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nuckles87 on 25 June 2015
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sc94597 said:
nuckles87 said:

I built a top of the line, GTX 980 Ti powered computer late last year

Before it was even anounced or released? Impressive! 


There are so many versions of these damn graphics cards I get them confused. I just bought the parts to build my dad a computer with two GTX GeForce Tis (which netted me a free copy of Arkham Knight), so that's just kind of been in my brain.

So, GTX 980. Either way, still top of the line (to the point where I seem to be one of the few people having no serious issue with the PC version of Arkham Knight, anyway).

Vasto said:
Tachikoma said:
nuckles87 said:

I'd say it was never really here, and was just PC gamers being cocky fanboys. Really, it was no differet from a PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo gamer's feeling of superiority. The only huge difference between PC gamers and console gamers is the cost involved.

I built a top of the line, GTX 980 Ti powered computer late last year, and I've been unimpressed with it. The games don't really look that much nicer, the genuine exclusives haven't blown me away anymore than the exclusives of the other consoles (and far less than the spectacular stuff Nintendo's been pumping out on Wii U). I can run Shadow of Mordor at 120 fps: who cares? Had I bought it on PS4 or Xbox One the experience would have been more than fine. And on top of that, because I bought the game close to launch I felt jipped, because the game went on sale just a few months later. 

I'd be unimpressed with a make believe computer too, the 980TI officially launched in June 2015.

Back on topic though, I like being able to play any PC game from the dawn of games on computers to the very latest AAA blockbuster and everything in between, as well as just about every console from 6th gen and older (and the wii, too), all on the same box.

Something consoles can never offer.

 

Still laughing from this post. Nice catch.


I am glad that I can bring some laughter into the world every now and then :D

It's definitely not a make believe computer. And I'm not saying the computer itself is unimpressive. It's pretty damn impressive actually. It's just, running console games on ultra settings don't really do much for me. The differences are marginal at best. It's kind of pointless owning a top of the line PC because there simply isn't much of a market for games that make use of the extra power. I've been scouring the internet for games that'll push my card and produce visuals noticeably better than what the PS4 and XOne are capable of, and as near as I can tell these games don't seem to exist. I believe the game every website kept pointing me towards was Far Cry 4, which is just an optimized console port.

I can definitely see how being able to play loads of games (some illegally, I presume, given you mentioned Wii) on the same box is appealing. Personally, I've had difficulties getting emulation for more recent systems working, and I don't really care enough about it to try. At the moment I'm riding high on trying to find games that'll push my card, but as my card becomes out of date over the next few years I see myself mostly using my PC to play old PC games and indie titles, and just leave console games to the consoles, rather than spending the money to replace my card so it can continue to run poorly optimized games like Arkham Knight without issue.