
How come? Having never tried it, and hearing mixed reports about how aweful/awesome is it I must say I'm just a tiny bit confused about if it's worth flooring or not.
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I haven't had a game run stably under it yet. Gave up trying after going through half my catalogue. It's better that sometimes it can recover from some crashes that would have reset XP, but they happen so much more frequently that it's not that much of a benefit.

Whether the OS "looks nice" or does "cool stuff" is largely irrelevant to me, as mostly it's not visible behind whatever it is I'm actually doing. I care whether it functions - as a movie-ripping, torrent-running, remote desktop box it's fine, but as a gaming platform with backwards compatibility: not there yet.
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It just seems to be falling over itself to appear cool and helpful and added a whole crapload of annoying touches and extra steps and niggling annoyances. Also one major complaint I had was that the XP interface was nowhere to be found :roll:
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It's got a nice CAEK game though.
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FatherJack wrote:Whether the OS "looks nice" or does "cool stuff" is largely irrelevant to me, as mostly it's not visible behind whatever it is I'm actually doing. I care whether it functions - as a movie-ripping, torrent-running, remote desktop box it's fine, but as a gaming platform with backwards compatibility: not there yet.
That :above: Really fucking hard.
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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
FatherJack wrote: Whether the OS "looks nice" or does "cool stuff" is largely irrelevant to me, as mostly it's not visible behind whatever it is I'm actually doing. I care whether it functions - as a movie-ripping, torrent-running, remote desktop box it's fine, but as a gaming platform with backwards compatibility: not there yet.
That :above: Really fucking hard.
:above: That. I change a couple of things on the visual front, such as the Bricopack thing that WEY uses too, but other than that I leave stuff pretty much as it is. I don't understand people who go to huge lengths to piss about on the "cool looks" aspect of an OS because I don't exactly spend much time looking at my desktop, and as Jack said, its a tool to enable other things to happen and nothing more.
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Lateralus wrote:
:above: That. I change a couple of things on the visual front, such as the Bricopack thing that WEY uses too, but other than that I leave stuff pretty much as it is. I don't understand people who go to huge lengths to piss about on the "cool looks" aspect of an OS because I don't exactly spend much time looking at my desktop, and as Jack said, its a tool to enable other things to happen and nothing more.
:above: when it comes down to it I couldn't give 2 shits how it looks, just that I can do things easily, new things are eaasy to find and old shortcuts have not been buggered about with
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:above: fourth'd
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