PC Gaming Sucks This Year
Posted by Travis | Filed under Gaming
The whole PC Gaming thing sucks this year. I’ve been playing for quite a while, at least 6 years now. I remember playing Battlefield 1942 to the late wee hours of the night with some friends. But to be honest, there is just nothing anymore that excites me.
I was looking over at AnandTech’s review of the upcoming games for 2008, and only a few stuck out to me. Those are, Spore, FarCry 2, and Fallout 3.
After watching some videos on Spore, I think I might check it out. But I was dissapointed to find out that it had no multiplayer, which is where PC Gaming excels over the consoles in my opinion. The only form of multiplayer the game has, at least that I am aware of, is the ability to bring other users content to create a world with your own species. But it seems like the whole concept is just to build up your empire, where would it end? Where is the enjoyment if you can’t blow some guy in another state’s little masterpiece away? It still looks like something unique in the gaming world, so I will at least check it out.
As for FarCry 2, I’m not sure about it. I haven’t heard to much hype surrounding it. I know that they are releasing console versions so I hope that the PC version doesn’t take a back seat for online play. I never really got into the first one all that much, at the time I was wasting my evenings combating nazi’s in Call of Duty. However, I did play the first version of the game at CPL in the Summer of 2004. It seemed enjoyable and had pretty good graphics. I am crossing my fingers that this will be the same so that I can have another shoot’em up game to play.
Fallout 3… well, what can I say? The name alone brings extra anticipation along with extra expectations. They haven’t failed us yet, but we’ll see how it goes. They promise a release for Fallout 3 in Q3 of 2008. We will see though. Perhaps they can give us something to do around Christmas, the best time of the year to sip coffee and play computer games with the snow falling outside.
