Do you own a gaming PC? If not, what is stopping you?

Why do PC people think consolites don't know any better? I have a gaming PC and still prefer console.

Pffft... peasant must have a tiny living room where you can't have a glorius master race rig/desk facing the gloirus 50' TV ! silly! :P

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I have a gaming pc, i last upgraded it 3 or 4 years ago. I can still play call of duty advanced warfare on it.

I'm not interested in super high quality games, i usually just play my games on high or normal anyways even 4 years ago when my parts were brand new. I built it primarily for battlefield 2 in 2006 and world of warcrack back in 2007-2008 and upgraded twice. Now, i love getting steam sales and games for $4 like tomb raider. I have an xone but i cannot justify buying rise of the tomb raider for $60 when steam will have it under $10 in a year or two. It made me a cheap ass.

However, i will never buy super expensive cards because i simply do not care. I do love playing with mouse and keyboard though.

Edit: i love putting new parts in, openining up, cleaning, and fiddling around with my rig. It's really fun.

Of course.

My PC is more powerful than every console ever made,combined and i game at 2160p.

No kidding. Hell. My desk is in the kitchen area. The kitchen TV has a PC hooked up to it as do the one in the living room. The wife wanted her YT (and Skype with friends) without leaving the kitchen. Same thing with the kids in the living room.

I have one and I use it for cheap Steam sale games.

Yeah PC gaming is the best, plus it's really easy and really cheap. No reason not to.

@jun_aka_pekto said:

@MBirdy88 said:

@FastRobby said:

No, PC's are not social enough. I want to be able to play/talk with my family while gaming, instead of being hidden away from sunlight in a room with headphones on

Pffft... peasant must have a tiny living room where you can't have a glorius master race rig/desk facing the gloirus 50' TV ! silly! :P

No kidding. Hell. My desk is in the kitchen area. The kitchen TV has a PC hooked up to it as do the one in the living room. The wife wanted her YT (and Skype with friends) without leaving the kitchen. Same thing with the kids in the living room.

rustic much fix yo hose before u buy a 1K+ gaming PC

@jun_aka_pekto said:

@MBirdy88 said:

@FastRobby said:

No, PC's are not social enough. I want to be able to play/talk with my family while gaming, instead of being hidden away from sunlight in a room with headphones on

Pffft... peasant must have a tiny living room where you can't have a glorius master race rig/desk facing the gloirus 50' TV ! silly! :P

No kidding. Hell. My desk is in the kitchen area. The kitchen TV has a PC hooked up to it as do the one in the living room. The wife wanted her YT (and Skype with friends) without leaving the kitchen. Same thing with the kids in the living room.

Sounds like a good idea, but I can't mock anyone, only reason my PC is in my living room is because we are both in a 1 bed apartment at the moment heh! but... house shopping next year... will be looking for a room living room big enough for it again... it's simply more social.

Dunno what these stereotypes about PC gamer's mean.... most of my group (granted anecdotal) have their desktop's in the living room to avoid being shut off in another room from their partners/family.

exclusives suck so no point.

Just as pointed out your thread,right?

yep. once u remove all the alt/'peasant race' posts it becomes very clear pc exclusives suck

All the excuses,even the poll says otherwises

Only alts :(

i have a couple of reasons why i dont have a gaming pc.

most important to me is that i'm scared to build one. I know people say that its just like putting together LEGO, but one thats very expensive. Im not good with tinkering with gadgets and i dont want a $300 chip to not work because of static discharge or i bent pins.

i want the latest and greatest, so building a pc is not going to be cheap. Sure I have consoles that are pretty weak, but those consoles dont come with multiple options that are more powerful. PC parts are all about options. I tried to do a pc pick apart build, and it cost me over 1k for a build that i want.

i honestly do not have room for it. I do my gaming in my room and i dont have enough room for another desk and monitor. Unless i want to forgo k/b mouse and use my tv screen as a monitor, then its kind of an inconvenience. Im sure i can buy like a tv dinner table, but thats just lols

im lazy

since u put so much weight behind gs polls i think its time i remind u NOT 1 pc exclusive made it to top 10 most anticipated list lmao

very sad.

I remind you that it was gametrailer's top 10,and not a poll

lmao

My desktop PC is like 4-5 years old. I don't really remember. But when I got it the GTX 275 was pretty new. Don't use it to play games anymore though. I needed a laptop for my job so I figured I could as well get one that plays games decently for a while to fix my PC gaming needs while waiting to get a new desktop this year.

That being said, even with a new desktop PC I plan to get most of the games on consoles. No matter how much you downplay it, couch gaming on the big TV is a valid reason for me. A PC in the living room is completely out of the question and I just won't bother with streaming games through the whole house.

The main reason why I don't really like to game on PC anymore would be Steam. While I do like to get something cheap during the sales, I completely hate having all my games tied to one account that I might lose one day for whatever reason. I don't like getting games digitally in general but even when buying retail PC games they are usually just Steam downloads on disc. If I lose acces to my PSN or XBox Live accounts I can just make a new one, pick my games from my shelf and still play them.

