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Chesire Cat:
Come on, the 2 strongest PC gaming genres, American RPGs and FPS are virtually gone from the PC. RTS and TB Strategies are being targeted (Halo Wars), frankly the last major holdouts is casual games like Bejeweled or Peggle and MMORPGs, and in this day an age of subscription based online play (Xbox live for instance) and DLC, how much longer do you thing that will last. Call me wrong all you want, but I was there when PC gaming peaked, frankly I was a diehard, but Ive seen the writing on the wall. As in a few years ago, you know, when PC gaming still had 2 legs to wobble on. Now its hopping along a peg leg going through its death-roes.
Ozymandias:
Man, even at the peak of PC gaming, it didn't compete with consoles.
Right now the only things keeping it alive are Steam, MMOs, and people with too much money for expensive rigs.
RedLion:
"PC gaming" always seemed like an oxymoron to me, even though that's where it originated. I'm probably the only person in the world who started out playing FPS's on computers and found myself enjoying playing them with a console controller infinitely more. I don't know why I don't have a problem with sitting in front of a TV playing, but sitting on a chair in front of a computer for hours to play a video game drives me fucking insane. I can't stand it.
Stryc9Fuego:
Different strokes and all that. I prefer to be able to mod a game. I'm currently (not right this second currently, but you get the picture) playing STALKER with the Oblivion Lost mod. I found a metamod for that that adds a bolt-action rifle, and I'm having more fun with that than the stock game.
I think that mods are simultaneously the biggest draw and biggest killer of PC games for exactly the same reason:. With a good deal of support, you can be happy with the same game for way longer than the actual gameplay would allow. This would let people play just the original Half-Life for five years, and not need to touch anything else. Having one game feel fresh 5 years afterwards because someone made an awesome Total Conversion as a college thesis (Poke646), solid win.
This does jack for new game sales, though.
Thaes:
I completely agree with Stryc9Fuego on mods. They add incredible amounts of playability to games, keeping your interest in them far longer than normally. For example, I have found some excellent mods to Oblivion and Civ4, both of which made me once more interested in those games for months.
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