Could the death of PC gaming be its saviour?

shaggyd said:
In my personal view, the PC gaming scene has grown-up along with its community. The major publishers left the PC because it was easier to develop and sell no-brainer platform/fps/driving games on consoles that cater for younger audience.

When you look at the PC gaming magazines, cross-console games have faired worse in reviews since the reviewers have also matured like cheddar. The games that consistently win the top awards or above 85% are those designed for gamers who have been around the block (including myself) for sometime - Total War series, CoD, Dawn of War, Armed Assault, Witcher, Fallout series, Warcraft/Starcraft - These are games that have succeeded on the PC but probably would fail on console.

At the moment, the rise of indie games and free-to-play mmo is giving the PC a new lease of life. When Starcraft II broke records for number of sales on release, it must have awaken the rest of the gaming publishers who have neglected PC.

As a side note, are console games developed on PC? I'm sure majority of them use the Gamebryo engine, as used by Oblivion, Civilisation 4/5, etc?
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I agree and was going to write something similar actually.

As far as console games being developed on PC, I assume they must be. Some games use very console specific control layouts, so maybe these lazy console only developers could stick on their box something like "360 controller needed" and they could just flog their efforts on the PC, with obviously some tweakable graphics/sound options ;)
 
i dont think i would pay £40 for a game...it would have to be something special.

and defo not for a pc game.

most ive paid was £35 for fight night rd 4 for the xbox.

PC has the best community and it has been said mods normally make the games better.

the thing that seems to be happening that i REALLY dont like is the lack of dedicated servers. it fu*king lazy and it winds me right up.
 
If PC gaming dies then I just hope to god it finally breaks away from Microsoft exclusivity, sick of the games for windows live crap being forced down our throats.
 
QlimaxUK said:
i don't like the way that new pc game prices are starting to level out with console game prices! £40 for COD!!!
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PC games, especially ones that have/create a good MOD base are worth twice the price the idiots are paying for console games!!!!

I think we are getting amazing value for money now!

If you really want to pay extra for an unoriginal console developed long in the tooth game like black ops, then that's up to you. If games like Lord of the Rings online are essentially free and Football manager 2011 £17.99, and say something like Civilization 5 is £17.99 then the so called big releases of black ops are just a complete and utter rip off.

I would pay £40 personally for Football Manager 2011, if I compare it to my last new release console game purchase, Halo Reach, I would still be getting at least 10X more game time, thus 10X value for money.
 
I wouldn't worry too much the good developers are producing some nice stuff. Bioware for example. As long as they keep making lots of money they'll keep writing new stuff.
 
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