PC Gaming am I losing My Mind?!?!?!? (Bit of rant and not so too) LOL

[jpinks]

What is it with PC Gaming lately. I have been totally frustrated for a while now. Indie games are fun but so many seem to be following the pack rather than being innovative. AAA pc titles seems like we are lucky to get one maybe 2 games in a month. I AM A PC GAMER!! Been so since I played Star Trek on my TRS80. Yeah I had a super nes and thats the last console I owned as pc's offered a better gaming experience. I understand why they Port games its cheaper but could they at least make them work (ubisoft for example AC3, Blacklist still cant get it to run). I keep reading that PC Gaming is alive and well but even I am loosing hope. Yes I am a Star Citizen (Golden Ticket BOOYAH!) But thats 2 years from finished product. What happened???? I used to be able to always find a new game to play but it just seems lately I cant. What happened to pc gaming. Maybe I am just being OLD lol. I am COD and Battlefielded to death. Tired of jerks and dipshits who play just to scream at people about how bad they suck. So many old games and genres just seem forgotten. Examples Populous was a fun god game, Master of Magic someone should just reskin a hd version lol an tweak the AI some (still play), MoO 1&2 lots of wanna be's but no clear successors(still play). And what the HELL is wrong with having a Campaign mode in a game now??? Everything Sandbox this and that, tired of seeing a game be all Sandbox as it feels like they couldnt be bothered to entertain you with even a half assed story to hook you into the game with. (which is what we are paying for to be entertained.) Sandbox is fun but it can get so stale as well as make the learing curves much worse keeping some gamers away from good games (looking at you X series Good game but helluva curve to learn. Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper etc it seems every year more and more PC says we are still here and alive but it looks longer and longer between games I want to play. Yes I backed Wasteland, yes I backed Torment and Project Eternity too and Two Guys From Andromeda etc etc. It seemed as bad to me last year and I know alot of people will say its the New Consoles coming wait til they release tons of new stuff. (See my previous point about Crappy PORTS ) I just dont know. Throw an old man a bone an point me to something good LOL. Please no Legends of Pegasus or Stardrive suggestions LOL.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

You sure you're old? Awful lot of lol in there.

Now, to games.
You said you liked MoM?
Give Warlock, Master of the Arcane and Eador Masters of a Broken World a try.
There's also Fallen Enchantress.

Indie games we have FTL of course, Endless Space(Great 4x space game) and Gnomeria(Dwarf Fortress just not that hard to get into)

Oh and Civ5 is still going strong.

Do you have steam?
Plenty of new pure pc games coming out.
Shitloads of Indie's with early access or without, etc, etc.

So, no pc gaming isn't dying. Games are still coming out, new innovative stuff is still made and everything is pretty much the same.
PC gaming have been dying since the beginning according to people everywhere, nothing new.

 

[Zhukov]

Y'know, a few paragraphs would make your post a lot easier to read LOL.

...

Anyway, seems to me that there are more games being released on PC than there used to be. Although I hear you about many of the indies being rather derivative.

 

[jpinks]

Yeah Zhukov, I had a bit of mouth diarrhea there trying to get my thoughts out. I have both Eador, Warlock and Fallen Enchantress (I bought the first game in that series so got Enchantress for free). FTL I loved, endless space I have but it just didnt trip my trigger much as say Distant Worlds,Star Ruler or even.

Yes I have steam and wow 200+ titles over the years. Steam cloud is great (floating between desktop and lappy) now if they would just allow sub accounts so my kids wouldnt kick me off all the time . 45 isnt old I know that but sometimes it feels like it when looking for a good entertaining game. So many old Interplay, Sierra games etc. Sometimes newer games to me feel like they give you all the tools but they want you to entertain yourself, which is fine but I would like to escape into some other place to just give my brain a distraction....

 

[jpinks]

Dawn Of War is a good series!! I tried Shogun but didnt get into it. Star Craft 2 is good. I have the problem of never having enough time to try multi-player on games due to RL. So many strategy games just are sandbox which is great addition to the genre but when its the only thing they offer which is soooo often the case anymore I just cant scrape together enough hours to play a whole game.

With a campaign I can complete a section in 1,2 or 3 hours if its a big one and step back to RL. Hell its much easier to digest if I do have to save a campaign as its easier to remember what I was doing than to remember everything I had going on in a Sandbox game if its a couple of days before I can get back to it.

 

[jpinks]

Want a Fun shooter Far Cry 3 is awesome and so is Blood Dragon that was a hilarious DLC. So over the top and 80's funny. Cant say enough good about SR3 and 4. 4 was a bit to linear and didnt seem to have as much variety as 3on side stuff imho but still great fun.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

PC gaming for me is really only good for strategy titles and emulation. I find that most PC exclusives and almost all indie titles are complete shit (there are notable exceptions but they are few and far between these days).

