That the PS2 has a keyboard makes very, very little difference. The key peripheral for the PC is the mouse. The keyboard, as I suggested previously, could be replaced with a dedicated array of buttons since, in PC games, that's all they tend to be use for: a range of keys who's position is known that provide hotkeys for actions in a game. The mouse provides a significantly better degree of accuracy and speed over an analogue stick for positioning things like a crosshair or a cursor.
Incidently, PS2 might have a keyboard, but the PC has gamepads, joysticks, mice, keyboards, specifically designed hotkey peripherals, programmable keypresses and endless other gadgets that mean you can play console designed games on a PC without altering the control system.
Games developed at the same time for consoles and PC... DX2 anyone? Or was everyone just trying to avoid that giant pink elephant in the room.
I've heard bad things about this title. However, since I haven't played the title, I don't feel qualified to talk about it.
I'm not sure why anyone would complain about where you start in a game. Does it matter? What would your ideal start location be?
When your main interest in a game is the story and your role within a world, rather than graphical flare or busty elves, where you start is important - as important as where the story of your character ends. Don't suggest I go read a book instead, since story telling in a book and storytelling in a game are entirely different. Books are stories about other people's characters who you relate to and are entirely dislocated from the reader. Game's stories are intereactive and tell the story of
your character through situations defined by the game developers. Starting off as a criminal in every title merely because 'we've always done it' isn't, to my mind, a valid excuse for continuing to exhibit a lack of imagination. There is no perfect answer to the question of where to start, everyone is different, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to come up with interesting and new situations. That Oblivion starts in a dungeon probably wont impact me greatly, since I haven't played any elder scrolls games besides morrowind, but that doesn't mean my opinions regarding variation in stories is any less valid. I want to experience new stories, not relive the old ones with bump mapped nipples.
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) as well as having as many explanations as your imagination can think of. Unlike working on a farm when someone rides in on horseback with a note from the emperor: "Would you please save the word for us? Ta very much, Emp."
