Saying Good-bye to PC Gaming...for Now

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pcgamerguy

July 24, 2008 at 6:35pm

Two words for you Ryan F**k you to F**king hell. What the heck you can buy a machine for 600 dollars that will run crysis. you get mods, free online play, and a community thats not a bunch of teenagers that you have to listen too while playing halo with and halo what a joke. and you say not enough killer apps, company of heroes, world of warcraft, il2 stumovick, world in conflict, warhammmer, homeworld, and mostly all the games that you buy for xbox can be bought for pc for 10 dollars less when they release. Ill give you some advice, go visit pc gamer and sell your xbox. hope this sets you straight -pcgamerguy
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oldguygamer

April 25, 2008 at 7:28am

From the oldguygamer: I suppose this is normal for most people. As the consoles improve, they become more intuitive to play on, and seem to be the primary focus of developers. Right now, I only play SIMS-2, SIM CITY-4 and Civilization-III on the PC. If the game is developed to be used on the PC (e.g., SIMS-2), and then adapted for use on the console, then it will probably be better to play on the PC. It seems that a first person shooter is naturally easier to play on a console because of the controls. In any case, I just hope developers keep on making really good games so I can play them.
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thegamepro

April 15, 2008 at 6:29pm

You don't have to spend $1000 - $2000 on a pc that can play crysis. A P.C. with the exact same performance as the xbox 360 if not exceeding, will cost about $500 and thats if you didn't salvage any parts from your old rig. Secondly, every PC game is $10 less than the xbox version and some are even $30 less. If you spent, say $700 on a pc and the average price you paid for each game was $40, the pc would actually save money after you've bought about 12 games. Thirdly, Nearly all the pc games allow you to download "mods" which can easily provide a ton of hours of extra fun. Not only mods are free but as of right now you can easily download at least 30 extra COD 4 maps. Cunclusion, you get more value from the PC version of games over the console versions. Lastly, Crysis alone is worth a $700 investment. I also had a crappy PC at a time which pushed me towards consoles but then I bought the PC version of the ORANGE BOX with 16 on 16 TF2 multiplayer and my first thought was, "My GOD I was able to fire headshots across the map with a small pistol in HL2 because of the Mouse and keyboard 'advantage' plus all the free downloadable maps for Portal and TF2 truly convinced me to upgrade my rig. I already had the CPU, optical drives, and power-supply so I needed a GPU, case, motherboard, and RAM. I only needed $700 (at the time)to aquire an 8800GTS, 2GB RAM,680i sli MOBO, and the Antec "900" case. All that played Crysis (and UT3) nicely and all that is much cheaper today. Please Buy Crysis, I promise it's not comming out for Xbox or PS3. It'll be totally worth it. Just imagine Crysis as an ultimate Halo 3 edition with a full master chief armor for under $1000.
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Derrall

April 11, 2008 at 12:59pm

Sadly, i think that after last night, i too am giving up on my fantastic pc.... I've owned Mass Effect and Bioshock for more than a month now, and havent bothered playing them... in fact i dont even bother with my 360 too much..... or any other console game ever since the release of Wow 3+ years back... So i decided to put a hold on raiding and try out Mass Effect....and like that *snap* 7 hours of my life were gone... no joke.... How ive missed falling in love with a console game....
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x_Cheevos_x

April 10, 2008 at 9:42pm

That's funny, with every new game release I read about for the PC I find myself more tempted to spend the money for a gaming PC. Although I hear that the differences between console and PC versions of a game are negligible, I would really like to play some of these games on their intended platform. Of course a decent rig costs a lot and I'll probably never end up buying one when there are so many great console games I could be spending my money on instead. So what I'm saying is don't pay any attention to me because I'm probably not going to buy a new PC anyway.
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Spybreak

April 09, 2008 at 11:47am

Yea I grew up with PCs as well, from a 286 playing Commander Keen and 486 playing Dune II. I've been hooked onto the RTS genre ever since. I also played Doom on my brother's laptop, he got a free one going to college, and I was hooked on shooters ever since. It just seems like Microsoft screwed themselves forcing PC gaming to upgrade to Vista and then having Vista take up at least 1 gig of memory. We play games, we don't want other things taking up our resources and performance. I looked at my PC, which is a Dell GX 240, which I bought for college 6 years ago and then found that the expensive xbox 360 was cheaper to upgrade my obsolete computer. It's a drag really, the only thing that's holding me back is my processor of a single core 1.99 Ghz. I bought my 360 right before Gears of War hit shelves because I knew it was going to be good and I haven't looked back since. The only games I play on my PC are mmos, RTSs and pop cap games lol. Will I buy a new rig when Starcraft II comes out though, probably><
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dallasquake

