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You're whining about pointless shit. YOU are the only reason you spent $3000 of funny money on your new PC, when you could get a more basic gaming PC for 1/3 that.
Have fun barely hitting 30fps in most modern console games.
It's almost like this forum has to do with PC gaming or something.And this is the reason he left and just let people troll him without response. Oh well, guess PCMR folks are full of themselves, glad I am not one of them.
It's almost like this forum has to do with PC gaming or something.
Thing about "switching to consoles", the honeymoon period is a thing. Once you burn through the exclusives you've missed, it's back to collecting dust, at least in my experience.
The NET cost of pc gaming vs console gaming still is too one sided for me to ever go back to consoles.
Looks at forum title, says General Gaming, still standing by my point. I see nothing wrong with his thread or his point.
The net cost of PC gaming is still much higher than console gaming. The fact is, sales are the same on both sides and free game giveaways only help.
No, actually, the sales are only on multi-platform titles...because you can buy them anywhere.
The exclusives remain high-priced for 2-3 years.
Remember the Switch sale a month or so back? Yeah, that was for all the Steam ports.
That has not been my experience but, I will take your word for it. I do not own a switch, though.
Talking about HardForum itself. Essentially a PC Hardware enthusiast website. The nicest response you can expect to get is a "cool story bro".Looks at forum title, says General Gaming, still standing by my point. I see nothing wrong with his thread or his point.
The net cost of PC gaming is still much higher than console gaming. The fact is, sales are the same on both sides and free game giveaways only help.
He sent me a nasty PM before he left. Something upset him about what posts I was liking in this thread, I guess.And this is the reason he left and just let people troll him without response. Oh well, guess PCMR folks are full of themselves, glad I am not one of them.
nice horse ya got thereOh well, guess PCMR folks are full of themselves, glad I am not one of them.
I've seen Nintendo first party titles hold their full price value 2 years after release. This is even going back to the wii-u days.
nice horse ya got there
If that "hasn't been your experience," then perhaps you'd like to point to actual Press Release for a significant sale on *brand new* 1st-party eshop games? Either Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo would suffice.
Something that big would have been carried by major gaming sites, and should be easy for you to find on Google.
I'd be willing to change my tune, if you could provide proof.
Gamefly.com used games, including first party titles. At least for me, that is what I do, if I want it on disc.
PCMR is PCMR, I am a member. Sorry.
This is not an attack on the person I'm quoting but....
Let's drop this whole "PC Master Race" nonsense. It sounds retarded and frankly childish.... Like calling someone "gay" in high school.
- I own a computer and it plays games pretty well. The end
This is not an attack on the person I'm quoting but....
Let's drop this whole "PC Master Race" nonsense. It sounds retarded and frankly childish.... Like calling someone "gay" in high school.
I've been a PC gamer since early 2000s getting hooked on the original Far Cry when my friend gave me his GeForce ti 4400.
In 2008, I bought my first real gaming PC with Phenom 9500 paired with a GTX 275 for $500 CAD. This quickly turned into Phenom II 965 ($150) with GTX 470s in SLI ($600), a couple years later an FX-8350 ($250) w/ GTX 670s in SLI ($850) all the way to my current system build a few years back 6700K ($450) w/ GTX 1070s in SLI ($1,400).
With each build the cost of the PC seems to go up exponentially. My latest computer set me back around $3,000 CAD total not including my 4k monitor and case.
At the time I got into PC gaming, the cost wasn't too much of a barrier but now with the cost of RTX cards and less bang for the buck I'm thinking I may have to reluctantly go back to being a console gamer...
GTX X70s were always great value as they typically equaled the flagship performance of the previous generation or better but now its not even that and again the cost is making it less and less affordable.
Its a shame cause I really love PC gaming, running games in all their graphical glory, the precision of keyboard and mouse... Until prices come back down to reasonable levels (which may be never) I may have to say good bye to this hobby (unless I win the lotto) which gave me so much joy and dust off my consoles.
I will check back to this site here and there and try to stay up-to-date on the latest hardware and news but I won't be on this site as much... It was a great run and thank you to all who helped me along this journey.
PC Gaming will always have a special place in my heart...
So long AMD, Intel and Nvidia...
Hello, my old friend Playstation T_T
It's not really any cheaper tbh. The primary difference is you spend the majority of the price up front on a pc, and you spend the majority of the price over time on a console. Goto the microsoft store and buy games for the xbox one, then compare them to the prices of the same games on pc. It's far cheaper on pc, especially with steam and gog sales. 20 year old games are often still $40+ on the console... You can buy Diablo 3 on the pc for $20 all day, but it's $50 on the xbox...
But I can understand the novelty of the console. Fair disclaimer, I have an Xbox One X I picked up because I only game 1-2 hours a week typically and it's easier for me to do from a lounge chair, especially with my messed up back.
It's not really any cheaper tbh. The primary difference is you spend the majority of the price up front on a pc, and you spend the majority of the price over time on a console. Goto the microsoft store and buy games for the xbox one, then compare them to the prices of the same games on pc. It's far cheaper on pc, especially with steam and gog sales. 20 year old games are often still $40+ on the console... You can buy Diablo 3 on the pc for $20 all day, but it's $50 on the xbox...
