Leave me alone PC gamers!

[Easton Dark]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console. you buy a PC, you're gonna have to spend more money on upgrades. and I'm a hybrid, i play on both PC and consoles, and people like that are just plain stupid.

I bought one thing for my computer: my computer, back in 2007, and it's a laptop, and it still plays every game.

You people and fairy tales of constant upgrades. Think about this: If you don't have to upgrade a console to keep playing new games, why would you need to upgrade your PC?

 

[Joccaren]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console. you buy a PC, you're gonna have to spend more money on upgrades. and I'm a hybrid, i play on both PC and consoles, and people like that are just plain stupid.

Not really, no.
I upgraded last year so I could max everything out with 60+ FPS on a 2560*1440 screen.
Prior to that, I'd been using the same computer for 7 years. I had not upgraded it once. It ran all game on a minimum of medium settings, and often high-max settings. The fact that most games are made to scale down to consoles means that if your PC is able to run one modern game, its quite likely it can run most, if not all, modern games, even if on low settings, because those games have to run on consoles too, consoles that have far less power.

 

[BleedingPride]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console.

Sure... right up until the time your console becomes obsolete & the new one doesn't include reverse compatibility... In which case you are then stuck with an obsolete piece of technology, that you must also maintain to be able to play all those old games.

An god help you if it breaks down, because those parts are all specialised parts & are no longer being built... On the other hand, i can run an emulation of most of those same games on my PC.

Oh as for having "the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware." I purchased the computer i'm on now 2 years ago for $1,000. I haven't updated the hardware once in that time period.

see thats exactly what im talking about. you couldn't have said that in a nice way? not even TRY to say it nicely? the hell man?

 

[BleedingPride]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console. you buy a PC, you're gonna have to spend more money on upgrades. and I'm a hybrid, i play on both PC and consoles, and people like that are just plain stupid.

I bought one thing for my computer: my computer, back in 2007, and it's a laptop, and it still plays every game.

You people and fairy tales of constant upgrades. Think about this: If you don't have to upgrade a console to keep playing new games, why would you need to upgrade your PC?

you make a good point, but at any point in that sentence could you think of saying that with a little less sass?

 

[BleedingPride]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console. you buy a PC, you're gonna have to spend more money on upgrades. and I'm a hybrid, i play on both PC and consoles, and people like that are just plain stupid.

Not really, no.
I upgraded last year so I could max everything out with 60+ FPS on a 2560*1440 screen.
Prior to that, I'd been using the same computer for 7 years. I had not upgraded it once. It ran all game on a minimum of medium settings, and often high-max settings. The fact that most games are made to scale down to consoles means that if your PC is able to run one modern game, its quite likely it can run most, if not all, modern games, even if on low settings, because those games have to run on consoles too, consoles that have far less power.

sounds like you got pretty lucky there, i wasnt able to go 7 years without an upgrade for my pc.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I don't know why people can't enjoy both- both have their advantages and disadvantages.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Hey guys several PC gamers out of millions have said something slightly irritating to me, now let's all spend 15 pages of posts moaning about PC gamers. That's in no way going to undermine any point someone may have started with.

Your username is so appropriate for your post.

It's surprising that it's gone on for 15 pages. It's surprising how sensitive some of you are. It's surprising how much misinformation about how much PC's cost there is too...Alienware adverts in gaming magazines aren't indicative of what a PC that plays games costs.

 

[Snotnarok]

Consoles are fine I guess when you don't like to put in a lot of effort, it really depends on a few things but overall PCs are better in most respects (except some exclusives yes) for me I have consoles but the PC gets all the attention.

-I use my PC for work and my art
-Steam has games 50%-75% off
-My PC can be switched to my TV with a press of a button
-My PC uses wireless 360 controllers or wired PS2
-I can pick what controller I want to use
-I can watch HD vids/youtube on my TV easily from my PC
-I can stream videos to any PS3 in the house (my dad happens to have one so yeah.)

Honestly at this stage I have no reason to buy the next wave of systems coming in because, I use my PC for a lot besides gaming so why not just save the cash and put it into one device?

 

[galdon2004]

I got a PC for like 600 dollars at walmart and it can run Skyrim and Diablo III without issues. Sure it costs a ton to get what people consider essential for a 'gaming PC' but you can get a PC able to run games for around the cost of last gen's console releases. (PS3 I'm looking at you)

I don't insult people; or consider PC gaming 'elite' its just cost effective. Why pay prices quickly racing to reach a thousand dollars for a machine that can only do one thing well (and in the Xbox's case make you pay 5 dollars a month to let it try to do a few other services poorly) when a PC can do gaming just fine, and handle any other task you need to get done as well.

 

[Doom972]

The thing is I have never been subject to a condescending or judging comment while on my course. It seems to be limited to the internet. My class has 60 people in it, all gamers of as diverse a palet as you can think of and we all get on.

This is where the Greater Internet F**wad theory comes in handy. Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total F***wad.
People on the Internet complain, its one of the hazards of living here.

