this is more of a rant than anything else I supose
but I have to ask [b/]why does the games industry hate the PC?[/b]
I mean bad ports...you know I can deal with that
They sell us bad ports not because they are lazy,but because they are stingy. Work needs time to be done,and they don't want to spend enough man hours to make the appropriate work for a decent port. They don't care,they think that either way we will buy their games like good sheep and some of us will fix them,so why should they spend more man hours ?
DRM....is probably the biggest problem but its one of those things you grit and bear
I got used on Steam and I now like it. Seeing most games just using Steamworks for their DRM I feel it's OK. Now the problem is when other publishers just imitate Steam and want you to download and install new programs on your computer that will be running all the time. EA Origin, Ubisoft's Uplay...
not geting certain games....I'm still wating for Red Dead Rockstar...yes its 2 years old and Ive already played it on console...but I'm still waiting...[small/]dammit[/small]
That's how it has always been. Some games come only in one console,other comes on many consoles,other come on many consoles and pcs,and others only come at pcs.
and retail PC games are just downright depressing...granted thats hardly an issue for many with the rise of the digital platform...but for a fair number I'm sure downloading games at 15gb a pop just isn't viable
Yeah with the rise of Steam we saw shelf space of PC games in stores shrinking and shrinking... A large game would take long to download,but if you have some DSL connection,just wait for it.
the fact is when "we" are not being called pirates we are having to hear about how "PC gaming is dying" or some such crap, and I'm sick of it
While piracy exists and always was there,as it also exists on consoles since the PS1 era, lately lots of publishers blame their bad sales on piracy even if that's not the primary reason their games doesn't sell well. When some companies release broken ports that doesn't even fit the industry standards resulting their games unplayable,they shouldn't blame people that are not buying it for being pirates.
Again PC gaming isn't dying. If anything else Steam has 50 million users.
but do you get the feeling we are being pretty punished for our platform of choice? is it unreasonable of me to want to feel like I'm not being treated like a criminal if I want to play games? is it unreasonable of me to expect games to be released on my systm?
My idea is punish those who punish you,if they punish you for no legitimate reason. Put your dignity first and your excitement seconds,and don't buy a game if its company shows that doesn't respect you.
the differences between console and PC are vast in many ways...some might say "get a console" but I don't want a fucking console....[b/]consoles break games[/b]..hold on, hear me out
You are too general on this. Consoles only break once computer games. But there have been games that were designed for consoles from the get go and were never 'broke' by somebody.
90% of games thease days while good are still frustrating as fuck....because 90% contain shooting, and I love shooting but usuing a gamepad is somthing I will never really enjoy doing
the experience is so much better when I've got a moniter and the precision/ease of a mouse, thats the difference between a frustrating experience and an engaging one..hell I played ME3 first time around on my PS3 and I remember being beaten to a pulp by banshees
That's why console shooters have things like aim assist and auto aim in their options menus. Use them.
played on PC second time (same diffuculty) and those Banshee's were MY bitches...did not die once on the same encounter than beat me so many times before..which goes to show how I was just being hampered by artificial difficulty
Trying to aim with the stick without any help like aim assist is a difficult job and your aim will be inaccurate,but that's normal as the way sticks and the way lasers work is very different. So if you can't use a mouse,use assist systems.
my point there is NOT to say which platforms are better (seriously take that argument somhwere else) my point is my choice of systm is vital to my experience and "getting a console" is no fix for issues I feel are unfair
Ah what you reminded me. Once ago there was a time where game developers would boast that they spend enough time with each different version of their game,to make it so each version of their game makes the most use of the available powers and features of each platform. It was something that they believed we would like and would make them proud for doing. They where trying to make its different version of their game to be unique in each platform.
Fast forward to today,and the opposite happens.
Developers boast about making all platform versions of their games be the same. They market their laziness as something good,with the excuse that they do it for "platform equality" to fight console chauvinism or something... Yeah right.
it is very badly named.
