Do you play PC games and also own a console?

Typically I use my PS3 for sports and racing games and the PC for everything else. I find it difficult to play first person shooters and the like with a gamepad. I guess I should have purchased an Xbox360 since I hear you can use a keyboard and mouse with it. Oh well.

For the most part, I prefer FPS games on the computer. No controller even comes close to competing with the speed and accuracy of the mouse and keyboard combo.

RPGs are mainly a thing for the consoles, as the DND-style crap that is available for the PC is too convoluted and loaded with the need to customize every friggin' detail of everything in the game. I don't want 32 classes with 400 different weapon types and 35 pieces of armor for each character that can learn up to 36 skills in my party of 13. I grew up on Squaresoft games, before it was Square-Enix.

Games like Dragon Age are awesome on the PC as long as they aren't overly complex or painful to play. Some games are ridiculous. You need armor, weapons, magic potions, health potions, repair your weapons, repair your armor, no health regen, need to eat or die of hunger or thirst, need to sleep, can't sleep in open without surprise attack, inns restore health but cost more money than you ever have at the beginning, exp gain is slow, monsters are abundant and way too difficult, your one dude keeps dying and dying and you have no more ways to revive him, can't afford upgrades for more than one character, etc.

I love the Xbox 360, it is the most "PC-like" of the consoles IMO. Awesome online community setup and streamlined, you can work with your hard drive to install games and all sorts of media. You can access a lot of stuff like FaceBook, game demo downloads, Twitter, Netflix, etc. The exclusives are worth the price.

Sure, it's stupid that it doesn't have a browser. But hey, who browses the web on a game console anyway? It's like biking through sand.

And I'm sure Microsoft won't include a browser because they want people buying Windows-preloaded computers.

If the game has a good multiplayer i get it on Xbox, because nothing is comparable to LIVE for playing with mates. Anything else is on the PC.

Do you own a console just play the exclusives that will never come to PC?

Partly, I bought the 360 to play games I wouldn't get on the PC (third person shooters, most driving games, fighting games and casual games).

When there is a game avaliable for both the console and PC you pick up the PC version instead, even if the game takes six months to be released?

I usually pick up the PC version unless it's one of the genres listed above, if the specs are too high, or if it's a ridiculous wait like a year e.g. GTA 4.

Do you find yourself playing PC games a lot more even you have a console?

Yeah:

• Keyboard & mouse
• Able to listen to online radio or music while playing
• MMO's and RPG's

Yes I have consoles and PC. I use my pc a bit more, but there are still seom great consoles games that I cant get on PC (Forza3, Grand Turismo5, God Of War series, Uncharted2, Ninja Gaiden, Gears of War, Lost Odyssey).

PC gaming though for me has always been my favorite and still is these days, but I do still enjoy playing some console games from time to time.

For me consoles have some good exclusive games at times

PC has mods, more games suited to my taste, a HUGE back library of games, keyboard and mouse controls.

I have a PC, and only very recently bought a PS3.

I bought the PS3 pretty much just for the console exclusives: God of War, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo, Heavy Rain, LittleBigPlanet, Final Fantasy XIII... But if a game is available for both PC and PS3, I will almost certainly get it for the PC.

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I own a PC, 360 and PS3.

I like it a lot, I go between my PC and 360 a lot but I'm primarily on my PC most of the time. My PS3 collects dust most of the time unless I wanna watch a movie lol.

But yeah good recent examples are being able do dodge the AC2 DRM mess and play the game months in advance, and Red Dead Redemption is also coming out soon which looks great.

Chiddaling

well, i never liked consoles, but i almost bought a xbox 360 just for exclusives

i like pc gaming, more quality and more cheaper games :)

ah...i have a console..Snes :D

I have a PC and 360, not very good pc though, but It's OK to me, awful to all you guys on this forum though lol. I mainly use pc for MMO's/RPG's like guildwars because i just CANNOT get into Rpgs on consoles.

firefluff3

PC for multiplayer games and my PS3 for mostly single player games and of course Sony's exclusives and non. Don't get a failbox man u will regret it just like all my failbox owner friends do. One by one they come up and say man I wish I would of got a PS3 instead. Im like well yeah what were u thinking jumping the gun like that? Just get a PS3 that way you never miss a game as all of Xbox's exclusives are on PC while sonys are not. free internet, free bluray player, free wifi, free awesomeness and most of all free-dom of mind.

I have a PC, PS2, and Dreamcast, but I play on my PC A LOT more than the other two.

I think Im getting to like PC gaming more now(as long as it not gonna keeping me upgarding too much).... I play my PS3, PS2, and Dreamcast sometimes.Dogswithguns

I have played countless PC games over the past two decades and yet have not owned a console system since 1995. Can't stand the dirty things.