Yup everyone knows iPhone games are awesome... that's why those games are considered competition for the 3DS and PSP... there is some serious business there.

It is ignorant to claim that PC gaming has some sort of pricing advantage when you can buy or sell used games with the free market only on consoles. It's like a poor man bragging to a rich man about the change in his can. Anyone with an ebay account can play every new game on consoles, MAKE MONEY while doing so, and they also don't have to wait a year after the game is launched to play it.

I think we all got that point the first billion times he made it.

One more thing, the "30 games for 30 dollars" bullshit is usually 2 decent games that try to appeal to your nostalga, then 28 shitty games you've never heard of that aren't worth 30 cents. I've never seen one of those deals that looked worth 30 dollars, in most cases I'd rather pay 30 dollars than have to play most of that shit.

If it seems too good to be true, it is.

This topic is PC propoganda spin.

Sure, there are good deals to be had with DLC, but they usually aren't the flashy ones.

The best deal going on right now, is at gog.com they just started selling Planescape Torment for 10 bucks. Now a month ago, you would pay 60 dollars for that disc, so that is a true amazing PC deal.

There are great deals on consoles right now too. Walmart is giving a 20 dollar gift card with Fallout:New Vegas preorders, and The Sabeteur can be had for 8 dollars used. Madworld is around 10 dollars new, and the price on ICO has dropped in the used market since the remakes were announced.

PC has fine deals, but just as good and potentially better deals can be found on the free used market for any console, any day.

The problem with buying used games is that they can be utterly fucked and all warranties are void on used secondhand products and I highly doubt that whomever sells you a broken (or damaged) game is going to pay you back. There's also the matter of stores such as Gamestop screwing you over, they sold me a used copy of Valkyria Chronicles for 470NOK when the retail for a brand new one was 300NOK... I bought it used because it was virtually impossible to find anywhere in this town. And the disc is damaged somehow and the game freezes, I contacted Sega about it but they said it was out of their hands since I bought it used and Gamestop would have to fix it. They didn't, because I hadn't paid extra for a warranty slip, which costs around 6$ or so. I don't buy used games (or other products) at all any more, I mostly buy them from England at Platinum prices.

Here in Norway, a new console game usually costs around 600NOK while a new PC game is between 350 and 400NOK or possibly less. Prices aside; the PC remains the best platform for the more advanced gamer with all sorts of customization, mods, hardware possibilities and of course the fact that the games themselves are often a lot more deep and complex (and infinitely better in many respects). Try playing Civilization IV on the PC and then strain through a session of Civ on PS3 or 360. PC versions of console games are even better sometimes, such as Mass Effect 2 of Fable.

Don't get me wrong, I like to play on consoles but I simply love playing on the PC (Off to play Mount & Blade again! ).

Steam is an excellent place to get deals. Im currently enjoying Dead Rising 2 for $40 U.S.D. when it would have cost me more than twice that price had I bought it in the shops. I also bought Civ 5 for not much more. Between these two games I have logged over 60 hours of play over the last few weeks, definately value for money.

My current PC costs twice as much as an Xbox 360 or PS3 but I have made back the difference in cost with cheaper games with more deals to come and the added bonus of my PC also being a damn good movie / music player and web browser.

Im currently on a PC gaming binge and I for one am satisfied.

wasn't Civ 5 horribly priced on Steam (i.e. a rip off) over there? or was it only in Australia and not in NZ?

Oh yeah I got the boxed copy. I forgot because it was Steam enabled anyway.

I picked and chose the 30 games myself and the store gave me a 30 day warranty... and yes there were some bs games but I chose the best ones... like Splinter Cell games, Ghost Recon etc etc

 I rest my case... deals are everywhere... not just for your PC

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Tilt to Live is better than all your precious Pokemon games put together.... And there's more Character depth. But I guess you wouldn't know that.. Because you haven't bought the game.