@aiBreeze
Your comment and way of thinking is exactly why PC gamers don't really like these delays. The more games and time are delayed, the more likely PC gamers are tempted to get a console.
After that, why should they bother with the delayed PC games anymore when they already have a console version NOW?
It's the the same reason they have exclusive titles. Exclusives and delays are ways to get impatient gamers to convert to their system. <...
"...the non-linearity of it"
"...branching storylines and more choice inside the levels"
"...take different approaches"
Not much of pushing anything when these are the things that's pretty much a standard in today's games, especially among shooters with RPG elements and RPGs.
"You can even optimize your loadouts in campaign before you go in."
That's what other ...
It's hard to blame pirates in this situation. Current consoles found a way to circumvent this by making the whole console as a hardware+update-based DRM. They are making millions with their games long before the mobile games make an appearance. Even the in-app purchases concept have long exited existed in Facebook games and in other web games prior. I've heard some kid had spent thousands with his mother's credit card to some in-game items in a Facebook game-this was before the iP...
Yes it does. I have a friend who is so into a ninja game that he spent around $30 (even more on other mobile games the year before)to level up his character. He's a perfectionist and played each level with a perfect score (all objectives met and challenges completed). That is until that fateful day (last Tuesday) when some kids found his android phone and decided that the current level he was playing is too boring so he replayed the previous level - an innocent little move that cost my fr...
Good for you guys but from PC side, things aren't looking too pretty. Ubisoft practically tried to kill the SP version of Ghost Recon for a F2P version while the consoles gets the full package (story mode and multiplayer). EA's infamous announcement of going totally online. Red Alert Generals 2 is a F2P. A lot of Ubisoft's long forgotten classic titles suddenly being revived as F2Ps only. You can't open a webpage for one day without seeing a new F2P announcement for the PC. Ev...
So technically CoD ruined FPS for other titles in the modern world setting with Halo ruining the sci-fi setting, while GoW ruined TPS for those in the same genre.
It's hard to continue with older franchises or start new ones when they will ended up meticulously compared to these three behemoths. No wonder a lot of newer shooters are all F2Ps, to stay as far away as possible from competing directly with any of these guys.
PC Xbox Live...
One of the strangest thing I've ever heard and for some reason I'm very wary of it.
What I fear the most is that although Agawi is a sign of MS not letting PC gaming go away but it might also mean the PC might just end up a milking device littered with social games and F2P.
While the X box platform gets the hardcore games that people talk about. Games whose stories and gameplay became standard of the industry and gets...
Steam. That's all I need to say when the author said about the horrendous DRM on the PC. How many singleplayer PC games that require you to log on online to play? All Ubisoft games in the last two years and Diablo 3. What happened to those games? Ubisoft buckled and threw away that DRM and no more online connection required for its games, leaving only Diablo 3. PC gamers have fought that permanent online DRM furiously and they succeeded. All the studios/publishers are either joining Stem ...
True. We should stop these realistic VS artistic graphic comparisons. Both types of graphic will exist no matter what. Most of the comments are influenced by nostalgia and at times that's a bad thing.
Different games require different graphic approach. Serious, casual, bleak, horror...all these determine how the game should look.
I don't mind the colourful graphic in TF2 since it was designed to be a casual game that you can just get in, play and ge...
So why not a server that allows a certain level of players who can play on it? I've seen and played in a number of these servers before.
They are promoting something (a way to give newcomers a fighting chance) that is already achievable in the game. Sure the new mode will take away the veteran players' high level weapons and gadgets but not their natural/fully-honed noob-stalking skills.
One author suggested we buy an iPad 3 for reading and the iPad 2 for gaming.
Another one pointed out the iPad Mini's price point might be too high.
I love PC gaming. I don't play consoles games but I don't hate it either. I am puzzled by some console gamers (e.g those who keep telling PC gamers that amazing graphics are not important but later talks about the types of shaders that the next Uncharted might used) but there's no actual reason for me to hate them.
I stopped playing BF3 because there were other games that I wanted to play. I returned after a month and I kept getting killed by Premium players with guns that I can never have (unless I buy the DLC).
Made my hours of getting skilled with my vanilla weapons pretty useless and wasteful when some Premium players simply bought their guns/skills in an instant.
If it just like the camo DLC like in BFBC2, then it's fine. Some will buy it, some won't.
And yet...MS can never let PC gaming go no matter how hard it tries. It just can't. Simply because if MS is to actually leave PC gaming is to let others, rivals, to fill in the void. You are right about about MS's weak relationship with PC gaming and yet it simply can't leave it just like that. Bill Gates had a great idea about using tablets but left it when the industry laughed it off. Then Apple came and shook the world with its mobile devices and a lot money is generated by mob...
"PC users can buy Xbox content at their desk which will commence download once the home console is switched on."
I'm a PC gamer so that sentence felt so wrong.
It feels like Windows 8 is just an extension to the X Box instead of some sort of harmonious integration of multiple media platforms.
Sitting in front of your X box and see an interesting DLC? Just pick up the Smart glass and buy it. Sitting in a subway and a new patch ...
These Kinect promoters should be wearing red shoes, close their eyes and click their heels 3 times everytime they tell us that ">insert any game< is better with Kinect."
I'm still replaying this game every now and then. An excellent combat system in an open game world. That's more than enough to keep me coming back.
So far there are just a few modern games that have me hooked over and over again just with their singleplayer campaigns. Batman Arkham Asylum, Max Payne 3 and Binary Domain (I enjoyed seeing how enemy androids react to battle damage).
Atari's E.T?
Hopefully it won't be repeat of that. Since everyone are depended on mobile devices nowadays so they won't be another industry wide E.T. meltdown. Only that the game makers will find it hard to compete in an extremely saturated market flooded with extra content (not to mention that most of them are just deviations/copycats of other games).
It's fine atm and business is booming but when in the near future you have thousands of int...
Maybe it won't burst violently like the dotcom disaster but it will flatline for a long time. With the promise of quick cash for very little effort is attracting a lot of game makers that will flood the market with so much stuff and content that the consumers will be tired of it sooner than expected.
Haze was designed and hyped to be a Crysis killer. I've read developer interviews about it and how they have shove a lot of effects in that little quest of theirs.
From the big words that they kept throwing around, I was actually worried that might actually be a real Crysis killer that doesn't require a high end PC to run.
Then it came out and the reviews flooded in. I hit myself for worrying so much.