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To the contrary. This generation I moved towards consoles.

Consoles got much better this generation. PS3 and Xbox 360 were really awesome.



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BasilZero said:
Ironically this generation has made me more of a PC gamer than all other generations previously.

I've started getting into MMORPGs, MMOs (for alittle bit) and played a few PC games as well. I also got steam as well which was something I've never even though about getting (though I need a better PC ;x).


WOW: Mist of Pandarian coming soon ^.^



Same here. I think it's largely because of Steam and how much it has improved as a service in the last few years.

During a sale, you can buy four great PC games for the price of one new console game, and there's an enormous backlog to choose from. I still love PS3 games, but I probably game more on PC than anything else now.



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No. There's no interesting PC game that I can't get on a console for me.
For MMOs I stick with free to play.

I'll always be a console gamer. My PC is for internet and downloading stuff. If the PS4 is able to have a browser as good as Chrome then I'd spend a lot less time on my PC.



no quite the opposite actually.

Was gaming on PC way more often than on Xbox during 2002-2005. Now my 360 takes up 90% of my gaming time.

Totally hate MMOs. "grown out" of adventure games and mostly don't care about indie games either, so there is little reason for me to keep upgrading my PC. Strategy games being the only genre left that I still care about on PC, since there are good exclusives coming out on a regular basis.



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KeptoKnight said:
Jdevil3 said:
I mostly use it for emulators and a few games but I still prefer my PS3 because it has a lot more games that I like. I'd probably be a PC gamer if all my PS3 games were also on PC :P

What kinds of games you play on ur PS3? or anyone?

Uncharted, God of War, Gran Turismo,.....


Well, here's a list of all my PS3 games:

 

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots

God of War III

Final Fantasy XIII

Nier

Bayonetta

Yakuza 3

Vanquish

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Resonance of Fate

Shadows of the Damned

Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition

Heavy rain

 

The only one of those that's also on PC is Resident Evil 5... which I had on PC before buying it on PS3... I bought it for PS3 because I wanted the gold edition which wasn't available on PC.

I'm going to buy Yakuza 4 and Devil May Cry HD Collection soon too, which also aren't on PC. I'm waiting for some kind of full version to Buy Final Fantasy XIII-2, waiting for Yakuza Dead Souls and Catherine to drop in price before buying them... I'm waiting for Dragon's Dogma... I'm also waiting for Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 to drop more in price before considering buying it too. I'm also waiting for Final Fantasy Versus XIII to be released...

The only 2 games that I'm waiting for that are also going to (suposedly) be released on PC are Resident Evil 6 (at a later date :S) and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

 

If all those games were also on PC, I'd probably be a PC only gamer, lol.



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I have an Xbox 360, PS3 and my PC.
Bulk of my games are on Steam so I mostly play games on the PC. Plus I game in Eyefinity which the consoles don't have, the amount of immersion you can get with Eyefinity is incredible.

Plus... Living in Australia, new-release games are not cheap. It's not unusual to have a new release game that exceeds $100, Steam is much much much cheaper most of the time, when there is a sale; Steam begs to empty my bank account.

Next is my Xbox 360, I haven't actually turned it on in the last couple of years, games like Gears of War 3 is sitting there gathering dust un-opened and the rest of my 80+ games are either on the PC, or I just don't feel like playing them.

Then the PS3... I admit, I bought it for the Bluray. None of the exclusive games interest me one tiny bit, but it's still probably one of the best blu-ray players out.

But the PC has always been home to my gaming needs for around 17 years now, I doubt that will change anytime soon, plus sometimes you get an "itch" to play an old game you bought a good decade or more ago and fire it up. :)




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BasilZero said:
KeptoKnight said:
BasilZero said:
Ironically this generation has made me more of a PC gamer than all other generations previously.

I've started getting into MMORPGs, MMOs (for alittle bit) and played a few PC games as well. I also got steam as well which was something I've never even though about getting (though I need a better PC ;x).


WOW: Mist of Pandarian coming soon ^.^


No :(

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm not getting myself back into WoW ever again XD

MOP will have an expansion feel to it. They put way more time into it than any others. Gears, weapons, icons and pets will be much more customizable. This time around Raid tiers should last roughly four months, with content updates also coming between the larger raid updates. This could mean we would see a patch every two months or so. They are making it so that MOP is more of an exploration than just a BIG boss fight. There will be nine level 90 heroics for players as well as three raids with 14 raid bosses and three difficulties. There will be an additional two world bosses. There are now seven zones, up from five. This was done to add more content to the game and give players a less linear progression path so that leveling for a second or third time isn’t the exact same.


"In some ways it is more of a spiritual successor to classic WoW, with the call to adventure. It wasn't about a giant world boss or big overarching problem, it was just about exploring. Experience this faction, see the world, engage the cultures, have an adventure, that was the spirit of the first game. In many ways Mists of Pandaria gets back into that." - Blizzard

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TBH I don't know why anyone is a heavy Xbox360 gamer given you can get all the best 360 games on PC, apart from some Halo and Gears games. PS3 and Wii have a large library of high quality absolute exclusives (as opposed to 360 console exclusive), which makes owning one of those systems, and spening a decent amount of game time on them a good value proposition.

As far as the multiplat games go (PS360PC) as a trophy hound I tend to play on PS3. I played Dragon Age II (which I like) on PC first up, but as I was accumulating meaningless (top me) achievements I decided I wanted to earn them as trophies, so I obtained Dragon Age II for PS3. The PC version of the game is better in all respects, from loading times to controls to visuals, but I want those trophies damnit!

So because of trophies I've probably gone slightly the other way and will tend towards more time on console than PC. I'm pretty much only going to play PC360 exclusives on PC. If it wasn't for trophies I'd have a very clear split in my game library: PS3 exclusives on PS3 and everything else on PC.

I must get me a 360 controller for my PC.



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spurgeonryan said:
A lot of people I know gather together to play Leauge of Legends or a few years ago it was City of Heroes or Diablo 2 or even WoW. I have not gone down that path yet. The occasional facebook game that pisses me off after the first level by forcing me to buy something, is all I play on the PC.


MMO's are a bit of a gateway into "serious" PC gaming.  They get you use to a PC setup, they get you used to gaming in a chair, and they often times get you to eventually upgrade your computer to be capable of handling serious games.

I think the biggest barriers of entry into heavy PC gaming for me was the amount of good third party games available only on consoles and the fact that I would have to find  a decent game pad for games.  The first problem isn't as much of a problem anymore, and the Xbox 360 pad is amazing for me.  Like I said, if I play Darksiders, for example, it will play just like if it was on  the 360.  Everything from press start to play or move the right analogue stick in the tutorial - it makes the whole experience a lot more pick up and play.  Still prefer a mouse and keyboard for any sort of shooter.