Poll: According to my peers, PC gaming is inferior to consoles.
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PC Gaming is technically superior if you care about fancy graphics and have a spare grand or two lying around to spend on the latest graphics card c-c-c-combo breaker to make your framerate slightly higher than the last model. I personally prefer console gaming but thats really because I already use my PC for everything and don't want to rely on one sole machine cause I'm superstitious like that.
Agreed neither system is superior, although apperantly some people don't get that when you flat out say it so here I am saying it again, they're both different neither one is better and I doubt either will be around for another generation or so
PC Gaming? Not really comparable to Console Gaming. It's like asking if Rock is inferior to Disco. They might be in the same medium of music, they might even share songs and artists, but they are so different that they shouldn't be compared.
PC Gamers? Elitist arrogant dicks and an entirely separate species to Console Gamers.
PC Gamers? Elitist arrogant dicks and an entirely separate species to Console Gamers.
I think he confused Apple fanboys with PC gamers.RhombusHatesYou said:
OT: OP that friend you have on FB is an idiot, please feel free to tell him I said that.
PC is a superior platform that can do everything a console can and much more but games are no better on a PC unless better graphics = better game in your tiny little mind. It really all comes down to preference for what platform you want and if the excluive titles for that platform are what you want. but the smart ones will choose multiple platforms.
No I still do not understand.masticina said:Ah read again sloweradamtm said:
Seriously once I moved to consoles and have to reinstall windows... again.. for the second time in 6 months I was done with it. I wanted something I could trust to run. And don't get to me with "well if you kept windows clean" ... it was Windows Vista! Yeah one of those "Hidey Hole" systems that loves to HIDE things. If there was a problem I just didn't want to do the bug hunt anymore.
Linux worked.
Do I miss a few games you know not really in the end sure some really lovely games like Vampire the Masquarade: Bloodlines but I can get over that!
I never understand people that say they reinstall their windows every 3/6 months. I didn't reinstall windows once since i got this machine two years ago. I sometimes wonder what people do on those machines that need a /format C:\ every 6 months.
Seriously the only times I broke windows it was pretty much either on purpose, by my own stupidity (this system32.sys looks suspicious lets delete it!!!!), or massive hardware failure (like that never happens in consoles).
I don't understand the "installation of the game, and drivers and patches and crap" argument either since there is Steam or other launchers that autopatch and have essentially no installation at all beyond the download.
Like i said, you run Linux, I never could wrap my head around linux (and I'm not exactly technologically impaired). Its one of the most unnecessary complicated OS ive ever seen. Seriously I appreciate that the haxxors like to control the cpu fan via command-line. But to say you switched to Linux because Windows was too "buggy" and linux "worked" just reminds me of Steve Jobs and the Mac spin about how it just works. Seamlessly.
My PC cost 700 euros and it can play everything that's out right now on high settings.Zanarch812 said:
To be honest, both sides in this "war" are really getting on my hypothetical tits. Just shut up all of you, no-one cares what you use to play games on. JUST ENJOY THE GODDAMNED GAME.
/mini-rant
/mini-rant
Yes, this.BlackStar42 said:
OT: Superiority is dependent on perspective, it depends on what you want out of it. If you want better hardware and more precise controls then yeah, you're better of with a PC. But if you want something that's cheaper, easy to transport and good to have friends over for with a controller that can be used from any feasible position of comfort, then there's no way in hell you can claim the PC is superior.
One wonders how the Bethesda employee expects someone to "get with the times" by buying a console from 2005 or 2006.franconbean said:
I never said "untrue", I said "pompous and arrogant."Frostbite3789 said:
Also, even if people who are somehow used to PC control schemes can play better than people who use controllers, that doesn't make the control scheme by any stretch of the word "better." It still feels ridiculous and unnatural.
Also, "bigger library" and "better graphics" are not real advantages. "Yoshi's Island" still looks better than "Battlefield 3", and... well, you need a SNES to legally play "Yoshi's Island", and that game is better than pretty much ANY game I've played on the PC, and don't get me wrong, I actually do play a LOT of games on the PC due to the fact that I fucking love Steam.
