![]() TV TROPES EVOLAND PCI find myself in the common situation that most late 20 somethings find themselves in where I have more money to buy games, but less time to play them.Īs a long time PC gamer, I find that many of the core PC gaming experiences are lost on me, as I simply don't have enough time to dedicate to ever changing competitive gaming scene. I've found that this type of simulation is exceedingly stressful to me, and has the opposite effect of something like Animal Crossing, which offers a "Latching" style of game play where it's almost impossible for players to make negative progress.Īnd while I would identify as a "Dedicated Gamer", who has a variety of consoles and have maintained at least 1 if not 2 higher end gaming PCs for the last 5 years. There are plenty of PC simulation games, but they tend to stray towards the "Sink or Swim" style of simulation that tasks players to micromanage lots of variables in an active time situation. Games like Animal Crossing, Viva Pinata, and Harvest Moon have experienced a large amount of success on their system, and I've never found anything that offers a similar experience on the PC. My concern is that a web based environment doesn't offer people the same structured approach that people expect in a system like PSN, or Steam. Open Ended Casual Games - I know that the PC market is over saturated with a huge variety of web/flash based games on sites like kongregate. I'm really not sure why there's such a lack of these games as I would imagine the line up well with the "Hardcore" gamer types that a lot of the PC World self identifies towards. These games also seem to be leaving the traditional console market as well, as we've seen a large increase in the JRPG market on handheld consoles. I tend to think that this is a cop-out and ignore the fact that JRPGs an WRPGs tend to differ in their mechanics, and both are enjoyable to large groups of gamers. JRPGS - This has long been a complaint of PC gamers, and the prevailing justification is that PC gamers prefer Western Style RPGS. I understand the average player doesn't have a computer hooked to their main entertainment center, but for those that do, it seems like structured party games are absent. I honestly don't play a lot of these games, but there have been times when I've looked for something on the PC to serve this function, and I've found pretty much nothing to meet this need. ![]() Party Games - There is not a huge market for these games as compared to other genre's but certain platforms have had a large amount of success with them, namely the Nintedo Wii. The following genres seem under represented as compared to console and handheld platforms: In light of this, I'm surprised that we haven't seen the rise of more games that seem to only exist on certain platforms. We've also seen more frequent controller use by PC Gamers which I think is largely due to the standardization of Xbox 360 controller support by most developers. ![]() ![]() Certainly in the last 5 years we've seen a wider public adoption of PC gaming. ![]()
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