The most annoying things about PC gaming?

What do you find to be the worst thing about PC gaming?

Be it the game play, the games, or just having to constantly keep buying new hardware because after about a week your PC is out of date.

Yes, I am a PC gamer, who hates all you bitichy pricks who constantly judge and correct what other people are saying! The people who do this suck!

Your just fat little noobs who have nothing better to do than geek out every second your awake! Just shut the hell up and let people say what they want to say without it be criticised!

Uh, are you a PC gamer yourself? Doesn't seem like it from your comments, and you seem to be absurdly misinformed when it comes to PC hardware and upgrading.

Anyways, I don't really find anything about it particularly annoying. It's a much more enjoyable experience for me than playing my 360.

The biggest problem I have I think would be organization. I'm really bad about keeping my Start menu and Desktop icons tidy. Everything else from driver updates and scheduling spyware/virus scans are so simple they're pretty much a non-issue.

Cosntantly having to upgrade to play any newer games half-decently,even though most of the gamesi like aren't too demanding.mbukste

I don't wanna turn this into a hardware thread but..

"Constantly upgrading?"

Define "Constant" please. I upgrade every 2 years or so and I never have a problem maxing out every title that comes along.

"or just having to constantly keep buying new hardware because after about a week your PC is out of date."

Sure, I guess that would be annoying if were actually true. I upgrade aout every 2-3 years and play all games on high. And a week and your pc is out of date? Ya...go back to system wars please...you are WAY out of your league here bud...

There are a couple of things. First there was a time when an game was released and it worked right out of the box without any patches, obviously those days are gone. Second is the fact that developers are now thinking more of console gamers than PC gamers when they develope games.

As far as having to upgrade goes, well... that's not much of a problem since I only upgrade every two or three years.

For me its just the games, the fact we get them later or not at all on the PC, if we did get them at the same time then it would be a perfect place...sadly consoles get in the way and im considering buying one :cry: but don't worry i wont buy the xbox360 :evil: EVER.gamerchris810

Going to the Nvidia website every week praying for an updated drive so i can run my moniter at its native res.

[QUOTE="mbukste"]Cosntantly having to upgrade to play any newer games half-decently,even though most of the gamesi like aren't too demanding.Velocitas8

I don't wanna turn this into a hardware thread but..

"Constantly upgrading?"

Define "Constant" please. I upgrade every 2 years or so and I never have a problem maxing out every title that comes along.

The most annoying thing is that Xbox ruins PC games...besides that PC gaming is perfect.D9-THC

mbukste, I think you overestimate how many "demanding" games are released each year for the PC - if you look at it carefully, they aren't all that frequent.kweeky

STALKER.
Supreme Commander.
Oblivion.
Rainbow Six: Vegas.
World in Conflict.
Crysis.

Even though some of them aren't out yet,they'll be demanding as hell,even a 8800GTX,E6550,2GB RAM @ 1680x1050 has a tough time maxing most of those games at that resolution with AA+AF.

the most annoying thing about pc gaming? consoles

with greater and greater frequency, pc gaming is becoming the same diluted, intellectually-challenged wasteland as the console market (disclaimer: not all console games are stupid and/or shallow, some of the best games ever made are console games), as more and more games become multisystem releases or even primarily console games, then ported to pc, we have seen the standards gradually decline

now, this problem doesn't exist for anyone else - pc games ported to consoles scale up, bringing the overall console standard of gaming a little higher, or they don't get ported because there's just no audience for it... but pc gamers? no, it's a downward spiral of poopiness

i could list a large number of games where the ability of the developers is not questionable, they could've made great games - or their great games could've been greater - yet many concessions were made for the console market and pc gamers are made to suffer for it, and is there really anything more frustrating?

i can live with the high costs, i can live with going two years without a single game worth playing, i can live with knowing every game i buy is like signing a contract saying this game might randomly not work properly, or at all, until we bother to patch it but i just cannot stand games, good games - great games - being dumbed down for a completely separate audience

First things first, the hardware is FAR beyond the games. The games simply aren't optimised particularly well.

I'm sorry, but nothing in the gaming world even begins to tax a Core 2 Duo (see some of the Oblivion melon stress tests to see my point). Your GPU may strain, but that really is down to poor optimisation of the games.

You've named 5 games. Two are unreleased (2007), two came out this year and one last year. ;)

the most annoying thing about pc gaming? consoles

with greater and greater frequency, pc gaming is becoming the same diluted, intellectually-challenged wasteland as the console market (disclaimer: not all console games are stupid and/or shallow, some of the best games ever made are console games), as more and more games become multisystem releases or even primarily console games, then ported to pc, we have seen the standards gradually decline

now, this problem doesn't exist for anyone else - pc games ported to consoles scale up, bringing the overall console standard of gaming a little higher, or they don't get ported because there's just no audience for it... but pc gamers? no, it's a downward spiral of poopiness

i could list a large number of games where the ability of the developers is not questionable, they could've made great games - or their great games could've been greater - yet many concessions were made for the console market and pc gamers are made to suffer for it, and is there really anything more frustrating?

i can live with the high costs, i can live with going two years without a single game worth playing, i can live with knowing every game i buy is like signing a contract saying this game might randomly not work properly, or at all, until we bother to patch it but i just cannot stand games, good games - great games - being dumbed down for a completely separate audience

mfsa

You said exactly what I meant...only you said it with eloquence :)

First things first, the hardware is FAR beyond the games. The games simply aren't optimised particularly well.

