Quote Originally Posted by Neo View Post
By your argument I think that there are 2 major culprits for the issue PC gamers have:

1. Graphics card manufacturers who make new graphics cards the whole time whilst completely changing the architecture every time without coming up with something that is actually scalable. That forces consumers to upgrade the whole time, getting nearly the same levels of performance but in a "new" way. This also doesn't make life easier for game developers who can't stop to focus on a single architecture - but instead need to shift focus the whole time.

2. The game developers who support this operation by the card makers. They should simply stop entertaining these new cards and "pick" a card and develop the game as if everyone owns that specific nvidia or AMD card. Then people will get decent performance out of their cards - whilst the manufactures will have no more reason to bombard us with newer, more expensive cards the whole time.

Basically - turning the PC's hardware into a console equivalent.

The flip-side of this argument is that PC users are always at the forefront of gaming technology and if they somehow do standardize PC development for games you'll be screwing other PC gamers who bought new hardware.

Catch 28.
Agreed. The manufactures are welcome to make new cards as often as they want, if they dont what GPUs will the next generation of consoles use. Similarly Game developers can choose to develope Crysis type games specifically for PC that utilises this new tech.
PC Gamers are also free to upgrade 2 twice a year if they (and their wallets) so desire.

But then dont go out saying things along the lines of:

Oh wow, gee thanks you console fanboi's. You're actually dumbing down the advance of graphics...

Nice one
or

Casual gamers are causing the death of well made games with depth and graphics
or

"It's not all bad" as in Zuma is "not all bad" for S.A.

PCs had scaling for a reason but thanks to consoles it is no longer as advantageous.

Damn consoles dumbing down games since 2005......

Crysis 2 is the next victim.
I dunno where this dumbing down thing comes in but it makes me sick. For one Graphics does not = depth. Crysis is the best example of this, its a glorified tech demo which fails as a game. Similarly a deep and meaningful game does not have to have GPU roasting graphics. One of the best games ever made, Baldur's Gate 2, could run on a P2 with out a freaking GPU.

If anything the PC guys should be saying "Thank You Console guyz" since the advent of the original Xbox and PS2 brought gaming into clear daylight and is one of the biggest reason the industry is what it is today and not still 3 guyz in their mother's "carage house" coding pac man or something.

Ok Im getting of the topic here.
/Moves quietly along.