Comments on: Are OSs and Developers Ruining PC Gaming?

By: Jacob321

Jacob321 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:11:29 +0000

I like PC gaming the best. Better then my gaming consoles. PC gaming has very good quality compared to my PS2. I think PC gaming is going to die down because of the new systems, but I enjoy it at the moment.

By: maddog39

maddog39 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:08:19 +0000

Well honestly, as a developer myself I think that it depends on who the developer is trying to target in terms of PC gamers. If they are more worried about how many copies of the game they sell rather than the game experience itself then the graphics arent going to be steller. However, Crytek on the other hand is a smaller company which has decided to put itself out there by making outstanding next generation (and stunning) games.

By: Jeff Norris

Jeff Norris — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:07:12 +0000

microsoft has moved into gaming more with vista and XP than ever before.
os not that they are ruining video game development, they are embracing it.

Since the xbox classic microsoft has been pushing the hardware and OS both are very good for gaming

By: Kim/klrabbit

Kim/klrabbit — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:53:02 +0000

I do think that has games sometimes lead the computers manufacture to update there machinary to met the latest and greatest games. However, that does leave most of the populace out of the loop for awhile. I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing though. this forces everyone to improve on their machines and processes. Sooner or later that will trickle down to lower end computers.

By: iJerry

iJerry — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:52:29 +0000

I do think that OSs ruin PC games. I mean a PC has more power then a xbox 360 and the graphics and such are better on the console? When developers make games for a consol, they know what it can do and such. When they make it for the OS, they have to cover a wide range of CPUS and other hardware. Its very hard to tialer a game to suit all people. Take Vista, If you want to play DX 10 games, you need at least 4gb of ram to get the same framerates as you did in windows XP. Developers spend time on Aero and such instead of making a version for consumers and gamers. Linux seems the best for games right now since of its low ram usage, but there are no linux games! Just my .02 cents.

By: umpc

umpc — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:51:16 +0000

well as a future OS dev, i think the games should be able to operate on more than one OS platform, and need to be compatible with old systems because most people cant buy a new system when a new game comes out.

By: smurf88

smurf88 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:51:05 +0000

Zazor5 –
1. A PC that costs $500 can run any game that’s out.
2. Never had any problems with that.
3. Completely wrong. Don’t know where you got that idea from.

By: osatox

osatox — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:47:26 +0000

Are OSs and Developers ruining PC gaming?

I would stress the word “Maybe”. You have to look at it from various perspectives. One way that I find rough is, all these new games coming out that have real high quality that PC gamers would want, would need to meet the requirements in order to get just as good of the quality and/or performance as they show on trailers, television, etc.

I hear lots of beef about Vista because of the whole DirectX 10 for Vista only, or the kind of memory-hog that it is needing, even for the most part that it is a lot of User-Interface.

Consoles have a pre-defined/pre-set standard of its hardware limitations of what it can do, and the gaming developers work around that for consoles and to play at its max, so the developers know what to do, what NOT to do, what they can or can not do, based on their imagination and their limitations on the hardware given to them.

Although PCs, since they get better and better everyday with new processors, new graphic cards, etc. that the PC can exceed a console’s limitations in terms of speed and performance, not necessarily true all the time though.

I still stress the MAYBE because both PC and consoles are good for gaming, and I guess I could say it is too early to determine what they are planning to do.

By: x24motox

x24motox — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:46:38 +0000

I remember something that Chris was saying about a strictly gaming distribution of linux. I think that this would be awesome. although i have never owned a gaming pc and I have just never gotten that in to gaming. I think that having one distribution strictly for gaming would keep the computer gaming from coming like the gaming systems, where there are some games on one platform and other games that you like on others. Also if there was one distribution for gaming, developers would work on it strictly for gaming and it would become a great gaming platform.

By: Brian (bFlaT450)

Brian (bFlaT450) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:46:13 +0000

Seems interesting, I think that the PC game market is much harder to keep up with because of the such high hardware requirements, but this is the exact type of thing that hardcore gamers and PC building enthusiasts love.

Me personally, I used to like PC gaming until my computer was good enough, but now I just casually game on consoles at my friends’ houses.

By: Michael Sherlock

Michael Sherlock — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:44:25 +0000

I agree. Thats why I purchased an xbox 360 instead of upgrading my hardware and going into the pc gaming market.

By: flameshacker

flameshacker — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:38:46 +0000

I think they are with the games needing faster and faster equipment all the time, but since I got my 360 I haven’t played a pc game

By: zazor5

zazor5 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:15:44 +0000

Consoles are defently they way of the future. There is know way that a gaming Pc is worth the buy becuase most of the games on PC are on xbox.

i have never owned a “gaming pc” and doubtfully ever will because of
1. The high price
2. The amount of times you need to troubleshoot
3. The lack of a variety of types of games

By: ohmahgaw246

ohmahgaw246 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:47:19 +0000

Most people I know when it comes to gaming want things to just work. No worries about whether your hardware can handle a particular game. Just pop in a disk and not have to think about it. I know in the past I’ve only ever owned PCs that performed well with games a few years old. A lot of hardcore PC users who are into gaming enjoy the tweaking and upgrading that inevitably comes with it. They also point out that PC games can be patched, upgraded, etc. but nowadays with services such as XBOX Live and PSN, console games can be improved upon and expanded as well. The library of games available for consoles also cannot be compared. Maybe in the future hardware won’t have to be so much of an issue but that is probably just wishful thinking.

By: frozzted

frozzted — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:33:31 +0000

@GTPeach

I think that could be the future of PC gaming. Just take a look at the HP Blackbird 002. It’s a gaming ready machine that the consumer doesn’t have to build. They’ve also made it easy to upgrade. The price is the only factor with these machines. It’s not easily affordable for everyone.