Mrq5
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Re: PC Gaming Really Is Dying
Online Internet gaming was the main reason I loved pc gaming over consoles.
With Xbox Live I got it all, fast online gaming without concerns about pc upgrades. Plus I can enjoy Xbox Live on the COUCH:) All I want is Online gaming where gameplay is FAIR and competitive! Not to mention that I can play Online games together with my sons on our Xbox, this brings in a whole new level of entertainment. We have SO much fun playing sports titles and Halo together on teams using our Xbox.
Since consoles have great Online gaming now I can save $$$ on computers(video card upgrades). I built a pc around the time I bought my Xbox back in 2001. I remember spending over $300 just for the video card. Needless to say I cant use that pc to play any of the newer games. However I can still buy NEW titles for my Xbox. I now use my pc for work and console for play.
Bottom line, since consoles have online gaming I can have the same thrill for far less. I am a computer tech and feel this way! Just imagine all the non-techs who love online play but know very little about pc's. |
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ctceo
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Now that we've got a good chunk of opinions lets make the official poll, and take a vote, I would guess it to be in favor of PC by about 15% or more...
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shudwein
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Maybe some of you should drop this "console games are for kids" attitude and just play them. Since when did a console equate to children? Are there not mature games? Drop the elitist attitude and just play!
You are missing out on some great innovative and fun titles. Perhaps you need to play other genres on both PC and consoles.
You want innovation? Pick up Shadow of the Colossus or try Katamari Damacy for PS2. Look past the graphics, and just play. If you can't do that, then you'll always be stuck in the rut expecting something innovative when you yourself are not willing to change. |
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brianiscool
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I think you are full of hog wash! |
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JIGA
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Once they get consoles to support web browsing, keyboard/mice support for all games, and get the console games playing online with PC games... then I might consider buying another one again. Untill then, it is PC gaming for me.
But once consoles can do all that it pretty much is a PC. Hell, they almost are now... as far as hardware on them go. |
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wings10
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| said by JIGA  :Once they get consoles to support web browsing, keyboard/mice support for all games, and get the console games playing online with PC games... then I might consider buying another one again. Untill then, it is PC gaming for me. But once consoles can do all that it pretty much is a PC. Hell, they almost are now... as far as hardware on them go. Well they should soon. Isn't the Xbox 360 basically a PC already? I heard of folk's modding the Xbox and running Linux on it.
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Sgtslaughtr
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I dont like consoles, there are to many invisible walls and stuff you cannot do where is in PC gaming you add stuff to the game you like. I have made several mods myself but I dont share them because I never quite finish every aspect of it and dont want someone else to steal my idea's and hard work.
PC 50198578942376561340764 reasons to play
to many to list
Console 2
never have to worry about crashing oh wait, my bro's PS2 crashes all the time. Nothing ever done wrong to it either. As opposed to XP it has never crashed by itself. Now when I tried installing an old printer i bought at a yardsale, thats another story. I the first time ever i tried partitioning the HDD on my compaq right before Half-Life 2 came out.
Console 1
Turn on and play is the only good thing I can say about a console, other than that there is no reason for me to use one. I already have a dvd player and a computer, hell I have 6 computers one in the basement, my gaming box, my media center, my linux experimental box, my bros computer i built so he would leave mine alone, and one I dont use anymore cause its slower than molasses and I am gonna build another one for my garage i am about to build. |
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sNaKeYeZ
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Oh, to me console gaming reached its peak with the NES. I loved that darn thing. If you wanted to play a game, ya just popped in a cart and played, no "LOADING...LOADING" crap. I despise the wait time on my PS2.
PC gaming has always been my favorite, although back in the NES times the console and PC were VERY different. Two totally different genres of gaming. The NES had graphics and gameplay that the PC could never achieve at the time. I think that's the trouble today - consoles and PC games are waaaay too close as far as capabilities.
Heck, if I were a younger man today, I could buy a new Xbox and PS2 and play every game released with pleasure and buy a cheap Dell to type up my homework on at night and still come out cheaper than buying one single nice uber l33t PC gaming system.
I refuse to give up PC gaming, I'm keeping my head up with high hopes of Neverwinter Nights 2 release in January 2006. I keep my NES on the shelf above my head, along with all my accessories, games, and Nintendo Power mags, just so I can look up and smile every now and then. I do admit I tinker in NES emulation and have an original NES controller converted to USB for easy play on a PC.
Yes Karl, I'm about to turn 28, we are getting old it seems. 
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Mustang
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I can't believe this thread is still going....and look...here I am helping it along...lol
Another thought to why more developers are producing for the console over the PC, no back end support. I was reminded of how much the corporate gaming world hated to support their product this week when I went looking for the Riddick patch. The official site didn't have it, nor did fileplanet or Gamespot. I ended up at fileshack.
