4x dead. PC games dying. Gave away PC. :(

Iron Giant · #1 December 27th, 2004, 06:48 PM

Well, I donated my PC. Its that useless and a volunteer organization I do some work for needed a new PC so I rebuilt and donated it (I swapped the Geforce4 card out though

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4x is dead. Imperium Galactica became "Nexus: the homeworld wannabe" so I'm not going to buy it. I can play SE4 on my wife's 500mhz. I'll buy a new PC next summer when SE5 comes out. In the meantime, I need another hobby. Bowling anyone?

Will I ever play another game that keeps me up with the "one more turn" syndrome?

Is there a patch in the works for Starfury? I thought there was one and it might add some "things"? I only bought Starfury to support SE5 but it was ok to play through.

Any word on SE5? Out next summer?

Xbox gives me a gaming "fix", but it doesn't keep me up late... wait, maybe thats a good thing?

Phoenix-D · #2 December 27th, 2004, 10:15 PM

There was one patch for Starfury with rumors of a possible another later.

Instar · #3 January 2nd, 2005, 04:34 AM

Do you have XBox live? Its great, except for the cursing high pitched 13 year olds who think they're great. They populate Halo 2 servers sooo much...

Instar · #4 January 2nd, 2005, 04:37 AM

Oh, and PC games are not dying! The PC is a major platform. What platforms has Half Life 2 came out on? Thats right, just the PC! How about CnC Generals? Battle for Middle Earth? The Sims2? Which platform did Doom3 come out for first?
At the same time, console games are a major platform as well. Sure, I really cannot afford to support both hobbies, but I have fun with both.

Azselendor · #5 January 3rd, 2005, 02:39 PM

The problem with PC games is that they are trying to be console games too much these days.

Starfury, on the otherhand, would make a neat port over to console games.

Instar · #6 January 4th, 2005, 02:14 AM

How so? Sure, Deus Ex 2 was an obvious PC/console game, but games like CnC Generals doesn't translate to a console very well at all. And the Sims Urbz thing looks just plain stupid.

Azselendor · #7 January 4th, 2005, 05:03 PM

Those kinds of games, are what remains to PC games. I'm talking about that typically require an average of 8 buttons or less to operate. I know more games on the PC use many many buttons, but if those buttons can be put into toggle menus - it's better as a console game.

For two common two examples, Starfury and DO would make better console games than PC games I feel. The loss of customizable options is great, but then again, that is why they are PC games

Instar · #8 January 5th, 2005, 04:26 AM

Hmm, I see what you mean. But the PC is a tremendous market that developers ignore at their peril. I think that consoles just open up more of a market for developers. The PC isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Azselendor · #9 January 5th, 2005, 04:31 AM

At the rate consoles are developing, I wouldn't be surprised if they soon had more in common with gaming PC's than thier predessors

Instar · #10 January 6th, 2005, 07:21 PM

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Klvino [ORB] said:
At the rate consoles are developing, I wouldn't be surprised if they soon had more in common with gaming PC's than thier predessors

Well, the first XBox was pretty much a stripped down PC with custom parts. The processor was an Intel, and the graphics chip was a nVidia 35 or 40 series, I think. Where they got more performance was through a really fat bus and things like that, I think. Xenon (codename for XBox 2) will use an IBM/Mac processor and ATI graphics chip, both of which are still computer style parts. Microsoft is aiming for a convergence of digital technology, so it is no surprise.
The GameCube uses an ATI chip, IIRC. Despite this, the GC is teh suck