I wouldn't bother with the game. I'd possibly bother with a Ninja Gaiden on PC.

They poured their hearts into the making of this one.

Malphal

I'm definitely a PC centric gamer (very hardcore about it lol) but I do have a PS3 for those certain games that I can only get on the PS3 as well as Blu-Ray. Yes, PCs have a learning curve, but for me it's ended up being more satisfying. The multiplatform games tend to be better and a bit cheaper on the PC, even if the only options from the console versions are just resolution, AF, AA options. The games I like the most are very PC friendly and centric (FPS).

Also the other reason I love PCs (and especially laptops for this particular bit) is the sheer multimedia ability of being able to go directly out of a game to other media such as music, movies, etc very quickly and even at the same time as other things are going on. If you're on a laptop (of course one that satisfies one's gaming needs) it's even better because it's portable. Yes, there is the learning and cost curve, but there is boundless reward well beyond what I've already explained.

As far as the cost of PC gaming, think of it this way: you go out spending a few hundred dollars on a decent desktop computer for practical use, and for less than $100 you can outfit it with a graphics card that will blow either the 360 or PS3 graphically out of the water, and let you enjoy higher resolutions, better graphics, a bit cheaper prices, not to mention keyboard and mouse and enjoying those much better implemented media features. Being able to game and listen to music at the same time is so nice on a computer, they run together fantastically usually, and typically you can easily alt-tab out to choose music or just skip ahead assuming your keyboard has media buttons on it. I really like media-buttons for that purpose. You could get a pretty decent laptop with good gaming capabilities for under $800 quite easy, and it's still a quite practical computer. If you need a larger screen, laptops these days come standard with HDMI ports.

Well so far, from my understanding, the dedicated server system they'll have in place is not just anyone but specific servers that have to be rented from EA themselves, which is kind of lame, since clans and whoever should have the ability to rent from anyone they want to or even run their own assuming their bandwidth and internet connection is good enough.

Other than that, I hope the game will be modable (not a huge issue right now, but it would be nice if DICE provided the tools) with up 64 players support (I think 32 is the current max for the PC version) as well as actual higher graphics settings beyond resolution, texture filtering, and AA options.

But this all begs the question: where the hell is BF3?!?!

Nvidia locked out the ability to do so if an ATi card is present, though there is a work around with this, and a certain company is producing a GPU communication chip that will allow ATi and Nvidia cards to work together for graphics together or graphics + physics.

What do you consider "maxing out"? With AA? 1920 x 1080 or higher resoluton?

For 1920 x 1080 with no AA, maxed out other settings, the 4890 should handle it fine.

Ooh, that's really cool of them! Wish I was in Canada!

Whatever happens, there is soooooo much old school PC gaming goodness from before 2010 to play, and the mods, oh my the mods!!!!!!!

I still play more hours of BF2 a week than everything else combined.

:cry: No takers? It's so confounding!

I was a computer salesman at a Fry's Electronics, where it's on commission, and boy oh boy it was cutt-throat there haha. Freaking hated the job. I guess Best Buy is alot more laid back, no commission, no crazy need to push customers individually so you can get food on your table, plus Best Buy seems to always have very good competitive prices. Last three laptops I've had I got at Best Buy.

But yes, learn what you are selling, be confident and friendly.