It looks more like 3-4 years behind. To me, it looks more like late 2009-early 2010 tech being showcased in late 2013 soon to be 2014. This depresses me so much. From 2005-2013 all we have had 2005/2006 tech being ported to the PC with very few games actually utilizing the power of the ever more powerful gpus released year after year, where there were people like me who cared about quality who were NOT catered to in the slightest back THEN, and it looks like going anywhere near high end when choosing a gpu now is still pretty much pointless. I care about quality, thats why I bought high end headphones, thats why I bought decent parts and put together a gaming/media PC to not only play games but to be productive.
What I define as quality, is not needing to enable effects like antialiasing to FORCE the game to look sharper, especially at high resolutions 1080p and above. I will never believe the double talk of the developers who claim to be supporters of PC but do little more than enable graphical settings that do nothing more than sharpen the image of the console port we are being sold as a PC game. Oh wait, lets take away more freedom of being a PC gamer, lets not even allow you to buy the games anymore, lets force all gamers on PC to use useless spyware to play games. What do achievements mean to me? I believe they should be built INTO the game by the developer and not need the use of some client to play the game.
What I define as quality is things like lighting, audio and visuals to be really general. Few games in the last 8 years have had all three for me. Most games REQUIRED people to actually download and install modifications to improve the visuals and thats for games that were easy to add modifications into like New Vegas and Skyrim.
My pc has power in it that will likely never be used to its fullest potential (probably not even partially) even in this console generation coming up. Scale games to use all ram available? I have 32gb, and don't see it being done. Scale games to utilize high end gpus that are available during game development? Not going to happen. I did NOT buy all these PC parts to play PORTS of console games. I even bought a dedicated sound card to utilize my audiophile grade headphones to experience the best audio quality. Why should I support developers who do not deliver PC standard quality? My answer, is that I have decided boycott every single game that does not live up to my standards of being quality, drm-free (that includes origin, u-play, and steam too) and actually utilizing the technology that runs it instead of the gpu stating only 5% of its power is being utilized, wasted money. Looks like I will save a lot of money, as the only game I might be playing will be Witcher 3 on PC because its drm-free and whatever other games cd projekt red is making or any other drm-free games that get released. I still resent all online drm clients and will continue to never support them as a PC gamer, so what if I miss out? I stick to my promises, not like people who boycott and then buy the game on release day.
By the time games effectively use the power in my PC, the Xbox Two and PS5 are going to be coming out. I'm just really depressed, I put a LOT of money and time into building my PC and to see none of the power I paid hard earned money getting no use due to the design choices of the developer and their darn lowest common denominator development makes me feel like why bother going even mid range when all they make is low end games?
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