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Why PC gaming?

For the superior graphics, superior sound and superior movement with mouse/keyboard of the PC.
 
Why you ask?

Well, it's simple really.

So I never have to tell my girlfriend that "Johnny is coming over to play with my Wii"

;)

oh yeah, and Photoshop
 
brom42 said:
As I get older I prefer console gaming more and more. I got Bioshock for my PC but ended up trading it for the 360 version. I just enjoyed it more on the 360. I have a feeling that my current machine is going to be my last gaming PC.
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i think thats a factor that most dont consider, age has a huge part in whats "better" for each individual
 
Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games. While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.
In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive. Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time. The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her). I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course). About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...
Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile. Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge. WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time. When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do. Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is. I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture. Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform. I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
 
Ub3rn00b said:
Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games. While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.
In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive. Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time. The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her). I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course). About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...
Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile. Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge. WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time. When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do. Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is. I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture. Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform. I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
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paragraphs ftw.
 
Ub3rn00b said:
Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games. While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.
In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive. Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time. The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her). I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course). About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...
Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile. Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge. WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time. When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do. Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is. I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture. Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform. I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
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Unreadable.
 
Let's see...

1) I suck at platform games because I absolutely hate 3rd person camera...and I'm getting too old to have lightning fast reflexes :(
2) I can never seem to memorize all the combos and special moves in fighting games....getting old, again :(
3) I don't live with other people, don't have to share an unit.
4) Consoles indeed are great fun for parties, but I go to parties, I don't host one.
5) Easier to find people/other stuff online with PC, I hate xbox live.
6) My palms sweat, it gets pretty damn disgusting when I grip a controller for too long.
7) I don't really have time to watch TV, so there's no additional reason to get a big plasma screen, next-gen games would just look like shit on my shoddy 30" set.
8) Like people said, you can do everything else on a PC - Photoshop, Office, email, websurf, pr0n...
9) PC is a hobby by itself, you can make a lot of modifcations without having to worry about the warranty.
10) Gamepads suck ass for FPS RTS and FlightSIM, I can aim and shoot a gun well enough on myself thanks very much, no auto-aim assist for me.
 
damonposey said:
not really. Crysis is the only notable PC exclusive lately. And there have been some really shoddy ports these past few months. On top of that you have a great list of games coming only for consoles this year, and who knows when they'll come to the PC.
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But a lot of games that are are multi-platform, like Bioshock, just play better on the PC and some better on the Xbox.

Personally I think all FPSs are more fun on PC and easier to play, as well as RTS games.

Really, who wants to play C&C on a console?

To me, some games ARE PC exclusive, regardless of if they are multi-platform. They only make them because they are relatively easy to convert and someone will buy them. It's all about money. :)
 
Ub3rn00b said:
Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games. While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.
In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive. Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time. The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her). I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course). About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...
Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile. Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge. WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time. When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do. Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is. I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture. Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform. I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
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Oh, dang, that's a lot of unformatted text.
 
I had nothing better to do atm.....heh. This is that dudes post, formatted to a readable point.


Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games.

While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.

In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive.

Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time.

The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her).

I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course).

About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...

Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile.

Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge.

WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time.


When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do.

Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is.

I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture.

Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform.

I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
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Ok, that took 5 min....Why this poster couldnt do it while typing is beyond my comprehension.
 
Sorry, I get into a chain of thought and sometimes I forget proper formatting.

