PC gaming is so easy...

[QUOTE="locopatho"]

You know the way console people get ripped apart if they call PC gaming complicated or frustrating?

And how it's so easy and there's never any problems?

Yet here's a few threads from the PC forum, page 1:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27360080&tag=topics%3Btitle = trouble installing

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27359819&tag=topics%3Btitle = severe slowdown (on a good PC)

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27357340&tag=topics%3Btitle = crappy FPS (on a good PC)

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27360001&tag=topics%3Btitle = trouble installing

These people seem to have good PCs and know what they are doing, yet have problems anyway!

So can PC people at least admit that bad ****, crashes, bugs and errors do indeed happen quite a bit on PC, and, RROD or broken disc aside, a 360 game will work 100% of the time?

i5750at4Ghz

No I can't as it's untrue for me. I can only speak for myself, but I haven't had a game or my PC crash on me in years. In fact I have my PC on for weeks at a time most of the time.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=644680 - Can't get Xbox 360 to read disks

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=645364 - Xbox Elite keeps freezing

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=645196 - Wireless Internet connection is slow with new Xbox 360

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=550797 - keeps getting one flashing light and an error 74

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=641652 - Tons of things wrong with this one...and it might not even be under waranty anymore.

But, consoles are problem free...right?

YLOD

RROD

:roll:

You know the way console people get ripped apart if they call PC gaming complicated or frustrating?

And how it's so easy and there's never any problems?

Yet here's a few threads from the PC forum, page 1:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27360080&tag=topics%3Btitle = trouble installing

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27359819&tag=topics%3Btitle = severe slowdown (on a good PC)

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27357340&tag=topics%3Btitle = crappy FPS (on a good PC)

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27360001&tag=topics%3Btitle = trouble installing

These people seem to have good PCs and know what they are doing, yet have problems anyway!

So can PC people at least admit that bad ****, crashes, bugs and errors do indeed happen quite a bit on PC, and, RROD or broken disc aside, a 360 game will work 100% of the time?

locopatho

What?

i have over 300 games for pc... and guess what? They ALL WORK.
PC gaming is fine and ive had less problems this gen with me pc then with my 360 and ps3.

If there is an issue someone has on pc gaming 99% of the time its the users fault and not the game's fault.

Keep good care of your pc, dont download viruses and pronz and know a little about pc's and youll be perfectly fine.
At least if one part of my pc where to break I can replace that one part for very cheap, instead of having to buy a new one or pay extremely high repair fees.

This gen = two 360 broke and psp broke.. thats way more issues then ive had on pc this gen.

[QUOTE="Hakkai007"]

[QUOTE="ritz2"]IMO a lifetime warranty on parts that rarely malfunction and you can fix yourself >>>> 3 year warranty that costs 100 dollars and even more to ship to the parent company and wait 2 weeks for your new console.br0kenrabbit

Pretty much this.

I even shipped my dead PSU back to bfg and they sent me back a new and better one for only the price to ship it to them which was like 8 dollars. And it only took 5 days for this to happen.

My friend sent in his dead 8800GTX and received a GTX 275.

And these warranties are lifetime.

Not your lifetime, though. For instance:

Product Lifetime Warranty:†
The following Kingston products are covered by this warranty for the life of the product:

What that means is that they have a scale where products are set to be outdated. For instance, if you tried to return an 8MB SIMM module to Kingston that you bought with a lifetime warranty in 1996, you'd just get it returned to you because the product is beyond its expected useful life (since 8MB SIMMs are obsolete).

I owned a PC shop for a few years, I know all about these 'Lifetime Warranties'.

Well I have returned things that were 4-5 years old and they replaced those products with even better ones.

And one of my friends had a dead 6800 ultra and he got it replaced with an 8800gt and then got that replaced with a GTX 260.

That was a time span of almost 6 years.

I know there are limitations but it is still much better than console warranty coverage.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=644680 - Can't get Xbox 360 to read disks

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=645364 - Xbox Elite keeps freezing

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=645196 - Wireless Internet connect is slow with new Xbox 360

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=550797 - keeps getting one flashing light and an error 74

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=641652 - Tons of things wrong with this one...and it might not even be under waranty anymore.

But, consoles are problem free...right?

UnknownSniper65

Thread backfired,methinks.

I'm just going to admit that having to know the exact specifications and blah blah blah of your PC to play a game is WAY too much for me, someone who just wants to buy a game and relax and not have to wade through an install and learn that "Game X has stopped working. Windows is looking for a solution to your problem". I'm mostly frustrated because I borrowed ME2 from a friend and keep getting this message despite having the exact same computer as him, same graphics card and all.

My PC has only had one major problem(MBR screwed up somehow), but I was just able to reinstall the OS, that was about 3 years ago I think. Took about a couple hours(includes troubleshooting and making sure the MBR was the problem, and reinstalling Windows) and it didn't cost any money.

On the flip side, my 360 has the RROD and the warranty is over, so now I have to shell out 150 bucks to get it fixed. Of course, I'm not going to. :P

Both consoles and PC's have issues, but the benefit of the PC as an open platform is that you can troubleshoot it/fix it yourself and not leave the fate of your gaming experience up to a company that doesn't give a **** about you after they take your money. PC gaming is also MUCH cheaper than console gaming, so the freedom you get with it is just an added bonus :P