[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="bb2945"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"] WRONG on BOTH accounts, let me explain: - Consoles ARE cheaper, but games are more expensive. An no, there are more games for PC than both consoles put together. - When the new consoles come out, they will catchup to PC to maybe 2 year ago, but remember PC is also moving forward so it will be better. PC will ALWAYS be better graphics looking because of the way the tech is designed. - Most HDTVs have a worse response time than a monitor. Some come close to matching a good monitor. So what exactly makes a gaming machine? Processor, RAM, video card, sound card. anything else? Well yes, all the components of a PC. A gaming machine just has the higher end components, so lots of fast RAM, strong video card, fast CPU, good gaming motherboard, good gaming case etc etc. Also, gaming PCs (components) have come down a lot in price the last couple of years, so there is no need to spend $4000+ on a gaming PC anymore. Depending on the country, but here in Aus with $1500 you get a very strong machine (building it urself) Sounds good, but it's too much work to build a machine yourself. I did notice the graphics on the PC I have don't transfer over to the 1080i HDTV I have. Of course you get the fact that the screen is larger, but no details.
[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] WRONG on BOTH accounts, let me explain: - Consoles ARE cheaper, but games are more expensive. An no, there are more games for PC than both consoles put together. - When the new consoles come out, they will catchup to PC to maybe 2 year ago, but remember PC is also moving forward so it will be better. PC will ALWAYS be better graphics looking because of the way the tech is designed. - Most HDTVs have a worse response time than a monitor. Some come close to matching a good monitor. So what exactly makes a gaming machine? Processor, RAM, video card, sound card. anything else?
[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] You could get the best top of the line HDTV, put a console next to it and it STILL wouldn't match the graphics from a strong gaming machine. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this as a PC Fanboy, because consoles graphics are great too, but just giving you the facts. So consoles are cheaper, but they have more games too. What kind of system requirements are you talking about for a gaming machine? [QUOTE="SKaREO"] Consoles match a PC from 6 years ago, or maybe some budget gaming PC from Walmart. Nothing can compare to a proper gaming rig. The response time of a HDTV is so poor, I wouldn't plug anything other than a Blu ray player or satellite to it. Gaming on the TV is for poor people. When the new consoles come out, they should be about the same as a gaming machine, since that's when the current generation of consoles came out. Never heard of the response time on a TV being bad compared to a monitor.
[QUOTE="bb2945"]Don't really see myself making the full change to PC for games with the next generation of consoles coming out in a year or so. FelipeInside
You don't have to, you can have the best of BOTH worlds. I used to have a 360 and then a PS3, and used to play PC and then go over to consoles for FIFA and exclusives (Uncharted, God of War etc). I later sold the consoles cause I wasn't playing enough of them. Saying that, you will 99.99% of the time get a better looking game on PC. The graphics of a standard PC overpower any console in the market, so imagine a gaming PC.... Also you get cheaper prices on PC, better controls (most of the time), more customization and even mods. What about consoles on a top of the line HDTV? They would probably have a chance against a gaming PC.
I like it a lot,but that's the game that crashed my PS3, so I may hold it against them. Also, I don't really like EA for anything but sports games, Battlefield didn't really do it for me, but maybe it's just the single player campaign.
Played Battlefield 3 without the Internet? I'm guessing ur talking about the bad SP Campaign? If so, you played that game totally wrong. BF3 is all about MP.
And I feel like a broken record here, but no one is setting you up to fail.
It's like you go buy a car, you run out of petrol 2 days later and blame the car salesperson cause he didn't tell you about refilling at the petrol station. Grow up.
FelipeInside
Well, it all turned out fine. I was able to finish the download at the local high school. I'm enjoying the game now, and everything is back to normal. Diablo III is next up for me, but I will need to actually have broadband myself in order to play that. Have you tried the game? It seems pretty good, but I'm already getting wiped out on normal difficulty. Once I get my PS3 back from Sony this will be vying with Fifa and Dishonored for best game. My pick is Dishonored, but XCom may surprise me!
Now I see what the whole thing is, and I will really have to check every game to see if they require the internet to activate it. They already said something to me about Battlefield 3, and then I said no I've played that one without the internet. He didn't bother to explain that he was refering to the PC version of the game. I just assumed that he was wrong about it. That's pretty stupid just to set people up to fail. He obviously could have explained at that time that all games on PC require internet updates at the start of the game. Then I get to XCOM. I noticed after I left the store it said one time internet connection required, so I thought I would try it. It didn't say anything about a download that long. I should have just brought it back in if I knew about the download. I thought it would be for activation only, so I thought to try it. My mistake, but I see how they should have been clear about it at the store.
That is really weird that you had to download so much I haven't heard of anyone having to do that. Hope that your game works. As for me I'm waiting for a holiday sale since I got like 8 other games I need to beat :). Can't wait to start playing Xcom later this year though.
Realmjumper
Is that weird? Do you think that it could be the additional DLC that it is making me download in order to play the game?
[QUOTE="bb2945"]Okay, if you just want to help me, then you can tell me if you think that I will eventually be able to complete this download and play the game. Maybe I should just think Steam is good enough for that. The XCOM warning is pretty ridiculous that I can't return the game if it doesn't work. I guess it's no one's fault that they require the internet, but that is pretty surprising that the two games I wanted to get both screwed me like that (Diablo III). They should have made it more clear at the store that all the big time games require the internet. That is a lot different than playing on PS3.Toxic-Seahorse
I know for a fact the Diablo III box says "internet connection required." It's not their fault you didn't read the box nor did you research what you were purchasing. Do you always blindly buy stuff without doing research? It's not intuitive that a game would need to use the internet even for a person to start playing at all. That's not something that I am familiar with. I'm surprised that it's different than the PS3.
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