The Judgment Day For PC Games Is Near

I think you are 100% right about that. The hardware requirements for PC games raising extremely these days. Anyone who bought a PC a year ago even can't play PC games like Crysis or World in conflict at medium setup. To play such games one have to buy a new PC with extreme resources. And for that one also have to spent a hell of a money. Even if someone buy a high end PC who knows how long he/she can continue with that to play PC games. Because no doubt about that to play a PC game of a year later someone may have to upgrade again and spent a lot for that. And on the other hand a console like PS3 or XBox can atleast continue 3 or 4 years to play games on that. So I am also thinking to buy a new console (Probably PS3) very soon. As I don't want to spent any more money on PC. So according to me the judgment day is not so far for PC games.

Thanks,

Antar.

My PC config:

Processor: Intel Quadcore - 2.4 GHz

Motherboard: Abit Fatality

Graphics Card: XFX 8800 GTS 320 MB (NVidia Chipset)

RAM: 8 GB of Transcend (800 BUS DDR 2)

Hard Disk: 400 GB of Samsung

Powersupplier: 750 W of Thermalrock

Cooling Fan: Blue Org of Thermalteck

I can sympathize with your frustration, but this is the way PC gaming has always been. It's the "Nature of the Beast" as it were. Back in the day, flight sims pushed the boundries of PC ability. Since the early to mid-90's, it's been the FPS games. Those games have always run well on only the newest PC's. I wouldn't worry to much about it.

Anyone who bought a PC a year ago even can't play PC games like Crysis or World in conflict at medium setup.kuasha786

Pretty much every house has a pc right? If you want to play pc games, just add in a good video card (8800gt is like $250 or something) and maybe a better processor if needed. That will get you a nice gaming pc more powerful than a console at around the same price.

Some might say that we should blame the companies for outrageous improvements related to the computer gaming universe,but...

Should we proceed criticizing the designers for extravagant ideologies?

Or,should we analyze the worthiness of our community?

The power without dominion is useless.:D

This is a new and unique post... wait... no it isn't

Sales for Crysis and UT are easily explained. Majority that played the last UT and saw that it was just another graphical update learned from their mistake. I got it anyways figuring the minor updates would add some play value. It did, but still wonder what they are thinking releasing the same game over and over again updating the graphics. Crysis... as people thought it was pretty graphics and so-so gameplay. Didn't live up to the hype and a lot of people waited because of the system requirements and were just reinforced by the player reviews to not get it. These are stupid moves by individual game developers and has no impact on PC gaming as a whole.

Lets go through the console review boards and find 100+ games that are crap and sold 50 copies total.

I'm really getting tired of these threads. If you're not happy with your PC then sell it and buy a console. I on the other hand prefer the PC, and always will.

Oh and by the way, consoles are getting more expensive aswell. $600 for a PS3 when it came out? You can build a decent gaming PC for that price.

I'm really getting tired of these threads. If you're not happy with your PC then sell it and buy a console. I on the other hand prefer the PC, and always will.

Oh and by the way, consoles are getting more expensive aswell. $600 for a PS3 when it came out? You can build a decent gaming PC for that price.

skizi1

I'm really getting tired of these threads. If you're not happy with your PC then sell it and buy a console. I on the other hand prefer the PC, and always will.

Oh and by the way, consoles are getting more expensive aswell. $600 for a PS3 when it came out? You can build a decent gaming PC for that price.

skizi1

Which will last until the PS4 comes out with purple-ray and costs $1,200 at first release.

PC games are so much cheaper and have so much flexibility with mods as well, which adds up the valuequickly.

Your reasoning why 'judgement day for pc games is near" is quite poor. In 2004 when half of pcs couldn't run Doom 3 people were saying pc gaming was finished. Fast forward 3 years later...still same scenario. Crysis is a luxury game requiring luxury pcs to run in its indended glory. UT3 brought almost nothing new to the series. That is why those games sold so poor.the_ChEeSe_mAn2

you people proclaim death once a year every year its wayyy overblowninyourface_12

Yeah, I wonder if they can keep it up next year with Starcraft 2 and Spore. Those games are going to sell like crazy.

