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I used to play on consoles a lot more back before this generation and the beginning of this generation. Now I basically have given up all access to consoles since I don't even bother with them anymore. I haven't touched a PS3 in over 2 years and a 360 in over 1. I play the Wii extremely sporadically because it has some good fun on it though.

For everything else, there's PC. To be fair it's because basically the few genres of games I do care about playing now (a bit of FPS, some strategy, Interesting indie games/puzzles, EVE Online) are just absolutely pathetic on consoles. I do play a lot less in general as well though.



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The opposite!

I used to play a lot of games on the PC, now I only play like once in a month.



Me, but I'll still take my console over my PC. I only play Civ, Tropico and Valve games on my PC.



Yes. I pretty much play consoles now for my fighting game and JRPG fix, everything else on PC.



vlad321 said:

I used to play on consoles a lot more back before this generation and the beginning of this generation. Now I basically have given up all access to consoles since I don't even bother with them anymore. I haven't touched a PS3 in over 2 years and a 360 in over 1. I play the Wii extremely sporadically because it has some good fun on it though.

For everything else, there's PC. To be fair it's because basically the few genres of games I do care about playing now (a bit of FPS, some strategy, Interesting indie games/puzzles, EVE Online) are just absolutely pathetic on consoles. I do play a lot less in general as well though.

Dust of that ps3 and play Journey and Closure. The new campaign for Closure on psn is great.
Agreed on the other 3, although Resistance 3's campaign was quite enjoyable.



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pariz said:
cloud1161 said:
I think I will become more of a PC gamer here in another month or so once I do my first custom build. I'm gonna start with Mass Effect because I really want to play it, but I want to play the entire trilogy on the same system. Then, I MIGHT get Skyrim, I am kind of on the fence on this one because it seems to me this game made the Medieval RPG game so mainstream. I mean jocks I graduated school with who never played a sci-fi/medieval based game in their life got this game. But I digress. I think it's because this generation of consoles almost were PC's.


I got my pc just to play Mass Effect saga and since then I'm a happy rabbit. I just wanted to tell you that you'll have a wonderful experience by playing the three of them together, one right after the other. You are lucky...

On the other hand, I wanted to encourage you to get Dragon Age Origins too. Even if you played it on console before.

Yea, I have Dragon Age: Origins for PS3.  I started it, but I couldn't really get into it.  I'll probably get back to it, but the battle system seems slow to me.  



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I would consider myself mainly a pc gamer. In fact the only thing consoles have over pcs is split screen mulitplayer. Although there are a few pc games that offer this as well. But i find at the begining of a gen i will play more console games, but as the en goes on i switch back to pc.



I was already well on my way towards PC gaming when the generation started but the 7th gen has made me mostly excusively use my PC for all gaming purposes.
I do own both a PS3 and a 360 with around 30 games but I never play them any more.
There are actually more PC gamers on Vgchartz than people think but most of them aren't nearly as vocal as many consoles gamers and we're still in the minority.



cloud1161 said:
pariz said:
cloud1161 said:
I think I will become more of a PC gamer here in another month or so once I do my first custom build. I'm gonna start with Mass Effect because I really want to play it, but I want to play the entire trilogy on the same system. Then, I MIGHT get Skyrim, I am kind of on the fence on this one because it seems to me this game made the Medieval RPG game so mainstream. I mean jocks I graduated school with who never played a sci-fi/medieval based game in their life got this game. But I digress. I think it's because this generation of consoles almost were PC's.


I got my pc just to play Mass Effect saga and since then I'm a happy rabbit. I just wanted to tell you that you'll have a wonderful experience by playing the three of them together, one right after the other. You are lucky...

On the other hand, I wanted to encourage you to get Dragon Age Origins too. Even if you played it on console before.

Yea, I have Dragon Age: Origins for PS3.  I started it, but I couldn't really get into it.  I'll probably get back to it, but the battle system seems slow to me.  

For me, with Bioware games all the fun of battles come out of an strategic approach. Therefore, you should put on with hardcore or insanity difficults and make good use of the pause/assign action/strategy button. Trust me on this one. It won't seem slow to you anymore. You'll have to make good decisions and you won't have time to get bored.



pariz said:
cloud1161 said:
pariz said:
cloud1161 said:
I think I will become more of a PC gamer here in another month or so once I do my first custom build. I'm gonna start with Mass Effect because I really want to play it, but I want to play the entire trilogy on the same system. Then, I MIGHT get Skyrim, I am kind of on the fence on this one because it seems to me this game made the Medieval RPG game so mainstream. I mean jocks I graduated school with who never played a sci-fi/medieval based game in their life got this game. But I digress. I think it's because this generation of consoles almost were PC's.


I got my pc just to play Mass Effect saga and since then I'm a happy rabbit. I just wanted to tell you that you'll have a wonderful experience by playing the three of them together, one right after the other. You are lucky...

On the other hand, I wanted to encourage you to get Dragon Age Origins too. Even if you played it on console before.

Yea, I have Dragon Age: Origins for PS3.  I started it, but I couldn't really get into it.  I'll probably get back to it, but the battle system seems slow to me.  

For me, with Bioware games all the fun of battles come out of an strategic approach. Therefore, you should put on with hardcore or insanity difficults and make good use of the pause/assign action/strategy button. Trust me on this one. It won't seem slow to you anymore. You'll have to make good decisions and you won't have time to get bored.


Ok, maybe I'll try that when I start it again.  I think I had it on normal and it just seemed really easy.



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