PC Games on the Demise?

19thCorpsBuck · Flame Me

Is PC gaming being flushed down the toilet by its developers in the quest to position their selves in the console gaming boom? A recent article in NY Times only listed two PC games in the Best of the Best catagory, and neither of these were shooters, unless you consider killing a Sim with your mini van an fps.
It appears developers are concentrating a very significant portion of their budgets into console games for XBox Live, and the future release of PS3. Does this mean the demise of the PC powerhouse gaming industry? Will the PC hard core gamers just get stuck with the same old same old? Are we just going to be handed revamps of what we currently have, such as more add-ons for BF2, with an offshoot that looks like a cross between Mec Warriors, and Terminator.
The Battlefield Series appears to be dying a slow and painful death because of its inherent flaws. The Battlefield 2 series complete with its pack of flaws in coding, and the developers inabilities to properly fix its problems in a timely manner to appease the consumer, leaves this author with a sour taste in his mouth, and a legion of unhappy customers.
What does this really mean for the upcoming release of BF2142, more surprises for the paying public? Is the consumer going to be waiting for patch after patch to fix a game that should have been right from the onset of its release? When are the developers going to learn that the consumer is not happy waiting for patches to fix its mistakes? When is the consumer going to take the hint that they really doesn’t care about your opinions, and will do as they please? $50 U.S. is alot of money for a game full of ifs.

M0nKeY · VGS Admin

I find it funny how M$ is paying companies like epic to make games like gears of war "XBOX Exclusives" even though we all know the engine and game belong on a PC. Of course the game will end up on PC, but its an example of the way M$ operates.... they don't innovate in any way what so ever. To try and compete with the innovation of Sony and Nintendo they are attempting to push much of the PC gaming industry onto thier platform. In the process moving the focus from producing quality games for the PC to making quality games for XBOX and then tossing a rancind port to PC gamers.

As for PC gaming dying? I doubt it. Getting shittier at the moment? Yes.

flaming_ass_packet · Tard

picture xbox being a front for more games to be devoloped on the PC.
weather its a port to PC or not, its still nice to have a device that boosts up the PC's index of games.

unlike the jews that sony that keep most of their shit playstation exclusive whore mommy.

M0nKeY · VGS Admin

Yes, like the latest shining example of an XBOX driven PC port.... Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.

flaming_ass_packet · Tard

its better then: no recon, advanced no fighter.

Mean_MOFO · Poopypants

we could also mention Oblivion: consolitis dickheaditis.

doctor_kaz · Flame Me

flaming_ass_packet · Tard

yes it did start on PC. but its not a PC friendly game anymore. in orther words in consolwhoristic. meaning it has no need to be on pc. its a tactical shooter, who cares. games like deep epic RPG's and RTS games still best reamain on PC no matter how hard M$ trys to push it for xbox.

but the fact remains that right now for gaming consoles are more popular then PC because the ast majority of people are idiots and consoles happen to be cheaper.

but still, PC offers a solid beyond ass kicking platform no modern next-gen console can replace.

jackass · Tard

meh, consoles will always have better graphics

jimbobjimmy · Flame Me

Mean_MOFO · Poopypants

jackass is a fucking fetus. only fetuses and bitch crackheads play consoles.
edit: while I fuck their mothers.

Kalafan · Tard

Games, both PC and Console, are fucking RECREATION MEDIUMS, and that this much bitching can revolve around something as trivial as the quality of the experience of machinegunning/sniping the same character models over and over and over is hilariously absurd. You don't like the game/medium? #1: Don't fucking play it and #2: Find something better to play with. PC/console whores repeatedly bitching about the faults of different gaming mediums that they (apparently) don't own are a lot like this whiney little bitch. He's spent the greater part of the last five years living in Mexico, but has found plenty of room in the bulk of the columns he's written since then (the observant will see that almost all of them are rewrites of previous ones) to bitch and moan about a system that he no longer has to "suffer" under.

After a few months of playing BF2 and the associated expansions, I found them to ultimately be a heap of cow shit dressed up in air freashener-laden BDUs, so I simply stopped playing them, no grudge or incessant bitching towards EA or DICE, despite the fact that the former is the Genghis fucking Khan of game publishers.

Kasrkin · Troll

puk · A Winner is me!

Hey guys, I'm 25 and I've been playing video game since long before I started masturbating (we're talking on the order of 15 years here).

On the topic of C&C, only the first two games were good (Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1...didn't play Red Alert 2). The reason they were good was cuz EA had shit all to do with them. C&C1 was based [loosely] on the bible, also it's story was cool. For example Tiberium is claimed to be named after the Tiber river where it landed, but Kane claims he named it after Tiberius Caesar. It was just a gutsy game, and you felt like you were a part of the war. Enter EA and they fucked it up. Also the music was good.

Sometimes developers make games too hard, Like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Evolution Underground 8, Hey fuckhead, if I want to learn how to skate, I'll buy a board, just let my fat ass do an ollie.

Here's a random list of other games which have gone down the drain

-Burnout Paradise
-Hitman Trilogy
-Far Cry 2
-Rainbow six
-NHL (EA)

I don't know if this is just b/c of 'consolization', but games are just getting shitier and shitier.

puk · A Winner is me!

also add to that list FEAR 2, I have a feeling walking around in a mechanized suit is not scary. And I'm all for open world environments, but I don't think it will work well in the world of FEAR

Kasrkin · Troll

And that's it the new videogame business model:

-Shit games with average graphics at most: Everybody with just a fucking laptop Intel Graphics and chineses with Pentium 90 can play it so they don't need to spend more in better graphics

-Casual player gameplay and totally multiplayer or MMO focused: To expand the basic play time as much as possible, taking advantage of Xbox Live and exploiting the "l00k my l337n3ss" of preadolescents just learnt the word "fuck"

-If possible getting any saga fame: Ensure a certain amount of selling

And of course:

THE PUBLISHER PAYING OFF EVERY REVIEW SITE OF AVERAGE SIZE TO HYPE IT BEYOND 10/10 AND MAKE SEVERAL FLASHY AND 100% MANIPULATED TRAILERS, because consumers buy it first guided by the hype and when several thousand of not blinded fanboys realise it's a fucking shit it's too late for them to get a refund and everyone else (casual players, fanboys, kids, etc...) just don't notice it.

puk · A Winner is me!

Here's my take on the video game business model

1)Form a team of developers and put out a quality game. Pray that EA doesn't buy you out

2)EA buys you out.

3)GameTrailers criticizes development team for not including online multiplayer.

4)EA rushes a sequel with online multiplayer.

5)GameTrailers praises it for it's online multiplayer.

6)VideGamesSuck's review falls on deaf ears

Pogma9 · A Winner is me!

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Pogma9 · A Winner is me!