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Its all EA's fault.
On consoles, you stick the disk in and it works, how many EA titles have you needed certain drivers or certain patches before things work properly, PC gaming is slack in comparison to consoles, a game doesnt run right on a console they have to get it to work, a game doesnt work on a PC, well lets get the user to stick another gig of ram in or upgrade there gx card, you just cant do that on a console....
I can't believe you think that a developer would screw a gamer or want to release a half-ready game. Not a chance. These are the same people who grew up on PC gaming so why on earth would they suddenly want to screw them?Originally Posted by UKJack67
Actually I think the assumption that the developers grew up on PC gaming is just that, an assumption. If you look at the length of time that consoles have been around and the sorts of volumes that they've shipped, then it's at least as likely if not more so that they've grown up gaming on consoles.
Personally I think that UKJack67's bang on target. Four words: Deus Ex:Invisible War. The best - or most piss-poor - example of the current trend that you could wish for; a game punted on the basis that it was the sequel to one of the most immersive and fun PC FPS/RPG games imaginable, yet when it arrived it was plain that it had been coded for the most inferior hardware platform (the Xbox) and then just hoiked across without any significant work being done to optimise it for the PC. Appallingly frequent map loads (because the Xbotch only had 64MB RAM), noddy user interface (because it was written for the Xbotch's controller), horrible floaty movement (because it hadn't been rewritten to take advantage of the more precise nature of keyboard and mouse controls), gimped inventory and skills management, and abysmal performance on anything but nVidia graphics (because it had been coded to run on a gimped GF4MX platform)...the list goes on. The Xbox made things significantly worse, IMO, because it was assumed that since it was based on PC hardware, you'd just develop for the Xbox and then port across with minimal re-jigging. In practice, what happened was a succession of games that were abysmally poor on PC - Halo? Not the PC FPS's finest moment, I think we can agree... And of course the aforementioned DX:IW. And it's still happening.
Commenting on the original article, I think you missed out on one of the main reason why (I think) high street stores focus on console games rather than PC games, the Internet.
I think PC gamers are far more likely to shop in places like Play or Amazon where the games can be much cheaper, than a lot of console users who are less likely to have a decent means for access the internet and browing online stores. Certainly in my experience of people that I've known, console users tend to buy their games in the high street, and it's only natural that high street stores would cater for that.
I'm sure theres plenty of people here that consider themselves primarily console gamers, but then how many of them are not using a PC to browse these forums
Prices for gpu and/or game optimisation needs to be alot better. crysis is a game that given the time and resources, they could easily of made the game run beutiful on a 8800GT card. they have over 20+ if not more developers there and im sure at least ONE of them knows a way to make crysis run well on the highest settings on a 8800gt.
Only RTS and mmo type games are popular on pc's whilst fps games are become less obvious and less exclusive. heck even hl2 is not a pc only game anymore
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whats the point man. serious why?
The selling of MMO gold/credits is unfortunately big business, some forums that I admin were subject to plenty of bots and gold sellers, and it took some effort to stop them. I would suggest an admin removes the offending posts, or at least his sig.
who the fudge pays for those type of things anyway? some people playing mmo realy dont have a life innit.
speaking of mmo, when will wow2 come out? that game could ressurect pc gaming and make it dominate or be as popular has console gaming
Consoles are easy, PC's, you have to upgrade and mess about with anti virus, patches, all sorts of stuff, would you pay £1000 for something that'll play games for a year or £300 for something thats got no hastles and will always work with the games you buy for it.
play games for a year? you ok? a £1000 pc can play games for 3 years my friend. take the 8800 series cards which came out nearly 2 yes TWO years ago still play every pc game except the overhyped game called crysis.
yes console games are easy but easy is not always better. can i play mods and custom maps on a console game? can i surf the net and encode a video at the same time? can i edit images and videos? there are TONS of things that a pc does that consoles cannot do. why do you think consoles are trying soo hard to be like pc's in the first place if pc is soo much of a hassle?
What the hell are you talking about? Why would WOW2 resurrect PC gaming? WOW is currently played by millions of people, new content is always being added and not just in the expansions. WOTLK is due out later this year, it will sell millions of copies, and carry on the dominance of Blizzards MMO. There is no need for a new WOW game.
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