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Jun 5, 2007 - 02:04 PM |
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WHat happened to playable PC Games? |
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I've seen ctrl-alt-dlt's SHadowrun comic and though of it as interesting. THen later today when I was on digg, I found a SHadowrun review and I must say that The game looks very kickass. So kick ass in the fact that I think I already have a character set made or something along the lines. The only reason I haven't made him yet is because I don't own the game and I don't know the limitations. HOwever when I looked at Wikipedia to see what the game was all about, I found out that it was a Table top RPG at one point (Which is another story all together but that's not the gist of this entry).
The thing is though, when I finally found the entry on the recently released game, I found that it was for the Xbox 360 System and for Windows Vista. Now I'm not one to say that this isn't reasonable. On the contrary, I think that the Xbox franchise pulls in alot of money from the FPS titles as well as a myriad of American born titles (I swear to god that whenever I start talking about the XBox, I can hear USA, USA being chanted in the background like it's some Jock Party). Plus any games that come out for the XBox that I would like to try are just as readily as available on the other systems as well as the PC. SO I have yet to see a reason to get an XBox system just for that sole fact.
When I looked at the Wiki entry I saw that it would come out for the PC. I thought, Yeah I might like to get that, Let's see what OS it requires. Oh yeah, Vista, no surprise there. Lets see about the System Requirments, WHAT I DON"T HAVE THAT KIND OF CASH. I JUST UPDATED THE GRAPHICS CARD AND IT STILL ISN"T ENOUGH. SHIT. Suffice to say, I was pissed. I realized that Computers and things aren't behind the times and neither are the systems, but I built my own computer to be somewhat above average the normal persons computer, and I have always thought that. However I'm thinking that Now and days, Games are starting to Outstrip the average computer users requirements. I think it is a good thing to go just a little farther, but unless I'm mistaken, 2GB of RAM and a GeForce 7800 doesn't sound nowhere near close to the average user. SO I am poised with this question, has PC Game companies determined that the average user doesn't want to play Video games anymore?
EDIT: ANother thing I found out, the Console itself only has 512 MB of RAM, Which is exactly the same as the one on my comp now ( I know I need to upgrade it!). I understand an OS needs a little bit more and stuff so I would think a GB would be enough, but then I realized that VIsta takes a GB to do it's work so Then I think that 1.5 GB would be enough, WHy so much Microsoft Hmmmm???
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