Poll: Do you prefer gaming on your console or pc

[Faela]

PC mostly but when I run out of things to keep me entertained I've got the 360 and PS3.

 

[hawkeye52]

PC because if possible i like to be able to control each and every detail in terms of graphics and be able to download mods for the game. Also dedicated servers that are player owned are always good as well. Also the fact that i find a mouse and keyboard so much better then thumbsticks

 

[Estocavio]

PC - I tried Consoles, and i found poor control schemes, higher prices, and i also found a poor community in its multiplayer (Meaning little, as i rarely use MP).
And the lack of games which i consider to be good seemed nonexistant.
By which i mean it WAS nonexistant.

Im glad i only ever rented them.
PS: You can rent consoles in this Country. If that isnt commonplace in the rest of the world, anyway.

 

[repeating integers]

Here, around 800 or so. And indeed. Steam sales are frequent and stunningly worth it. Buying physical copies of a game that's on steam is insane. First off, assembling a computer is surprisingly easy. If you're not sure how, theres basic step by step guides online that will take you about a few minutes. It's a simple process, really. Screwing in some things and hooking up a few cables, attaching a card or two and you're done. And all of that takes about 2 minutes for the absolute beginner. I did my first pc when I was 8 with no clue what I was doing and it worked perfectly. Pc on tv wise. It works exactly like a monitor when it's hooked up to a tv. I'm using a tv with a keyboard and mouse in front of it. If you have a wireless keyboard/mouse you could be on the other end of the room and still use it identically.

You see... $800 US is apparently around £500 in UK currency. For me at least, that's an awful lot of money, and serves to remind me why I got a vanilla 360 rather than a PS3 with Move (besides Move not existing when I got my 360). Your post has given me hope that I might one day be able to build myself a PC capable of actually handling games made this millennium (want... RTS... games...), but I still don't see it happening anytime soon. Plus, I'd have to be careful to only buy components for the PC which are compatible with one another, which sounds doable if I ask for help on somewhere which knows about the subject (say... here) but is still way more complex than just buying a 360 and plugging it in before inserting a game and playing instantly.

As for the TV thing... don't even the best TVs have worse resolution than your average monitor? That might not make much of a difference for gaming, but what about your standard internet browsing, or any other functions a PC can do?

I saying this throw my and my friends experences and thoughts:

1: True but I have several freinds who are big X-Box gamers and they tend to agree with me but I get your point.
2:Some it dependds on the game Starcraft 2 was $60 but in general they ushaly are unless there big titles.
3: What do you do with your computors, im 17 and my family got our first computor when I was 4 and it worked fine when we got a new one when I was 10. Know that one is starting go bad its been 7 years.
4: That was a point out the obviuos sarcastic comment.
5: That was the only, true my opion anwser.

I get what your saying but in the end I still prefur PC.

Thing with my computers is that they seem to have a curse - they're never any good. This is probably because our lack of spare money to toss into expensive machines means we have to get the cheap (or preferably free) ones. My own personal computer is an ex-server and lacks the motherboard needed to game. The family comp is ancient and very slow, and the games it can run, it can't run at any decent speed. My little brother's laptop is just too outdated to even be connected up to the internet without absorbing dozens of viruses. My 360 works exactly as it should, and hasn't had any problems. It's way, way more convenient.

 

[Ocoton]

You see... $800 US is apparently around £500 in UK currency. For me at least, that's an awful lot of money, and serves to remind me why I got a vanilla 360 rather than a PS3 with Move (besides Move not existing when I got my 360). Your post has given me hope that I might one day be able to build myself a PC capable of actually handling games made this millennium (want... RTS... games...), but I still don't see it happening anytime soon. Plus, I'd have to be careful to only buy components for the PC which are compatible with one another, which sounds doable if I ask for help on somewhere which knows about the subject (say... here) but is still way more complex than just buying a 360 and plugging it in before inserting a game and playing instantly.

As for the TV thing... don't even the best TVs have worse resolution than your average monitor? That might not make much of a difference for gaming, but what about your standard internet browsing, or any other functions a PC can do?

Now, see, you made the fatal mistake of assuming I'm american. I'm not. I'm from New Zealand. And that, my good sir, is why you can change any widescreen tv between resolutions, widescreen and standard monitor, with the press of a button.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

PC, because it has many functions besides gaming and I like to have many options to waste my time.

 

[repeating integers]

You see... $800 US is apparently around £500 in UK currency. For me at least, that's an awful lot of money, and serves to remind me why I got a vanilla 360 rather than a PS3 with Move (besides Move not existing when I got my 360). Your post has given me hope that I might one day be able to build myself a PC capable of actually handling games made this millennium (want... RTS... games...), but I still don't see it happening anytime soon. Plus, I'd have to be careful to only buy components for the PC which are compatible with one another, which sounds doable if I ask for help on somewhere which knows about the subject (say... here) but is still way more complex than just buying a 360 and plugging it in before inserting a game and playing instantly.

As for the TV thing... don't even the best TVs have worse resolution than your average monitor? That might not make much of a difference for gaming, but what about your standard internet browsing, or any other functions a PC can do?

