It's a shame because I think End of Nations is going to flop. That is just what happens to 90% of mmos.
And of course they love LoL, :P
lol @ response time point missed.
"The best games this generation are (only) on consoles."
lol NO. The majority of great games this gen are multiplat and are far better on PC.
Brilliant/big budget games that are on PC/multiplat this gen:
ME, BS, CoD, BC2, Street Fighter 4, Guitar Hero 3, WoW, SWToR, LoL, SC2, Portal 2, L4D, AC, The Witcher, GTA 4. And about 10 times that many again.
Brilliant/big budget console only games this gen would be:
Nintendo ...
Yeah, there are some awesome console games out there. But as a platform, PC is better. Consoles originally existed to provide consumers with a means of gaming without needing to spend crazy amounts of cash on a PC - since about 2006, a highly capable gaming PC is no longer unaffordable - the reason consoles exist is simply to make a load of cash (I have seen people pay more for their 360 and accessories than a good home built gaming PC would cost).
I'm glad I had consoles...
An AMD hex core would generally be worse than an i7 2600k (there are a few specific tasks where the hex is better). Though both would dominate any game.
I would suggest an i5 though, you would need the same mobo anyway (for the i7) so the price difference sits entirely in the cpu cost, the extra threads of an i7 don't make a big difference - but the actual hardware quality does for the performance of each core and for memory access. An i5 is still extremely powerful thoug...
Decent article, but I shall reiterate: not all PC gamers care about graphics. PC works for me because I have it booted up all the time anyway for work and general entertainment - to get into a game I just double click it in steam. (the price difference between a normal PC that I would need anyway and a gaming one was just the price of the graphics card, about £180 today for a 6950)
But most importantly, it is an open platform - full of totally unique games made by small ...
So these Impulse Technology idiots filed a load of patents for games which they had absolutely no intention to make...
Well, that shouldn't be legal anyway so they can go and die in a fire for limiting other people's creativity.
I wish this would kill motion gaming though :(
How could mouse being best for rts ever change? lol.
And the button layout is fine, you shouldn't be looking at the buttons anyway, having your left hand holding a half controller would just be annoying and the mouse is essential in a lot of situations. What you forgot to mention that PC lacks is analogue buttons/triggers/sticks which can be handy (though the mouse is near-analogue). There may be peripherals with them but a game won't have much of a reason to support ...
Timesplitters 1 was the first game to introduce aim assist with dual analogues, I think.
MW is better on console when the PC version doesn't have dedicated servers. Mouse just sucks with no hit reg, because you can be so sure that your shots were meant to hit when they don't. (low update rate on P2P games because the host won't normally have enough upload bandwidth, so the game hard-codes it really low to support microsoft's xbox-live certification of maximum ...
Mouse/kbd for strategy/city builder, fps
Controller for hack and slash, racing game, platformer, fighter, tps
There are games that could only work with a mouse, or would just be very bad with a controller. Like Terraria or LoL.
If controllers wern't supported with aim assist, most people would think they sucked for fps. I personally turn off aim assist if possible, it can adjust your aim right when you are about to throw a grenade...
I've seen this before.
server split... yes, it will be the same - just with no disconnects/queues/lag...
Slideshow framerate, I hope it's the way they compressed the video...
Also the 3rd person camera angle is still quite bad :P
"The rampant fanboys on this site probably don't even enjoy these games as much as the real fans who make sure they own all current consoles."
this ^
I have all 3 consoles and a gaming PC. I just want to play games... I only care about good games, who gives a rat's ass about what platform they are on.
Cossacks :P
"But i hope FC 3 can give me better gameplay than FC 2"
this ^
lol, what?
This ^
Farcry 1 was made for PC and the console version was amazing as well.
"ill buy this for the ps3 for mapmaking"
I take it you have never tried the mapmaker for a PC game?
Ex-boss...