Yeah, I wonder if they can keep it up next year with Starcraft 2 and Spore. Those games are going to sell like crazy._Pedro_

Or,should we analyze the worthiness of our community?Rylsadar

Two points:

Firstly, you can run Crysis and WiC decently using a PC built in 2005. I know because I did it.

Secondly, using Crysis in this kind of argument is crazy. The Cry 2 engine was never really built for existing hardware. That it runs on existing stuff (quite well) is great, but the engine was built with 1.5 years of high end - high end - futureproofing in mind. In other worlds, the engine will still be top brass over a year from now. That was their intention from the start.

Really, people who make comments like these have utterly no idea what they're talking about, and it's depressing. It's true that some games come out of the box so poorly optimised that the hardware requirements are unrealistic (see ubisoft games, Guitar Hero 3), and if all PC games were like that we'd need a 9series GeForce to run Crysis, but most games are pretty great.

This is one of those things that honestly could develop into a problem for us, but almost definitely won't. Hardware requirements are reasonable - and bear in mind that many PC gamers have a lot of disposable income available, so direct juxtaposition with our slightly younger console brethren is fundamentally flawed. Having to pay more - and let's not forget that computers have always cost a lot more than consoles - simply isn't a huge deterrent for most of us.

And just so you know, judging by the rig you have there, you don't need to spend a penny on hardware until mid or late 2009. And even then, whatever you spend, will just be spent making sure that you're running stuff at very high instead of just high.

This only applies if the PC you bought a year ago was in the bargain bin. A high end or mid-range system from last year can easily handle any game today.

I quit console gaming because there's no selection and once they're done, you can't mod them or anything. I also got tired of all the ports from one console to the next while PC game were developed aside from all that. Besides, it will be a long time before you see games like Crysis on an Xbox 360 or PS3 unless it gets dumbed down as usual. Right now, the only problem with PC gaming is Windows Vista which can be rectified by using Windows XP or OSX BootCamp.

Console games just don't have the variety like they use to and most of them are rated M. I can't find a decent game that doesn't involve blowing someone's brains out. Probably explains why the Wii is kicking the asses of it's competition.

LOL.

I have this computer for 3 years. I usually change it every 2 years. I am expecting to change it anyday now. Never took that long in the past.

So, your argument, is that the requirements evolves too fast...but they never evolves that slowly in the past. My budget is ready, I am waiting for a game that I want to play and can't to actually makes the move...and this is just not happening.

The requirements are stalling. Not evolving too fast. LOL.

*snore* wake me up in 2 years when 360 and ps3 look craptastic compared to the pc. and then wake me up again in 6 years when the 360 and ps3 get replaced by 720 and ps4 and the colors of people's hdtvs' colors fade to black. i just upgraded my 2 year old pc with an 8600gt, and it plays everything. my 2 year old pc was $500. the 8600gt was $90. that's $590 for 2 years + at least 1 more year. that's less than the ps3 was when it was released. and i can play most games on high, 2007 games on at least medium. and, of course, my pc does more than play games. it lets me participate in gamespot forums as well and write on this useless thread.fireandcloud

amazing post

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]*snore* wake me up in 2 years when 360 and ps3 look craptastic compared to the pc. and then wake me up again in 6 years when the 360 and ps3 get replaced by 720 and ps4 and the colors of people's hdtvs' colors fade to black. i just upgraded my 2 year old pc with an 8600gt, and it plays everything. my 2 year old pc was $500. the 8600gt was $90. that's $590 for 2 years + at least 1 more year. that's less than the ps3 was when it was released. and i can play most games on high, 2007 games on at least medium. and, of course, my pc does more than play games. it lets me participate in gamespot forums as well and write on this useless thread.WARxSnake

