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Alpha-One

By Alpha-One,
Posted on: 2010-10-26 17:39 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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I don't think anyone was trying to convince you to switch to PC. If you don't like it, don't use it. Consoles work just fine and have their upsides, particularly if you tastes run toward games that play well on a pad.
I know Warp. I tend to get my hackles raised when I read that X platform is better than Y platform. I read the article in Game Informer where the columnist was commenting on how he was waiting for phones to be the next video game. I doubt it will happen.

Using a phone as a video game/MP3/video device drains the batteries far to quickly. When you need the phone, you do not have it because you were goofing off. The controls are an issue and I can't see playing a game on a video screen that small using the controls on a phone. They are small enough as is, and for fine tune playing, they are inferior. Finally, most people want smaller phones with better range.

Of course there are the people that simply have no need to feel connected 24/7 to the web and their e-mail, and have no desire to pay those exhorbitant fee's to actually be able to do so.

In the end, it's a point of view.

I could be wrong for all I know...
But I could be right.

 

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PC gaming is a lot...hmn...more stressful(?) than it used to be.

Back in the days of, say, Age of Empires 1, when the imperial Microsoft Empire was at a gaming height that...well, it never left...
Either way, you put the disc in. You installed. You played the game. Fun was had.

Nowadays? Insert disc. Install a bit. Input about three long codes. Install the rest of the game, via Steam. Create a Games for Windows Account. Wait for the damn thing to load. Wait some more. Eventually play.
Thats pretty much what it was like getting Dawn of War 2 to work. We don't need that kind of hassle, really...I know which I prefer out of that and, as was said, Put Disk in, maybe Install, play game, profit.

Only games I play these days are CityOf and the very rare game of TF2. The rest of the time Reach occupies my time.

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Actually what I will say.

Big Budget releases that are non-console ports for the PC are becoming rarer and companies seem to thinking that its just not worth it (the complete lack of a PC version of Red Dead Redemption for example, Rockstar going on record saying that after all the problems with the PC version of GTA IV that they're not even going to bother).

So, you ask, where is all the money to be made these days?

Take a scroll up, look at Minecraft, one guy programming in his spare time has made almost 2 million US dollars (about 1.5 million English Pounds). World of Goo, a small team has made a lot of money.

Eversion HD Steam sales have made the guy a nice chunk of change.

There isn't money in the big releases there IS money in the indie scene, you just have to be damn good to break into it.

Steam is seen as (and probably is) the big Indie enabler, The Ball is getting all sorts of stories written about it, where is it available? Steam!

Steam combines the cheapness of the Indie games with upfront adverts to encourage impulse buys.