Comments on: Sweeney: “Consoles Have Definitely Left PC Games Behind”

By: Mustikos

Mustikos — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:49:05 +0000

People seem to have their panties in a wad with crysis. What I was saying is best buy was advertising on their pos pc’s that have integrated graphics, or very crappy dx 10 cards that in no way in hell could even hope to run graphics but sure enough they acted like it would play it a maximum.

Jiki: First of all get over the whole zomg graphics vs. game play, in this day and age it should be BOTH! On your Crysis statement you (and 99 percent of the internet users) need to learn that putting the word “is” in your sentence doesn’t make your opinion a fact. As far as two demanding engine, yeah right. I recently built a new system (replace the one I used for almost 7 years, so I am no means somebody who runs out to buy a new rig every new game) and it plays crysis in single player mode with decent fps and max settings and it only cost around 1200 bucks. I do feel the online part is lacking, I stopped playing simply cause of the mass cheating, people who could fire nukes constantly for 5 minutes straight etc.

As far as “A side note, Crysis is an exception not the rule when it comes to game requirements” don’t you mean system requirement? Because last time I checked their wasn’t official rules to what is a game requirements.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:09:13 +0000

I agree , PC is much cheaper now to upgrade then it was before. I recently built my own PC expecting to spend like 3000 dollars but I got a good machine for 800 bealive it or not. Just have too look in the right places for the right parts. Planing on going quad core next year

By: dano

dano — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:40:00 +0000

Its cheaper than ever to make a decent gaming machine that can run almost anything @ decent settings (settings that will look better than an console)…
Anyone who claims otherwise knows very little about the state of the pc market.
(A side note, Crysis is an exception not the rule when it comes to game requirements)

By: Jiki

Jiki — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Blah, games shouldn’t be about graphics but gameplay and story! I ain’t surprised about this attitude though – Epic has beautiful games with nice gameplay, but crap for story if even that so it’s no wonder they’re only looking for the glitz.

Also, Crysis is mediocre shooter with too demanding engine and so many lost opportunities.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:30:55 +0000

It has always been more difficult to develop for PC. It has always been easy to develop for a console who’s specs don’t change.

The insight is AMAZING!!!!

By: Mustikos

Mustikos — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:58:33 +0000

Yeah I used to see best buy sales adds with low of low hardware in them, graphics cards that can’t barely use Dx9 then have something next to them that says “Can play Crysis at maximum settings with 2109823 fps” type bs. But really if people are going to go out and buy even a modestly price pc why don’t they at least point some effort in to actually research a little about what their getting them selfs into.

Also he needs to take a look at what the guys over at sins of a solar empire say. It deals with piracy but responds a lot to what this guy is saying and proving him wrong in some points.

Though why don’t people like him just come out and say “Its easier to make a game for a console since pretty much every one is the same specs unlike everybody’s PC and we have micro soft who will pay crazy extra amount of money to get exclusive stuff”

What really annoys me the most and keeps me away form things like the xbox 360 is that paying a yearly fee for what I Can get free here. First don’t respond zomg its only XX amount a year! Thats bs, microsoft doesn’t need the money. With the way bush is killing the economy, that money does hurt. Specifically the way they are trying to push that crap on us pc users, here we are going to take everything away from you, turn around and sale it back to you and have the same if not worse quality.

Time to get flamed by the console fanbois (even though I like both pc’s and consoles)