Consoles of our time.

Heh, I'm actually a PC gamer, and a hardcore one at that, and I'll stick with it (I don't have an HDTV or a console; I played on a friend's). You're right about the Assassin; having him run around collecting bonuses in the city within a time limit is a bit of a perversion of the concept of a hired killer. As for the idea that PCs have nowhere to go in terms of development, I strongly disagree. On the contrary, there are tons of possibilities for development; the only problem is with the publishers. For reference, unlike console games, PC games don't have a development ceiling. That's why the graphics for games like Gears of War, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (1-2), and many others, were specifically enhanced for PCs, with new features added. Of course, this also brings up other issues: poor game optimization, a large number of bugs due to inadequate testing (developers rely more and more on patches, figuring they can fix it later). I read that The Witcher might have some serious glitches depending on how you play, even to the point of making the game unplayable, so download the patches, folks! By the way, I also read a while ago that the next patch for Gothic 3 was going to be huge, and the developers wanted to release the game again with such a large package of fixes, like a mini-add-on. Has anyone heard any details about that?