{"id":249,"date":"2005-07-28T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T20:39:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-28T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T20:39:25","slug":"long-live-pc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/28\/long-live-pc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live PC Gaming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I greeted this ExtremeTech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,1697,1841228,00.asp\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,1697,1841228,00.asp', 'article about Windows Vista');\">article about Windows Vista<\/a> and gaming the same way that the French dabbed watery eyes and blew kisses at the liberating allied forces during Word War II.  \u201cLong live PC Gaming!\u201d  Many of the old timers that I know have remained strong and resisted the call of the console box.  \u201cSee how easy it is to play me.\u201d  \u201cNo configuring me for anything.\u201d  \u201cAren\u2019t I just as expensive as a new video card?\u201d  Let me tell you, it\u2019s been tough.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is on the horizon!  The resistance will win!  Windows Vista will be a true PC gaming platform!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to re-hash the many reasons why I don\u2019t like console gaming.  To each his or her own I say.  But I was getting very tired of reading and hearing how the PC was dead as a gaming platform, despite the fact that I am playing many more hours on the PC right now than I ever was back when consoles were these jaggy silly primitive products.<\/p>\n<p>There are simply better PC games these days.  World of Warcraft and Out of the Park Baseball are really the only titles I play right now.  OK, I just started Halo.  I literally don\u2019t have the time to play much else.  But it\u2019s all PC all the time.  I stopped playing console games when I stopped reviewing them.<\/p>\n<p>So get ready old timers!  Start thinking up new excuses to tell your wives and significant others!  Now we can blame a \u201cmid-life crisis\u201d on our hours in front of the monitor.  And we can even afford to buy all of the games that we shouldn\u2019t be playing!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I greeted this ExtremeTech article about Windows Vista and gaming the same way that the French dabbed watery eyes and blew kisses at the liberating allied forces during Word War II. \u201cLong live PC Gaming!\u201d Many of the old timers that I know have remained strong and resisted the call of the console box. \u201cSee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/28\/long-live-pc-gaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Live PC Gaming!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}