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twesterm on 17 June 2009
shio said:
sapient said:
I got tired of spending more time on upgrading, installing and patching games than playing them. Buying all 3 Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 was a lot cheaper than upgrading my PC every 6 month for "a" new game. For the most part I can just put the disk in and start playing no more waiting.

upgrading and patching are no longer problems of modern PC gaming. New Gaming PCs without upgrades can keep playing new games much more than consoles can. And patching nowadays are streamlined and you no longer need to hunt for patches due to services like Steam (most games themselves now have an automatic way to upgrade even).

Installing I don't even call a problem because that's something I believe most PC gamers would do it just to help on the loading times. Consoles now even have installs.

 

I think the best thing about PC gaming today is that you don't even need to put a disk to play! All you need is to click on your game's icon to play it, no disk.

...except the ones that do need a disk to play...

 



 

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brute on 17 June 2009

I also play on my PC, in fact right now I'm playing Fallout 3 on it.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2009
Simulacrum said:

I really was suprised finding many gamers that only play with consoles..

Heck I have been playing with Pc and consoles all my life..

So why get pc if you ain't gonna play with it?

I would have missed age of empires,bioshock,Gears of war, css and many others that can't be played with my consoles..

 


My PC's are for school work. My consoles are for fun. I try to stay clear of as much pirating as possible. The PC is a nest to get you in trouble for that kind of stuff. They have to be upgraded and it is annoying. My next computer will be an Apple. This is a staple that proves I don't Computers as a gaming tool. Consoles have the bulk of the games and they don't need to be upgraded. All you have to do is wait 7-10 years and buy another gen console. That sounds very good to me.



RCTjunkie on 17 June 2009

I play console games exclusively with one key exception: Roller Coaster Tycoon, the single greatest game to ever be created on the face of this earth.
If all PC games were like that, I may just have to switch. ;)



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greenmedic88 on 17 June 2009
twesterm said:
shio said:
sapient said:
I got tired of spending more time on upgrading, installing and patching games than playing them. Buying all 3 Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 was a lot cheaper than upgrading my PC every 6 month for "a" new game. For the most part I can just put the disk in and start playing no more waiting.

upgrading and patching are no longer problems of modern PC gaming. New Gaming PCs without upgrades can keep playing new games much more than consoles can. And patching nowadays are streamlined and you no longer need to hunt for patches due to services like Steam (most games themselves now have an automatic way to upgrade even).

Installing I don't even call a problem because that's something I believe most PC gamers would do it just to help on the loading times. Consoles now even have installs.

 

I think the best thing about PC gaming today is that you don't even need to put a disk to play! All you need is to click on your game's icon to play it, no disk.

...except the ones that do need a disk to play...

 

The stack of PC games on my shelf agree with this.

Unfortunately, not all soft licenses can be transfered over to Steam for media free play even though the media in PC gaming is now nothing more than an installer disc and a disk key DRM system.

As much as the disk keys are an inconvenience, I'd still rather have that system in place than a lot of the other DRM systems being used by publishers these days. Limited installs come to mind. Having to call customer service to have your purchase re-validated and activated is pretty weak just to play something as inexpensive as a video game.

But sure, everything on Steam is media free. Too bad not every game being released is actually on Steam and not everyone wants to use one distribution system for all their games, even if it does make things a LOT easier.



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izaaz101 on 17 June 2009

When I get a game, I want to put it in and play. I don't want to go to the hassle of installing a game, setting up the options, and then playing (all the while hoping nothing goes wrong).



Bokal on 17 June 2009

I run Linux.



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Legend11 on 17 June 2009
shio said:
sapient said:
I got tired of spending more time on upgrading, installing and patching games than playing them. Buying all 3 Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 was a lot cheaper than upgrading my PC every 6 month for "a" new game. For the most part I can just put the disk in and start playing no more waiting.

upgrading and patching are no longer problems of modern PC gaming. New Gaming PCs without upgrades can keep playing new games much more than consoles can. And patching nowadays are streamlined and you no longer need to hunt for patches due to services like Steam (most games themselves now have an automatic way to upgrade even).

Installing I don't even call a problem because that's something I believe most PC gamers would do it just to help on the loading times. Consoles now even have installs.

 

I think the best thing about PC gaming today is that you don't even need to put a disk to play! All you need is to click on your game's icon to play it, no disk.


Funny you should mention that.  My girlfriend was hunting high and low today for her Sims 3 disc so she could play the game.



sapient on 17 June 2009

I think I need to clarify, by upgrading I meant CPU, RAM and graphics card.

One reason I moved to consoles was price. It was a whole lot cheaper in the long run even considering the fact that console games don't come down in price like PC games.

The second was incompatibility issues, I have several games that would refuse to run on my PC even though it was quite high end at the time (3/4 years ago Dual core 2 GHz, 3 GB RAM, XP, 8600GT).



 

nordlead on 17 June 2009
TWRoO said:

Imagine in this post I quoted twesterm and then said: "this"

followed by: "minus the "used to be a PC gamer in the 90s" bit though, as I am more of a PC gamer now than I ever have been, yet I still only play the odd flash game, and have GTA on PC too."

this

plus I used to play more, but the games I own don't work correctly on the system I'm running. I buy games like Civ, Sim City, or Chess for PC, but other than that I don't really game on it.

I'll also throw in that I bought a high end PC for programming and simulations, as I hate waiting for my compiler and algorithms to finish.




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