I'm sorry, but nothing in the gaming world even begins to tax a Core 2 Duo (see some of the Oblivion melon stress tests to see my point). Your GPU may strain, but that really is down to poor optimisation of the games.

You've named 5 games. Two are unreleased (2007), two came out this year and one last year. ;)

kweeky

[QUOTE="Velocitas8"]

[QUOTE="mbukste"]Cosntantly having to upgrade to play any newer games half-decently,even though most of the gamesi like aren't too demanding.mbukste

I don't wanna turn this into a hardware thread but..

"Constantly upgrading?"

Define "Constant" please. I upgrade every 2 years or so and I never have a problem maxing out every title that comes along.

No, I usually buy a step or two below top-of-the-line. I never go for the latest and greatest (absurdly expensive) hardware. I do some research and find the hardware with the best price:performance ratio.

As for resolution, do you consider 1280x1024 a "fairly low resolution?" :|

[QUOTE="mbukste"][QUOTE="Velocitas8"]

[QUOTE="mbukste"]Cosntantly having to upgrade to play any newer games half-decently,even though most of the gamesi like aren't too demanding.Velocitas8

I don't wanna turn this into a hardware thread but..

"Constantly upgrading?"

Define "Constant" please. I upgrade every 2 years or so and I never have a problem maxing out every title that comes along.

No, I usually buy a step or two below top-of-the-line. I never go for the latest and greatest (absurdly expensive) hardware. I do some research and find the hardware with the best price:performance ratio.

As for resolution, do you consider 1280x1024 a "fairly low resolution?" :|

Uh, are you a PC gamer yourself? Doesn't seem like it from your comments, and you seem to be absurdly misinformed when it comes to PC hardware and upgrading.

Anyways, I don't really find anything about it particularly annoying. It's a much more enjoyable experience for me than playing my 360.

The biggest problem I have I think would be organization. I'm really bad about keeping my Start menu and Desktop icons tidy. Everything else from driver updates and scheduling spyware/virus scans are so simple they're pretty much a non-issue.

Velocitas8

yeah, op. you obviously arent a real pc gamer, you don't know what you are talking about. Computer gameplay is MUCH better then most console game. Controls are cheaper and more precise, you can play many more games then consoles, old or new. You can download free games. You can chat to friends with free software. You don't need to buy a computer and a console. The only thing that consoles have over computers, is the fact that you can play split screen.

Yep. PC gaming is by far the most sophisticated and enjoyable experience in my opinion. I think everyone herewho isn't having hardware upgrading woes will agree that the worst thing about PC gaming is the way developers are catering to consoles.

BioShock for example. It could have been a lot better if it wasn't aimed at the console audience. There are a lot of things PC's can do that consoles inherantly can't.

I have to tip my hat to Crytek for passing up the consoles and making a game that truly takes advantage of what a PC exlusive can be. The Crytek guy from the interview (forget his name and position in the company) stated up-front that consoles simply don't have the hardware necessary to run such an immense game like Crysis. The enviroments in the game would be half the size or less if they were aiming to cater to the lack of memory in a console.

The most annoying thing by far is that I never know if a game is going to work properly, even if my system is waaaay above the recommended system requirements.

And to those giving the guy a hard time for saying a weekly upgrade is necessary, haven't you ever heard of gross exaggeration before?

Yep. PC gaming is by far the most sophisticated and enjoyable experience in my opinion. I think everyone herewho isn't having hardware upgrading woes will agree that the worst thing about PC gaming is the way developers are catering to consoles.

BioShock for example. It could have been a lot better if it wasn't aimed at the console audience. There are a lot of things PC's can do that consoles inherantly can't.

I have to tip my hat to Crytek for passing up the consoles and making a game that truly takes advantage of what a PC exlusive can be. The Crytek guy from the interview (forget his name and position in the company) stated up-front that consoles simply don't have the hardware necessary to run such an immense game like Crysis. The enviroments in the game would be half the size or less if they were aiming to cater to the lack of memory in a console.

SentientGames

nailed it.

and to people who are complaining about upgrading their computers all the time, shouldn't. I haven't upgraded my computer in a year, and mine really wasn't that fast when I got it.

Being able to upgrade your computer is a good thing! Having trouble maxing out Bioshock? Add another gig of RAM for $75 or w/e. Its a good thing you don't have to buy a completely new system.

