The current state of PC gaming and effects of consoles.

Nate Silvers · 12 Nov 2011 at 21:57

Downloading 17 patches of Counter Strike 1.4 is more fun than playing Assassins Creed.

Anon-e-mouse · 14 Nov 2011 at 02:49

HangTime said:
I may be wrong but I thought the BF3 tv ad mentioned it was footage from the PC version in a caption at the bottom?

Possibly should have mentioned I don't have a TV, so I was going by the print media adverts I saw in the paper.. Each and everyone one, only advertised non-PC versions.

muon · 14 Nov 2011 at 03:24

Skyrim had 287k peak on Sunday (more people potentially offline). Not bad.

A lot of people will eventually get round to buying it.

This says http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6147359.html

that Oblivion sold 1.7m across PC and the 360 in just over 4 weeks from release.

Xordium · 14 Nov 2011 at 08:33

bhavv said:
Activision and Ubisoft are far better than the EA demon is :x

Yer well that's like saying getting kicked in the nuts is better than getting your clawhammer smashed into your kneecap.

Mucky_Pup · 14 Nov 2011 at 08:43

Anon-e-mouse said:
A lot of the problems simply boils down to the publishers themselves.. Over the last 2 weeks, BF3, MW and Skyrim have all appeared.

How do I know this.? Well I've seen adverts for them... And what gets my goat is that those adverts DO NOT MENTION THE PC VERSION AT ALL

That to my mind is just plain wrong.

What annoys me more is an advert for the game, then in the bottom corner "Not represenetive of actual gameplay footage" I mean come on, wtf, anyone can make a super realistic CGI video of some action etc. etc. why not show what you've actually created instead?

gropingmantis · 14 Nov 2011 at 08:57

Mucky_Pup said:
What annoys me more is an advert for the game, then in the bottom corner "Not represenetive of actual gameplay footage" I mean come on, wtf, anyone can make a super realistic CGI video of some action etc. etc. why not show what you've actually created instead?

Because otherwise people watching in HD would be like "WTF why is this game so blurry and jaggedy I wont be buying this!" unless footage was from the PC version.

Mucky_Pup · 14 Nov 2011 at 09:00

gropingmantis said:
Because otherwise people watching in HD would be like "WTF why is this game so blurry and jaggedy I wont be buying this!" unless footage was from the PC version.

Hmm I suppose so, but even before the mainstream use of HD they were doing this, which was still annoying back then.

gropingmantis · 14 Nov 2011 at 09:09

Mucky_Pup said:
Hmm I suppose so, but even before the mainstream use of HD they were doing this, which was still annoying back then.

I was mainly joking. It is more to do with trying to sell it. Games are great because they are interactive. Just showing some gameplay cannot convey that feeling in the 20-30 seconds of an advert so they go for mini movies to show what the game is about rather than what the game actually is. Imagine a BF3 video where all it is is 20-30 seconds of gameplay...its not going to look good to anyone who hasn't played that kind of game before.

arc@css · 14 Nov 2011 at 09:12

EVH said:
I remember having to trawl page after page of slow loading, pop up infested websites to get a patch for counter strike 1.4. Oh, and there were at least 17 different flavours, which if you got the wrong one.. You'd screw the whole installation.

Oh, and each one was 300MB on a 56kbps line. How fun

Sounds agonizing.

bushmins said:
I for one give thanks to all those keyboard soldiers who find a need to buy pc games on release, who get stressed and annoyed at bugs that crash their games and wipe their saves. Its thanks to them that i can buy a game a month after the release date at half the price and with half the bugs! I salute those hardy men who lay down their sanity and wallets for me. God bless nerdom!

We know the formula.