The Death of PC Gaming?

[Densu]

For years I have been a diehard PC fan. The format has captured my imagination from the day I got my first rig: a Pentium 100 MHz filled with the awesome delights of my favourite games of the time. Quake, C&C/Red Alert, Discworld, and many more. I could, and would, spend days in my room at my keyboard and mouse. As PC gaming evolved so did my setup. At the time I remember my first 17-inch monitor running a game at 1028x724 resolution … “WOW”. Now things have changed. I refuse to part with the cash for another upgrade for many years to come. Why? Because PC gaming to me is a dead scene.

I guess it all came to an end for me with a few things over the past two years. Nothing has really captured my heart and my mind on the PC, the last true game that really did this for me was Deus Ex, and that’s where my story leads us.

Deus Ex for me captured what a PC game is, in its essence. It has all the major elements of a true...

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[Octavion]

Supreme Commander
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Armed Assault
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
Any thing by Introversion Software...

I fail to see your point, Densu.

[GoddamnElectric]

To be fair though, while Oblivion is superb I felt it was considerably dumbed down from Morrowind. Even simple things like removing certain weapon classes, removing some spell effects, reducing the number of parts armour comes in and reducing the number of playable factions all left me feeling that the developers cared more about showing off HDR lighting than they did about building on Morrowind's success. The 'feel' of the game just isn't there to the same degree, and may well represent what I was saying about the impact of mass appeal - everything needs to be shown to the player now, nothing is left there to be discovered yourself.

[TheEdgeCrusher]

Sorry Octavion but Armed Assault is fucked, the game needs a lot of work. I was a huge fan of OFP, but this time round they have released a broken game that will need at least a few more patches before its playable both on and offline. Only thing that keeps it going is the mod scene. Other than that the basic game sucks.

Later Edge

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by GoddamnElectric

To be fair though, while Oblivion is superb I felt it was considerably dumbed down from Morrowind. Even simple things like removing certain weapon classes, removing some spell effects, reducing the number of parts armour comes in and reducing the number of playable factions all left me feeling that the developers cared more about showing off HDR lighting than they did about building on Morrowind's success. The 'feel' of the game just isn't there to the same degree, and may well represent what I was saying about the impact of mass appeal - everything needs to be shown to the player now, nothing is left there to be discovered yourself.

This I totally agree with, Morrowind was a gamers game while Oblivion took a step towards mass appeal away from the gamer market.

Online Asherons Call was a cracking game with so many numbers and stats and I loved it more than WoW because your character could truely be different, I disagree with Zippy on the unique characters in WoW the only think really making people different is armour and weapons and even then alot look alike. IN AC where you spent your points made the difference. AC2 on the other hand was a step into the WoW style and it was utterly boring and failed. AC2 is now closed but AC still carries on.

Something else that annoys me about current MMO, ever body can get to level 70 relatively easily there's no real sense of struggle or skill. While in AC there was 1 person who made level 126 after a couple of years. The game made those players heroes, sure all they had done was grind a lot but they had put the effort in, the fact you could play everythign at level 70 but still had the ability to progress was great. They seem to miss out the cool factor, everyone can be a jedi in SW:G now, while before it was something special. Iwant something special in my games.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

They seem to miss out the cool factor, everyone can be a jedi in SW:G now, while before it was something special. Iwant something special in my games.

That was what fucking killed the game It's getting better now that SOE are spending loads of time adding to it, but it's taken them the best part of two years and most of their subscriber base to recover from NGE.

I have some hopes for Warhammer Online, but I was always more of a 40K man. Apparently the Battle Priest class in WHO is a refined versions of the WoW Paladin and is actually one of the best classes in the game.

[Densu]

Originally Posted by Octavion

Supreme Commander
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Armed Assault
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
Any thing by Introversion Software...

I fail to see your point, Densu.

These are just decent PC games. Whats you're point?

Let me again focus on what I'v ranted about.

It is the death of PC GAMING FOR ME. <-------- ME!!!!!!!

Thank you and goodnight.

[MarkMono]

Hey, I just noticed: If you don't read peoples posts, you miss their point entirely.

[Draven]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Hey, I just noticed: If you don't read peoples posts, you miss their point entirely.

Funny that eh?

[MarkMono]

Sometimes.

[Danger]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

They seem to miss out the cool factor, everyone can be a jedi in SW:G now, while before it was something special. Iwant something special in my games.

I loved the game up until this point, quit as soon as they did this. Wasted effort.

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by Danger

I loved the game up until this point, quit as soon as they did this. Wasted effort.

Same here, though I'm tempted to try it again.