I love PC gaming, I really, really do. I have loved it for years, but it's dead. Dead. DEAD.I've been a PC enthusiast for years. I remember playing with 80x88s and 80x86s. I remember when a 286 with a CGA graphics card blew my mind. I remember the the old glory days of the x86 platform of processors. I'm sure I've still got plenty of goodies stashed away in my parent's attic, just waiting to be put in a museum one day. I always enjoyed gaming and an enthusiasm for the platform and a healthy love of gaming meant one hell of a ride.
I played all of the old classics. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem (2D and 3D), Police Quest, Command Keen, the list just goes on and on... and one. PC gaming was a staple in my life and it was something that I simply loved doing. What really flipped the switch was seeing the original Unreal Tournament on a 3DFX Voodoo3 graphics card. It was just something so amazing that I couldn't believe it. It was like all of those years playing the older games had never happened. I was hooked.
I immediately became an addict. UT was great, but Tribes is where I really had a great time and made friends that I still have today. The competition, the seriousness, the fun that could be had by grown men and teens alike. This was something that I felt would shake gaming to the absolute core. I was wrong, though. Sure, team-based FPS games are the standard now, but Final Fantasy 7 made more different than Tribes and you could tell... PC Gaming was dead.
Consoles became more and more powerful during my love affair with PCs. Sure, Tony Hawk was
fun, but that couldn't last forever. Mario was great, but nothing like being online with a bunch of friends blowing stuff up. Consoles have now taken gaming to a whole new level. No longer are they offline bricks that provide solo gameplay, now consoles are pumping out titles that offer strong teamplay and put dozens of people together. Though they are lightyears behind PC, IMO, in immersion and accuracy, console games are winning a very sad war.
I've seen the rise and fall of many games. I have enjoyed games that were failures and disliked others that were and are some of the largest games of all time. I am still an advocate for PC gaming and I hope that it rebounds, like it has done before, and thrives again. I'm going to use this space on the internet to tell you why PC gaming is dead and romanticize it's life. I hope you enjoy.
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