April 09, 2008 at 12:15am

Games for Windows Magazine Print edition is Dead…Going Online only. They were officially Microsoft backed. Guess what is going to happen to OXM print edition? The magazine is already dead in print form, it just dosen’t know it. Don’t subscribe to the magazine, you will not get your money back. Dan told me many moons ago that print is not dead but thriving, he was dead wrong. I have inside knowledge that OXM is suffering big time with its news-stand editions and is really needing to build it subscriber base. I worked for buyers of magazines in Walmart and Barnes and Noble, and I still have contacts inside with them. They both are looking at pulling the magazine from shelf space for other mags that justify there rental space. The space must produce, the more OXM mags that are stripped the less they make. Games for Windows is Dead in print form, Newtype Mag is dead in print form, OPM died when the PS3 came out. I am not a troll nor trolling I love all things Xbox. I have emailed the OXM staff urging them to hook-up with 360 online to produce an Online Magazine that we can view on our TV from the 360. Dan, Ryan and others just don’t wan’t to give up the tree-based print and refuse to acknowledge that tech based print mags are going bye-bye. I don’t want to loose my OXM mag, I would love to see it on my 360 with streaming videos in the pages of the online mag like other online mags are doing now. Dan…Ryan..others…if you can’t adapt you will go bye-bye, and that would be a shame. Please guys and gals tell me your adapting and not just ignoring the problem!! By the way, nice promo on the 360 Dan…but you still sent people to the tree-mag..not happening, put it online and the 360 online where it belongs!! Here is the link to Next Gen about the death of Games for Windows print mag… http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9874&Itemid=2
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huskerman34

April 08, 2008 at 10:14pm

It seems the only games that are good for pc are rts and shooter. I think the biggest reason im a consoler is the fact that some graphic cards are not compatible with some games. Some games require a patch it becomes a hassle. With console gaming there is no worry i mnow that console techology has a life span of five years. PC has a year lifespan. With pc genre type games porting to the 360 there is no way i would sink a grand into a pc rig to play some game.
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eson

April 08, 2008 at 5:07pm

I started with a crappy PC, then a GameCube, then i borrowed my brothers PS2, sold my GC then bought an Xbox, and finally got a 360. Now i don't even use my PC for gaming anymore.
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Dan OXM (not verified)

April 08, 2008 at 3:31pm

Wow...Ryan announces he's abandoning PC gaming...and the next day, Games for Windows magazine ceases publication. Coincidence? I think not.
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Silent_Samurai

April 08, 2008 at 2:09pm

That's almost exactly how it was for me too. Grew up with the NES, SNES and Sega Genesis. Then I got my first PC in 97, started with Diablo, and didn't play another console game, until 2003 when I played Rainbow 6 my brother-in-law on xbox, and then bought me one for graduation. I've hardly played a PC game since. The only times I've played PC stuff is the two times I got the rings of death, and had to wait for two weeks. Man Diablo 2 sure is fun.
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ghACE614

April 08, 2008 at 1:49pm

I left console games for Starcraft! then went back and left again for World of Warcraft! Damn Blizzard!
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JasonPWhite

April 08, 2008 at 10:03am

i'm right there with you, ryan. a bit sad when viewed with nostalgia, but i've no time to mourn! i'm a gamer, and i game with the best experience i have available at the time. and at the time, i'm happy to say "Xbox 360".
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Kenny Carwash

April 08, 2008 at 8:24am

A lot of these statements echo my own experiences. For years I had a console, be it a Genesis, N64 or PS2, alongside my PC and the co-existed quite happily, the console for lightweight, dip-in gaming and the PC for the serious stuff. That all changed when I got the 360. I'm not sure exactly what the tipping point was, but suddenly I had a console more powerful than my once mighty gaming PC, with games I could spend serious time playing and all I had to do was put a game in and sit back. Defrags, virus checks, spyware removal, driver issues and ever changing system reqs were a thing of the past. I was free. The PC still gets some use but it's for the kind of games that can't easily be played on a console; WoW, EVE, Football Manager, God games and the like. I don't bother with new titles any more, firstly because most of the ones I want are available on the 360 anyway and secondly because my PC is upgraded absolutely as far as it'll go. Literally everything except the optical drives and case will need to be replaced at the same time, as I'll have to switch from Socket A, DDR, IDE and AGP to Socket AM2, DDR2, SATA and PCI-e. It's just not an economical move when the computer is fine for everything except gaming.
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Grognard66

