On Jan 15, 9:50 am, The King of Gaming <king.of.gam...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Wow, interesting that this debate has continued on.
I've found Morgan's position interesting, as wrong as it is. ;-)
> You would think
> the PC died as a gaming platform yesterday, as opposed to a decade ago
> when it actually kicked the bucket.
I don't the crux of the downfall occurred until a bit later than that,
as we got closer to this generation of consoles. In the earlier part
of this decade, we still had a lot of rock solid PC games: Baldur's
Gate II, the Neverwinter Nights series, the No One Lives Forever
series, Aliens versus Predator 2, Tron 2.0, Half-Life 2, Unreal
Tournament (technically a 1999 release but it came out in November so
I'll count it :-), Diablo II, etc.
> As "N" said, obviously there is some hyperbole when saying PC gaming
> is completely dead. You can still play some great games (as long as
> the publisher feels like porting them) and even some exclusives (in
> niche genres), and regardless of what other platforms they appear on
> any setup where you can play Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 3, Mass Effect
> 2, and others is not bad at all.
>
> But if you make a list of the gaming franchises that don't appear on
> the PC in any shape or form, it's staggering. This wasn't always the
> case. PC gamers used to sit pretty with their Deus Ex, their Half
> Life, their Fallout 1 & 2, while still getting the most important
> console games (just ran across my PC version of Final Fantasy VII the
> other day).
Console releases on PCs were few and far between. I remember as a kid
lamenting over why the Macs and PCs didn't get games like Mario,
Zelda, Sonic (not personally but just in general), etc. since my
parents wouldn't let me buy video game consoles (they acquiesced and
got me an NES after the SNES came out).
The first console-to-PC port of importance I saw was Resident Evil. If
it weren't for that, I would never have even played the game and
experienced how great it was which would have meant I would never have
even owned a PlayStation.
> Now they get no original games and minimal effort ports
> (no leaning in MW2, wtf?).
I still see games that you can't get on the consoles although none are
ever big sellers.
> Really, the only PC game of any significance in the last five years is
> WoW, which isn't really a game but an addictive, social chat room/
> grindfest that can be run on a five year old Celeron laptop.
Company of Heroes was a very popular PC game. And you can't discount
Telltale's games or those made by PopCap. Or wait... are we talking
just about the types of games that dominated PCs in the 90s like FPS
and RPGs?
> Finally, I'll simply say this. Two of the most (if not the most) over-
> saturated, often published, overexposed franchises in history, Madden
> and Guitar Hero/Rock Band, cannot be played on PC. EA pulled the plug
> on PC sports games last year, and after GH III flopped it never
> returned to the PC. So two games I can get on my *phone*, published
> by two huge, greedy companies who would make games for calculator
> watches if they thought they could turn a buck... yet they don't
> appear on the PC. Now that is what I call dead. I'll even make a
> slogan out of it: "If you can't play the current Madden on it, it's
> dead."
That's an interesting observation...
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