There are some very good PC games out there, Civ IV, AOE III, NFSMW, COD2 Quake 4 but nothing coming up in the near future that I'm all excited about at the moment.

 

I was looking at the XBox 360 and nothing on that really looks inspiring either. The last game I got really really excited about was GT4 on the PS2, but I've finished that and it looks unpolished and a bit shit compared to modern PC graphics.

 

Maybe the PS3 will bring with it a new Gran Turismo game that will get me into gaming again!

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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It's currently in Beta and should be out by the summer. \o/

I'm enjoying Quake IV at the moment. Which is nice as I never got into FEAR, AOE III or owt like that. The graphics in it are lovely too!

They are indeed, it's the first PC game in a long while I've finished and it looked lovely especially with 4X AA all the way through!

I might have to give 4x AA a try. It's running with 2x AA at the moment and it's very nice. And it doesn't chug like a chuggy chugger such as FEAR. Although Q4 is based on the Doom 3 engine isn't it and Doom3 always looked and ran nice, even if it was as boring as pigshit.

Hahaha, rumours are abounding that it's not ever gonna get released. Still, summer is a long time away.

Civ IV and AOE III are hardly showcases of PC POWER though, as nice as they look for what they are. And what they are is not offering anything we haven't seen ten years ago with a few tweaks, sadly. I enjoy Civ 4 lots but it isn't making me go "Wow! See what PC can do!"

 

As for NFS MW, that's a console game so again not really all that exciting. I can't seem to get into it anyway. And the other two are probably superfine examples of the FPS genre but again do they do much that's not been done before? I'm just not excited much by them. 360 has exactly the same trouble at the moment, and given that the xbox turned out pretty unimaginative for games I don't hold vast hopes yet. Vive la Revolution.

It is based on the Doom 3 engine I was tempted to try the ultra detail setting but the warning message put me off, as it really wants 512Mb of Graphics RAM to run in Ultra mode.

Yeah the revolution should be very interesting, as should the PS3 XBox 360 is probably too close to a PC to get my interest for the time being, and Halo was always a poor mans UT or Half Life 2 anyway in my book.

 

The problem with PC power as you put it is that game makers will always tend to develop for middle of the road machines just with the ability to turn up the detail. As fas as FPS games go the PC is the daddy still though, just too bad if you don't like that type of game!

I like 'em fine, I just think the last time someone really innovated with one beyond "ooh look shader" was a long time ago and I'm bored with same-old. There's the capacity to do so much more with a PC and they don't.

I'm really looking forward to the new Sam and Max games this summer, they should be fun fun fun, although again probably not a showcase for PC technology.

 

(before someone says yes I know the original next S&M game was cancelled but someone else has bought the rights and seemingly most of the dev team and has said there will be a PC release this year!)

I do hope Sam n Max lives up to the history, it'd be nice to see that kind of game manage to come back in some form.

That new team be Telltale. Seems to be web-only episodic content which I'm not sure will fair too well with the general public, but still very much looking forward to it and certainly one that I'll be pimping at work.

You're getting old, that's your problem. It'll be a mortgage next, and then you're doomed.

That is a possibility, although set against it that my current gaming interests are these:

Denial and a Peter Pan complex. You and me both, except I've already got to the mortgage part.

I shall go and watch some films about mid-life crises in people with no reason to complain :C

For PC games, how about Spore? Isn't that supposed to be out soon-ish?
Then there's Half Life Aftermath, and Oblivion is supposedly out in the next couple of months.
I have to admit though, apart from Spore there's nothing coming that really excites me, even on consoles. I'd love to play PGR3, but I'm not about to lay out £280 + gameprice for the privelege (although slightly more tempted by Game's offer of a £50 tradein on the XBox).

 

Slightly more ontopic, how about oft-overlooked components such as cases and PSU's?

Spore is hopefully going to be great but it's a bit early to know for sure. That could certainly be the kind of thing I'm looking for though, yeah. Half Life Aftermath though, meh! Oblivion oh gosh I hope so. I wonder if the 360 version will be better or worse.

 

Since I already have MSR and PGR2, PGR3 appeals not one tiny bit.

Fair enough, its not for everyone. I really enjoy the series though, and PGR was what spurred me to get the original XBox.
Aftermath I'm looking forward to possibly simply due to Dog apparently playing a much larger part, the bits in HL2 with Dog in were the bits I most enjoyed ;-)

 

There's an interview on joystiq about Oblivion's differences across versions and apparently unless you've got a stupidly powerful PC then the X360 version is the one to get - especially if you have a HDTV.

 

I'm actually fairly happy about the games drought at the moment though, as I'm concentrating on City of Villains, and toying with the idea of getting X3, both of which are fairly major time-consuming games.