| Cyanide Ride |
April 29, 2008 - Cevat Yerli, president of Crytek Studios, has said his company may no longer exclusively develop PC games. Crytek is known for Far Cry and, most recently, the critically acclaimed Crysis. While Crysis has sold more than one million units since its November debut, these numbers don't come close to Halo 3, which managed to sell an impressive three million units in 12 days. Yerli told PCPlay that software piracy is the biggest threat to PC gaming.
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I'd have to say that the problem it had was the fact you'd need to drop another couple of hundred dollars on your machine just to run it. |
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| JoshP2002 |
| I agree. Thats why I'll go with console over pc.. everyone has the same specs, and you dont need to rebuild a computer every year or so to keep up with the games. |
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| AudiInProgress |
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Originally posted by JoshP2002
I agree. Thats why I'll go with console over pc.. everyone has the same specs, and you dont need to rebuild a computer every year or so to keep up with the games.
And the fact that you are unable to upgrade a console, means that 3 years down the road, the console game makers are limited to using shitty textures and character models because each new game HAS to work on outdated hardware.
Console for the lose. |
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| JeepGirl |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
And the fact that you are unable to upgrade a console, means that 3 years down the road, the console game makers are limited to using shitty textures and character models because each new game HAS to work on outdated hardware.
Console for the lose.
X's 2!!
Sure Crysis was a resource hog, it was meant to be a showcase for their new engine.. which is why I didn't buy it.
I used to be the type to upgrade my machine every second day of the week just to play the newest OMFGZORZ!!! game.
I haven't upgraded in 3 years, other than hdd's. Yet I'm still playing games, good ones, like BF2, FEAR, C&C3, COD4, FSX, CS:S while still being able to play my more resource hogging games like CIV4 and Sims2 (which has almost 75gb of content that I've downloaded...)
Consoles can't do this AND be able to deliver things that mean alot to me, like W.A.S.D, freelook and and the ability to use my kickass flight controller, not to mention stunning graphics, which to be honest consoles flatly fail at. Oh! also When ever I've played FPS games on a console I always felt guilty because it felt like I was always using an aimbot..
Sure my next machine will cost me, dearly... but at least with it I'll be able to play whatever game comes to market AND still be able to surf the net, download stuff and rip/burn media, make my own music, create video's/edit pics etc etc etc etc
Consoles for the fail... |
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| Drave |
I'll stick with my console, with a computer on the side. Why?
Console: Average, 500$.
Powerful Gaming PC: 2000$, and you'll need to upgrade it every 6 months. |
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| Graphicdude |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
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Console for the lose.
it's loss :) |
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| AudiInProgress |
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Originally posted by Graphicdude
it's loss :)
No. Faggot. It isn't.
FTL = For The Lose
If you say "for the loss" you're a retard.
Anyways. It does *NOT* cost $2000 for a gaming rig. It depends WHEN you buy and WHAT you buy... That's another part of the awesomeness of PC's... You can customize it to the tenth degree...
If a console costs $500 and a PC costs $1000, but you have to buy multiple consoles like an XBOX + 360 + Wii... Or if you have to buy a new console every couple of years to keep up with new games... It's no different than upgrading your PC a little each year.
Plus, as I've said in many other threads (and JeepGirl echoed) you can do SOOOOOOOOOOOO much more with a PC. |
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| Graphicdude |
Jesus.......chill
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| Cyanide Ride |
I'd have to go with Jeepgirl on this one.
Consoles are just too limited and the thing is, games will always look crappier on them.
I did a side by side of COD4 with PS3 and my PC. My PC was an AMD 3500, 1 GB ram, and a 7800GT from about 2 years ago. Console looks horrible and cartoonish. Console control was less precise and more infuriating (although you can buy a mouse and joystick now, all you are doing is emulating hte PC!)
I've recently upgraded my pc and now the old games look even better, prompting me to play them again.
The problem with Crisis, is that it was designed to run on DX10 and Windows Vista. Then they detuned it for XP. Which is unfortunate because I think I will definitely pass on using Vista. |
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| Twigs_Dee |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
No. Faggot. It isn't.
FTL = For The Lose
If you say "for the loss" you're a retard.
Anyways. It does *NOT* cost $2000 for a gaming rig. It depends WHEN you buy and WHAT you buy... That's another part of the awesomeness of PC's... You can customize it to the tenth degree...
If a console costs $500 and a PC costs $1000, but you have to buy multiple consoles like an XBOX + 360 + Wii... Or if you have to buy a new console every couple of years to keep up with new games... It's no different than upgrading your PC a little each year.
Plus, as I've said in many other threads (and JeepGirl echoed) you can do SOOOOOOOOOOOO much more with a PC.
Agreed! But you can build a decent game system for under 1000 and close to same price as a game console (if you have keyboard, mouse, monitor, n crap already).
Glad a game like Crysis has NO problem running on my old skewl 3.0GHz HT, X1350 512MB, 1GB RAM old bitch.... And on Vista ;) Upgrading all year, every year to keep up with games for tools that dunno how to build a system decent and/or keep the system running at the prime. :bowdown: |
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| AudiInProgress |
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Originally posted by Graphicdude
Jesus.......chill
You should be my protegé! |
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| Graphicdude |
| I'll take that as a compliment :D |
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| Kiddo |
| you don't have to build a new system every 6 months if you would stop being cheap and just go ALL OUT on a build the first time... My last gaming computer lasted me 2 years until crysis came out then I built a new rig and this one will last me for a good 2 years atleast. Most pc software is behind the hardware anyways and so are alot of the games that ACTUALLY require all these resources. THe only thing sucks for pc is the piracy and drives game makers away from the PC. |
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