amazing post

i also agree

WRONG!!.......I am so sick of watching fools say "Computer gaming has always been like this"......what are you?.......12 years old?....what do you know?....I have been in the computer industry since 1984. Been playing games since PONG came out. Ya...I may be old.....but I know my Chit. I can can tell you that iin 1992 you could buy a computer to play games on that would play everything for atleast the next 2 to 3 years. So all you people who keep thinking buying a new PC every year has always been normal well STFU already. You dont know your arse from a handbag! Face it.....you guys see a couple of mocked up screen shots and you start getting your undies in a wad and ohhh'ing and Ahhh'ing over a game (Crysis) that in my determination was made just to sell hardware. It has only been in the last 5 years or so this new PC every year BS has started. and you guys are fueling it. Keep allowing it to happen and there will eventually be no PC game market as there will not be enough people to buy new PC's every year and so they will quit making games because no money in it. Your Fate.........you live with it.MrUnSavory1

:lol::):D Brutal!!!!! You're the freaking champion!!!! :lol::):D

WRONG!!.......I am so sick of watching fools say "Computer gaming has always been like this"......what are you?.......12 years old?....what do you know?....I have been in the computer industry since 1984. Been playing games since PONG came out. Ya...I may be old.....but I know my Chit. I can can tell you that iin 1992 you could buy a computer to play games on that would play everything for atleast the next 2 to 3 years. So all you people who keep thinking buying a new PC every year has always been normal well STFU already. You dont know your arse from a handbag! Face it.....you guys see a couple of mocked up screen shots and you start getting your undies in a wad and ohhh'ing and Ahhh'ing over a game (Crysis) that in my determination was made just to sell hardware. It has only been in the last 5 years or so this new PC every year BS has started. and you guys are fueling it. Keep allowing it to happen and there will eventually be no PC game market as there will not be enough people to buy new PC's every year and so they will quit making games because no money in it. Your Fate.........you live with it.MrUnSavory1

for someone 'old,' you certainly put up childish rants. anyone who's been around pc gaming for a while (and i have) and knows about computers does not upgrade every year. i keep my pc for at least 4 or 5 years, updating certain parts along the way (and by update i mean like $100-300 expenditure during that span). after the 4 or 5 years, i may keep the case, i may not. but either way, none of my old parts remain (except for a few non-essential parts). and pc gaming has been this way since about 1992. i call it the links 386 phenomenon. when that game came out, most people who had a computer more than a year old could not play it, and the ONLY OPTION at that time was to get a new computer. now, we can upgrade computers on our own, which makes computer gaming so much more accessible and affordable than it was back then. back then, computers were $2000, and the only thing you could do to keep up to date with games since 1992 was to buy a new one. so you're right, pc gaming has changed - it wasn't always like this. BUT IT HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER!

I own Everything. High End PC, 360, Wii,.....(Even a PS3 but lets not even go over that piece of Trash)

And I still Laugh at posts like these. a PC 1 year old cannot play Crysis?

I wonder how my brother is playing Crysis with his3 (Non Dual Core)year old PC and his 6800GT.........

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Enough Said. Some people just need to actually LEARN ABOUT HARDWARE and what to buy and what to NOT buy at the time. Sure my brothers PC is considered "Dead" by the industry, but he pushes it. and guess what. Games are VERY PLAYABLE at 20-25FPS its just that most of the Whiners on this forum over-rate everything totally out of Proportion.

A PC Configured at the RIGHT TIME can EASILY last 3-4 years WITH ONLY 1 VIDEO CARD UPGRADE.

I did it Growing up until I finished School and now make a living. YOU CAN TOO!!

A PC Configured at the RIGHT TIME can EASILY last 3-4 years WITH ONLY 1 VIDEO CARD UPGRADE.

Zemus

amen! i just did it!

