For the remaining few hardcore PC gamers

[Scrag Meister]

Borderlands 2

EDIT : More Borderlands 2 video

Yep I'm a BL fan

[doomage]

Borderlands 2

+1. Are you a member of the Borderlands gun collectors club?

A long but incredibly good read here Stevey's Blog Rants: The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club ( I might have got this from a nickfitz monday linkfest )

[hyperD]

Borderlands 2

Bah, stupid clientco blocked - have to use Android or wait until 5pm.

I agree about the monthly charges - now stopping SWTOR and possibly WoW (for a bit). It's not just finding the time, sometimes the enthusiasm and others to group. My WoW guild is suffering from this aspects as RL gets in the way for weekly commitments.

And sometimes I'm just too tired to concentrate for 3 hours in Dragon Soul or whatever.

Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy.

[doomage]

Your mother isn't complaining about the "services" I provide her... And she only requires one hand, so the other is always free for gaming. As you say, hardcore.

That's the spirit son!

[Durbs]

For those of you into Skyrim, keep an eye out for Witcher 2 coming up in the sale.

Currently playing through it again and IMO, its a wee bit better than Skyrim (which is a superb game itself and anyone who hasn't played it should get it immediately). Harder to get into but a better game in all.

[BoredBloke]

Just had a look at the top 10 PC games on game.co.uk. It looks rubbish. There was a time when PC games were different to console games because they required a bit of thought. They look just like console games now

[Durbs]

They look just like console games now

True, consoles are where the sales are at so 90% of new PC games are developed primarily for XBox/PS3 with the PC port as an afterthought with some higher res textures bunged in. Annoying but can't blame them really.

There are still some goodun's though and PC gaming in the main pisses all over consoles.

[nomadd]

For those of you into Skyrim, keep an eye out for Witcher 2 coming up in the sale.

Currently playing through it again and IMO, its a wee bit better than Skyrim (which is a superb game itself and anyone who hasn't played it should get it immediately). Harder to get into but a better game in all.

Yep, just replaying The Witcher 2 myself (taking the side of Iorveth, rather than Vernon Roche, this time around.) Great game, although the map is a bit useless and navigation a bit of a mess. Doesn't match-up to the "scale" of Skyrim, but certainly has far greater "depth" in terms of character creation/development. The Witcher 2 also has a better, more mature approach to story-telling: I've shagged all the whores in the brothels so far, a female Elf and a Sorceress. Just like real life, then (with the addition of doomage's mum.)

[BoredBloke]

True, consoles are where the sales are at so 90% of new PC games are developed primarily for XBox/PS3 with the PC port as an afterthought with some higher res textures bunged in. Annoying but can't blame them really.

There are still some goodun's though and PC gaming in the main pisses all over consoles.

How can you say that when 90% come from consoles. Yes they look nicer, but that nicer look is at a huge cost. You have to keep upgrading your PC to keep up with the specs while the console gamers simply have to wait until the next machine is released. Video cards are hugely expensive.

To be honest, I have a PS3 and a PC that I used to use for gaming. The PC is in bits as I have used parts of it while fixing my sons PC's and the PS3 has not been turned on in a year. To be honest, the games that are developed these days all seem very samey.

[nomadd]

You have to keep upgrading your PC to keep up with the specs while the console gamers simply have to wait until the next machine is released.

Simply not true. I game happily on a machine I built 5 years ago (4GB ram and Intel Core2 Quad.) And that PC, of course, went "through the business."

Only a fool keeps "upgrading" a PC these days in order to game; it simply isn't required, especially when the average console is about the same specs. as a several year old PC.