shio said:
Barozi said:
shio said:
Barozi said:
It will hopefully be more like the original and not like the others
oh and shio 4 million sales across 3 games for one of the few good exclusive FPS/RPG series left on the PC doesn't really prove that PC isn't dead...
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Considering that none of the Stalker games ever topped PC charts, It is a strong argument in favour of PC Gaming being stronger than ever.
Also, Stalker is the ONLY good FPS/RPG series today in any platform, yet it's only on PC. Consoles don't have any FPS/RPG hybrids. It came from an unknown independent developer from an under-developed nation, yet they made a high quality, multi-million selling product with no advertisement and a low budget. This can only happen on PC
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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...
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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.
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