WHy are you all complaining about what other people are posting you bitochy mother fudgers! Just shutup and concentrate on what you think! FFS!Kin-Rai

*irony* you are complaining about them complaining :P

Yes, I am a PC gamer, who hates all you bitichy pricks who constantly judge and correct what other people are saying! The people who do this suck!

Your just fat little noobs who have nothing better to do than geek out every second your awake! Just shut the hell up and let people say what they want to say without it be criticised!

Kin-Rai

I think the only disadvantage of PC gaming is upgrading, not really about the price, but the hassles involved.

I feel the price of upgrading is pretty much offset by the price of games. Console games are usually priced 10 dollars higher than PCs and if if you buy games frequently, say once a month, you pretty much spent $120 less than console gamers with the same frequency of purchase on yearly basis.

For the mid-range users like myself, I'm looking at a 2 years max timeframe for my gpu upgrade. Mid-range cards are cheap, for the 2 years interval, I would have more than enough savings from softwares for a better card and probably other essentials. So if you look at it this way, if you decides to game in the first place, your expenditure will solely be on the PC itself, which you would need as a workstation anyway.

The disadvantage is you won't be able to maxed out graphic of the latest games, and probably couldn't even run some. But gaming later isn't necessary bad, for the good multiplayer games for the PC would usually have a darn long lifespan, so you aren't missing out on a whole lot even if you chose to wait.

The hassle of maintaining the system is the only real hassle imo.

Uh, are you a PC gamer yourself? Doesn't seem like it from your comments, and you seem to be absurdly misinformed when it comes to PC hardware and upgrading.

Anyways, I don't really find anything about it particularly annoying. It's a much more enjoyable experience for me than playing my 360.

The biggest problem I have I think would be organization. I'm really bad about keeping my Start menu and Desktop icons tidy. Everything else from driver updates and scheduling spyware/virus scans are so simple they're pretty much a non-issue.

Velocitas8

What he said

i hate sh1ty ports from ps3 and xbox to comp and sold to us as normal pc games .

prime example oblivion

my biggest gripe? having to deal with this bias that pc gaming is not real gaming. just take a look at the reporets that come out they always deal with consoles and just leave out pcs.

also the port thing is really worrying me. it seems alot of games are console ports rather than proper pc oriented games.

another thing is piracy. is there away to stop it? it is really the bane of pc gaming.

The most annoying thing is that Xbox ruins PC games...besides that PC gaming is perfect.D9-THC

Paying 40-50 bucks for a game that should still be in beta or poorly optimized games. About it really.MythPro1

Developers can't work on something forever, and some people would moan and groan about every-single-little-insignificant-thing.

my biggest gripe? having to deal with this bias that pc gaming is not real gaming. just take a look at the reporets that come out they always deal with consoles and just leave out pcs.

also the port thing is really worrying me. it seems alot of games are console ports rather than proper pc oriented games.

another thing is piracy. is there away to stop it? it is really the bane of pc gaming.

my biggest gripe? having to deal with this bias that pc gaming is not real gaming. just take a look at the reporets that come out they always deal with consoles and just leave out pcs.

also the port thing is really worrying me. it seems alot of games are console ports rather than proper pc oriented games.

another thing is piracy. is there away to stop it? it is really the bane of pc gaming.

my biggest gripe? having to deal with this bias that pc gaming is not real gaming. just take a look at the reporets that come out they always deal with consoles and just leave out pcs.

also the port thing is really worrying me. it seems alot of games are console ports rather than proper pc oriented games.

another thing is piracy. is there away to stop it? it is really the bane of pc gaming.

ppau08223

1. The increasingly ridiculous steps I have to go through to verify that my game is legit and not pirated. Nevermind that cracks hit the net before the games are usually on store shelves.

2. The neverending stream of patches. Seriously, there are games that are still being patched years later.

3. Poor ports of mediocre console games. If I want to play Halo I'll buy an Xbox.

What do you find to be the worst thing about PC gaming?

Be it the game play, the games, or just having to constantly keep buying new hardware because after about a week your PC is out of date.

Yes, I am a PC gamer, who hates all you bitichy pricks who constantly judge and correct what other people are saying! The people who do this suck!

Your just fat little noobs who have nothing better to do than geek out every second your awake! Just shut the hell up and let people say what they want to say without it be criticised!

Kin-Rai

i dont even need to say anything everyone here is owning u i think ill go make some popcorn and watch the beating

1. The increasingly ridiculous steps I have to go through to verify that my game is legit and not pirated. Nevermind that cracks hit the net before the games are usually on store shelves.fenriz275

Absolutely 100% agree, that's my biggest complaint with PC gaming right now. It's turning into a rental/service type model (Steam, Bioshock DRM, etc) and it's feeling less like you purchased a game that you can "keep".

You buy a console game, it's yours. You can share it with friends/family, trade it, sell it, etc. You can install/play it whenever, where ever you want (you are not required to pay for an internet connection for eternity to access your games or ask for "permission" from a server).

That's what is almost killing it for me, but I still love PC gaming. Minor complaint is it would be nice to see greater genre variety. Other than that, rock on baby! :D