Rant: PC Gaming
March 10th 2009 01:20
I'll lead by explaining that I grew up with PC gaming, so while people were enjoying NES I had paganitsu and wolfenstein 3D, but of late I have stayed clear of PC gaming for awhile as I began to feel that a thousand dollars a year to keep up with the times was a bit to much to handle, Combine this with the fact that most games are now ported to console without any major changes or gouges at the game play. I moved my passion mostly to the console world.
Before I'm called unfair I need to explain the world I come from. It is a magical place where patching is done for you, games are guaranteed to work and there are almost no graphical issues affecting gameplay. This magical world also means the end of low resolutions and painfully long installs.
I'm not saying this world is perfect as it has its share of problems too, but its still a hard place to come back from.
Now in saying all that I must admit there are games that will never be the same on console and RTS is one of these. The quick movements of a mouse and the keyboards large array of available shortcuts kills consoles for micro-management ability hands down and even though consoles are trying to win people over win new and easier systems of control they are far from ready to dwarf a system so tried and true.
The day came of Dawn of war 2's release I sat down a got ready to play some serious RTS goodness.
I have had problems before with steam so I decided to start a new account and forgo my previous woes. The install of steam went OK and soon I was unloading 5.5gb of game. This is where the problems began... First the install crashed at 80% and I am left at desktop looking bewildered. Next I try to reinstall but due to its partial success I am unable to fix it, on top of this due to its partial failure I can not uninstall either. With some work and the help of Google I manage to get back to scratch and I began again with more success.
Install is successful and I load steam to get started... now it needs to patch and says this will take about 20 mins. After an hour it reads 2 hours remaining and I have adsl 2 . This means that in total it took about 4 hours to install. So I get into the game and now I have to make a live account ... wait, so this means I have to log in twice before I can even play? every time? fine and now that I'm past that Besides my pc being just dated enough that i now have to run it in medium settings (Oh god, its starting again) the game is amazing and it deserves a try by all core RTS fans. Ok, the rants over for now I have to get back to work but my point is for someone on the other side, all of these are reasons why I stopped using my PC for gaming in the first place and its still not being addressed but I can expect that to change.. well, I guess I will go back to console and leave PC to the PC fanboys.
Before I'm called unfair I need to explain the world I come from. It is a magical place where patching is done for you, games are guaranteed to work and there are almost no graphical issues affecting gameplay. This magical world also means the end of low resolutions and painfully long installs.
I'm not saying this world is perfect as it has its share of problems too, but its still a hard place to come back from.
Now in saying all that I must admit there are games that will never be the same on console and RTS is one of these. The quick movements of a mouse and the keyboards large array of available shortcuts kills consoles for micro-management ability hands down and even though consoles are trying to win people over win new and easier systems of control they are far from ready to dwarf a system so tried and true.
The day came of Dawn of war 2's release I sat down a got ready to play some serious RTS goodness.
I have had problems before with steam so I decided to start a new account and forgo my previous woes. The install of steam went OK and soon I was unloading 5.5gb of game. This is where the problems began... First the install crashed at 80% and I am left at desktop looking bewildered. Next I try to reinstall but due to its partial success I am unable to fix it, on top of this due to its partial failure I can not uninstall either. With some work and the help of Google I manage to get back to scratch and I began again with more success.
Install is successful and I load steam to get started... now it needs to patch and says this will take about 20 mins. After an hour it reads 2 hours remaining and I have adsl 2 . This means that in total it took about 4 hours to install. So I get into the game and now I have to make a live account ... wait, so this means I have to log in twice before I can even play? every time? fine and now that I'm past that Besides my pc being just dated enough that i now have to run it in medium settings (Oh god, its starting again) the game is amazing and it deserves a try by all core RTS fans. Ok, the rants over for now I have to get back to work but my point is for someone on the other side, all of these are reasons why I stopped using my PC for gaming in the first place and its still not being addressed but I can expect that to change.. well, I guess I will go back to console and leave PC to the PC fanboys.
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