Who/What do YOU blame for this extreme lull for enthusiasts?

[bystander36]

All I care about is having fun. Anyone remember when gaming was just pure fun and you knew nothing of frame rates, specs and hardware terms? Prolly not cause you all are too cool for that but you guys can shove your PC vs Consoles and 30fps vs 1000FPS debates up yours and I'll continue to enjoy all the platforms in whatever performance or efficient range I can afford.

You guys are just Sunday Gamers. Real gamer's do not give a crap if the PS4 is weaker than your PC or if it only does 30fps cause the real enjoyment is the gameplay and even 1000FPS at Ultra HD resolution will not make [inferior] games more fun. So if your only driving your Hotrod on Sundays, then your just a Sunday driver.

I remember when a video card was nothing but a block of memory, and games were in 4 colors. Well, that was on my 2nd computer. The first one was monochrome with 640k ram.

 

[HeXen]

I remember when a video card was nothing but a block of memory, and games were in 4 colors. Well, that was on my 2nd computer. The first one was monochrome with 640k ram.

If you had fun playing it then what difference did the number of ram it have in it really matter. I had a Pong system and even a Trash 80 but that has little to do with gameplay now doesn't it.

 

[bystander36]

If you had fun playing it then what difference did the number of ram it have in it really matter. I had a Pong system and even a Trash 80 but that has little to do with gameplay now doesn't it.

I had fun, but I certainly appreciated the advances in graphics as time went on. 4 colors was not all that pretty.

 

[CZroe]

If you had fun playing it then what difference did the number of ram it have in it really matter. I had a Pong system and even a Trash 80 but that has little to do with gameplay now doesn't it.

He's talking about the RAM used as a framebuffer which directly affected what games you could play (determined resolution and color-depth; nothing to do with performance). It mattered.

 

[vanillatech]

I do, but I also remember that we were a lot younger then too. I think you have to take that into consideration.

Age was most probably a big factor, but also the games were far better. We saw advances every month for many, many years. Everything was exciting and games were being made by game loving geeks who could have been doctors / lawyers but chose TO MAKE GAMES instead.

 

[Joeydubbs]

Although I'm far from an enthusiast, there is just no NEED for me to upgrade right now. I was planning on a uber Haswell build with a 770 vid card this summer but was shocked just how well my aging system could handle Skyrim when I bought it a few weeks back...my C2D handles pretty well with win8 tasks. I'm guessing system req's for games will change once the new consoles come out. Sounds like I will need a new rig for Star Citizen though 🙂

 

[OCGuy]

To the 20% who answered "what lull?", what do you think now?

I think the fabs are hurting us all.

 

[StrangerGuy]

To the 20% who answered "what lull?", what do you think now?

I think the fabs are hurting us all.

Crysis was released back in 2007, and no game since then can really hold the title of looking significantly better. if anything IMO the IQ/hardware requirement of games has regressed after it. I'm not even going into whether those games are actually worth the time and money playing...

 

[Blitzvogel]

Half Life 3 might make people upgrade, but likely it would be made with legacy support in mind.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Half Life 3 might make people upgrade, but likely it would be made with legacy support in mind.

I think the community gave up on that long ago. It's just a running joke at this point.