In a way it's sweet irony. Console fans complained about the high cost and buggy PC gaming experience but all the while those dedicated PC gamers shrugged off those problems and helped to create PC hardware that MS and Sony later can cherry picked for new consoles.
Several years ago console fans said PC gaming is bad because they have to wait for games to be installed. Now, installing games into the hard drive is fast becoming an industry standard in console gaming.
If none of this needs to happen, then consoles would've been an awful place to be. Really, your beloved consoles are practically made up of PC components while playing genres that PC gamers have tinkered with for years(F2P and indie games that previous gen consoles couldn't play or simply left to die like survival horror). Imagine if PC gaming continues as it is today while the PS4 and XB1 have to endure another cycle of hardware development from the previous gen. There's a reason...
Crytek is promoting a game for PC gamers at Gamescom so we shouldn't be surprised to see them pulling a stunt like this. Making a new game is much more expensive and riskier than showing a 4K version of an existing game to a new demographic.
4K gaming hardware might be expensive for the average gamers but it might not be a problem for developers to add 4K content to an already completed game. Just a couple of years ago developers were releasing HD texture packs for PC gam...
I'm not a PC Elitist who crave for 4K capable hardware but I do agree at some point of PC gaming superiority. Just look at your next gen consoles - they're are actually made PC parts. The only difference if the PS4's BLuRay, XB1's ESRAM and their OSes.
Your next gen consoles and exclusive games that you know now simply won't exist without PC gaming. Let's not forget about the MMOs, F2Ps, indie games and Early Access that console fans tend to down upon...
Oh, they are refocusing their effort on the PC but they will mostly be free to play games and cow clickers. When MS finally had a renewed interest for the PC several years back, they stripped down two classic PC games, MS Flight Simulator and Age of Empire, and offered us F2P versions of them. That's pretty much how MS see the PC market.
AAA titles like Halo and GoW? They will stay put on the console.
It was the media that hyped the huge success of Kickstarter and now the media must own up and help to guide consumers on the good ones instead of trying to kill it. Just like how they hyped the potentials of Early Access and then reviled it while still making "reviews" of them.
Perhaps they should make some sort of monitoring page where approved Kickstarter projects are graded on a weekly or monthly basis so that potential backers can decided whether they want to di...
It's understandable because it's your job to report stuff about gaming so a drought is not a good thing.
But it's still a funny thing because it mirrors what I do. I kept opening the Steam store everyday even though I know there won't be any major games coming soon. There would be daily sales on other, less well-known games but I know deep down that I might not even play with them for most of the time.
This has always seem weird to me. Everyone, mostly the media, always complained about these "Summer droughts" and then later they moaned about all the backlog of games piling up.
Sure, the journalists don't get much to say during a gaming drought but for a gamer it's a great time to catch up on those backlogs.
Capcom was just an example of how a fighting game can flourish on the PC. King of Fighters and Mortal Kombat are also doing well in the PC gaming scene so Namco could perceived it as a good indicator to branch out to new platforms.
I might be mistaken but being an exclusive to one particular platform might not the best thing for a fighting game these days.
I'm a PC gamer and I'm happy that The Witcher franchise reached a wider audience and have grown bigger without offending or leaving out anyone.
We want games, is that wrong? Console fans love to point out the PC was only good for MMOs and indie games and yet now those two game types are among the top hottest items for next gen consoles.
Console gamers get Battlefield, Diablo 3 and The Witcher 2 & 3 so why can't PC gamers get some console ports, too?
Yes, PC gamers do disses the consoles but only from the technical level. There's nothing wrong the games themselves but we would like to see ...
Yes, it does look pathetic that the "Masta race" is begging for games but I sense fear in comments like yours.
If the "Masta race" kept getting games that they are begging for then that would mean there's a possibility that they can get other console exclusives. Does it matter if they look pathetic in begging if in the end they are able to play the same games as console gamers do?
Even the makers of The Division and Destiny challenged ...
Street Fighter 4 was released on the PC and ever since then PC gamers are still receiving the same updates and other releases, including Street Fighters X Tekken, as console gamers. Why would Capcom kept releasing their games on the PC if there are no interest from PC gamers?
QuakeCon have always been about PC gaming so it's understandable when someone appear to promote stuff that won't appear on the PC will get no warm hugs and cheers. Consoles edged out the PC from E3 with the 360 and PS3 so seeing next gen console stuff on other PC-centric conventions is worrying.
Both Sony and MS praised how easy it is to port PC games to their next gen consoles so I imagine the reverse process would be similarly easy. This mean they don't need to confirm the existence of a PC version while promoting the console versions. The process would so painfully easy that they would just spend half a year milking the console versions as exclusives before suddenly putting out a PC version thanks to next gen porting.
GTA V for the PC was never said to have ex...
I used to avoid Youtube because I was preoccupied with gaming. But now my time is split between gaming and these gaming videos. A lot of them are just fun to watch and listen too. So much so I haven't watched any TV in years(my viewing taste branched to other topics besides gaming).
I also "study" these videos. I paid close attention in particular the use of language to convey a particular point or topic. These observations helped me greatly when doing assignmen...
Infamous? Tomb Raider is a nice substitute or any other third person action games that are also available on the PC.
Sunset Overdrive, an open world third person action game with crazy, over the top characters, humor, even crazier weapons and parkour. Yeaaaaah...PC has something similar in the guise of Saints Row IV.
There's a new article about how a Sony rep is wowed by the difference of playing TLoU at 60fps...
Should I stay out that article? Don't worry, I won't bring boring details about PC hardware sales but I do remember you guys kept calling out on us PC gamers when we try to explain why we prefer gaming at 60fps.
They shouldn't because if they just shut up and let MS get away with it then MS will and the industry as whole think we're allowing this practice.
Imagine if everyone just shut up and let MS continue with it's original plan of implementing the always online DRM+kinect for the XB1. Imagine if everyone just shut up and let game devs enforce all manners of microtransactions on already full-priced games during the early months of next gen consoles.