Barozi said:
I actually was talking about FPS AND RPG, not necessarily hybrids like Stalker, Borderlands or Fallout 3. Also it's not surprising at all that none of them ever topped a PC chart considering 50% or more purchasers live in former Sowjet Union countries. GSC is far from being an unknown studio. Cossacks series is quite popular among PC gamers at the time. And given that STALKER was hyped as hell since 2001 it's no surprise it sold that well. Ukraine isn't that under-developed either. Maybe the people outside of the big cities, but that has hardly anything to do with that dev studio... |
You really know nothing about PC, and especially RPGs exclusives on PC. There are DOZENS of great exclusive RPGs on PC that consoles didn't get this gen, while consoles only have a handful of FPS and RPGs that aren't even as good as the PC exclusives.
Exclusive PC RPGs:
- The Witcher
- King's Bounty: The Legend
- King's Bounty: Armored Princess
- Guild Wars Factions
- Guild Wars: Nightfall
- Space Rangers 2
- Neverwinter Nights 2
- Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars
- Titan Quest
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of The Betrayer
- Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
- Guild Wars: Eye of the North
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
- Lord of the Rings Online
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria
- Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
- Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
- Space Rangers 2: Reboot
- Aion
- League of Legends
- Torchlight
- Mount & Blade: Warband
- Mount & Blade
- Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer
These are all RPGs exclusive to PC at least a rating average of around 80% on PC, since this gen started. How many exclusive Console RPGs with at least 80% are there? I'll tell you, ONLY 10 RPGs in ALL Consoles are 80%.
Oh, and I didn't put all exclusive PC RPGs with 80% there, since the list is already too big.
Not only does PC have MUCH more great titles that all consoles combined (according to reviewers), but it also has a much more varied range of RPG game, since it has MMORPGs, SRPGs, ARPGs, CORPGs, Traditional RPGs and Genre-mixing RPGs like Space Rangers 2 (which is a mix or RPG, RTS, Adventure and Action).
RPG developers are more and more confident on PC, and in the next few months of 2010 and in 2011 we will get even more amount of amazing RPGs than we ever gotten before:
- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
- Torchlight 2
- Diablo 3
- Guild Wars 2
- Star Wars: The old Republic
- King's Bounty: Crossroads
- Otherland
- Mytheon
- Grim Dawn
- Darkspore
- Starport Gemini
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online
- Tera
As for FPS, we still get more great exclusives than any console, just not more than all consoles combined. Any FPS fan needs to play Shooters on PC, since that's by far the best place for them, and games like Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Quake Live, Stalker games, Killing Floor, etc.. can only be experienced at it's fullest on PC.
GSC Game World was pretty much an unknown studio. Cossacks wasn't THAT popular, and they went incognito, since early 2000's they didn't do anything relevant. They easily made more profit on Stalker games than games like Killzone 2, any Resistance game, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Uncharted game, God of War 3, Fable 2, etc...
Low budgets, No advertisement, High profit margins in Digital Distribution. Think About it.
They already sold over 4 millions. And before Stalker 2 arrives, it'll reach 5 millions, because good PC games have loooong legs.
