The unknown future of PC gaming....

[ctrain]

If you still want a hardcore FPS then play Quake Live.

You will get your shit pushed in, it cuts no corners from years ago. Got 500 hours clocked.

 

[chris89]

Quake Live is fantastic.

For FPS's the only ones i mostly play now are Killing floor, RO, and soon to be RO: Heroes of stalingrad, which will be a great fps for pc.

CHris

 

[HalfAHertz]

I've been getting down with AA3. It lacks contents but some of the maps are pretty good.

 

[snuif09]

AA3 is alot of fun to play.

You guys should check out Operation 7 aswell. one of the better free2play shooters out there.

 

[Praetorian]

Imagine how PC gaming will be in let's say...10 years, when we would all have true 3D monitors ( like the screen from Nintendo 3DS). I foresee a good future for gaming.

 

[yogurt_21]

*looks at 2011 titles coming out
* counts them, over 50

pc gaming isn't going anywhere, console ports or not.

 

[Praetorian]

*looks at 2011 titles coming out
* counts them, over 50

pc gaming isn't going anywhere, console ports or not.

How many are ports from those 50??

 

[yogurt_21]

How many are ports from those 50??

irrelevant to the presence of pc gaming. you might wanna start a thread on quality

http://pc.ign.com/articles/114/1140196p1.html

 

[Praetorian]

Low quality games on PC means also a kind of death for it...

 

[erixx]

come on - it is not dead, but

1) some 'consolitis' illness
2) some 'grafix only' storyvoid games (crytec etc)
3) too much 'all ages' games (competing with 'Mamma's Wii' etc, CoD, uber-scripted, dumbed down helicopters, etc, arcade feeling...)
4) savaging of the 'modding' communties, DLC only, protectionism...
5) No love, no sex, no fresh air... Game developer is an established, boring, hypocrite JOB.
6) wrong business model, pirated from the movie industrie

Still alive, but bleeding... vision red... trapped... But you can 'vote' with your money, buy really good games, based on proper analysis, not PR fishnets.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Low quality games on PC means also a kind of death for it...

Tho i dont like the philosophy even the shittest port runs fine on mine, and with Antisotropy AA and everything else switched on or maxd, morpho AA plus 4x multisampleing AA all forced on in driver the pc versions still piss on the console ones dude thats why my ps3 folds only at min, i dont consider the 360 even capable of reasonable quality so wouldnt own one and most games are enhanced at least a bit for pc. so it aint dieing g this bad boys rollin past the 720 or whatever and the ps4 il still game on the best tech i can

 

[BumbleBee]

I don't think the PC has a single AAA exclusive this year. only a couple titles that are hardly system sellers. it can't be healthy for so many people to hinge success on one title.

 

[ktr]

Only game I can think of this year is The Witcher 2.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

AAA exclusive

i think that may be the real issue and reason for this death of pc gamein talk,
daft really, its natural to wana sell more n i dont blame them for that i just dont get the lack of options and stuff in ported games it dosnt sound to hard to have an external config booter either, as bad co 2 used or a better version of the crysis 2 demo config thing but for every port/game, surely easy to appease us if they tried??

plus loads / far too many people ONLY play shit games like bejewelled???? so they know nowt about pc gamein clearly..

 

[btarunr]

PC gaming will live on. I simply don't buy into the "but console is 1/4 the price of a gaming PC" bullshit argument.

Look at it this way. You do already have a $300 PC to do your spreadsheets and write to mom. It has an empty PCI-E slot. Instead of paying $250 for a console, spend the same money on the best graphics card you can get for that money. You'll end up with a gaming platform that gives vastly superior graphics, can plug to your HDTV (almost every graphics card has HDMI these days), and comes with an infinitely superior game controller (your $10 keyboard and $5 mouse).

 

[razaron]

PC gaming will never die.
If it does die it would be when some genius makes keyboard and mice for consoles. However that's basically a (uncustomizable) PC anyway, so it comes back to the fact that PC gaming will never die.

EDIT: Also I think I read somewhere awhile back, that Steam has the second highest number of sales for games only being topped by gamestop (I think) which also sells console games.

 

[LifeOnMars]

PC gaming will live on. I simply don't buy into the "but console is 1/4 the price of a gaming PC" bullshit argument.

Look at it this way. You do already have a $300 PC to do your spreadsheets and write to mom. It has an empty PCI-E slot. Instead of paying $250 for a console, spend the same money on the best graphics card you can get for that money. You'll end up with a gaming platform that gives vastly superior graphics, can plug to your HDTV (almost every graphics card has HDMI these days), and comes with an infinitely superior game controller (your $10 keyboard and $5 mouse).

Only to find the PSU is a pile of poo, the processor massively bottlenecks the graphics card and really e-machines are not "all that" . Then begins the process of building your very own first rig and......wait, this sounds familiar D

I actually see PC gaming getting bigger, i think major shakeups with how software/games are supplied to the end user can get rid of piracy all together.

 

[Praetorian]

In the end, if I start to think this through, the consoles are like MACs. Same as PCs (they have Mobo, CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD, etc) but they are NOT upgradeable or customizable.
So here it is.
The PC gaming wont die, the consoles will transform into PCs...

 

[NinkobEi]

I don't think the PC has a single AAA exclusive this year. only a couple titles that are hardly system sellers. it can't be healthy for so many people to hinge success on one title.

Star Wars Knights of the Republic, Diablo 3, Starcraft expansion. What qualifies as a AAA title?

 

[BumbleBee]

I don't think consoles will ever be upgradeable. consumers like it simple.

 

[Praetorian]

never say never


Personally I would love to be able to change(exchange) the GPU in the console, to add more RAM, replace HDD, and so on.... (Making an analogy here, the format can be like the ones in laptops: MXM-B for GPU, ram, hdd, wi-fi card, and the rest that can be replace on that limited space )

 

[HalfAHertz]

I don't think consoles will ever be upgradeable. consumers like it simple.

HA! Then you've obviously never seen the SEGA Mega Drive.

You could upgrade it not once, but twice!

Basic version:

Updated version with Sega CD and Sega 32x:

It also needed not 1 but 3 (three!) power adapters.

 

[TheMailMan78]

There are ports up and ports down. Ports up suck. Ports down are awesome. BC2 was a port up. Meaning it was made for consoles and ported to the PC. That kinda port sucks (Up port). Battlefield 3 will be made for the PC and ported to the console. (Down port). This is how it used to be and is ideal for the market.

So when talking about PC gaming and "exclusives" you have to keep this in mind.

 

[BumbleBee]

Star Wars Knights of the Republic, Diablo 3, Starcraft expansion. What qualifies as a AAA title?

Diablo III doesn't exactly have a release date. it's not PC exclusive.

forgot about Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic $300 million dollar budget would qualify as AAA lol

 

[HalfAHertz]

Diablo III doesn't exactly have a release date. it's not PC exclusive.

forgot about Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic $300 million dollar budget would qualify as AAA lol

OMG! :O

Ok would be game designers, rule number one of any studio should be this:

1) If your budget is larger than that of a top blockbuster Hollywood movie, then you've already failed horribly...