[QUOTE="RDS_Phoenix"][QUOTE="PS3_3DO"][QUOTE="RDS_Phoenix"] I love PC gaming, have been hooked for long periods of time on Guild Wars, Counterstrike, Half Life 1 and 2, Deus Ex, The Sims (I love the voyeurism lol) - the problem I now have is a 9-5 office job, where I sit all day on a computer with a mouse and keyboard in my hands. What I don't want to do is get home, turn on my PC (built from scratch of course) and sit there in my free time with a mouse and keyboard in my hands. It's hooked up to my HDTV and I game on my bed so it's not the comfort factor, it's simply that I want to do something different with my hands (don't get rude lol) than KBM all night. I know gamepads are available and work well, but I don't want to play Guild Wars or Counterstrike with a gamepad.
I did a lot more PC gaming when I was at uni, and wasn't on a PC all day. I do feel that console gaming does offer a slightly higher sense of escapism than the PC does. It's simply to do with the perfect input devices for the type of games that I would rather play on the PC - FPS, Strategy, MMORPG, etc which I don't want to use a gamepad for.I love the PC as a gaming device, and I'm sure I will go back to playing it a lot more when I finish my job and go back to Uni (two weeks!)
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[QUOTE="no_submission"]PC gaming is preferred in most European counties.trix5817
How can they afford the high prices of the newest CPUs, Videocards in those countries.
Because a PS3 costs nearly $900 here. (UK) - whereas acomparible gaming PC built from scratch is available for around $700.
The 8800 GTX costs $550.
Way to read the post there...
I said a COMPARIBLE gaming PC - as in, one that can match the performance of a PS3 or 360. A PC built for half the price of a PS3 or 360 can match it in terms of performance, and it's silly to say otherwise. I'm not slamming the PS3 or 360 at all, I'm just saying that for their actual capabilities, they are almost double the price of a PC that can do the same thing.
Don't forget, I am primarily a console gamer, for reasons I already explained. However, using price as an argument against the PC is a very, very silly thing to do - if anyone can go out right now and build a comparible PC for half or two thirds the price of a PS3, which they can, that leaves them another half or one third of the budget to upgrade their PC to run the next generation of games that will hit the PC. Thus having a PC to run games with better graphics NOW, and ability to upgrade to play games with even better graphics in future for the price of one PS3 now - whilst console players (like myself remember) are limited to paying the full amount straight away and not having any upgrade path at all for when games become too intensive.And that's where the PS4 and 720 come in - and the cycle starts over.
Does that guy really think you need a 8800GTX? Wow....just, wow. A 8800GTS runs Crysis maxxed in DX10. A 7800GTX in DX9.
Not even that - he was saying that an 8800GTX is comparable to the graphics capability of a PS3. Which is, quite frankly, absurd.
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