• 13Jun 09

  PC Gaming Whimpers On

  Hard to believe but as people pointed out on this weeks Hotspot PC gaming is more and more in a bad way. If you had Asked me like 2 years ago I'd had disagreed but really this year I can't think of one PC game I will be getting this fall and even last year it was only a few.I don;t count WoW because the game is ancient at this point and it is only a purchase from a single company which hardly helps out the PC gaming industy, in fact you could say that its dominace has hindered if you think of all the other MMO's that came out since it and have failed, hint there were many.

  It does make me sad but at the same time I think that the PC gaming industry and the hardware industry have done everything they can to turn people away. Piracy aside the PC indusrty as whole has terrible bussiness model and have only just recently acknowledged such and some still do not. Its just really dumb to design games around top of line technology which only like maybe 1% of the largest installed user base in thew world even owns at any given moment. The there are the hardware manufacturers who churn out new stuff like every 3-4 months. Dumb again.

  I ould go on about this but really you can figure it out why its all bad and can easily see why it is failing.

  Just makes me wonder what, if any games I will buying for mt PC next year. A new Compnay of Heores? Not if they put out another dumbed down version like they did the last one, DoW2 expansion? Possibly but I felt that was dumbed down too.

  Don't know I hope it survives because consoles still do not do everything that can be done, especially from a user content level and RTS gaming but it is looking really bad right now.

  • Posted Jun 13, 2009 2:24 am PT
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• 10Jun 09

  I hate Activsion

  This story was kind swept under the rug but the scum of the video game universe, Activision has decided to sue EA over Brutal Legend in attempt to basically steal the game from them after they clearly did not want it before. Fact is, and everyone knows it Activision chose to not publish the game, everyone knows it too but now that the game is near fisihed and has a buig buzz around it they want all of sudden want it. Personally I hope they not only lose this lawsuit but people stop buying thier mediocore games and overrated games. Can they sink any lower?

  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23928

  • Posted Jun 10, 2009 5:01 pm PT
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• 2Jun 09

  Press Confrences

  Normally I roll through each conferrrence and give play by play review of what I liked and did not. Time is not really with me this time and I am going to make this short and sweet on what I thought.

  Honestly with the exception of the new Metroid game not much peeked my interest with the Nintendo conferrence this year. In fact I though they were probably the worst this time around.

  MS's conference I felt was second. I likked the new motion control thinie. Natal is it? But when I omes down to it I see some problems with no other way to do other than by with you body.

  Sony, OMFG where have you been in like 3 or so years now? Oh yeah, bringing up the rear or at least that is whatI thought. Not this year. Ok I will admit it was looking like another bring Sony conference there at first with them kicking it off with the PSP which didn't really interest me following by the nobody gives fxck talk about Home. Games aside it was Sony new motion control scheme that won me over, big time. Very early into the presentation they gave the line that made the most sense too. It was something to the effect of early on when using the EYEtoy we learned that you needed some kind of controller still and I agree 100%. I just see some problems with what can be done with MS's approach as far a games are concerned. Proof to me was watching the guy paint in the MS conference, hardly precision but fine for my 4 year old. Compare that to the guy writing in the Somy press conferrence and how precise that was and you can see the difference.

  Any wayI think a combination of both would probably be the best option but of the two I felt Sony's approach was superior as far as gamesare concerned where good control generally is very important.

  • Posted Jun 2, 2009 9:15 pm PT
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