Oh. Really? I wasn't aware that was possible. Maybe it was the kind of experiment that was ultimately ditched for whatever reasons, like PC v. console cross-platform FPS games.

While it won't expand their audience, I'm willing to bet that a lot of console-exclusive Skyrim fans will buy it just for the smoother, shinier, full 1080p experience, even through their previous generation copies work just fine.

UT3 mutators on the PS3 came nowhere near the kind of mods possible on PC. They were like a more involved edition of custom game modes for Halo. Microsoft and Sony just don't want to have to deal with taking responsibility when their kid downloads a My Little Pony S&M sex mod for Skyrim. The PC is an open platform,…

Wrye BASH was a lifesaver, until I got overzealous. Other than reducing your ESP count, it actually does a pretty good job of eliminating a lot of annoying smaller incompatibilities.

I don't know. Skyrim is a very good looking, massive open world game. You might argue other games stretched the hardware even further, (GTAV maybe?) and there are games that look better, but not on the same massive scale as Skyrim.

I routinely ran BOSS with each mod install. The trouble started when I started using Wry BASH to slap a few usually incompatible mods together. While this was initially awesome, I think I got overzealous.

Ding ding ding! What did he win!?

They create within the constraints of the hardware they're designing it for, and for multiplatform releases this means designing for the lowest common denominator.

I'm considering starting over with Skyrim. After finishing it vanilla about four different ways, I started with the mods, which as Elder Scrolls game modding tends to go quickly spiraled out of control. My most recent installation was beautiful and brutally, unnecessarily difficult, all for the sake of "realism." I…

It's coming along. You can tell which way they're trying to go with it, but it's so wonky and poorly optimized that it's pretty tough for me to recommend it to anyone right now.

I'm interested in this game, but I haven't bought it yet. I don't fully understand their pricing situation. While most games start early access at a lower price, then slowly increase it as it get's closer to completion. (Of which I think Minecraft set the bar.) 7d2d starts HIGHER, then slowly goes down as they get…

Heh. Porn titles.

This is exactly why I used to create erotic fiction, artwork, and even a few games that I never finished under a pseudonym. I wanted to maintain reasonable deniability if these godawful creations ever came back to bite me in the ass.

What is this taste!?

I feel like we were warned about this well over a decade ago. Put sites and services that pay your provider more money puts them in kind of a fast lane. Everything else has to trudge along the slower and probably more expensive other lanes.

I bought 0 games over the Steam sale because I was broke and had no money.

Okay. Then maybe I'll replace the "doesn't" with "shouldn't".

Does anyone know if these Bluetooth controllers designed for IOS and Android will also work on Windows? I'm getting an Asus T100ta, and would like a controller to use with it that I could just toss into a bag.

Filling in the blank to replace "Xbox" with anything else doesn't change the story in the slightest.

Advances in graphics at this point will have very minimal impact on games in my opinion. While there's probably still a little room to make things prettier, I believe that this console generation will focus more on using all that power and ram to improve the gameplay and push the stories told to new and more…