When i was growing up i always had consoles, i always had PC's but i never saw them as competitors. I saw them as complimentary to each other, action/arcade style games and sports title have always been console go to's. For something with a little more depth, complexity and dare i say it maturity it was PC all the way. I would play a few games of mario or sonic on my snes/megadrive, get bored then shift over to my pc for a bit of xcom, syndicate and dune 2. They were different platforms that catered for different tastes and i enjoyed both.

Fast forward a few years and FPS become the big thing, suddenly consoles are being built around their ability to play shooters. At this point the greedy publishers step in, they think to themselves these games are popular we must make boatloads of them. From there it was a short step to design them for consoles as its more profitable, its at this point the PC became their enemy. Now we have lost the level of depth that PC games used to specialise in, and i think thats what vexes the PC crowd. There are very few true PC games made anymore they are mearly console games that get ported, and regardless of the quality of the port they lack (in their very design) that special something that used to set PC games apart (fallout3 is a prime example of this, while a good game its not truely a fallout game).

This is obviously something that was developed parallel to the sims3 (at best) or removed from the sims3 (at worst) but it gives me a chance to rant so its all good hehe. I for one miss proper expansion packs, you can blame consoles and maybe thats true ( im leaning toward that opinion myself) but this DLC shit has got to stop. Slightly off topic i admit but....(and its a big, round full bodied but) Has any1 here actually bought a piece of dlc that they didnt regret (specifically X360). The mass effect addons were nothing short of theft as was the knothole island for fable and the extra skins for street fighter 4 and i could go on and on but i wont. My point is the only to DLC pack that i actually felt were worth the effort was "the lost and damned" and .....well thats it (althought criterion with burnout paradise are supposed to be quite good too) and that actually felt like a good old fashioned expasion pack (cost about the same too). Fallout3 immediatly comes to mind i mean please, weve had four out of five DLC's and what was added....nothing apart from a few maps that are totally independant of the wasteland and a few new weapons and enemys, which are nothing but reskins of existing assests. Dont get me wrong i love fallout but the fact remains that weve had what 2 may be 3 new enemys ( the albino radscorpion is just a reskin as are the feral reavers), same goes for weapons, bar the melee stuff from the pit its all just reskins of existing assests. Four content packs and the only new shit is the hellfire enclave and the super muties that look slightly different, nothing was added to the wasteland at all. If there was one game that could have been a shining light for DLC it is fallout but even that was just a get the money out of your account jobbie, and then we learn there will only be 5 DLC's*....its an insult as nearly all DLC's are.

*i know there working on fallout4 and are desperate to get it out the door as quickly as possible (given the state of fallout3 good help us) but fallout3 could have lasted for years if the additional content was done with any sort of care for the subject.

This reminds me of Token from south park

Removing lan from a game that has lasted over 10 years solely because of lan should tell you everything you need to know about the game and Blizzards opinion of you. I know im probably in the minority but the minute they officially confirmed that i cancelled both pre-orders (starcraft and diablo) as it was clear to me that Blizzard Entertainment was dead. This is truly a sad year as of all the numerous dev houses in the pc world only two had even a shred of respect and they were Blizzard and Valve and this year both have given the big fuck you to there fans (and more importantly their customers). Many people complain about consolitis and while those complaints had merit they were never blatantly shoved in your face till this year. PC gaming may have been dying but now i feel it is truly dead.....not only dead but desecrated, the two bastions of pc gaming are now openly pissing on its grave. if you have a pc i urge you to play half-life 1 and 2 / diablo 1 and 2 /deus ex (original) starcraft and warcraft 1, 2 and 3 because unfortunaltly thoses games where the pinnicle of pc gaming and their parents have all but said that they will never be made again.

Joker1980 sheading a tear for all the PC games that were (balders gate/planetscape:torment/half-life/thief/diablo/system shock/warcraft/command and conquer/myst/grim fandango/dreamweb*/Broken sword/etc etc the list goes on and on) because we will never see there like again.

*Yeah i know it wasent a great game but the premise was and the art was and it sums up what PC games USED to be all about good games with good storys, and yeah they didnt always hit the mark but they made you think and that alone made em worth their wight in gold.

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Toejam and Earl, not the horrible platformer versions. A remake of the original fully updated with huge maps and new crazy items/enemys and net based multiplayer would KICK ASS. Oh but leave the tunes alone, that game still to this day has one of the best soundtracks going.

Whats wrong with human controled drones and bot's, after all that would remove human casualties on your side...until the other side develops something similar. Thinking about it two armys of human controlled or autonomous bots would essentially turn war into a video game.

This will not work, as it is many peoples network services are handicapped by their ISP. Network relience with data limits will not work ever. Software is only getting bigger and going by most isp caps you will be paying twice, once for the games and again to be allowed to download them. In my opinion the isp's are holding EVERYTHING back and this is only going to get worse.