It's quite the opposite, actually. There's a healthy discussion here with none of the screaming fan-boyism to ruin it. Everyone is talking in a somewhat calm and civilized manner, surprisingly enough.
The reason I prefer PC gaming is simply because it's the first gaming platform that I actually like. I've tried consoles a number of times before ever seeing a PC and I don't like how the controls feels. The first time I picked up the mouse in a tiny cyber cafe and started moving Terran soldiers in Starcraft Broodwar freely around, I was hooked.
Another big reason is for my love of PC gaming is the satisfaction I get after building my own PC. Seeing a game play be...
That's because MS is trying to bring an enclosed console system into a open platform like the PC. No one fully owns the PC system so having MS move in and claim the whole system for itself would only bring catastrophic backlash.
I upgraded to a GTX970 card several months ago with no specific game in mind. It was said to be very energy efficient and great value for it's price.
However, I bought a stick of 8GB RAM last month specifically for TW3. It's system requirement said it requires a minimum of 6GB or a recommended 8GB of system RAM. It's about time I add some more RAM to my PC.
It's great that they are concentrating back to the good old RTS singleplayer campaign. Their previous game after AoW was the Wargame series. They're good but the singlplayer campaigns gradually turned into mere tutorials for the multiplayer.
As a result the last two Wargame games,Airland Battle and Red Dragon, felt like glorified tower defense games. Al you do is gather up units and move them around in the planning phase, defend places in the battle phase, get points ...
That depends on the game though. If an online components is built around competition with transaction system then, yes, I would wholehearted agree such bans are valid.
Then again, Rockstar is missing out on a great game mode if they don't want to accommodate some form of mod-friendly online components. Just Cause 2 online mod was crazy where people would just do whatever they want and then added their own flavours(more game modes) on top of it.
Some games are not the perfect little gems they should have been. A great thing about PC gaming is that gamers themselves can fix those little problems or even add more stuff to it.
I just bought Singularity and one of the things that I look for is the FOV fix(I start to get dizzy due to the low default FOV). The registry edit didn't work but a little app, Widescreen Fixer, solved it. Of course because it's a third party app that runs outside the game there is a risk...
"...Uncharted , Bloodborn , Demon souls, MgS4..."
These exclusives don't mean much to PC gaming. Consoles have tons of exclusives for decades and yet PC gaming is still here, alive and kicking. GTAV sold 40 million copies on consoles and yet there are still millions of gamers who bought it for the PC even if it's 2 years late.
2 years old? That is nothing.
Currently Steam and GoG are having a Star Wars Days Sales. Yes, they are selling and people are buying(probably to play them) old Star War games with some of them were made in the early 1990s.
I see this paid mod scheme more as unofficial micro-transaction items instead of DLCs. DLCs are stuff that game devs have planned from the start while mods are just random stuff that modders think might be cool.
Valve is technically by-passing the DLC scheme(not many will react positively to Day One DLCs and Season Passes) into the potentially much more lucrative, constant mods(as micro-transaction content). They have dabbled in this with their TF2 and DOTA games where they m...
I was also confused but couldn't definitely say what happened. The Xb1 version has smoke from overturned trailers and some dusty wind swirling around whereas the PC version showed none of those.
Something's not right here.
"there will come a point where progress becomes so rapid it overtakes our ability to comprehend it."
And yet good old guns and bullets will be more than enough to beat some sense into it.
WW2 CoD- finished. Modern warfare CoD- done. Near future warfare CoD- a brief look in the last couple of games. Full blown sci-fi CoD is here. So is it possible that we might be seeing superheroes CoD in the next couple of years/sequels? Once the backstory is estab...
These genres may find new life on the XBOne but let's not forget that they were kept alive all this time by PC gaming. The last generation of consoles practically left the horror survival genre dying on the floor but PC gaming picked it up and kept it alive. Text-based adventure games are still being made while thousands of side scrollers filled PC gaming to the brim.
Should a genre find itself dying in the console side, there will be always plenty of room in the PC gamin...
It seems that Valve is extending their experience monetizing mods from their MOBA games and Team Fortress 2. It's bound to happen sooner or later.
The real question now is whether Valve will be able to provide sufficient control to avoid all the potential pitfalls of exposing this system to rest of the Steam games out there. At the moment they seem to be cherry-picking which game dev/publisher to use this paid mod scheme instead opening the floodgate to everyone out ther...
Telling PC gamers to get another PC is very telling about their motivation. They can squeeze every little money out of console fans through DLCs and season pass while PC gamers tend to wait for the next big sale. The only way for the PC version to be able to reap the same profit as the higher priced console version is by removing the splitscreen coop and telling us to get another PC.
Just think the $5 Steam is asking for is like N4G's bubbles for the comment section. The more bubbles you have, the more people would likely to take your comments seriously.
@Omnisonne
You can say that again. Years ago I used Need For Speed Porche to help with my driving test. I couldn't go full on simulation mode because I only have a keyboard to play it with but it's enough to help me memorize the procedures the test required.
I haven't watched television in years. Too much reruns, reality shows and similarly themed TV shows.
I believe that there is a link between video games and fun.
"The rise of mobile gaming has seen a huge rise in the numbers of females who are now considered ‘gamers’."
The article practically answered it's own question. Just like how male gamers have found their place in the gaming world, female gamers have finally found theirs. In a way it's good system that naturally came to existence thanks to the free market: the console and PC gaming style caters to a majority of male gamers while mobile gaming caters to a major...
@ninsigma
Yeah. I chuckled after reading the comments and find them to be extremely cordial. Games can break fans apart into numerous competing, defensive clans but porn seems to be bringing people together, in this case at least.