The supposed "decline of PC gaming"

I cry because I can't afford batteries :<

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Originally Posted by Azimuth

Yeah, because Microsoft doesn't make any money from Windows. :P

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I think he means from the console license fees :p

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Originally Posted by larch

Damn that was fast I was still typing my one finger reply then I saw this and gave up :/

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Shes a journalist ;)

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Originally Posted by tpex

I think he means from the console license fees :p

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I know. I was pointing out that Microsoft has a vested interest in PC gaming too. ;) I daresay a fair percentage of early Windows 7 adopters are gamers. DX10 without Vista? Yes, please.

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Originally Posted by Azimuth

I know. I was pointing out that Microsoft has a vested interest in PC gaming too. ;) I daresay a fair percentage of early Windows 7 adopters are gamers. DX10 without Vista? Yes, please.

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It's DX11 now - comes standard with Windows 7 ;)

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Originally Posted by Necuno

pc's are for lamers who need a keyboard and mouse to phew phew phew and don't have the skill to learn the hardcore method of using a gamepad effectively.

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Originally Posted by Cloudster

back onto why consoles suck...

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Statements like this just don't help at all. Agree to disagree, seriously. It's a matter of personal preference in the end. I prefer PC over consoles, not because I believe consoles suck, but because I - the exact opposoite of Azimuth, who likes the feel of the gamepad - prefer using a keyboard and mouse.

At the same time, there are games I prefer playing on consoles - fighting and racing games for instance. But FPS and MMORPGs will always be PC territory for me.

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Originally Posted by shadowfox

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Originally Posted by Necuno

pc's are for lamers who need a keyboard and mouse to phew phew phew and don't have the skill to learn the hardcore method of using a gamepad effectively.

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Statements like this just don't help at all. Agree to disagree, seriously. It's a matter of personal preference in the end. I prefer PC over consoles, not because I believe consoles suck, but because I - the exact opposoite of Azimuth, who likes the feel of the gamepad - prefer using a keyboard and mouse.

At the same time, there are games I prefer playing on consoles - fighting and racing games for instance. But FPS and MMORPGs will always be PC territory for me.

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suppose for those who can't read between the lines. please stick the your mouse and keyboard... sarcasm might keel you over in the console camp ;)


we got high level bosses like azimuth and larch...they hardly take prisoners, you might get send off to a S&M camp :D

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Originally Posted by Necuno

suppose for those who can't read between the lines. please stick the your mouse and keyboard... sarcasm might keel you over in the console camp ;)


we got high level bosses like azimuth and larch...they hardly take prisoners, you might get send off to a S&M camp :D

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Errr ... oops ... apologies.

I was going to add a line that I suspected you were making a tongue-in-cheek reference, but alas, in my haste to post ...

But with that mistake ... other people may miss the sarcasm. The reason for emotes - they should really include a sarcasm smiley.

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Originally Posted by shadowfox

Errr ... oops ... apologies.

I was going to add a line that I suspected you were making a tongue-in-cheek reference, but alas, in my haste to post ...

But with that mistake ... other people may miss the sarcasm. The reason for emotes - they should really include a sarcasm smiley.

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but that would take away the surprise and caught out ones :eek:

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Originally Posted by Stefan9

I have to disagree with the comment on Bioware. If your comments were accurate they would not have released a pc centric game like dragon age in the last year, yes I there was a very good console version as well but its well know that the better version was the pc one. They would not have released mass effect for the pc and would have instead concentrated on a ps3 version.

Nothing in BW's actions or the feedback you hear from the developers and others at the company suggest any anti pc attitude. In fact everything from them seems to suggest on going more multi platform with pc and xbox 360 releases together.

PC gaming might be niche now but hardly constitutes it being dead.

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I see your Dragon Age and raise you Mass Effect 2, which is clearly console centric, even if it saw a PC release. As well as DA did, I'm guessing ME2 is going to make that success look like a blip on the radar.

Look, I'm not saying PC gaming does not exist. Clearly it does, and will continue to. I'm saying it's dead in it's old form. There was a time PC gaming was huge, where it dominated the consoles and saw many more releases, more often. There was a time when PC games were ported to console rather than the other way round. That form of PC gaming has died, and a new form (one comprised mainly of mmo's, cross-platform games and 'engines'/tech demos) is being birthed from it's still warm corpse. PC gaming will likely never be as big as it once was. And that's fine. Hell, it shouldn't even matter, as long as you're enjoying it.

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Originally Posted by Skurm

And that's fine. Hell, it shouldn't even matter, as long as you're enjoying it.

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I couldn't agree more.

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Originally Posted by Skurm

I see your Dragon Age and raise you Mass Effect 2, which is clearly console centric, even if it saw a PC release. As well as DA did, I'm guessing ME2 is going to make that success look like a blip on the radar.

Look, I'm not saying PC gaming does not exist. Clearly it does, and will continue to. I'm saying it's dead in it's old form. There was a time PC gaming was huge, where it dominated the consoles and saw many more releases, more often. There was a time when PC games were ported to console rather than the other way round. That form of PC gaming has died, and a new form (one comprised mainly of mmo's, cross-platform games and 'engines'/tech demos) is being birthed from it's still warm corpse. PC gaming will likely never be as big as it once was. And that's fine. Hell, it shouldn't even matter, as long as you're enjoying it.

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Not disagreeing with the majority of your comments only the one concerning Bioware. PC gaming has evolved and changed. Personally I don't really care which platform is dominant as long as the games I play gets released for pc I am happy. Personally I prefer more multi platform releases since it allows more people to play the games.