death of pc gaming

[Yaka]

bit of and old topic that keeps on bouncing up whenever new consoles are out. the death/end/demise/meh! of pc gaming has always cropt up since the playstation1/saturn/n64 were first out and never really happened. it has cropt up when the ps2 and dreamcast were new on the scene and had ports of q3a and DC almost getting a port of halflife, happened again when a combo of bill gates and steve ballmer shit out a brick in the form of a xbox. now its happening again with the same reasons the cost of owning a "decent gaming spec" pc or upgrading to one is at times more expensive than ps3/360/wii

the writer of this PC Perspective article written by someone in bitching form tries to fend off the doommongers or wot ever they fuck they call themshlves these days, anyways the article points out one of the downsides of multiplatform games in the for of OBLIVION

[Mazling]

PC games will always have the community to play with. Bugger the consoles. Cross-developed games are a terrible idea. That is all.

[Aada]

Originally Posted by Yaka

bit of and old topic that keeps on bouncing up whenever new consoles are out. the death/end/demise/meh! of pc gaming has always cropt up since the playstation1/saturn/n64 were first out and never really happened. it has cropt up when the ps2 and dreamcast were new on the scene and had ports of q3a and DC almost getting a port of halflife, happened again when a combo of bill gates and steve ballmer shit out a brick in the form of a xbox. now its happening again with the same reasons the cost of owning a "decent gaming spec" pc or upgrading to one is at times more expensive than ps3/360/wii

the writer of this PC Perspective article written by someone in bitching form tries to fend off the doommongers or wot ever they fuck they call themshlves these days, anyways the article points out one of the downsides of multiplatform games in the for of OBLIVION

I just can't justify spending an obsene amount on a PC these days to play the zomg game of the year for the PC only for a new graphics card to come out in 6 months time that i'll need if i want to have a nice gaming experience.

A couple of years ago i did it spent stupid amounts of money upgrading my PC.

Then i got interested in the 360 and i haven't looked back more decent games justify the money the 360 costs.

I know a top of the line PC beats the 360 by a big gap but i don't care about PC gaming anymore not enough good titles to warrant upgrades/new pc.

[Louster]

Shareware/freeware indie games is where it's at. Fuck graphics, I want novel gameplay. Support bedroom codemonkeys!

[TdC]

Originally Posted by Louster

Fuck graphics, I want novel gameplay. Support bedroom codemonkeys!

I agree fully. I want playability and a game I keep coming back to. Not some flash FPS I play exactly once, or an online game that I stop playing because it's too buggy to bear.

[GReaper]

The current generation of consoles hasn't exactly made that much of an impact so far, so I seriously doubt consoles will ever take over.

Just take a look at the current consoles for an indication of what consumers want. The Wii (a very cheap and basic machine) is pissing all over the PS3 and Xbox 360. Are the game creators going to abandon PC gaming with the current situation? Hardly.

I'll stick with my PC, thank you.

[Ch3tan]

The last PC game I bought was football manager, before that HL2.

In the same period of two years I have bought all three next gen consoles and games for all of them.

I cannot be arsed spending money to make pc games work anymore, and the consoles online features are fine and work.

[throdgrain]

Console games dont have a community. They have appalling controls.

Ive been playing cs and then css for donkeys years, and will continue to do so, along with other games as they come and go. My pc also has irc running on it, plus of course the whole jolly interweb.

I have no urge - at all - to buy any sort of console. I looked at a wii when my son bought one the day they came out. Its horrible to me, who wants that? Not me.

If you want it, go buy it

[Overdriven]

I'm not sure, I'm more for the consoles really. Just because it's cheaper to run than a PC (In regards to gaming) though I'd admit, I'd love to have FH/IRC running on a PS3. I'd just buy a keyboard/mouse and use this for music.

[Opt1]

I prefer a PC for FPS and RTS handsdown.. unfortunately, good games are very rarely released these days and I cba buying a new system to play one game per year.

I've only just got a console and I love it, plenty to play though I've yet to find anything I want to play through more than once.. but I'm never playing an RTS on it unless MS caves and allows mouse and keyboard, which I unfortunately doubt.

Will always like PCs because I get to build them Just have to wait for a non-student/shit income to handle it.

[Draylor]

Zzzz, reads like a thread from 1997.

[Mazling]

Originally Posted by Draylor

Zzzz, reads like a thread from 1997.

You're too old to be playing games then :E

[gunner440]

Originally Posted by Mazling

You're too old to be playing games then :E

Draylor is only 17. That's not old.

[Draylor]

Originally Posted by Mazling

You're too old to be playing games then :E

Probably why I cant recall the last new game I gave a shit for - on any platform.

Civ4, and since then, hmmmmmm, the remake of Settlers 2 was kinda fun.

I should run away now ...

[Mazling]

No no, I approve of settlers :-) New demo is nice.