PC Games drought :(

muppet · 19 May 2008 at 17:00

hi

just seen saints row 2 out in august for pc , is this any good .

i agree pc gaming has been awsome this last 12 months . i think the trick is to not play any 1 game over any other . im still playing
painkiller overdose
sega rally
timeshift
h/life2 ep/2
stalker
and a couple of others

cheers

Shamikebab · 19 May 2008 at 17:06

muppet said:
hi

just seen saints row 2 out in august for pc , is this any good .

Got a source? I'm pretty sure its just PS3 and 360.

AWPC · 19 May 2008 at 17:52

If anyone thinks PC gaming is waning then they are seriously wrong.

Age Of Conan developers Funcom have said they have shipped 700,000 copies to retailers & sold out 110,000 copies of the special edition and have to press a 2nd batch to meet demand.

"Everyone in Funcom is delighted and humbled with the historical pre-order numbers for Age of Conan," said Morten Larssen, Funcom's sales and marketing boss.

"If the information we have is correct, they represent the highest pre-order number for any global launch of an original PC game, ever, including the original World of Warcraft launch."

Darkwave · 19 May 2008 at 18:00

AWPC said:
If anyone doubts PC gaming is waning then they are seriously wrong.

Waning.

1: to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle: as a: to diminish in phase or intensity —used chiefly of the moon, other satellites, and inferior planets b: to become less brilliant or powerful : dim c: to flow out : ebb

2: to fall gradually from power, prosperity, or influence

Gashman · 19 May 2008 at 18:17

Ulfhedjinn said:
Waning.

1: to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle: as a: to diminish in phase or intensity —used chiefly of the moon, other satellites, and inferior planets b: to become less brilliant or powerful : dim c: to flow out : ebb

2: to fall gradually from power, prosperity, or influence

so what hes trying to say is anyone whinging about PC gaming dying is infact shrinking, becoming less powerful, really sucks and is a inferior planet?

i love it

Margaret · 19 May 2008 at 18:32

PC gaming has an amazing version of Team Fortress 2 unlike the crap console version, PC gaming is for the upmost win.

Squark · 19 May 2008 at 19:26

AWPC said:
In the next 6 weeks alone the PC has:

Alone in The Dark 5
Lego Indiana Jones
GRID
AOC
Mass Effect
Devil May Cry 4
Lost Planet Colonies
Flat Out Ultimate Carnage

Most of which are out on consoles, which is the problem. There is a lack of new games coming to the pc which havent been console games first

Dyson · 19 May 2008 at 19:39

Squark said:
Most of which are out on consoles, which is the problem. There is a lack of new games coming to the pc which havent been console games first

Sorry, but I struggle to see the problem. If a game is good it doesn't matter where its from.

AWPC · 19 May 2008 at 19:57

Squark said:
Most of which are out on consoles, which is the problem. There is a lack of new games coming to the pc which havent been console games first

All of which are enhanced on the PC so it is the best version to get.

If you want amazing new games on the PC then someone needs to persuade all the PC gamers who rely on buggy pre-release torrents to actually buy the game to prevent their expensive hardware from becoming obsolete when their piracy makes it pointless to support the superior gaming platform that the PC truly is.

Console ports are here to stay as it saves dev money to go multiplatform. The upside of this is that titles which previously were console only are now coming to the PC. The PC lost its position as the no1 choice as a gaming platform due to the constant piracy. In the past year if it were not for console ports then the PC would have even less releases!

dafloppyone · 19 May 2008 at 19:59

u kidding ive just looked at the release date of a well known site and the release for the year is awesome!

Darkwave · 19 May 2008 at 21:32

Squark said:
Most of which are out on consoles, which is the problem. There is a lack of new games coming to the pc which havent been console games first

If you're saying multiplatform titles don't count then consoles get just as few games as PC, maybe less. A lot of PC games go to console and a lot of console games go to PC, it's always been this way.

mr.sly · 19 May 2008 at 21:37

Ulfhedjinn said:
If you're saying multiplatform titles don't count then consoles get just as few games as PC, maybe less. A lot of PC games go to console and a lot of console games go to PC, it's always been this way.

Definitely less if you count, freeware, mods, casual games and flash games.

taz488 · 19 May 2008 at 22:31

same thread every week, boring man, change the subject.

bfar · 20 May 2008 at 00:00

taz488 said:
same thread every week, boring man, change the subject.

I dunno, I think the shine's definately gone out of it for the time being

We'll see over the Winter

Nows not a great time of year to stay indoors anyway.

bfar · 20 May 2008 at 00:00

taz488 said:
same thread every week, boring man, change the subject.

I dunno, I think the shine's definately gone out of it for the time being

We'll see over the Winter

Nows not a great time of year to stay indoors anyway.

Shamikebab · 20 May 2008 at 00:27

Dyson said:
Sorry, but I struggle to see the problem. If a game is good it doesn't matter where its from.

But the problem is I think more and more gamers are owning both a console (or more than one) and a PC. Personally I have a 360 and PC and it doesn't matter if the game is better, I'll have already played it to death on 360. I love gaming on PC but I wish there were more unique titles or at least simultaneous release dates with the consoles.

Darkwave · 20 May 2008 at 00:43

Shamikebab said:
I love gaming on PC but I wish there were more unique titles.

There were plenty in the last twelve months alone.

Dyson · 20 May 2008 at 01:18

Shamikebab said:
But the problem is I think more and more gamers are owning both a console (or more than one) and a PC. Personally I have a 360 and PC and it doesn't matter if the game is better, I'll have already played it to death on 360. I love gaming on PC but I wish there were more unique titles or at least simultaneous release dates with the consoles.

Lots of people have always owned both, not a new phenomenon at all. For me, i've decided to "rough it out" with the pc, prefer my games to stay out of my living room tbh. As for unique titles, we've had Stalker, Crysis, Sins of a Solar Empire, to name but a few. And don't forget, we're the home to The Sims :eek:

Still, we're not here to argue about formats, just that the PC is by no means dead, dying, slacking off, receding, decreasing or whatever. It will always be where the main innovation is, it will always have the greatest graphics available, and it will always have this same, boring question pointed at it.

Uriel · 20 May 2008 at 13:07

Quite looking forward to The Witcher (super duper upgraded version) but there's no reason why it wouldn't work on a console. In fact - there's little fundamental reason why PC and console gaming should be different.

Most of the games I've been playing recently are console ports - Assassin's Creed, Call of Juarez, Bioshock, Oblivion... The only games I play regularly that aren't available on console are strategy games like the Total War (still playing a long Rome Campaign but I have Madieval 2 waiting in the wings) series and Company of Heroes.

NeoReloaded · 20 May 2008 at 16:00

Uriel said:
Quite looking forward to The Witcher (super duper upgraded version) but there's no reason why it wouldn't work on a console. In fact - there's little fundamental reason why PC and console gaming should be different.

Most of the games I've been playing recently are console ports - Assassin's Creed, Call of Juarez, Bioshock, Oblivion... The only games I play regularly that aren't available on console are strategy games like the Total War (still playing a long Rome Campaign but I have Madieval 2 waiting in the wings) series and Company of Heroes.

Call of Juarez was on PC first