Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
I won't defend Lost Planet 2 since we all know its reception ON THE CONCOLES wasn't that great. Personally, I had a good time playing it on the PC but that's beside the point.

Just because a game isn't well received doesn't mean that driver development should stop. Justifying poor performance by stating a game isn't popular is no way to go about looking at this industry.
Right, personally I'm sure you did. Or not. The game is terrible and there is a 90% chance it was ported terribly with barely functioning KBM support.

If I tested 3/4 of those games, our reviews would be absolutely pointless since not one of them really puts massive strain on the GPU. Many thing Civ 5 does and I beg to differ.
Lies. Please reference high IQ tests of those games that bring mid range GPUs to their knees. For some reason no one bothers to test high IQ med. resolution except for techpowerup. Techreport does high IQ high res and GTX 460s drop to 23 fps.

BC2 is used. As was SC2 but that was removed due to the CPU playing a massive roll in the overall results.

I have played Civ 5 religiously since it was released and I can tell you that the CPU is what bottlenecks performance. Granted, there are sites using it for benchmarking purposes that somehow get low framerates on even high-end GPUs. Since they flat out refuse to publish their in-game methodology we have no idea where those numbers come from and I sure as heck can't repeat their results even after months of playing.

I don't choose games based upon popularity but rather on a combination of feature sets, benchmark run repeatability and overall GPU demands.
Then you aren't reaching out to the people who actually read your reviews. We want to know how cards will play in games that we play.

Paying lip service to a press release shouldn't be taken as fact.
Perhaps you should actually see their testing that they did, and not lip service.