- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recoton007
And just when we thought Bungie betrayed Computer Gaming as we know it...
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=167808
Tim Sweeny, you have now been dubbed the title of "Senior -blam!-."
I mean wtf? What are wrong with you people? Is the entire PC gaming community infected with an incurable disease? Does everyone suddenly have AIDS that will spread to developers if they make PC games? I mean come on.
The new cryengine2 can run well on a freakin $600 computer, that you are probably going to buy anyway, for doing work. So don't give me this bulls***. You don't need a "big bad computer" and spend $5000 on an alienware computer to get UT3 up and running. You can spend 300 bucks on a videocard, and you're set. That's $300 bucks compared to the $500 cost of the PS3 and Xbox 360.
If rampant piracy is the problem, just put on better security. The PC is the BEST CONSOLE for gaming.
Tim Sweeny, until he turns back, is a deserting unproductive jacka**.
Agreed, heck a 2000$ computer would make our dear friend the Xbox look like something that we dragged out of the gutter.
What we know as the Xbox is NOT a true console, What?? Yes Xbox is not a console, but it is the horrible combination of the Console and PC, PS3 and its predecessors were great, yes, but our platform is not something that can be compared with consoles.
Xboxes have tried to do so, they have succeeded with consequences that has cost many any decent entertainment, of course most of us should know an Xbox is merely taking the obsolete components of the PC's past and cobbling together something using crappy programming to pass it off as a console.
Now that the PC has been "Shown up" Because of the games like Halo 2, Halo 3, we ask ourselves are we that insufficient? I tell you No absolutely not. PC ports from Xbox are ALL not very well optimized as a smear campaign to this great platform. Thinking rationally, how did Halo 1 PC run on your machines when its port came out?
Except for the net, like a charm?
Of course, because back in 01' the original Xbox used very old components of computers, i would estimate 2 generations behind, still Halo 1 ran smoothly, now in 08' the Xbox 360 has been released, handling Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, still it's component's specs are no match for ENTRY level cards of the 6th NVidia series.
Once again due to active optimization the Xbox has been able to construct a working game, that doesn't look too shabby.
Jump back to PC, we have the 9 series, a MID RANGE card the, the 9600 GT can match the specs of a stock 8800 GT, albeit slower, but that is besides the point, now it is the other way around, computer games are being developed for Xbox SIMULTANEOUSLY where as Xbox games are PORTED not developed in the making, but PORTED to PC.
That is a serious insult, the PC's latest developments should be a bloody flare aginst the Xbox 360's candle. When was 360 released? 2005
Less than a year later in 06 our good friends Nvidia come up with the 8 Series, first to come out? The still top dog on the market, the 8800 GS and its GT brothers, back then buying the card meant a 400$ + price tag.
Today we have such games like CoD 4, CnC 3, UT 3 and a host of other high end games.
The card released 2 years ago can still handle these games with change to spare.
I could go on and on, but the fact remains, publicly denying the PC of its gaming glory, is a grave insult, and the perpetrator should be dragged out onto the street and made an example of