Poll: Does anybody give a shit about PC gaming anymore?

[Asehujiko]

I believe the bug in Batman:AA is actually an anti piracy measure so you should be fine if you have a legitimate copy . . . unless you're talking about a different bug.

The glide bug is still uncertain, Rocksteady says that it's DRM but it mysteriously stopped appearing once somebody cracked the tiny file that appeared on GFWL a few hours after people started reporting it. Personally i'm in the "massive QA failure and an attempt to save face by calling the people that reported it evil" camp.

The bug that prevents saving, the bug that stops physics from working and the bug that crashes the game about 70% in and the bug that occasionally fails to load levels however, are the result of sloppy porting beyond any doubt.

Back on topic, the PC will be still here when the PS6 and the Xbox 42573532 show up. The current consoles? Not so much.

 

[Woodsey]

You know,it's hard to be PC gamer these days. But don't complain - you have RTSes,you have better version of Team Fortress 2,and you have abundance of flash and indie games.

So in general,it's not so bad.

Sorry, but that's rubbish and so's the OP. I've always been a PC gamer and the only reason I bought a 360 recently was because of the occasional exclusive that I miss out on.

PC Gaming's brilliant, the definitive way to play, and offers the excuse to be snobby over console exclusive peasants.

What's not to love? I also get a hard(ware)-on whenever I upgrade.

 

[FURY_007]

ha

I have a gaming PC and a 360, and I understand the issues that have been coming down with PC gaming, but you have to realize something. Not everyone has a PC that is gaming quality, considering that a decent one can run you a grand, but a $300 console is much easier for most people.

And since more people will buy a $300 console over an expensive computer, game companies will generally pay more attention to the higher population area for a higher profit margin. But PC still has RTS & MMOs so it's not really that dead, just more niched out than it used to be.

I could understand that logic in the early 2000s but most common computers now are at least decent gaming computers, laptops it depends, but most people have computers anyway, to use the web or other non-game applications, so the way i see it why get another machine when i can do everything on my computer, computers have gone wayyy down in price, if developers besides valve and blizzard realized this abd focused on the PC/payed equal attention to the PC as well as the console, PC gaming would be back to or better than its glory days.

I am somewhat of a PC fanboy, but I dont really mind the consoles, I just never saw the point of them

Agreed about the price. I picked up a $1100 laptop that plays Crysis on high, and looks fantastic, but you're missing something.

You're probably not a parent are you? To be honest, why would you want a child on the computer you use for work, or whatever when you can buy a cheaper computer and a console, so the kid will be more apt to go to the console rather than the computer you may need? It's amazing what parents will do for a little peace haha.

haha yeah, i never thought about it that way, i do see the benefit in having two machine, regardless if its PC and xbox or whatever, it gives an option, but i just never had a reason too becasue i spend a lot of time on my PC anyways, but that being said i am getting a 360 soon, too many games I want that wont play as good on the PC

 

[The_Prophet]

...stop whining about not having a fancy box or a plastic prop. You still get the superior version of the game (usually with fewer bugs, better graphics, more/earlier DLC, more updates - like TF2 -, the ability to mod, RTS, MMORPG, the security of getting something through Steam and thus making sure you can play it at any computer, the option between gamepads and keyboard-mouse, and all the indie and Flash games)

Hehe, so true, it's totally worth the extra 1500$ we spend on rigs! Of course, we get games 10$ cheaper.

Where do you buy PC parts? "Expensive parts R us"? Seriously, what is it with the 1800-4000$ rigs? Here it's 800-1000 (MAX, if you don't really look at the price tags) euros if you want a rig that will last for 5-10 years.

 

[phar]

What me and my friends does, doesn't make it for the whole? But yours does? Yeah right, get over yourself. I told you straight up, how it is around here. You don't have to agree with it, because it's not about right or wrong. It is, the way it is. Period. 360 piracy is rampant. Believe it, or don't. It's your choice to be naive.

And you talk to modding your 360 is a risky endeavor. Which it is not. It's quite simple, and quite easy. Much easier to take an hour or two to mod a 360, than it is to try and crack a PC game on your own.

Ok what I said about what my friends may not be right but fairly sure 360 piracy is nothing compared to PC. Cant find any figures to prove it either way though

I never said there isnt much piracy on the 360, I meant that the levels of piracy to people playing legit copies is a far smaller ratio.

360 modding is quite difficult for most people. Check the forums of most modding sites and youll see heaps of threads each day with new problems. Anything involving fiddling with hardware is quite difficult for most people. Heck is surprising how many people know how to put a PC together and you think that most people can figure out how to use a probe and spear and flash a drive in a few hours?