April 08, 2008 at 7:08am

Like Ryan, my roots are in PC gaming and it was the x-box that got me into consoles. I tried getting back into PC gaming this past Holiday Season after spending $1,500 on a decent computer only to find that most games I bought had to be scaled back so far they looked worse than x-box games (not 360). Add in multiple driver updates, patches, compatibility issues and constant crashing and I was reminded why I switched to console gaming in the first place. I still can't get The Witcher to run for more than 45 minutes without crashing! Playing on a big screen, 5.1 audio from the comfort of my couch is preferable to the hassle of playing seated at a office chair leaning up to the desk with constant stability issues.
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gator70

April 08, 2008 at 1:47am

Ironically, recently I have went back to PC gaming after a long haitus. I'm now spliting my time between the 360 and my PC. Some games are just meant to be played on a PC, read most strategy games. I'm eager to see the difference Mass Effect on PC will have vs the 360. Most likely it will just be in the controls; but still something is to be said for a keyboard full of key bindings vs squeezing triggers and memorizing menu trees. Currently I'm playing Sins of the Solar Empire, and I don't know how or if you could play it on a console. PCs and 360s can coexist... just need to have a good sized wallet. :)
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Mitch OXM

April 07, 2008 at 10:40pm

Halo is on PC. And Crysis is coming to consoles. Um... So? Games are games, man, play 'em and enjoy 'em where you can.
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pcgamerguy

April 07, 2008 at 8:20pm

you poor xbox gamers stuck with games like halo and blue dragon while we pc gamers get real games like crysis and company of heroes
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turboej25

April 07, 2008 at 7:58pm

I guess you are assuming that Duke Nukem will for sure be a PC exclusive, and that HL3 will not eventually at least make it to console. As for Daiblo III, well yeah I'd buy a PC for that, I plan on buying one for StarCraftII. In fact the ONLY PC game I play anymore is WOW so I guess Blizzard is the last bastion of hope for PC, more me at least.
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Balmazer

April 07, 2008 at 5:35pm

Depending on how good your PC is now you could make it Crysis playable with only about 800-1200 dollars. I just recently bought a new PC it came with a 3Ghz processor and 3 gigs of ram. Now if I had the proper video card (Something like an 8800) I could probably run Crysis, not on the high graphic settings but I could run it. Now if I felt like getting a new card (8800) it would cost me somewhere from 200-500 dollar depending on how much I looked. SO 800 plus 300 would only cost me $1100 and that's for a whole new PC and video card. Oh yeah, I'm also talking in Canadian currency so there may be some indescrepencies. You point out games as the only thing that would seem to spike your interest, yet there's so much more to PC gaming. Mods are a big aspect of this, look at Oblivion there's over 9000 mods for it some of them adding over 100 hours to the game, the best part they're free. Something else that PC gamers have over a console games is that they get many of the games that make the Consoles great... the only problem is that it takes a bit for them to come out, but while PC gamers wait they get to play their own PC games.
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ezilylost13

April 07, 2008 at 3:57pm

For me, my PC gaming consisted of X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and the Command and Conquer games. I never really got into anything else untill I got my PS2, and then my X-Box.
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Ryan_OXM

April 07, 2008 at 2:59pm

I did say "$1000-*plus*," Dan. :) -- Ryan McCaffrey Senior Editor Official Xbox Magazine
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Dan OXM (not verified)

April 07, 2008 at 1:58pm

$1000? Maybe if you can scavenge some parts from your existing box, like your hard drive. I think to run Crysis and get really good performance out of the modern games you would want to play, you're looking at $1500-$2000, realistically. New mobo, new RAM, new video card...
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BrotherJohn

April 07, 2008 at 1:54pm

I think a lot of people went through the same timeline of events with their gaming choices as you did. Myself included. Is it kinda sad the only time I play games on my PC is when my 360 is in the repair shop?
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Mitch OXM

April 07, 2008 at 1:12pm

I recently bought a new laptop. In my purchase decision making, though, I decided it would be best to trick it out for gaming as much as I could. I was never a PC gamer. I played Starcraft, yeah, but rarely on my home computer. It was always at a friends house! Now I've got a gaming capable laptop - with a cruddy video card - that I frequently play newer games with. Sam and Max Season One, WoW, Company of Heroes all come to mind when I think of my PC gaming. Still, when I say "frequently", I most definitely mean "whenever I'm not playing console games". Now that I have a PC that can play games, I try. I really like PC gaming, but it will ALWAYS be second to my Xbox 360 or PS3.
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ATLien4evr

April 07, 2008 at 12:47pm

I feel your pain Ryan.
 
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