Five for Five PC FPS Gameplay Sampler (Doom 3/Half-Life 2 era)

1. Crysis
2. Doom 3 - 5:00
3. F.E.A.R - 10:00
4. Half-Life 2 - 15:00
5. Quake 4 - 20:00

Just five PC FPS gameplay samples for five minutes each from the last era I was super excited to be a PC gamer. PC gaming is still going strong, but this was the last era PC gaming truly had it's own unique flavor to it as the 7th gen of consoles came in, and most of the big PC I.P.'s became more console oriented.

The PC versions may have been the best, but the consoles of the day were powerful enough to run full ports, and a lot of PC I.P.'s were refocused for console players as developers shifted their focus to consoles-first. This is the era where the debate between consoles and PC stopped being about graphical fidelity, and became more framerate focused. There are a few exceptions today like Cyberpunk, but the difference between PC and consoles has narrowed as technology has increased on both. The gap narrowed, and it's not like the night-and-day difference between Saturn Quake, and GL Quake running on a Voodoo 3D accelerator. It seems mostly focused on resolution, and frames per second today. That's how much general graphical capabilities have come along. Even the jump in console generations hasn't been particularly drastic since the 7th gen. Obviously, each platform has it's strengths, but from what I can tell, modern PC gamers only know how to say "framerate."

All that said, now that everything is a box that can download and play everything (Outside of the Switch) the PC and modern consoles are interchangeable flavorless boxes to download and play every game, whether you be a PC snob, or a console peasant, it's all the same, and it all started in the 7th console gen. PC gaming is strong, but I find it lacking flavor, just like the PS5, and Series X.

But, man, this was such an exciting time for PC gamers. I even bought an Alienware computer just to play Doom 3, and Half-Life 2. Like, a real Alienware PC, the pre-Dell era. I know, Anti-pre-built snobs, "Why would you buy a pre-built?" This was a different era, and I had no idea how to build my own computer yet. I just wanted to play games. Building your own PC wasn't as prevalent an idea back then as it is today, and information on the best components to buy, and how to build was limited. No YouTube around to teach you how, and I knew my luck with building anything electronic. Granted, I think I could build a pretty good PC from this early 2000's era thanks to all the PC problems I have had in the past.

#Doom3 #halflife2 #Crysis