Yes my PC is great enough to consider a high end gaming PC. I usually spend about 1,5 to 2G to upgrade my computers every few years or s in order for me to run the latest software for work purpose. I always throw in a nice video card for the hell of it. I currently have a Nivida 780GTX from my last upgrade. I don't hesitate to spend the money because I can tax write off what I spend to upgrade. The reason I dislike to play on computers is because I spend way too much time at work using computers and at my own free time, I try to stay a way from it

may i remind u that u are full of shit.

gs community top 10 most anticipated

gt community top 10 most anticipiated

I don't like playing games on a PC.

JK, I own 2 Gaming PC's

I used to game on PC religiously, but I always liked having the latest gear so I was spending way to much in the end... so I went back to consoles. Plus I like the simplicity of consoles.

I do miss it sometimes though.

Yes I have a gaming PC but I still prefer consoles. Deal with that TC....

Shelf Steam games:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8794-yphv-2033

As for couch gaming be sure that if you DONT LIVE alone you WILL NEVER game on that TV....

In any case it is all down to exclusive game preference

I have a gaming PC used to write resumes and watch porn. Occasionally it will see a game or two. Last one I played was Stranded Deep.

@jun_aka_pekto said:

@MBirdy88 said:

@FastRobby said:

No, PC's are not social enough. I want to be able to play/talk with my family while gaming, instead of being hidden away from sunlight in a room with headphones on

Pffft... peasant must have a tiny living room where you can't have a glorius master race rig/desk facing the gloirus 50' TV ! silly! :P

No kidding. Hell. My desk is in the kitchen area. The kitchen TV has a PC hooked up to it as do the one in the living room. The wife wanted her YT (and Skype with friends) without leaving the kitchen. Same thing with the kids in the living room.

Now that´s a sad place to be, punished in a corner.

Time. I don't have the time. If I was to get back into PC gaming I would want to build a new rig and I don't have the time for that shit. I barely have time to play my ps4.

That question is not related to anything I said and I know all about PC (I mentioned my four gaming PCs). It's like you wanted to change my answer when I covered and already answered the thread. You are talking about DRM DD games and I'm talking about how I don't like buying DD DRM games (on console or PC). I've already weighed in the options. I have four gaming PCs so obviously I'm aware of what I can do.

To answer your completely separate question: It depends. I know about PCs strengths because I use them daily. PC doesn't automatically let you do that, it depends on the service. There is also Origin, GOG, Greenman, GFW, Blizzard.net, Steam, etc. I have games from all. Either way, if you are referring to DD copies, you can do that on console with up to two consoles on 360, Xbone, PS4. Up to five consoles on PS3. I don't like digital copies on console either for the same reasons ((Selling/Trading/Value Collecting/Renting/Lending/Borrowing/etc.). I explained it above.

None of that matters to me though. That's a different subject. As I said, I own four gaming PCs.

As I already said:

"...the biggest drawback to PC gaming is the very specific DRM preventing me from Selling/Trading/Value Collecting/Renting/Lending/Borrowing/etc. I'm not looking to compromise on some of these, I want to be able to do all without internet (Selling/Trading/Value Collecting/Renting/Lending/Borrowing/etc.)."

I am not looking to compromise and I'm not looking to be dependent on internet DRM.

I do own one. Well, it's a couple of years old now, but it still plays games pretty well.

With that said, it gets less play than my current gen consoles. I'm a busy person, and the accessibility of consoles still trumps that of PCs. It's also not practical to put my PC in my living room.

doesnt sound like a video game...sounds like porn

@SolidTy: Why in the world do you have four gaming PCs?

Since many years, I only use business class laptops. I feel no desire to ever own a desktop PC again.

I have a gaming laptop I sometimes hook up to the TV to play emus like PCSX2 and Magic Engine but can't run anything modern. But it's not like I give a **** about the PC exclusives to begin with.

i7-4700MQ, GT 750m 2GB GDDR5, 8GB DDR3L

Social RL gaming. I LAN games with family/friends. People come over and have a grand old time.

If money isn't an issue, why in the world wouldn't I?

To answer the OP's question yes i have a gaming PC.

That could play anything modern FYI.

According to console players that's the average PC gamers rig.

No point. The best games are on consoles. PC doesnt even have Red Dead Redemption. The best game of last gen.

Hell, who likes to have a PC in the living room? This is such bad style.

Why are so many people against having there PC in the living room?

• The old age of PC's solely being towers is over. Its been over a decade with that belief.
• We are now to the point where major manufactures are now pushing mini gaming Pc's into the market where htpc customs once ruled.
• You can use controllers to completely control PC gaming. Including turning on and off the PC similar to consoles.
• 1000's of games with controller support with many more able to with modification (still sum such as rts really need kb&m but you can have it your way also)
• I find it funny people so quick to drop a console in a living room but get up in arms if someone says to do the same with there pc.

Why?

Price. If i'm going to spend $500 on one I want it to be able to play the latest games for years to come with no upgrades. My 9 year old PS3 still plays games like Far Cry 4 just fine.

Seriously...why? I have an HTPC in the living room and people rarely even realize it's a PC. It is small and sleek looking and usually gets mistaken for a surround sound receiver, if it's paid any attention at all. Oh, and it has an i5 and a GTX 780 in it.

It isn't 1995.

I can pull off a PC in the living room with style, but PC Gamers can't

Everyone is entitled to be wrong.

K.

@lundy86_4:

K

I don't need a gaming PC personally since the only game I play on a computer is Civ5 and it runs fine on my current machine.

Also, I'm not interested in most of the games available for PC anyway.