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Gaming - CONSOLEs vs PC - View Post

SvennoJ on 03 November 2014
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Pemalite said:
SvennoJ said:

Different worry though. For console games you don't have to worry about solving bugs and glitches yourself. Everyone is in the same boat and critical issues will be fixed. On PC you need to search message boards to find a solution for your particular setup if even available, then mess with drivers and gpu / sound settings to find a work around.


Er. No you don't.

I have 450+ games on steam.
I don't need to play with drivers/settings to make all my games work, I just download, install and play.

I also don't have a "simple" PC either, I'm running triple monitor, with quad-graphics cards, if anyone was going to have signficant debilitating issues with their games library, then I would be one of the first in line.

Steam also updates games automagically, just like on these newer consoles, in-fact the PC was the first to have such a feature in the consumer electronics world.
And sometimes... Being able to "tinker" can be a godsend.

Lets use Skyrim for instance, it was almost unplayable on the PS3, due to the plethora of bugs, if it was on PC, you may have been able to find a solution, instead you had to "deal with it" untill it was patched, so that "Con" for the PC can actually become a "Pro".

I must be really unlucky then. I had major issues when The witcher 2 came out, controller support issues with anti chamber, Fract OSC not starting, Tesla effect video not rendering correctly. Plus random crashes, especially when switching inputs on my amp. Most games do not like the auto desktop resizing windows does when I temporarily switch inputs. Currently Civilization beyond earth is annoying me, half the time it won't start in offline mode. I've got Steam set to offline mode, still it insists on finishing installing yet again, times out after a minute before I can retry. Sometimes it crashes rigth after the initial loading screen, no clue why. When it finally runs it works fine, yet it refuses to minimize on alt-tab and keeps sucking cpu time when paused so I have to exit it to be able to do something else for a minute then restart it again.

Those are just recent ones of the top of my head, and I don't even have a big steam library. I never said all, but it's definitely more work than console games. Skyrim is the worst possible example on ps3, yet it had it's work arounds too, disable autosave and restart after 20-30 minutes and you can play it fine even after 80 hours. I finished the game, wasn't almost unplayable. What was unplayable was Kotor on my PC. I never got past the opening, just would not work.

I'll give PC one thing, when my GPU's hardware T&L chip burned out, some games allowed me to play on by disabling it in the settings. Others turned into a corrupt mess on screen. A console would have to be sent in for repairs.