Has PC Gaming Died over the past year or so?

Yep. Mind you the consoles don't have things easy atm either. Sure they have better titles on the 'horizon' but at present things are stale on either platform.

Pinkfloyd has it spot on with regards to development time and costs. Right now if you're going to start off with a new game, from scratch with a new engine you'll really need a lot of time and cash. Better to use an existing engine and go from there. I first noticed games taking long to develop right after HL2 arrived on the scene. Right after that 3D gaming really took off and so did costs as each generation of GPU had gamers demanding increasingly better visuals.

The only PC titles I play right now are older RTS's like AoE3, AoE2, and Commando's 2. My last PC title was the superb Fallout 3 on steam...which now crashes about 5 times in 10mins. Great. The PC just needs more variation in gaming like the old days, where we had racers like G.Crammond's F1 series, adventure titles like Westwood's voxel powered Blade Runner as well as more RPG classics like The Witcher. Its all stale FPS's and first person engines now.
 
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In fairness, I think he has a bit of a point. I seem to be playing more and more on my Xbox 360 and PS3 rather than my PC. Beyond the odd sesssion of WoW, there's not much that has grabbed my attention.

From the list above, L4D is the only one worth mentioning - and for me that has got old very quickly. But there does seem to be something awesome coming out all the time on consoles, even if they are sequels - GoW2, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Halo Wars - just to mention a few recent releases that interested me. I'm sure there are people out there who will say the same things about those that I did about Shadez's list, but I do think at the moment, consoles are leading the way and the best PC owners can hope for is a port.

There are some great games on the PC coming out, but they do seem thin on the ground, especially with big hitters like Diablo and Starcraft unlikely to come out in 2009. That said, those people who said they had to choose from a load of classic games every month seem to have their rose tinted specs on, seasonal paucity of games has been a problem for years now. There were plenty of barren spells where the best thing available was a knockoff of some game or other.
 
It aint dying, its dead.

As an example COD 4: Awesome graphically and some good levels but on the whole multi player was poor, levels to small, no team play or chat etc. Shame but interesting for a while until I realised that BF 2 is a whole lot better.

New we have COD WAW: Its got what BF 2 has and its better graphically butwy go there. It will probably kill my machine and require a silly upgrade cycle of my graphics, memory and CPU that will set me back £600. Whats the cost of a console.

Someone bought me farcry 2, compared to number 1, its not for me. Its all about throwing molitiv cocktails into the grass. Graphically good and playable on many older rigs but its gameplay and AI, not good.

Consoles may now have the edge over the PC in many respects.
 
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In fairness, I think he has a bit of a point. I seem to be playing more and more on my Xbox 360 and PS3 rather than my PC. Beyond the odd sesssion of WoW, there's not much that has grabbed my attention.

From the list above, L4D is the only one worth mentioning - and for me that has got old very quickly. But there does seem to be something awesome coming out all the time on consoles, even if they are sequels - GoW2, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Halo Wars - just to mention a few recent releases that interested me. I'm sure there are people out there who will say the same things about those that I did about Shadez's list, but I do think at the moment, consoles are leading the way and the best PC owners can hope for is a port.

There are some great games on the PC coming out, but they do seem thin on the ground, especially with big hitters like Diablo and Starcraft unlikely to come out in 2009. That said, those people who said they had to choose from a load of classic games every month seem to have their rose tinted specs on, seasonal paucity of games has been a problem for years now. There were plenty of barren spells where the best thing available was a knockoff of some game or other.
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well from the console games you mentioned, none is worth playing. on the other hand there is sth awesome coming all the time to PCs- Dawn of War 2, Empire Total War, Crysis Warhead, Stalker Clear sky etc etc. Pcs are leading the way and the only thing console gamers hope is a port that in this case will never come or an inferior version.
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Well OP you should do some research before you post.

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I think for me pc is lacking in great new fun online games.

where are the battlefield 3's and coh 2's not to mention THERE IS NO GOOD PC FOOTBALL game it's blasphemy.
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whats wrong with pro evolution? btw, what was the last football manager on your xbox?
 
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it is and it isn't for me i would like to 'replenish' my games collection as i find that games seem to be getting a lot shorter these days :( so because of this im now totally out of 'single player' games so i just alternate between L4D and UT3 online :)
L4D is great fun however once you have done every campaign and been on every map a few times it starts to get a little repetitive, but i still enjoy it
UT3 was dying a bit for me untill the titan patch came out which got me back into it with its 2 new game modes; greed and betrayal (betrayals my favorite, specailly since i prefer instagib to normal weapons)

also theres CSS which i have installed but not played for a while, and many on here would also recommend TF2 which dosn't appeal to me, don't really like the 'cartoony character graphics' :D

so theres my take on 'todays pc gaming' have fun :p
 
There does not appear to be that much coming out this year that grabs me apart from Diablo 3 and the other D&D rule set Dragon something game. Still, PC gaming is far from dead. I am sure there will be other games that I have not even heard of that have slipped beneath the hype radar.

I am not too bothered as I have so many excellent PC games from last year that I have not finished. I was hoping for a killer MMORPG but the few that are being released look poor. I would love a new huge tactical more realistic online shooter set in real world locations.
 
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if you read the post i was quoting you would understand what i meant. and i didnt ask you.
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I have read the entire thread thank you. And I didn't realise this thread was private. You asked what was the last football manager game on xbox and I tried to helpfully inform you. There was no need to come out with 'smartass' comments.
 
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well from the console games you mentioned, none is worth playing.
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Have you actually played any of the games he mentioned? In what way are they 'not worth playing'? :confused:

All the games he mentioned are supurb. Killzone 2 for example is absolutely fantastic, better that any FPS I've played on the PC for a while.
 
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well from the console games you mentioned, none is worth playing. on the other hand there is sth awesome coming all the time to PCs- Dawn of War 2, Empire Total War, Crysis Warhead, Stalker Clear sky etc etc. Pcs are leading the way and the only thing console gamers hope is a port that in this case will never come or an inferior version.
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I do, and I said in my post that someone would probably say that, thanks for bearing me out on that.

Again, with your selection of games, I personally have no interest in them either - beyond what Blizzard and Valve may offer in the future and the odd indie release on Steam, I really don't see anything to look forward to. It doesn't help that every other game seems to be pushed further back in the release schedule or cancelled altogether (e.g Colonial Marines, which I was really looking forward to)

I hope I'm proved wrong, but for once I'm not anticipating upgrading my PC for some shiny new release - for me, that's a telling sign that there's nothing on the horizon that I want.


(PS before I get anyone else trying to make a point by saying my choice of games sucks and theirs is awesome, please note - this is my PERSONAL OPINION. RTS games don't float my boat and I thought STALKER/Crysis were so-so at best. If you see the latest command & conquer addon as the best thing since sliced bread, more power to you!)
 
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i grew up on PC Games and even i'll admit they are dying. Always used to be a load of hype on forums about the next big demo release every few weeks, and it used to be worth having something like a fileplanet subscription, but definitely not now.
 
There are more PC games I am looking forward to this year than console games, so no, for me PC gaming isn't dying.
 
dragon age :Origins , diablo3 are just two pc games that I am looking forward too, but i am using my ps3 for most of my gamming fixes at the moment with Killzone2 :)
 
This thread made me remember the much delayed dukenukem and Alan Wake. I wonder if they will ever see the light of day let alone be released this year.
 
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