We just chat about games regardless but when I get online there are comments detailing ever advantage of PC gaming over and over, people complaining about Let's Play's not being on a PC or how terrible the console version is.

And when I come online there are threads spreading misinformation about PCs, calling everyone who uses them Elitists, claiming that consoles are the best platform out there and that Xbox/PS3 is better than the other, and PC because f*** you that's why.
And no, I'm not talking about this thread, though some of the things I've seen people say here have made me want to bang my head against a wall for 3 hours to escape the lack of understanding and unwillingness to learn some people show.

There are idiots who will react poorly to anything not played on PC on Ultra settings, especially on Youtube. Its worse than 4Chan, Reddit, or anywhere else on the net on Youtube. You go there, there are total f***wads everywhere. Its not just PC gamers though, its console gamers too.

"This game is great, imagine how amazing it would look on the PC" is not an inflammatory comment, its a reasonable statement; the game would look better on the PC, and said person hasn't called the game crap because its not on the PC, hasn't insulted anyone who uses consoles, hasn't decried consoles as useless, they've merely implied that a game could look better on the PC. Yet, all over Youtube, I'll see people get up in arms about the "PC Elitist" who posted said comment, and how they need to get a life and a girlfriend rather than spending $3000 on a new PC, or sitting at home all their life building and upgrading it. And then the argument starts about the advantages of PC vs Console, which inevitably leads to the listings of all the ways the PC is superior, and this is generally the half way point where you'll come across most Youtube conversations.

Both PC and Console players start these arguments. Why you only manage to observe PC players in such arguments, or only take offence to their statements, is beyond me.

I don't have console gamers calling me a blight on the industr for one.

That's because they don't consider you a PC gamer. Whenever PC gamers want a certain game to have a PC version or complain about consoles getting exclusive content (see Terraria), you have console gamers talking about PC gamers being elitist, entitled, etc. Both sides are just trolling each other.
I'm a PC gamer, I think consoles are inferior, but not console gamers. To each his own.

 

[GoaThief]

He posted matter of factly, not belittling you at all, yet its "not nice?"

Indeed. It irritates me when people take a concise, short or otherwise non-superfluous post as being rude, aggressive, hostile and/or offensive.

Such is the way of the internet, though.

 

[BleedingPride]

honestly, people who are like that annoy the shit outta me. suddenly they think they're better than me just because i play on consoles because i dont have the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware. i mean, you buy the console once, you can get all the games for that console.

Sure... right up until the time your console becomes obsolete & the new one doesn't include reverse compatibility... In which case you are then stuck with an obsolete piece of technology, that you must also maintain to be able to play all those old games.

An god help you if it breaks down, because those parts are all specialised parts & are no longer being built... On the other hand, i can run an emulation of most of those same games on my PC.

Oh as for having "the ridiculous amounts of money required to constantly keep my computer up to date on all the latest and greatest gaming hardware." I purchased the computer i'm on now 2 years ago for $1,000. I haven't updated the hardware once in that time period.

see thats exactly what im talking about. you couldn't have said that in a nice way? not even TRY to say it nicely? the hell man?

How, in any way, was he being "mean" to you in this post? Grow a fucking pair of balls. This is the internet, if someone debating your post is "being mean" or "not saying it in a nice way," then you need some reading comprehension skills.

He posted matter of factly, not belittling you at all, yet its "not nice?"

You can take my post as not being nice tho, that is definitely what I was doing, because I think you are not fit to be on the internet. Too sensitive.

might have read it wrong. my bad. and yes, i am sensitive. that doesnt mean that people in general shouldn't just try to show respect to each other on a general basis. respect for one another should be a given, do you not agree with that?

 

[BleedingPride]

my apologies for my previous responses everyone i took those too personally.

 

[Living_Brain]

I have never been like that, because not one PC I owned or used has ever been better than consoles. Poverty shapes character, and in a good way.

 

[Drizzitdude]

Is a pc better? Yes. Should we make other people feel like complete and utter shit because of it? No. I mean really there is very few excuses to making other people feel like shit simply because they have to work on a budget or prefer a controller (which I do, despite being a mostly pc gamer) and lets not act like consoles haven't advanced the market as well. For all the problems the consoles can cause the gaming market, they made gaming big and wide spread and without them we wouldn't have nearly as big of a universal gaming community as we do today. Things advance slower with consoles to be sure and it even hampers the progress of other forms of gaming but hey its still SOME progress.

Tl;dr: yes consoles are overall better and easier to use, doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it.

 

[Something Amyss]

If people stopped supporting shitty ports and "dumbed down" or "inferior" consolised games, they wouldn't end up on the PC.

Thank you for proving my point in a post aimed at negating my point, sir.

If that proves your point, your point was the exact opposite of your words.

Ive used a play and charge kit to play on the PC before...

No you haven't. You are confused or mistaken. Microsoft, Wikipedia, and the internet at large say you're wrong. Not to mention personal experience.

The Play and Charge kit is just a power cord for the wireless controller. It does not add wired functionality.