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Yet again hermits prove PC's value for production far outways its gaming possibilites.Cecil7
[QUOTE="Cecil7"]Yet again hermits prove PC's value for production far outways its gaming possibilites.Saturos3091
It's another one of Wok7's bandodger accounts. Don't bother with him.
But on topic: Mods.
Not the best of reasons I think, how about because PC is the engine that drives gaming technology?
Every PC gamer that buys hardware such as a graphics card is adding to the budget for R&D to develop better hardware, which learns from the previous generation of hardware that had millions to test the technology. Engines advance to take advantage of these new technologies to produce more advanced games; which in turn pushes the need for more powerful hardware.
PC gaming fuels the need for technological development, unlike consoles that are trapped in time and encourage no advancement in hardware or software. Engines designed to utilise hardware that stays the same does not encourage progress; by the time the console has reached the end of its product life cycle it has produced nothing to aid the next generation.
Console gamers would hate to admit it; but they are reliant on PC to make their 'next gen' possible.
Customization.. Its the PC's greatest strength and greatest weakness.
sSubZerOo
er cusomization is a choice! so I can only see it as a strength!
[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Customization.. Its the PC's greatest strength and greatest weakness.
Great_Ragnarok
er cusomization is a choice! so I can only see it as a strength!
Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.
Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.
sSubZerOo
If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.
Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.
GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.
Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.
PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.
Without the PC there would be no games because people use PC's to make the games you love on your pathetic consoles:P lolMac_Gamer101lol win... but PC is the best bcz it has everythign consoles do... except TEH CELLZ... dam i wish i could have one of those 4.0GHZ cell models in my PC... but w/e quad core will do for now..
dam i wish i could have one of those 4.0GHZ cell models in my PC... but w/e quad core will do for now..zomgwtfbbqlol1
You know without specialist programming Cell is just a single core processor? Even with specialist programming; there are pros and cons to both designs, there are things your quad core will be better at than Cell.
[QUOTE="zomgwtfbbqlol1"]dam i wish i could have one of those 4.0GHZ cell models in my PC... but w/e quad core will do for now..AnnoyedDragon
You know without specialist programming Cell is just a single core processor? Even with specialist programming; there are pros and cons to both designs, there are things your quad core will be better at than Cell.
but still so much power rofl, thats why IBM placed them in the Server computers, but w/e octo-core here i come...when ever that comes out........ also yea i saw the threads showing quad core vs 3.2ghz cell so yea i know what u mean pros/cons[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.
AnnoyedDragon
If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.
Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.
GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.
Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.
PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.
Well put, very well put. I would sig this if I could. The thing about PC gaming is that I get to play my games the way I want to. I can choose what graphical tradeoffs I want to make, I can choose my controls (be it KB+M, gamepad, HOTAS, racing wheel, Steel Battalion controller, TrackIR, you name it), and I can choose the maps, weapons, and gametypes I want to use in many of my games, among other things. That freedom of choice gives me more entertainment out of my games, much to the degree that I'll gladly pay up to 1500 US$ to play PC games for a few years instead of getting all of the next-gen consoles and then some for the money...oh, wait, I already did. (Oh, and I recall seeing that name on YouTube and a few other places on the Internet...you're the same person, I take it.)[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.
NamelessPlayer
If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.
Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.
GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.
Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.
PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.
Well put, very well put. I would sig this if I could. The thing about PC gaming is that I get to play my games the way I want to. I can choose what graphical tradeoffs I want to make, I can choose my controls (be it KB+M, gamepad, HOTAS, racing wheel, Steel Battalion controller, TrackIR, you name it), and I can choose the maps, weapons, and gametypes I want to use in many of my games, among other things. That freedom of choice gives me more entertainment out of my games, much to the degree that I'll gladly pay up to 1500 US$ to play PC games for a few years instead of getting all of the next-gen consoles and then some for the money...oh, wait, I already did.lol about the sig thing...
he does bring up a good point "eh?"
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