Now, see, you made the fatal mistake of assuming I'm american. I'm not. I'm from New Zealand. And that, my good sir, is why you can change any widescreen tv between resolutions, widescreen and standard monitor, with the press of a button.

Wait, "fatal" mistake? Does this mean you're going to kill me now?

In any case, it's still £400. Which is still a lot of money, even if it isn't £500. Also... chalk that up to me being a noob with technology life in general, I didn't know you could do that.

 

[Megacherv]

I like playing on both, however lately i've been playing my PC alot more than my PS3. So PC i guess.

Wow, it's like you stole the words right from my mouth...err, I mean fingers.

 

[StraightToHeck]

depends on the game, I prefer my xbox but I might cave and get Fallout: New Vegas GOTY on my PC when it comes out (the loading screens on the xbox version are like a turtle marching thru peanut butter)

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I prefer the PC for some games, console for others. Multiplayer on consoles is great though, offline multiplayer that is.

 

[Ocoton]

Wait, "fatal" mistake? Does this mean you're going to kill me now?

In any case, it's still £400. Which is still a lot of money, even if it isn't £500. Also... chalk that up to me being a noob with technology life in general, I didn't know you could do that.

Possibly. Also, Yeah, but its similar to the rates to get set up on the other platforms with equipment and a few games, and when you count the fact that you have instant access to a huge river of free games, and the insane deals for pc, the cost is quickly earned back and then some.

 

[repeating integers]

Wait, "fatal" mistake? Does this mean you're going to kill me now?

In any case, it's still £400. Which is still a lot of money, even if it isn't £500. Also... chalk that up to me being a noob with technology life in general, I didn't know you could do that.

Possibly. Also, Yeah, but its similar to the rates to get set up on the other platforms with equipment and a few games, and when you count the fact that you have instant access to a huge river of free games, and the insane deals for pc, the cost is quickly earned back and then some.

Perhaps. But I can't afford £400 right off the bat, and it'll take a fuckload of saving up. Which doesn't mean it'll never get done, I suppose, but when you consider that there are lots of great 360 games I could be spending my money on instead, I still don't have any particular inclination apart from wanting to play RTS games.

In the end, if I do get a new PC - and I do hope to - it'll probably be another cheap, barely-working one. But hopefully it'll be able to run games made after 1999 this time.

 

[C117]

Normally I'd say PC, but recently I've had so much trouble with my PC games (crashes, freezeups, installers that refuse to work, etc) that I've started to enjoy my consoles a lot more.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

PC for the modding stuff and Steam.
Only reason I'd play on my consoles is if an exclusive I really wanted to play was out but that hasn't happened in one hundred billion years.

 

[vxicepickxv]

It depends on the game. I don't want to play an RTS or FPS on a console. I don't want to play Platformers on a PC. I mostly play on a PC because they don't have minecraft on PSN or Xbox Live.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

I prefer my PS3, because its seamlessly integrated in my home cinema.

Besides i have a Laptop i use in multimedia anyway, don't want to brim it up with games.

 

[MARKMCMARCUS]

I love my computer. I love using a keyboard + mouse. And I also like how with some games I can just plug in my controller and play it like it was a console.

 

[Craig Cameron]

My first games were on the commodore 64 and the sega mega drive, granted that these consoles were older than I was when I got them from my dad but as such consoles will always be a part of my gaming life and I can't really help that.

That being said I do love to game on my PC, more often than not if I have a game on PC I want to play and a game on console the PC will always take priority. It amazes me that it worked out like that since every gamer I knew up until about 2 or 3 years ago was a complete console fanboy. I started PC gaming when I got my first computer about 6 years ago, granted given my age I was 12 and it was a second hand "Tiny" desktop computer that had been mid range when it was new and was about as powerful as a toaster with a screen compared to the gaming rigs of the time, but I didn't know that back then, to me there was this monolithic cream coloured tower in my room that was a gateway into a world of games that I'd never knew existed.

It gave me my first taste of fantasy RPGs with neverwinter nights and dungeon siege, it gave me RTS with C&C red alert 2. While these games may not have been the best on offer at the time you have to keep in mind I was young, I didn't know there was a "gaming community", I hadn't even indulged the notion that there were groups of gamers out there sharing games and ideas, I only had access to the internet for 30 minutes a day via dial-up before then, and even when we did get broadband, I was a young boy around other young boys with the world at their fingertips how was I supposed to know about things like "System Shock" I was too busy on stick death and newgrounds, trying to find some form of gratuitous violence that I could show my mates.

So shun me if you want, PC is my preferred platform but I'll always love my consoles.

 

[Aphex Demon]

I prefer PC gaming for the community. I hate the kids that are binded in with XBL. But more of my freinds are on Xbox/PS3, so I play console more with mates.

I actually couldnt decide, but I have had the best and most funny times on PC. So.. PC.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

Depends on the game really... I play all my RTSs and FPSs and similar games on my pc.. But my RPGS (Fallout, Oblivion, etc.) I play on my console.. Mostly because I can't get them to run well on my pc.. But yeah.. It really just depends on the game for me..