PC Gaming is now pathetic - Page 2

Hellboy obviously has not listened at all.

Online distribution and sales. Plenty of game availabilty and sales are being had. If you just look online instead of in your one gaming shop of choice we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Yeah piracy is bad but it is not even the biggest force behind the problem you are seeing. Get over it.

I own a PS3, PSP & PC. Although I must admit that I have noticed a significant drop in PC games in any of the stores near me in the last couple of years however I dont think that PC gaming can be called Pathetic because of this; the fact is that rather than shipping massive ammounts of hard copies of the games, I've noticed that many companies have turned heavily toward digital distribution (i.e. Steam).

However, to say that PC gaming is now pathetic? I believe thats pretty extreme.

Pathetic is another meaning for in a sad state..

Yes PC gaming is in a sad state... Mainly down to greed... ( Or lack of paying for it. )

Ok let me word that a bit differently - when I meant online, I meant through Steam, ea downloader etc...

I do know of Amazon and have used Amazon since they first came out so for me to not know about it is to forget about Jeff Minter..

I also know if CDWOW, HMV online and many others just to let you know that im not there in the mushroom factor...

I dont agree.

PC gaming is more of an officianado hobby. Sure console games are less of a hassle, but the depth and amount of extra effort that goes into pc games raise the bar over consoles.
You'd think that console games are making more money $5 to $1? or something like that. Did anyone consider the amount spent on PC hardware? The truth is, the hardore game developer would rather spend their time on a pc game than a console, but to then see it sell for $10 at Walmart is a little self defeating. PC game developers will always make quality pc games because the PC platform offers much more in the way of creative freedom. I have yet to buy a console.

The pc platform is hardly pathetic.

Stop press

Just read a review on Far Cry 2 and it looks just amazing... This could be the game of the year.. If this proves to be true and it could redeem all what i said as if one game can last over 3 months as apposed to 1 hour on a xbox then the pc starts comming back

Stop press no.2

Starwars Force Unleashed - is crap i got it yesterday and its like iron man..
no point what so ever - for 10 year olds...

Shallow game play and no point what so ever - another Starwars Waste...

The good PC games are just few and far between, I'm a FPS fan and I'd like to see a PC game that could give you the experience the old Atari Jaguar 64bit delivered in Aliens VS Predator!

The game engine somehow changed or cycled so that you never knew what to expect, you could enter a room and it contain 1 alien, the next time you enter the same room it may have 1 alien or 2, 3, or 4, or none, you never knew what was around the next corner and never could drop your guard.

So every time you played the game was like the first time, it was great!

The games like Crysis and FarCry are great IMO but they could leave out the SciFi factors and finish the game like they started it out and it would be great, the suit in Crysis is half the game, if you don't learn what you can do with the suit you really lose half of the game right there.

I remember when FarCry was first released it was kicking machines in the dirt just like Crysis is today, I'm looking forward to the day we have hardware that can run Crysis maxxed out completely.

Crysis Warhead has some new weapons, but I hate the parts where you go through major changes and your weapons are gone and you have to start over gathering weapons again, that sucks, I don't know why designers think thats a good thing to do to you, in the middle of a game, its like they went mind blank in their designing or something!

FarCry 2 is almost upon us and it looks promising, I hope it is!

Game On Guys! Ryan

I want eye candy and substance. Don't really care what it costs. I'll never buy a console, I'll just give up playing games on a PC.

As for those that steal/pirate software, I just hope I catch you because I WILL torture you - guaranteed. If you don't have the money, well too bad, go play with yourself.

But what do you expect, education is on the down, most youths believe life owes them something, and those that don't just wanna randomly destroy whatever they can under some crusade of "being different".

And don't get me started on the gang banger wanna be -- with the thumbing rap music, the gold chains, and the big baggy pants down to their knees with the butt cracks showing. Yeah, what a great F'in society we have in the US. Lots of really stupid people play really stupid games on consoles and then the really stupid idiots pirating games on the PC.

And then we wonder why so few good games are being made for the PC...

Get a clue people.

When did 15 dollars become an arm and a leg???

15 dollars is like... not buying 3-4 coffees a month.

Honestly..

Is hellgate london any better online?