 

[loc978]

Man, one or two games a month? That's a shitload. Remember back when gaming at all was a niche?

 

[Phrozenflame500]

You know, there is a key right under the "\" key on the right of your keyboard. It's a magical button that makes things easier to read.

That being said, wait till the pre-Christmas season. Then there is a boatload of AAA releases as publishers shove out games for the Christmas rush. And I'm not sure why Ubisoft games aren't running for you. I recommend opening a Steam Ticket, they've been working for me.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

You know, there is a key right under the "\" key on the right of your keyboard. It's a magical button that makes things easier to read.

That being said, wait till the pre-Christmas season. Then there is a boatload of AAA releases as publishers shove out games for the Christmas rush. And I'm not sure why Ubisoft games aren't running for you. I recommend opening a Steam Ticket, they've been working for me.

Å^
I'm not quite sure how those two buttons will make it easier to read.J/k

OT:
Company of Heroes I guess?
Risen 2?
Expeditions Conquistador?

I don't really play games anymore, so I guess I'm not the most informed person, still pc game isn't going to die yet.
Did you play the new heroes? Kinda fun, sadly it's a bug ridden mess

EDIT:

Obligatory:

PC has the biggest game library of any system to date. If you are unable to find something to play, you are not looking nearly hard enough. If you've somehow exhausted the massive library of actually made-for-PC games, you can easily emulate PS1, PS2, gamecube, n64, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and all kinds of other systems - even simply using VBA can get you countless hours of entertainment from titles like Pokemon, Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem: The Mediocre Ones, and even Final Fantasy 5 and 6 got great GBA ports.

As for PC games? Keep an eye out on steam. You can get Dishonored for cheap, Bioshock Infinite came out recently, Saints Row is often on sale (just picked up 2 for $5 the other day), and there are countless indie titles like FTL, Bastion, Limbo, and Mark of the Ninja that you can often find on sale for $2.50. Just Cause 2 is a great sandbox game, especially with mods, all the Mass Effect titles are available on PC, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim (all with *tons* of mods available for increased enjoyability/replayability) are also available.

Into MMOs? FF14 just launched and seems to be doing alright (so well that it's sold out in most places, actually), GW2 came out a bit over a year ago and despite relatively shallow content it's pretty and still has an active player base. World of Tanks is getting bigger by the month, a WW2-era tank-driving PvP game (great gameplay, somewhat difficult to pick up and learn due to complex mechanics like camouflage and armor penetration, but well worth it to stick with; the higher tier tanks are often incredibly fun).

There's basically no end to great PC titles; older games from GOG are always an option, steam sales on more recent releases or indie titles, and emulation is always an option, with the common benefits of save states, cheat codes and faster/sped up gameplay (for the REALLY SLOW titles like Pokemon).

Basically this was what I was trying to convey.

 

[AuronFtw]

Obligatory:

PC has the biggest game library of any system to date. If you are unable to find something to play, you are not looking nearly hard enough. If you've somehow exhausted the massive library of actually made-for-PC games, you can easily emulate PS1, PS2, gamecube, n64, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and all kinds of other systems - even simply using VBA can get you countless hours of entertainment from titles like Pokemon, Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem: The Mediocre Ones, and even Final Fantasy 5 and 6 got great GBA ports.

As for PC games? Keep an eye out on steam. You can get Dishonored for cheap, Bioshock Infinite came out recently, Saints Row is often on sale (just picked up 2 for $5 the other day), and there are countless indie titles like FTL, Bastion, Limbo, and Mark of the Ninja that you can often find on sale for $2.50. Just Cause 2 is a great sandbox game, especially with mods, all the Mass Effect titles are available on PC, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim (all with *tons* of mods available for increased enjoyability/replayability) are also available.

Into MMOs? FF14 just launched and seems to be doing alright (so well that it's sold out in most places, actually), GW2 came out a bit over a year ago and despite relatively shallow content it's pretty and still has an active player base. World of Tanks is getting bigger by the month, a WW2-era tank-driving PvP game (great gameplay, somewhat difficult to pick up and learn due to complex mechanics like camouflage and armor penetration, but well worth it to stick with; the higher tier tanks are often incredibly fun).

There's basically no end to great PC titles; older games from GOG are always an option, steam sales on more recent releases or indie titles, and emulation is always an option, with the common benefits of save states, cheat codes and faster/sped up gameplay (for the REALLY SLOW titles like Pokemon).

 

[Jandau]

PC gaming is dying? Again? Huh, you don't say...

*goes back to playing Europa Universalis 4 and DOTA2, while watching Hearthstone Beta videos*

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

PC gaming is doomed once again?, better emulate every console game to the current date rather than actually buying them!.

 

[teebeeohh]

try dota2
if you have the time to invest and are not easily shocked by how horrible humanity can be it's amazing fun