Misconceptions. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.67044]
Ahh, I love my thread. It's a bit outdated though, but most still applies.
Ahh, I love my thread. It's a bit outdated though, but most still applies.
In which you explain to me why PC gaming is dead.
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Dead? No. But certainly far from dominant like it once was.
When I started seriously playing games, if you wanted to play online it HAD to be a PC game. It wasn't until the Xbox came out that console games started to match up with PC games in terms of general game quality and multiplayer potential.
If there is a problem, it's the simple fact that in order for a PC to demonstrate it's superior graphical capability in a game these days it has to have a lot of power behind it, which results in expensive and all too frequent upgrades. Couple that with the fact that very few games are PC exclusives these days and you have a recipe for disaster.
I still use my PC for some games. I generally prefer shooters in PC for example but I no longer cry when I try to play them on a console. Strategy games can really only be rightly played on the PC as far as I'm concerned. While I believe that one could create a successful MMO for consoles it has yet to be done, so when I'm in the mood for a second job I turn to the PC for MMO offerings.
As I've gotten older I've become less concerned with playing games in their "ideal" state though. These days, when I'm not working or what have you it's nice to be able to throw a disc into my Xbox and play a game online for an hour without having to fight with hardware settings or drivers or any of a dozen other little annoying things. To make matters worse, my gaming PC is getting a bit long in the tooth and there has yet to be a new PC game that makes me think I need to bother replacing my system to play. Sure there's Crysis or Far Cry 2, but nothing I've seen about either game seems terribly interesting.
When I started seriously playing games, if you wanted to play online it HAD to be a PC game. It wasn't until the Xbox came out that console games started to match up with PC games in terms of general game quality and multiplayer potential.
If there is a problem, it's the simple fact that in order for a PC to demonstrate it's superior graphical capability in a game these days it has to have a lot of power behind it, which results in expensive and all too frequent upgrades. Couple that with the fact that very few games are PC exclusives these days and you have a recipe for disaster.
I still use my PC for some games. I generally prefer shooters in PC for example but I no longer cry when I try to play them on a console. Strategy games can really only be rightly played on the PC as far as I'm concerned. While I believe that one could create a successful MMO for consoles it has yet to be done, so when I'm in the mood for a second job I turn to the PC for MMO offerings.
As I've gotten older I've become less concerned with playing games in their "ideal" state though. These days, when I'm not working or what have you it's nice to be able to throw a disc into my Xbox and play a game online for an hour without having to fight with hardware settings or drivers or any of a dozen other little annoying things. To make matters worse, my gaming PC is getting a bit long in the tooth and there has yet to be a new PC game that makes me think I need to bother replacing my system to play. Sure there's Crysis or Far Cry 2, but nothing I've seen about either game seems terribly interesting.
It won't die but I feel that it may become increasingly marginalized, I know I would be more inclined to upgrade my machine for gaming if there was a way for me to rent pc games like I can with the consoles.
I have a gut feeling that we won't be able to rent games anymore with all these game companies complaining about rentals and second-hand sales. Console DRM maybe?shadow skill said:
If you own a dual-layer disk burner, then yes, you can. In fact, piracy of console games is almost as popular as the piracy of PC games.thejoblot said:Speaking of free stuff...you can't pirate games on an Xbox!
I'd love to see them try and take out Gamefly/Gamestop. Their endless bitching is not going to make secondhand or rentals go away when it comes to consoles. Not when the internet makes renting so much easier to do, it would be like movie studios whining that rentals cut into their profits. Everyone would just look at them and laugh in their face for even daring to complain.ElArabDeMagnifico said:
The second hand market is a bit of a different issue. If they can somehow get rid of Gamestop they have a chance of pretty much crushing the used game market. (This is unlikely because I highly doubt Gamestop would allow a lucrative part of their own business to be destroyed by the content manufacturers.) If however Gamestop's dominance is broken by the consumer (The most likely scenario in my mind.) I doubt he or she will stand for that kind of bullshit from the game makers and just start pirating the games. (The reason the PS3 is not hacked yet has more to do with the lack of drive to do it more than anything else. Blu-ray media and burners will eventually fall in price along with the media.)
Nimbus: I never really paid much attention to Gametap I'll have to look into it a bit more sounds like a nice service.
I much perfer PC gaming to console, The games generally seem to have larger more dedicated communities and mods make everything better. I would buy evey game on pc if I could run them but from the looks of it Left 4 Dead and hopefully Fallout 3 will be the last pc game for a while.