What happend?

what happened to pc games? now its all about finishing the game asap and making money, it seems most game companies have stopped caring about quality and the costumers.and imo if this trend keeps up for a couple of years then the pc will die :(. your thoughts?

what happened to pc games? now its all about finishing the game asap and making money, it seems most game companies have stopped caring about quality and the costumers.and imo if this trend keeps up for a couple of years then the pc will die :(. your thoughts?

nazokxx

how could the pc die? pcs are used for offices, the government, security etc. not just for games.....

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what happened to pc games? now its all about finishing the game asap and making money, it seems most game companies have stopped caring about quality and the costumers.and imo if this trend keeps up for a couple of years then the pc will die :(. your thoughts?

Anthony9000

how could the pc die? pcs are used for offices, the government, security etc. not just for games.....

what happened to pc games? now its all about finishing the game asap and making money, it seems most game companies have stopped caring about quality and the costumers.and imo if this trend keeps up for a couple of years then the pc will die :(. your thoughts?

nazokxx

I don't think it's a problem. We get some good games and we get some bad ones. The world will not end.

Stop getting so damn defensive. "OMG HE SAID PC GAMING MIGHT DIE?! /reply NO ITS NOT SHUT UP". He has a valid point so stop with your stupid replies if it's not actually moving the discussion forward. Anyways, I am going to agree that PC Gaming is taking a huge hit and is doing much worse than it used to be. Many experienced PC Gamers (such as I) don't play PC Games anymore because good games stop coming out. The only possibility of PC Gaming staying ahead of console gaming is if well-developed games such as Crysis become the norm.GodLovesDead

You stop posting "stupid replies that dont move the discussion forward" because you have no idea what you are talking about. Look around and read for one second before jumping to idiotic conclusions.

[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"]Stop getting so damn defensive. "OMG HE SAID PC GAMING MIGHT DIE?! /reply NO ITS NOT SHUT UP". He has a valid point so stop with your stupid replies if it's not actually moving the discussion forward. Anyways, I am going to agree that PC Gaming is taking a huge hit and is doing much worse than it used to be. Many experienced PC Gamers (such as I) don't play PC Games anymore because good games stop coming out. The only possibility of PC Gaming staying ahead of console gaming is if well-developed games such as Crysis become the norm.BlackStalker

You stop posting "stupid replies that dont move the discussion forward" because you have no idea what you are talking about. Look around and read for one second before jumping to idiotic conclusions.

What are you talking about?!

Uhhhh....maybe you're the one who should read again. He just stated that games on the PC are getting much more rushed and less developed. And in the end he thinks PC Gaming might die in his opinion if developers keep it up. Yet you just read "PC..Gaming...Die?" and you just instantly reply with a "NO" response. How about add some reasoning. The thread isn't based around the idea that PC Gaming will die but that games are getting worse.

Hence the title "What Happened?" referring to what happened to well-made PC games. Jeez, I shouldn't have to explain a simple concept like this =\

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[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"]Stop getting so damn defensive. "OMG HE SAID PC GAMING MIGHT DIE?! /reply NO ITS NOT SHUT UP". He has a valid point so stop with your stupid replies if it's not actually moving the discussion forward. Anyways, I am going to agree that PC Gaming is taking a huge hit and is doing much worse than it used to be. Many experienced PC Gamers (such as I) don't play PC Games anymore because good games stop coming out. The only possibility of PC Gaming staying ahead of console gaming is if well-developed games such as Crysis become the norm.GodLovesDead

You stop posting "stupid replies that dont move the discussion forward" because you have no idea what you are talking about. Look around and read for one second before jumping to idiotic conclusions.

What are you talking about?!

Uhhhh....maybe you're the one who should read again. He just stated that games on the PC are getting much more rushed and less developed. And in the end he thinks PC Gaming might die in his opinion if developers keep it up. Yet you just read "PC..Gaming...Die?" and you just instantly reply with a "NO" response. How about add some reasoning. The thread isn't based around the idea that PC Gaming will die but that game are getting worse.

Where is his reasoning for games being rushed? Only a few ports and very few titles can be concidered rushed. He stated that the pc gaming world is getting worse and that it will die. Wheres his reasoning for that? What games are getting worse? It's been slow the last couple of months due to software and hardware upgrades, but this Q3/Q4 there will be quite a few epic games released. If you guys looked around the forum for one second, you would have seen a list of highly anticipated games stated for the next couple of years. The list is huge. People have been saying "PC GAMES ARE GETTING WORSE ZOMG!!" for the last 5 years. If he scanned the forum for even a second he would have found countless threads with the same idea. His opinion is completely illogical because not only does he not back his words with anything, but everything he stated is incorrect. You agreeing with him, makes your opinion flawed as well. Wheres your reasoning to back the opinion up?

I don't think PC gaming is dying really. I mean, it's not a matter of if Consoles have better games or if PC has better games. For me, it has nothing to do with any of that since a platform doesn't constitute whether a game is successful or not. What constitutes a successful game is the quality of the gameplay and vision at launch. Not 2 months after launch with the first patch - at launch.

No, the biggest thing that really bothers me about PC games is convenience. I'm tired of installing, uninstalling, upgrading, downloading, and all the rest of that crap. I'm just tired of it. I want to sit down, put the game in, and not have to worry about optimizing my graphics settings, fix the sound settings, spend 30 minutes configuring my controls.... it just get's bothersome when you go through the same process with every single new game. And then, to make matters worse - games are so short these days.... you spend an hour getting it to operate, and then it's over 10 hours later.

Which leads me to my point. MMO's, as far as I'm concerned, are really the only reason one should ever bother with a PC. They are the only genre of games that for one, can't be successfully duplicated on a console, and two have the gameplay longevity to merit spending all that time and effort just to get it to run correctly. Now if they could just make one good one....

hmmm i dont know it looks like they did a little bit o hard work with crysis... just a little lol

also i wouldnt worry now the birth of DX10 has arrived so will a new on slaught of awesome games

Hello

I both agree and disagree with you. However, the PC crisis is not as bad as everyone believes in my opinion.
Let me give you an allegorical reason as to why.

Speaking of movies as an example, people think of the "Great Oldies" of the golden era. From Casablanca and Mary Poppins to 2001 a space odyssey and planet of the apes, and so on and so forth. However, what people fail to realise is that there was just as much crap in those days that people have forgotten. There are some truly terrible films made in that era, but people only see the Bad Boys 2 of today and all those Jerry Bruckheimer movies which are the film equivalent (IMO) to the games you complain of today.

So let me give you an example in game terms, in 1993, Ufo: Enemy Unknown was released. Fantastic game, and thus people remember it, and other brilliant games from the 386/486 era like theme park and Wolfenstein and Cannon Fodder. Furthermore there were truley innovative games which failed due to poor interfaces and so on, such as Robinson's Requiem. This shows that innovation and brilliance did exist then, yes.

However, there were also a lot of poorly produced games such as Narco Police, or Isle of the Dead, Suburban Commando (based on the equally bad hulk hogan movie), these games most people haven't even heard of, and were hard for I to remember, and I've been playing those games since I was six. which hilights my point. The only game anyone remembers is the one they enjoyed. I'd be willing to bet that the ratio of quality innovation to poor imitation is about equal. I mean, read up on Spore, that's the most creative thing I've ever seen on a computer, and it looks freakin' awesome.

Furthermore, there's another correlate between the film industry and the games industry. At the moment they're going through a phase whereby they're depending on established franchises and game dynamics. It only takes time for a true innovator (Spore, Assassin's Creed IMO) to break convention and encourage innovation.
There's my rant, a C+ essay at best..