WRONG!!.......I am so sick of watching fools say "Computer gaming has always been like this"......what are you?.......12 years old?....what do you know?....I have been in the computer industry since 1984. Been playing games since PONG came out. Ya...I may be old.....but I know my Chit. I can can tell you that iin 1992 you could buy a computer to play games on that would play everything for atleast the next 2 to 3 years. So all you people who keep thinking buying a new PC every year has always been normal well STFU already. You dont know your arse from a handbag! Face it.....you guys see a couple of mocked up screen shots and you start getting your undies in a wad and ohhh'ing and Ahhh'ing over a game (Crysis) that in my determination was made just to sell hardware. It has only been in the last 5 years or so this new PC every year BS has started. and you guys are fueling it. Keep allowing it to happen and there will eventually be no PC game market as there will not be enough people to buy new PC's every year and so they will quit making games because no money in it. Your Fate.........you live with it.MrUnSavory1

ha ha, you're an asshat. You have no clue what is going on.

Everyone can have their pissing match one way or the other. I look at it like this. Overall, you can upgrade your PC for a relatively cheap amount. I personally don't upgrade every year. I build a new PC maybe every 4 or 5 years. I get as much out of it as possible. I don't mind playing newer games on low/med settings. When I have enough money to upgrade my rig then I do. I never understood the "upgrade now and every month" craze that seems to be prevelant in the PC crowd.

In the end, big deal. Technology is continually improving and the home PC front is always improving through leaps and bounds. If people have the money to, let them. If they choose not to, let them. Not everyone needs to run games on max settings. There are plenty of great games out there that don't require a graphics card stolen from NASA, a processor that needs to be soaked in liquid nitrogen and 40 gigs of ram. That's why PC is unique. You can pick your niche. If you like older games you don't need some Imperial Death Star of a rig. If you like playing the latest FPS (which typically are the hardware hogs) then you spend more. Big deal. Pick what you want and play it. Were all PC gamers.

Fire?.....as usual your response does not suprise me. Do you even read before you post? Go back and look at what is in this thread. Yes there are people upgrading every year!.....I don't.......I don't need too. I upgrade when I want too. The point was that there are a lot of people out there who think it is normal or has always been the norm to buy a new PC every year or even upgrade every year. Next time you are going to respond trying reading what you are responding too first.MrUnSavory1

you're right. i didn't read your post thoroughly. i do apologize for responding to your post unnecessarily. when people start insulting others and getting all worked up, i skim their crap. but essentially, we're on the same page, it seems. next time, try toning it down a notch and not insulting people needlessly.

wth dopes it matter if people upgrade every year. i know i do. the point is that you dont have to., had you bought a 6800gt in 2004 as soon as it came out with a nice amd single core you could very well still be gaming on that today. thats 3+years that that computer could last. inyourface_12

If you ask me, more PC developers should start focusing on making games that look great (maybe not pushing the limits of the hardware that just came out, but look great nonetheless) and run fantastic. I think the games that sell the most for the PC follow that ideal. They look great, they run great, the gameplay is great, but pushing the limits of the latest PC hardware isn't something that they do.

I don't think PC gaming is dying, but I do think that it has changed quite a bit over the years.

Dear Friends,

Thanks for all of your responses.

[QUOTE="inyourface_12"]wth dopes it matter if people upgrade every year. i know i do. the point is that you dont have to., had you bought a 6800gt in 2004 as soon as it came out with a nice amd single core you could very well still be gaming on that today. thats 3+years that that computer could last. smokeydabear076

If you ask me, more PC developers should start focusing on making games that look great (maybe not pushing the limits of the hardware that just came out, but look great nonetheless) and run fantastic. I think the games that sell the most for the PC follow that ideal. They look great, they run great, the gameplay is great, but pushing the limits of the latest PC hardware isn't something that they do.

I don't think PC gaming is dying, but I do think that it has changed quite a bit over the years.