Funny thing is, editing text is part of my job :O
 
Ub3rn00b said:
Growing up, I didn't have a computer or console system in the house (I'm 30...so we're talking the days from Atari to Genesis to SNES). I played at arcades quite a bit with my allowance money. I had friends that had Nintendos but I thought the graphics looked pretty crappy compared to some of the arcade games I was playing. I also had friends that played alot of PC games. While the PC games back then weren't all that much to look at, they were pretty involved. Games like Space Rogue and Lightspeed were some games that I enjoyed back then. You can still find Space Rogue on some abandonware pages. After that, I had the first X-Men game for PC. Really the gameplay of the X-men games hasn't changed much since then.
In '94 I bought my first PC and got hooked on a game called Descent. I also played alot of Doom and Doom 2. Bioforge was a great game as well. I had all the games I could want on the PC. There was nothing on any console that I was like "ooo ahhhh" and just had to have it. Back then, games on the PC weren't too graphics intensive. Most graphics cards that came in a premade system were fine. A few years later, out came 3DFX games in the arcade. I was blown away. I ended up buying a 3dfx Voodoo card for my computer. For awhile after that it was a matter of "play what I can with the hardware I've go until some really graphics intensive game (for the time) comes out and I need to upgrade. This usually happened every 2 years or so. Then came high speed internet and good online multiplayer capabilities. It was around for awhile, but not available in my area until that time. The world suddenly changed. I could play all these PC games online and compete and destroy people and get better and better and have really fun competitive matches online. And when I was done, I could download music or movies. l33tness..
Then one year I got a playstation 2 for christmas from my girlfriend (I decided to keep her). I really enjoyed the hell out of that. Bought a buncha games for it. Had a grand ol' time. Tried to play a few games online that didn't work out really well. PS2's online gaming was piss poor compared to anything I could play on PC. I enjoy playing multiplayer alot more than I do single player (depending on the game of course). About 6 months after I got my PS2, I found a really good deal on an XBOX. 120 bux for the system, 4 controllers and 10 games. 10 games that were decent, too. Halo 2, NFS: UG2, and some others that I can't remember. This guy was trying to get money to enter some race for his real car. I dunno...
Anyway, I got online with XBOX Live and that was TONS better than PS2 going online. Worked really well. I got some games like Burnout Revenge that I had a ton of fun with. Played that game to death. Between Halo 2 and Burnout, I hardly ever touched my PC for awhile. Then I got Call of Duty 2 for the PC. Well now I was pulled away from the XBOX again for quite awhile. I still played Burnout Revenge for awhile. Even a further while later, the XBOX 360 came out. Burnout Revenge was also released for the 360. Slowly but surely, all of my Burnout Revenge friends were moving to the 360 version. I wasn't that worried about it. 360s were hard to come by. Then one day I saw one at Circuit City. I was suprised to actually see one on the shelf. So I bought it. I also bought Burnout Revenge. WOW!! Amazing!! HD quality from a console! Nothing new to PC gamers, but it looked pretty awesome coming from a console on my HDTV. I started buying up games that I wanted for the 360. I then didn't buy anything for awhile. I had so many games that I barely had time to play, especially after my daughter was born. Are you still reading this long ass post? You need to find better ways to spend your time. When Call of Duty 3 came out, I bought that on the 360 because there was no PC version. I enjoyed the hell out of that game as well. I went back and forth between spending time PC gaming and XBOX 360 gaming. I could never say that one is better than the other. FPS games on the PC are generally better looking and run at a higher framerate than the 360 versions do. Call of Duty 2 and 4 (beta) run very smooth on the 360. Call of Duty 3 runs a bit choppy at times. Gears of War and Bioshock both look and run pretty good. Rainbow 6 Vegas looks like crap on the 360 compared to any PC game FPS game and it runs poorly. Bad coding I guess? I tried it on the PC and it runs even worse but does look better. I guess it depends on how good your PC is. I'm running 2 7900 GTOS in SLI, an x2 4400 processor. Not top of the line anymore, but still a decent rig. People with c2d or quad core and 8800GTXs sli have reported RB6 vegas runs great. No duh...But when you have to spend 3 grand on a computer just so you can overcome system slowdowns due to bad code, there's something wrong with that picture. Still reading? Wow...Ok so uhhh...as you can see from my post here, I can't make a definitely determination which is better. Console or PC. I enjoy both very much. Some games aren't on PC. Others aren't on console. Some look and play better on one or the other platform. I think that by the time the XBOX 1080 comes out in the year 2018, I may not have use for a PC as I believe by then, the XBOX 1080 will be able to do everything you can do on a PC. :D
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...and this one time at band camp... :D

(Sorry - had to do it - lol)
 
Well this is a tough one. Though it shouldn't be imo. I love having my shit together. There is that enough? Gaming and pc in one box. Sounds good to me!

Hacking, modding, downloading, ripping, writing, CREATING, surfing, blah blah blah.

I played vice city for 3 mo. straight while on probation during 2 summers ago. Like 8 hours a day. MMO shit. Just from mods alone.:D Do that on a console!
 
Because playing TF2 with a dual analog setup would be like painting a picture with a fistful of dogshit. It'll work, and you'll get something out of it, but it's just not right.

Because I'm not paying to play online, and I'm not paying for new map packs on top of paying to play online.

Because I love mods and tweaking and getting the most out of my machine.
 
jonneymendoza said:
yea but lately the pc has got some crap games, why cant they release forza 2 on the pc?:rolleyes:
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Lately consoles have had some crap games released.
Strangely there have also been some good games released.
I'm not sure of the point you were trying to make.
 
I went with a new gaming rig over the 360 for two reasons - Company of Heroes nor Supreme Commander is out or will be out for the 360. And I am glad I went with the PC. My cousin, neighbor, and friends have all faced the red ring of death. In fact one of my friend has had to send back his 360 three times! With all of the recent stories of widespread hardware failure, I am glad that my PC has been rock stable for the last 9 months since I built it.
 
I pc game because of larger resolutions and AA/AF.

1600x1200 > 640x480 any day of the week.
 
CleanSlate said:
I pc game because of larger resolutions and AA/AF.

1600x1200 > 640x480 any day of the week.
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well, since hes talking about ps3 and xbox360, i assume he means 720p-1080p

and PCs still run comparable games at a combined higher FRAMERATE (lolz 30fps) and a comparable resolution.

Oh, and Crysis.
 
Why PC? Easy.

Near infinite replayability.

Think about it... how many console FPS's do people devote themselves to for years at a time? I can only think of Halo. On PC, lots and lots of people are still playing tons and tons of games - near 90% of all games on XBL are a graveyard, from what I saw. Thanks to mods, maps, all that good stuff, any good FPS can definitely stand the test of time, and will most likely keep the game fresh.

Same with RTS's - people have played Warcraft 3 and Starcraft for how long now? I know people who still play Age of Empires 2 a lot.

Turn based games? Same deal.

Hell, even RPG's offer near infinite replayability on the PC. How many people have gone through Fallout or Baldur's Gate more than once with a different character seeing the impact it has on the story? Making a character with a 1 intelligence in Fallout results in a much different experience than playing as a smart character, and even more so if you choose to be a female. With FF 7, no matter what you do, the outcome is always the same, and the story will never change. The same NPC's will always say the same things regardless.

I love PC gaming because I know when I buy something like Quake Wars, or Team Fortress 2, people will be playing it for years and years to come, and offer lots of new things to keep the experience fresh. When you buy any other game that's not Halo or Gears of War, the shelf life on Xbox Live seems to be 2 -3 months before people abandon it for the next big thing.
 
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