But also my biggest point is that THIS HAS TO FUCKING STOP. "Console Wars" (or, more like "Platform Wars") like this were cute back in the day when we were arguing whether or not a plumber could defeat a hedgehog, but this is just FUCKING STUPID and NEEDS TO STOP. "PC Gamer" is not some royal title that people will be impressed by, yet it gets flailed around like some badge of honor all the time and anybody who touches a console gets ridiculed. It needs to stop, not just because it's annoying as all hell, but because it makes THE ENTIRE GAMING COMMUNITY LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF DOUCHE BAGS. So, all I'm saying is, PC Gamers, PLEASE stop making us look bad.
I dropped about $740 AUD on the guts of my 'new' gaming rig ($125 for 8GB RAM, $135 for motherboard, $295 for i7 2600, $190 for Radeon HD6850), and not only is it a beast at playing all my games, but it's also a strong workhorse when I do Graphic/Audio work and Video encoding (thank you Intel!), something I can't do on a X360, PS3 or Wii.
Oh, and for those who'd try and insult me on spending over $700 for those parts, it'd cost me $400-500 for a X360 or PS3 with a decent-sized drive and/or Kinect/Move, PLUS the $500-1000 it'd cost me to buy a new TV to make playing on a X360 or PS3 look half-decent compared to my old TFT BenQ FP222W (22" Wide) running at 1680*1050 with the HD6850.
So that's easily a $1-1.5K (up to $2K if I got BOTH the X360 and PS3) investment just so I can play games on my couch whilst hogging the TV so others can't use it...
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Also, to the one trying to argue that moving from Windows to Linux doesn't make sense when 'simplifying' things - Linux doesn't try to lock you out of things that required Admin/Root access IN an Admin/Root account by using BS like "TrustedInstaller" in Win7...
I've lost track of how many times I've had to hijack control of a folder ~BACK~ from Windows in order to stop crap from fucking me over.
Also, before you try to deride me as a "user who's too big for his boots" for trying to control MY system, I've been building and maintaining computers since I was 7 starting with Windows 95, and even XP didn't give me as much hassles as W7 does when I want to cull the excess crap to make a leaner running system that's lighter on my friggen RAM.
Oh, and for those who'd try and insult me on spending over $700 for those parts, it'd cost me $400-500 for a X360 or PS3 with a decent-sized drive and/or Kinect/Move, PLUS the $500-1000 it'd cost me to buy a new TV to make playing on a X360 or PS3 look half-decent compared to my old TFT BenQ FP222W (22" Wide) running at 1680*1050 with the HD6850.
So that's easily a $1-1.5K (up to $2K if I got BOTH the X360 and PS3) investment just so I can play games on my couch whilst hogging the TV so others can't use it...
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Also, to the one trying to argue that moving from Windows to Linux doesn't make sense when 'simplifying' things - Linux doesn't try to lock you out of things that required Admin/Root access IN an Admin/Root account by using BS like "TrustedInstaller" in Win7...
I've lost track of how many times I've had to hijack control of a folder ~BACK~ from Windows in order to stop crap from fucking me over.
Also, before you try to deride me as a "user who's too big for his boots" for trying to control MY system, I've been building and maintaining computers since I was 7 starting with Windows 95, and even XP didn't give me as much hassles as W7 does when I want to cull the excess crap to make a leaner running system that's lighter on my friggen RAM.
BlackStar42 said:
I think it's too much for people to enjoy the game and merits that both systems have don't you? Wouldn't be the bloody internet if people weren't getting bent out of shape over minor things now would it?
A computer is like a giant calculator, and a console is like a dvd player. One crunches numbers while the other plays discs. They're two separate things and so can't be compared.
...Modern Warfare had a story line?
All I saw was a checklist of cliche's mashed together into some sort of Tom Clancy-esque Plot-Loaf.
Wait, I think I vaguely remember some other part of this topic now...I think it had to do with Consoles being better than PCs. I could go on a diatribe of how stupid that argument is, or I can just use three little letters.
'L'
'O'
'L'
And that's all the effort I'm willing to invest into that tired, stupid , useless topic.
All I saw was a checklist of cliche's mashed together into some sort of Tom Clancy-esque Plot-Loaf.
Wait, I think I vaguely remember some other part of this topic now...I think it had to do with Consoles being better than PCs. I could go on a diatribe of how stupid that argument is, or I can just use three little letters.
'L'
'O'
'L'
And that's all the effort I'm willing to invest into that tired, stupid , useless topic.
The way I see it, console gamers have gaming as a hobby. PC gamers have PCs as a hobby. Hence they tend to feel strongly about their PCs being better than some console. I'd hazard to say most PC gamers feel the same about consoles as they do about Macs.