PC Gamer - February 2012

pc gamer poll

back chatter
Who will you be joining in
Star Wars: The Old Republic?
How could you
possibly think that?
Ewoks! Dan Pfeiffer
None of the above; I don’t feel
like playing another Wo W clone.
Michael Greene

■ ■ Was a massive
fan of Wo W for 5
years, then Skyrim
came along and I’m
enjoying my affair
with her. Wo W is
being divorced
out my life and I
welcome Skyrim
with open arms.
Arzetzt

I have tested the game for two
months and it is incredible! Eric Wilber
Utinni! Danny Farrell
For the Empire! Nalone Luangphonh
Sith empire!
Jedi Knight first—I’ve had a whole
character planned for months now.
David Bowen-Williams
48%
Anything that kills as many Jar-Jars
as possible. Thomas Ran

■ ■ City of Heroes is based on one thing: community. I have been playing for four months and I haven’t run into a single elitist or jerk trying to kick me from a mission because I wasn’t geared up to the right tier. Virfortis

Vote in the next poll on our Facebook page!

www.facebook.com/pcgamermagazine

■ ■ I’m too busy playing Skyrim to care about internet drama. Mundox

"Maybe Obama and Boehner can settle their differences over StarCraft II."

should be getting what they paid for, without excuses. PCG

The great equalizer Thank you for showing that even though we Americans may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum in this troubling day and age, PC Gamer extended an olive branch to Jeff Green [who wrote the Dev Man Talking column in Issue 221]. Perhaps you can share your “coming together secrets” with our politicians. Maybe President Obama and Speaker Boehner can settle their differences over a quick match of StarCraft II as it’s televised on C-SPAN! Mark Lyden

We think that’s a great idea—in fact, maybe all arguments among political factions should be settled through multiplayer games. If nothing else, decisions would sure happen a lot faster. PCG

Big hands
When is Logitech or any other
big name computer hardware
company making gaming mice
going to realize that the current
crop of gaming mice is too
small for those of us with big
hands? Even the Rat 7/9 mice
do not pull out long enough to
comfortably rest our palms on
with our fingers extended to the
end of the buttons. Ever see a
6-foot-plus tall gamer use a
mouse? His hand looks like it is
trying to gently cradle a small
animal, and his fingers get
cramped after several hours of
play. Tony Brejwo

As the PC Gamer editorial crew contains a hulking brute or two, we feel your pain. Our recommendation for a mouse that won’t cramp your style (or your hand) is the wireless Microsoft Sidewinder. It’s quite massive, comes with adjustable weights, and has an excellent metal scroll wheel and vertically arranged thumb buttons. PCG

Time wasters
Two big time sinks in Rage are
traveling and running around
towns talking to people. These
activities are great in an RPG
like The Elder Scrolls, where
conversations are meaningful
and traveling goes hand-in-
hand with exploration and dis-
covery. In Rage you’re simply
driving along a pre-determined
route to go from a town to
where you will be shooting
people. The conversations
would be OK as an optional
thing, but forcing me to run
around the town searching for
quests and listening to pointless
stories? I just want to shoot
people. Game designers can’t
believe these time sinks are fun,
can they? It seems like they are
added in so they can say, “Our
game is eight hours long” when
there are really only four hours
of actual gun play. Dan Lazarus

Every player has different tastes in what they like in a game, but some games definitely are more guilty of shoehorning random gameplay elements in than others do. However, gamers are a pretty savvy bunch, and for the most part, review scores end up reflecting when developers are guilty of padding. PCG