But I can understand the novelty of the console. Fair disclaimer, I have an Xbox One X I picked up because I only game 1-2 hours a week typically and it's easier for me to do from a lounge chair, especially with my messed up back.
And this is the reason he left and just let people troll him without response. Oh well, guess PCMR folks are full of themselves, glad I am not one of them.
Well he is not wrong...
He is not getting the same epxreince for cheaper buy going to consle
he is going to a predefined experience he coud lhave gotten the same way on a pc in the same budget
Soo OP complatins about price is solelybased on an orange to apples comparins on his bad choices for his goal
There are games I prefer on console. SF, MK, Persona, lots of them. And the whole PCMR thing is just a joke. I love my PC, it is a hobby. Consoles come and go but the PC gets upgraded and evolves. I love it.
Seriously, does any PC Gamer here really think that PCMR is important or meaningful?
There are games I prefer on console. SF, MK, Persona, lots of them. And the whole PCMR thing is just a joke. I love my PC, it is a hobby. Consoles come and go but the PC gets upgraded and evolves. I love it.
Seriously, does any PC Gamer here really think that PCMR is important or meaningful?
OP could just have bought a simple car and still gotten a cheap car.
PC Gaming Too Expensive, Switching to Consoles, so long [H]
Not to mention, choosing pc gaming > consoles wasn't really about having the most cost effective option for gaming, it was about having the best experience and options for gaming. Consoles for the longest were THE cost effective option that allowed gamers to play without shelling out the money for a PC....PC just ended up being cheaper in the long run due to console manufacturers nickle and dime-ing everything in the fucking world, and being a completely "walled off" experience.The reality is, you can spend an almost unlimited amount of money on console or PC gaming. You can spend a fortune on displays and sound systems for either which make the cost of the console or even the PC into the smallest fraction of such a project. Granted, a quality PC is far more expensive than a console. However, you don't have to go towards the ultra high end to buy a PC capable of gaming at resolutions and or frame rates that consoles simply can't do right now.
Not to mention, choosing pc gaming > consoles wasn't really about having the most cost effective option for gaming, it was about having the best experience and options for gaming. Consoles for the longest were THE cost effective option that allowed gamers to play without shelling out the money for a PC....PC just ended up being cheaper in the long run due to console manufacturers nickle and dime-ing everything in the fucking world, and being a completely "walled off" experience.
PC gives you options: Don't like a controller? Don't have to play with one. Hell you can play with a fucking guitar hero controller if you want. Games die on consoles over time.....you can almost always bet that even if a publisher kills online services for a game, some PC gamers will find a way to keep playing. Not to even mention the fact you play on PC you are more likely to get a more mature age group than fucking 12 year olds screaming racist obscenities in a voice chat.
Thing about "switching to consoles", the honeymoon period is a thing. Once you burn through the exclusives you've missed, it's back to collecting dust, at least in my experience.
The NET cost of pc gaming vs console gaming still is too one sided for me to ever go back to consoles.
No, actually, the sales are only on multi-platform titles...because you can buy them anywhere.
The exclusives electronic copies remain high-priced for 2-3 years.
DRM and dead gaming clients are rather irrelevant, you can still find those games. I still have box copies of my floppy disk games that still work with DOSBOX. Doom, Incredible machine, Civ, Ultima 4, Kings quest...all working fine, and the beautiful thing is, I can still find these games online today and download them to play on my PC. You can get around lost CD Keys or find manuals online for those games that had DRM part of their game mechanics (Such as in Jouneyman Project, where you had to enter in a code to even get in the temporal agency, defined in the booklet)You think games on console die? Lol, say that to my big box of fully working Atari 2600 games.... Say that to all the PC games I bought on Impulse for PC that can't be downloaded anymore. Say that to my PC version of GTAIV that can't be activated anymore because I installed it too many times and was locked out. Sheesh, kids these days.
The reality is, you can spend an almost unlimited amount of money on console or PC gaming. You can spend a fortune on displays and sound systems for either which make the cost of the console or even the PC into the smallest fraction of such a project. Granted, a quality PC is far more expensive than a console. However, you don't have to go towards the ultra high end to buy a PC capable of gaming at resolutions and or frame rates that consoles simply can't do right now.
ah thats a classic there. remember playing the KQ games on my tandy 1000DRM and dead gaming clients are rather irrelevant, you can still find those games. I still have box copies of my floppy disk games that still work with DOSBOX. Doom, Incredible machine, Civ, Ultima 4, Kings quest...all working fine, and the beautiful thing is, I can still find these games online today and download them to play on my PC. You can get around lost CD Keys or find manuals online for those games that had DRM part of their game mechanics (Such as in Jouneyman Project, where you had to enter in a code to even get in the temporal agency, defined in the booklet)
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Just picked this one up the other day, pretty stoked to play it again.
And I hate to say it, I have zero desire to relive the Atari age of gaming. Most of the games were just the shitty version of their MAME (arcade) counterparts anyway.