What I hate about the games industry:

Posted by abacus on June 24, 2008, 11:06 a.m.

Things I hate about the games industry right now:

PC is a platform for MMOs

It seems like the only genre that has always been stronger on the PC than consoles is MMOs. Sure, RTS's have long been PC-exclusive titles, but currently, a lot more strategy titles are coming out for consoles. FPS's were birthed on the PC, and retain a strong fanbase, but this seems to be comprised of two types of people: newbs who dont own consoles yet, and hardcore gamers in leagues and such. Not to mention, very few PC-exclusive FPSes recently or upcoming.

Half-assed PC ports

Ubisoft Montreal, I'm looking at you. God damnit, some people don't want to have to pay more for a gaming PC than a Xbox, just to run Xbox games! Not to mention, the PC ports of games such as Rainbow Six Vegas are amazing on consoles, but are filled with bugs and run at nearly unplayable framerates on the PC! Rainbow Six Vegas had the worst middle-mouse-button support I've ever seen. It would only scope in certain situations, causing me to die unnecessarily, too often. I had to map my scope key to the keyboard.

Assassin's Creed, another Ubisoft Montreal game, also sucked dick for PC. It ran worse than any other game, and wasn't even that good. Of course, the console version wasn't that great either.

Gears of War took an Xbox to run it as well. All I'm asking is for some more graphics options!!! PLEASE GIVE US MORE COD4s

Treyarch

Treyarch sucks. I hope that COD:WaW is as good as the stills look, because if it isn't as good or better than CoD4, there will be riots. Treyarch sucks.

I had more but I forgot in my rant about PC ports. Anyways, I leave for Thailand tomorrow at 0730

Represent,

'Bacus

PS: Valve rocks! Valve should have 3000x the people it has now so that it can make 3000x the awesome games. I like how it evenly balances PC and console games, but how the PC games are the best, cuz of Steam, which is amazing.

Comments

SquareWheel 16 years, 6 months ago

Quote:
My computer can only run 2003-2004 games
Mine can run maybe 50 games?

Taking things out of context to make them appear to be a ridiculous statement is funner than I expected.

PY 16 years, 6 months ago

Ya.

I'd be quite happy to pay more if it was worth it. But I'll never buy anything with DRM, and may pirate them on principal, even if I don't want to play them.

Cesar 16 years, 6 months ago

Portal was worth the $20