"PC Gaming Puts Other Platforms to Shame in GAMES, RESPECT, and DEALS"

[vlad321]

disolitude said:

vlad321 said:

disolitude said:

I noticed something about the guy in the video. Hes a geek and in his early 20s...

That sums up people who have time to take full advantage of PC gaming in this manner as the video describes.

To people that make enough money and have 9-5 jobs, girlfreinds, wives, social life, and can afford to buy a game or two every month when a game is released that they want to play...all this means very little.

I have an hour a day to game and play online with a few buddies... I don't want to be screwing around with Xpadder for a game that has no controller support (FU PC version of Mass Effect 2) or looking for counter strike servers to find my friends.

But otherwise the video is pretty accurate. PC games look better and are cheaper. If you want to buy "game packs" for cheap and get 10 bargain bin titles along with 3 decent games you may want to play...PC is the only place you can do this.

You make an absolutely horrible generalization. I have far worse than a 9-5 job with college classes, have managed to see half the world, have a stable relationship, and go out and party thursday-sat night from 9 to 5, pm to am of course. Yet I still had the spare time to find parts for my new PC (2 hours), build it (4.5 hours from packaged box to booted Windows 7), and put all the little things I need on it in 30 minutes (www.ninite.com REALLY shortedned that time, I'll admit).

I also have yet to have a problem with running ANYTHING other than EFT which isn't even a game but a tool for EVE and everything else had been double click and voila.

As for jsut playing locally and having fun, there comes in the Wii. I don't have to worry about hardware failure, updates, installs, lack of local multiplayer games, or any of that crap. Put the disc in and play it and have fun. The other 2 consoles suffer from all of that but lack the open system, the cheap and superior online, the cheap games, the free mods (FAR FAR FAR better than ANY DLC ever released for a game), or the graphics of the PC.

tl;dr: HD consoles are smack dab in the middle of the ease of use and awesome fun local multiplayer of consoles, and the extreme openness and power of PCs with companies which try to milk every cent out of their consumers. They have neither of the benefits and all of the downfalls of each.

I didn't mean to call people with PC knowledge nerds...but what you described above (putting PC together in 4 hours) does put you in a distinct category of...PC fanatic. There are millions of people out there that go to stores like Best buy every day to buy a PC, and ask the sales associate if the PC they are buying is good for gaming...to which the sales associate replies "ofcourse it is, look it has integrated graphics. Amazing for gaming!".  For these people (80% of the population) consoles are a better choice for gaming by far.

Us geeks know that PC gaming is better but only if you are willing to take full advantage of it but this openness and freedom PCs provide.  I've been a Pc gamer since 1995 and have built quite a few PCs myself. There were times where I found what PCs offer much more appealing. But times have changed for me, and most of my freinds are in the same boat...could be age, time constraints...who knows.

Also, while your Wii argument is valid, there really isn't a way to connect with freinds on that system. Infact the only reason I am still a gamer is because I am able to quickly text my freinds with "Halo 3 in 5 mins?"... log on to 360, play for 45 mins and then go do something else.

For the geek in me, I still have a PC which I use for cool things like 3D gaming and visual drooling (PC metro 2033 FTW) but for the quick social fun with friends (online or offline), 360 and PS3 do beat PC by a wide margin...even for a former PC geek like me in this day and age.

Shio really needs to stop posting these threads. I rarely see any threads dissing PC gaming... Just his anti console rants.

See but you completely missed my point, you got both of my individual points down, but not to overarching one. Me and my friends go "UT in 5 mins" and we go, however then halfway through, before this was released on Steam of course, we'd go "Alien Swarm?" and voila, a free amazing mod. The whole "XXXX in 5 mins" is not exclusive just to the HD consoles, it works just fine on the PC too, and better. Also I have never had a problem joining a friend in game probably since the times of Quake 2. Oh yeah, also we all have better ping.

As for socially, the Wii is far better than either console in local, for online the PC is far better than either console and the HD consoles are left in the middle. You can argue that yes you can have local multiplayer fun on the HD consoles faster than a PC, I mean hell there is no local multiplayer unless we are talking Civ or HOMM. But if you are looking for local fun get a Wii since that is far far better. As for online, I am sorry, but the online on the consoles is just pathetic. Restricted in every sense of the word, shit for ping, almost no mods, you get the idea.