Your anecdote aside, that's news to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, console types: do the Big Three not require physical modification of the hardware to run burned (i.e. pirated) games? 'cos with the average PC game it's
1. download,
2. crack (optional- if it's not pre-cracked), and
3. play.
It's just conjecture, but I suspect a greater percentage of PC gamers are pirating than console gamers.

1) What you suspect, is quite often, not always the truth
2) The amount of time it takes to mod a 360, is equal or lesser than the amount of time it takes to download a game, and a crack
3) While modding a 360, you could be downloading the games, at the same time. So by the time you're done, you're ready to play. Or, you could be smarted, and have a library amassed before you even mod, which a few of my friends did. 30 or 40 games before they even had 360's.
4) PC Gaming still makes more profit for developers than any console on its own.

1, yeah each games different
2, theres a heap of crack and serial sites around the web. I dont know many people who can make their own
3, same argument for a pc game
4, if theres so much profit in pc alone how come id, epic and crytek are going multiplatform or as the topic states how come PC isnt getting any goodies or attention like consoles.

 

[atomictoast]

Next time try not just focusing on the bad.

Plain and simple, PC's have better communities, graphics, and WE GET MODS.

Mods are the most powerful tool in a PC gamers pocket, we buy a single good game and get an unlimited number of games using it's engine totally free. Just look at something like Half-Life 2. There's enough mods to keep a gamer happy forever.

 

[Aqualung]

I voted for "Lulz, RESULTS NAO" because your poll options are so hopelessly biased, or too rude, for me to vote on them.

Anyway. Halfway through that rant, I, personally, would have closed it and gone to play basketball instead of whining. But... To each his or her own...

 

[SimuLord]

Why the hell would you want to play lame console ports on the PC anyway? That's kind of missing the point of what the PC has to offer, no? Play something like Europa Universalis 3 or the Total War series or any of the other great PC exclusives that consoles simply can't do and leave the console-tarded games to the console gamers.

 

[YuheJi]

...stop whining about not having a fancy box or a plastic prop. You still get the superior version of the game (usually with fewer bugs, better graphics, more/earlier DLC, more updates - like TF2 -, the ability to mod, RTS, MMORPG, the security of getting something through Steam and thus making sure you can play it at any computer, the option between gamepads and keyboard-mouse, and all the indie and Flash games)

Hehe, so true, it's totally worth the extra 1500$ we spend on rigs! Of course, we get games 10$ cheaper.

I assume you already have a computer. It would take probably a $100 or less video card (like the 8800GT) to let it run the vast majority of PC games out there, though perhaps not on the highest setting on the highest resolution monitor. Gaming PCs aren't nearly as expensive as you think.

 

[wonderbanana]

Batman Arkham 'bugs' are an anti piracy measure so if you can't open your cape, stop stealing Although Arkham is late to PC its got the best graphics and added Phys-X so not all bad

Apart from better graphics and features, the best thing about PC's is the mods - games last longer because PC's get extra campaigns, maps and models for many games.

And you can build a decent gaming rig for around £400 these days which until recent weeks was the price of a PS3 so I don't see why price is such a major issue tbh (at least in comparison terms).

Doesn't matter what you game on anyway, just have fun

 

[Marcus Dubious]

What a pointless question.
Message to TheRealCJ, fanboys aren't cool.

 

[Uncompetative]

Here's the thing, Say I want to get Modern Warfare 2 prestige edition, but don't have a PS3/Xbox. What am I to do? Why do companies feel that special editions are only for console gamers? Mabye I'd like a metal hardcase to put my install DVD in.

Somtimes I feel like I'm being punished for being a PC gamer, I've got a half-dozen different Multiplayer programs that I need to run my various games on, I don't get any extra content usually, half the games are buggier than their console counterparts, and I'm being told that 'well, keyboard and mouse is fine, but you should probably use the Microsoft Xbox Gamepad (Sold Seperately)'. WHY?

Look at a game like Arkham Asylum. I've actually been TOLD by various gaming blogs to not buy the PC version, something about, oh, I don't know, a bug that won't let you install the game, or play past a certain level. Oh, it'll be patched soon enough, or I could download it on steam, but if I want a hardware copy... Well, too fucking bad.

EDIT: I was using the special edition argument as an example. Why don't you read my whole fucking article (including the bit about the unplayable-game bugs) before you comment?

*pant pant*

Make some sensible options in your poll and I might vote.