Next Gen War

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OK. Maybe I was exagerating that the newest most expensive equipment would be obsolete by the time you drove it home from the store.

No, I know that in reality you can buy a PC for the low, low price of $1900 ($1700 if you can build it yourself. w00t!) that is capable of playing at least 7 out of every 10 games on the shelf (8 out of 10 if you can handle 15 frames per second with ground textures turned off). And that hardware would be relevant for at least a year!

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Yeah, it totally sucks that PC developers tend to make sure that games can take advantage of hardware available in the future while still primarily targetting midrange hardware.

Having an open platform is also balls-awful; shit games like Cave Story, Stepmania, rRootage, Nethack, and Cho Ren Sha 68k shouldn't exist.

Plus, who the hell would want to play a game more than three years old? Nothing but trash in that 25 year backlog.

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And just think of those 7 out of 10 games you get to choose from!

Games like WWII FPS, WWII FPS set in France, WWII FPS focusing on a different company in the army, WWII FPS featuring the marines instead of the army, WWII FPS where you fight Itally instead of Germany, at least until you find out that Germany is the true evil force in the game and you fight it as a surprise end map, WWII FPS set in an alternate 1940's with laser guns, WWII 3rd person shooter, WWII MMORPG, EA console port shovelware, and something with SIMs.

No, I know PC gaming is where it's at.

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Holy Christ, it's like TNL got the GAF disease.

Most big-budget PC games are RTS, FPS, or MMORPG - three of my four most hated genres.

Every good PC exclusive (like Darwinia or the Kenta Cho games) can run on an older system, neatly negating this PC price argument.

Come to think of it, this is sort of like Wii vs PS3 on a single platform: unique but ugly games on a cheaper platform versus derivative but gorgeous games on an expensive platform. Except that you can play the fun games on your overcocked PC as well as the pretty crap.

It's funny, I've been playing PC games since the 486SX came out and outside of Wolfenstein I've never owned any WWII games. Played a couple demos, in any case.

Apologies for Company of Heroes.

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Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

I was referring to the rapid general turnover on what the "best" hardware is, which can make developers more lazy than usual.

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Thank you for clarifying your ignorant view and to cheebs for outdoing Spo in the area of cluelessness. That's quite an accomplishment.

@ Cheebs. I might have spent $700/800 to build my current computer, my newest component is 3 years old, and I'm still playing brand new games like Fear, Prey, WoW(duh), etc with no problems what so ever.

I'm more or less proving you wrong with this statement.

My current PC was built in early 2003, and I can still play every game on the market as well.

Exactly. Mind you, I wont be able to for much longer, but on less graphics intensive games I can go balls out 1440x900, 4xAA etc. Granted, if something comes out for both PC/360 I'll grab it on 360 unless it's crippled or the controls are really bad.

As soon as Live Anywhere launches, I'm building a new PC to increase my achievement bandwidth. :D

Ban Cheebs pls.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

As soon as Live Anywhere launches, I'm building a new PC to increase my achievement bandwidth. :D

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This is discussed in the next podcast.