After reading the below I am most dissapointed.
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t355446.html
I know people still judge how their pc performs against crysis1/2, gta, metro etc.. but with the exception of crysis 2, these games I feel are are long in the tooth. Hell, I didn't even finish metro as I thought it was dead boring. In fact it's been forgotten about in the console community until the recently announced sequel which stirred up interest, but it's still used as a benchmark in many PC forums. I finished GTA on the PS3 and again on the PC along with Crysis 1 and 2 and haven't gone back to them since. Same with the likes of Oblivion, Fallout 3, and countless other PC games. And I'm pants at RTS's so don't bother with Shogun 2.
So the list of PC games I can see this year that I most likely will be interested in are below :
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Warhammer :Space Marine
Battlefield 3
MW 3
Rage
Skyrim
From what I can see Deus Ex and Warhammer looks pretty sub par. Skyrim is optimised for the console. Perhaps the others won't be.
The PC has the advantage of the obvious mouse+keyboard control and can offer higher resolution, higher FPS, and lashings of AA and other effects. The console games are usually upscaled 720p (or less) with the Xbox limited to 2x MSAA and the PS3 to MLAA or no AA at all on the consoles (Unreal engine games). But if the game engine is still primarily designed for a console this means it's not taking advantage of all the new DX10/11 features and not getting the most out of my cards. And there is always the chance a game is badly ported and in fact will perform sub-par on the PC relative to what it should be performing like.
So is there any hope at all for some nice PC games, or have developers given up on using the PC as the primary platform. I have pretty much run out of PC games to play. And I imagine I won't be upgrading again for a very long time, even if I could afford to, or at least until the next generation of consoles arrive which I suppose will drive higher fidelity across the board.
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t355446.html
I know people still judge how their pc performs against crysis1/2, gta, metro etc.. but with the exception of crysis 2, these games I feel are are long in the tooth. Hell, I didn't even finish metro as I thought it was dead boring. In fact it's been forgotten about in the console community until the recently announced sequel which stirred up interest, but it's still used as a benchmark in many PC forums. I finished GTA on the PS3 and again on the PC along with Crysis 1 and 2 and haven't gone back to them since. Same with the likes of Oblivion, Fallout 3, and countless other PC games. And I'm pants at RTS's so don't bother with Shogun 2.
So the list of PC games I can see this year that I most likely will be interested in are below :
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Warhammer :Space Marine
Battlefield 3
MW 3
Rage
Skyrim
From what I can see Deus Ex and Warhammer looks pretty sub par. Skyrim is optimised for the console. Perhaps the others won't be.
The PC has the advantage of the obvious mouse+keyboard control and can offer higher resolution, higher FPS, and lashings of AA and other effects. The console games are usually upscaled 720p (or less) with the Xbox limited to 2x MSAA and the PS3 to MLAA or no AA at all on the consoles (Unreal engine games). But if the game engine is still primarily designed for a console this means it's not taking advantage of all the new DX10/11 features and not getting the most out of my cards. And there is always the chance a game is badly ported and in fact will perform sub-par on the PC relative to what it should be performing like.
So is there any hope at all for some nice PC games, or have developers given up on using the PC as the primary platform. I have pretty much run out of PC games to play. And I imagine I won't be upgrading again for a very long time, even if I could afford to, or at least until the next generation of consoles arrive which I suppose will drive higher fidelity across the board.
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I know modding them can improve the image quality drastically but to be honest I don't think I'd go back and recomplete them. I did it with Oblivion and a couple of others. In fact I redid all the Stalker games with mods. But I never fully re-finished them 
I just couldn't last the distance. The only exception I can think of in recent times is both Mass Effect games which I got about 50% of the way through on the 360, and then went back and restarted them on the PC. The graphical fidelity on the PC was miles ahead. Now, I usually finish a game and I like to move on, and as I'm not a huge multiplayer (due to poor ping rates where I live and limited broadband options) I have limited replayability.