PC gaming is alive and well. One of the reasons why I believe so is because of the kick ass list of RTS games that are expected to come out this year. I know the RTS fans will be pleased with this year's lineup, but what about us action buffs? What good shooters are coming out this year? Well why don't we just take a look and check out these PC exclusives!
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I recently tried 3 for the first time but the frame rate was a turnoff.
I liked 5 and 6 though.
If you have a Series X or S, the Xbox 360 version runs at 60 fps with fps boost. It's a shame the remaster doesn't.
2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol
Ummmm 3 than stop.
Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.
Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.
Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.
It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.
Far Cry 2, the one with the AI that find you through walls and trees, can one shot you from a mile away and have 100% accuracy? That was frustrating not fun because cheap AI.
Uhh, I mean, it isn't one of these games where once the enemies have detected you they will magically forget you exist because you walked behind a wall or went into a bush. And yeah the AI isn't stormtrooper level accuracy. Again, these are positives, not negatives to me.
To be fair, I'm really directing this at the people most critical of "Modern Ubisoft" or "Modern Open World" design elements. Like the type of people who fawned all over Elden Ring because it had a clean UI because they are so burnt out by the "checkbox" type of open world design.
If you like those types of games, then a later FC game like 3 and especially 4-5 would be more your style.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
PC gaming was out a long time ago, its all about the consoles right now. Why pay thousands of dollars for a PC to meet the requirements to play games that are equal on the PS3 and 360? It doesnt make sense and you would have to be retarded to do so.
Battlefield: heroes looks great. really looking forward to that one.
I thought Far Cry 2 was coming to consoles aswell no?
always was and will always be
are the servers for CS: Source still up?
well then it's still good being a PC gamer
PC gaming is much more rewarding if you put the time and effort in
you get better graphics, a catalogue of games that make the PS2 look like the Virtual Boy
and a lot of diversity
you get emulators to play old games, tons of free indie games, you can get the latest games via steam or the shops or you can torrent ANY game for free
there's just so much
but i prefer being a console gamer primarily anyway
apart from when its time to waste my life playing Counterstrike
PC gaming is still the best type of gaming 2day.
Its made my life brighter. I did think i had experienced a ultimate gaming sensation when i bought a 360. Although when i purchased my PC for a good £3000 i noticed everything from graphics to physics are so much more advanced than ANY console or any console game.
08 is going to be a great year for the PC and i do think I'll see more gamers notice that PC is the way too go if you want a superior type of gaming.
Ive turned my head to consoles after playing Crysis :)