You picked the worst time to get back to pc gaming, nowadays all multiplatform games are 90% console focused and the pc version is quick cheap ass ports with random issues!!! Also you said that your pc sucks? Well thats even worse because game developers think everyone has super rigs and they give some prettty insane requirements like everyone has a monster rig, i can understand the the ports perfom bad because they ports, but the pc exclusives are optimized even worse!!! To play games on pc nowadays you gonna need a powerfull rig and alot of patience to get past the porting problems you might experiance in various game, so one way or the other, at some games it would be bettter to play on consoles when you will have no control or framerate issues for the most of the time!! If that what you meant by "get into pc gaming" if thats not it and you are aiming at pc dedicated genres like rpgs an rts, then welcome aboard ;)dakan45
This. The market has shifted to console focus and PC gaming has suffered a lot as a result. Just about every game these days is optimized absolutely terribly. Like Dakan45 said, developers assume that everyone has a monster rig and thus don't bother to optimize. The sad truth is that the only real reason to buy expensive PC hardware these days is to have the processing power needed to brute force through all that shoddy optimization. If developers actually took time to code their games well even a three year old machine could run most games maxed out at 60+ FPS.
To see what I mean, download a demo of UT3. The game is gorgeous and yet is very easy on system requirements even when maxed out. Now compare that to, say, Dragon's Age: Origins which looks nowhere near as good yet runs far worse even when not maxed out.
Also, something that Dakan45 didn't mention is that a lot of the PC's staple genres have died over the past decade. Genres like flight simulation and adventure games are all but dead these days (especially adventure games). TBS games are also getting to be pretty rare. Really the only niche genres the PC has left are the RTS and MMORPG genres. While the FPS genre is obviously alive and kicking, the only thing PCs have over consoles these days for FPS games are dedicated servers, mouse/keyboard controls, and better graphics. However, some people prefer the centralized set-up of XBL over dedicated servers, mouse/keyboard controls are really a very trivial matter, and the graphics advantage that PCs have over consoles is relatively trivial these days thanks to the fact that console versions are what developers make first with the PC version being an afterthought.
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