Personally, PC gaming will never die, all the innovations start there. We are the skunkworks of gaming!!!
- How many console players go back and play classic games as much as PC users do???
- PC's will continue to take up more time in peoples lives and be a necessary tool. If its sitting in your house people will always want to play games on them.
- Most interesting thought....Consoles may have more titles but that probably means they also have more terrible games to wade through to find the good ones.
We need to stop worrying about innovative PC Games, they're like buses...all come along in a group:) |
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TechnoScott
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said by ctceo :Now that we've got a good chunk of opinions lets make the official poll, and take a vote, I would guess it to be in favor of PC by about 15% or more... » /forum/r···14720894 I think its odd the PC vs Console poll thread was removed. OBTW, consoles were getting smoked by like 50% + in the poll in case you missed it. I've said it three times now. PC games are not dying.
One more PC advantage... typical console has like 15-20 buttons on the controller. PC = 105 key keyboard that you can bind. More keys that you can bind = more control = more ownage. I'm just wishing now that game developers would write titles cross platform so I can pwn console noobs in the public servers. Now that would be fun! |
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| Poll removed because it is a stupid idea (and off topic for the forum). What result would you expect when running a poll in the #pc games forum#
This topic is only useful if contributions remain mature and do not read as though an outraged pre teen is behind the keyboard. |
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wings10
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Re: PC Gaming Really Is Dying
said by ctceo :Now that we've got a good chunk of opinions lets make the official poll, and take a vote, I would guess it to be in favor of PC by about 15% or more... » /forum/r···14720894 Your poll was removed. I wonder why?
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Primis1
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Coldwater, MI
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RE: Karl's OP -
If what you're into is "OOHHH SHINEY!!!", PC Gaming will now dispapoint you.
If what you want is games you will play over and over and OVER again though.... PC Gaming still reigns.
I own an X-Box. Believe me, I play it, I get my money's worth out of it. I love me some Halo, I play NHL 2005 and ESPN NHL 2k5 on it a lot, I play Project Gotham 2 quite a bit.... and I love my copy of NCAA Football 2005. But most all of even the really good games on console have very short lifespans.
Flip to PC. I'm *STILL* going back and playing Rome: Total War in obssessive spurts (hours at a time per session). I *still* go back and play Call of Duty and UT. I *still* play Starcraft way more than I'm comfortable admitting in public. I still play Civ 2 *and* Civ 3, both. I've been playing EHM freeware since basically 2001. The really good games on PC are so good you don't NEED a new game every month.
Within a year, console games are dead and something else has come along. Depth is not there. With PC Games... you come back to them even years later, and there's a care and depth for them that makes them imminently more-replayable. (And that's not even considering lengthened lifespans through modding...)
And consoles haven't even come close to this kind of depth yet.
So yes, there's a change in PC Gaming. Not everything works well on the PC anymore. However, some games work far betetr on the platform still, and it offer unmatched depth that I don't see the consoles approaching for at least several generations yet. |
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justin
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said by wings10 :Your poll was removed. I wonder why? Try to read posts above yours, before diving in to ask questions that have already been answered.
»PC Gaming Really Is Dying |
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Octavean
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Personally, I really like the (quasi) mindless “run an gun” of FPS games. It can be a real brake from reality, an “escape” if you will, from the times in life when you really must use your brain.
I probably played more games when I was in college for this very reason.
For University Physics I, II and Modern Physics as well as a few other classes like Thermodynamics, I really had to rack my brains. I also had to find new ways to concentrate and I found that turning off ones brain, for a time, was quite helpful in gaining a new perspective on a problem.
There have been countless times when I just couldn’t see my way through to a solution and after some down time (sometimes sleeping on it or playing a game) the answer would just seem to come from nowhere.
In actuality, the brain is still working on the problem but not consciously,….its sort of doing it in the background.
Anyway, after college I played less and was more willing to play other types of games.
I remember liking the C&C line of games.
Personally I would like to see a hybridized line of games that combine FPS with other types like RPG.
In such a game you would have commanders that guide the battle from a God’s eye view much like C&C. The ground troops would receive and follow orders from the commanders to complete objectives. The ground troops would have a FPS perspective of the game.
Anyway,….
If I really want to play a game that isn’t “mindless” I’ll just play a game of chess. |
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wings10
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said by justin :said by wings10 :Your poll was removed. I wonder why? Try to read posts above yours, before diving in to ask questions that have already been answered. » PC Gaming Really Is Dying Hey "BRIGHT" one. I know. That is why I posted. Wonder WHY they would delete it. This is a PC Gaming forum. I guess he should have made a poll about WOW instead. LOL.
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justin
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Re: PC Gaming Really Is Dying
Since I deleted the poll, and I explained WHY I deleted the poll, then I explained why it is not necessary to continue to ask why the poll was deleted, I think we can by now call this part of the topic dead and buried. |
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