Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Dark age of PC gaming

Have been a gamer all my life, since the beginning of time. My first computer game if I remember correctly is "digger", a somewhat boring game that always got died at level 4.
Those are the age of "frogger", "buck roger", "space invader", "and the all famous "Pacman" time, thanks to my dad who forked out an awful lot of money to buy the first commercial PC (x8086 from Intel) when I was about 8 years old

Then I got the first Pentium-75 with Trident SVGA video card at the age of 14 and started to play games like the famous "F-19, Mechwarrior, and Command and Conquer. I still remember those days where I would play repeatedly for the different ending and experimenting with silly tactics and idea...

At 19 years old gaming moved to my college period with Pentium III-450 running on nVidia TNT2 AGP interface with the game of Half life, Mecharrior3, Homeworld, Counterstrike, Warcraft III, Age of Empire II, GTA III and many many more...

Then now at 27, my dad brought himself an Intel Core 2 Duo with GeForce 8600 GT with PCI Express. I was obviously excited and happy that my gaming experience will get to continue for at least the next 8 years or so!!! So after some hiccup during the installation and setup, it was good to go!

Without wasting much time, I excitedly use the new computer to surf gamespot for the BEST game around to check out the new computer's capability, to my surprise the list hasn't much change since my Pentium III era.
If one notice properly, majority of the games are 1997-2004!!! Unbelievably stupid of the software house to NOT coming out quality games I would say.


So never mind, I knew a game which is good since playing with Jeebs at cybercafe - Company of Heroes. So straight go and buy and became the first game to be installed in the new PC. Not bad for the campaign, but currently lack of any nice games in mind... in fact the long awaiting Starcraft2 doesn't look good compare to CoH on the demo :(
The main reason for these is probably due to the changes in PC game publisher / maker, as we all know, Westwood, Virgin Interactive, Sierra, Blizzard and rockstar are some of the top game maker, occasionally we have rogue publisher that make it once in a while like Epic Games (Unreal ONLY) and Barking Dog (Homeworld: Cataclysm) which only made 1 or 2 hitz before biting the dust.... but there are alot of acquisition movement in the field that caused many to be disappeared from the face of the earth like Westwood, KOEI (anyone still remember this?) and virgin interactive... I believe we will continue to have sux game for a few more years before the age of PC Games enlightenment is upon us.
Please give us a 10.0 game in the near future!