That pretty much sums it up nicely. As a PC gamer you should always be willing to adapt to a certain situation. I for one believe that whenever your PC hits a certain limit, you should start appreciating older titles more instead of wanting to upgrade immediately. The PC has by far the most quality titles available for it and there is always a game which you haven't played.

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]

[QUOTE="inyourface_12"]wth dopes it matter if people upgrade every year. i know i do. the point is that you dont have to., had you bought a 6800gt in 2004 as soon as it came out with a nice amd single core you could very well still be gaming on that today. thats 3+years that that computer could last. _Pedro_

If you ask me, more PC developers should start focusing on making games that look great (maybe not pushing the limits of the hardware that just came out, but look great nonetheless) and run fantastic. I think the games that sell the most for the PC follow that ideal. They look great, they run great, the gameplay is great, but pushing the limits of the latest PC hardware isn't something that they do.

I don't think PC gaming is dying, but I do think that it has changed quite a bit over the years.

That pretty much sums it up nicely. As a PC gamer you should always be willing to adapt to a certain situation. I for one believe that whenever your PC hits a certain limit, you should start appreciating older titles more instead of wanting to upgrade immediately. The PC has by far the most quality titles available for it and there is always a game which you haven't played.

yeah true. I have played around 25 games this year but there is still a lot of games left which i have yet to play. i generally try these games when my hardware get a bit outdated and I am not interested in an hardware upgrade at that time

First I want to thank all of you to response. Secondly, I wanna say that, I am also a fan of PC game. I have 2 PC's and both of them are very good enough to play games. The config of one them mentioned with the thread. But the question is how long I will continue with those to play upcoming games. Already one of the PC of mine almost came to an end. Let me tell you two of my PC's configs:

Processor: Intel Quadcore - 2.4 GHz

Motherboard: Abit Fatality

Graphics Card: XFX 8800 GTS 320 MB (NVidia Chipset)

RAM: 8 GB of Transcend (800 BUS DDR 2)

Hard Disk: 400 GB of Samsung

Powersupplier: 750 W of Thermalrock

Cooling Fan: Blue Org of Thermalteck

This PC of mine may continue to play PC games at max setup a year more or a little higher than that.

Another PC:

CPU: Athlon XP 2500+ (OC To 3200+)

Motherboard: Aus A7N8X-X

Graphics Card: Inno 3D 6600 LE (NVidia Chipset)

RAM: 2 GB of Twinmos

Hard Disk: 160 GB 7200 RPM of Samsung

Powersupplier: 420 W of Thermalrock

Cooling Fan: Thermalteck's Beetles

Believe me thats almost seems to an ancient PC now. Because when I tried to play Crysis, World In Conflict or Even Clive Barker's Jericho at that PC of mine it was runing like an Asthema patient. But the above one of mine can run those smoothly at max setup. But for how long. May be only for a year or a little more that. Even to buy that it costed 1700$ almost. On the otherhand a console which cost now 600$ (PS3), XBox 360 (500$) in my country atleast can play the games for 3 to 4 years. I know the graphics quality of PC games are better than the consoles but look at the costs. I could buy both PS3 & XBox and save 600$ from the cost of my PC.

Hope U guys now understood what actually I mean to.

Thanks,

Antar

[QUOTE="inyourface_12"] You could play HalfLife on your PC with out worrying about the specs or so it seemed.These days I do think the demand put on the hardware is greater then it was before.

smokeydabear076

Nope. Crysis minimum cpu requirement is a p4 2.8ghz. That cpu was released in fall of 2002.

Half-Life requires a minimum p1 133mhz. Game was released in Oct 1998. Pentium 133 was released in late summer or early fall of 1995.

Of course both games would run pretty lousy at the minimum but thats besides the point.

Also keep in mind that Quake 2 and Jedi Knight were released a year before Half-Life and had the same requirements. Unreal was released in early 1998 and required a p166.

You can go longer without upgrading these days. Plus with all the upgrade and build it yourself guides on the internet people feel a lot more comfortable doing it themselves and saving quite a few bucks.