Is it even worth it to buy a xbox360 or ps3?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

who the fuck would get street fighter 4 for pc? honestly...

I was thinking about it.

I would, im much more responsive with even my big toe over my thumb. Its the bane of my ability to play console games. I loved PC gaming while I did it, but it IS very expensive, and it just wasnt worth it. And also I am one of those people that enjoys tweaking graphics settings etc. to make it look and play awesome. Thats me though.

[miked]

Still dont understand how you think a PC is cost saving. This was MY experience: I built a PC about 2 years ago and it cost me $400. I then had to upgrade my video card a year later which cost another $130 dollars. I was about to get a processor cause I could tell my new card was being held back for $80. Thats when I said fuck this and got a 360. A one time $200 fee and a $20 HD from a friend. With Microsoft claiming a 10 year shelf run just like the PS2 had(which I think can easily be done) that gives me plenty of gaming time left with it. Im not some 360 fanboy, and like I said I have my own gaming computer as well. That was my experience and maybe yours went way differently, but no need to get all jumpy on us only cause we dont agree with you. Winning internet forum arguements doesnt add any inches to your dick.........

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I stopped the whole PC Gaming deal after Crysis. At that point, I realized that it would cost way to much to upgrade my PC (actually, at this point, I'd have to buy a new one; my mobo has the best of everything that it supports and it still can't run Crysis), and I was already pretty much sick of the whole "Buy a PC every 6 months" mentality of most games. At least with a console, I only have to buy a new one every 4+ years AND the games are guaranteed to work as long as the developers/porters aren't leprous retards.

After checking NewEgg to see how much it would cost to build a computer that can run Crysis at a somewhat decent speed (about 35 FPS, I believe), I believe all the parts came to about $1000+. That's just the tower and all of its components too, that's not including a good monitor, sound system or high-quality mouse/keyboard combo. The prices may have dropped since I last checked, but seeing as that was only about 3-4 months ago, I doubt it dropped by much.

My computer can run MAME very well, as well as Team Fortress 2. That's about all I'll be using it for, unless an Alienware magically falls from the skies. The only future upgrade I'll be doing to it will probably be an ungraded processor, as that's the only thing I need to upgrade to play Left 4 Dead comfortably. I gotta say, if it weren't for Valve, I'd definitely long have forsaken the PC Gaming scene that didn't have to do with emulation.

EA and Crytek sold a special edition pc MADE to run Crysis and was selling at around 500.

Still dont understand how you think a PC is cost saving. This was MY experience: I built a PC about 2 years ago and it cost me $400. I then had to upgrade my video card a year later which cost another $130 dollars. I was about to get a processor cause I could tell my new card was being held back for $80. Thats when I said fuck this and got a 360. A one time $200 fee and a $20 HD from a friend. With Microsoft claiming a 10 year shelf run just like the PS2 had(which I think can easily be done) that gives me plenty of gaming time left with it. Im not some 360 fanboy, and like I said I have my own gaming computer as well. That was my experience and maybe yours went way differently, but no need to get all jumpy on us only cause we dont agree with you. Winning internet forum arguements doesnt add any inches to your dick.........

[The Apprentice]

Street fighter II for pc by us gold anyone?

I prefer Mega Man and Mega Man III.

Still dont understand how you think a PC is cost saving. This was MY experience: I built a PC about 2 years ago and it cost me $400. I then had to upgrade my video card a year later which cost another $130 dollars. I was about to get a processor cause I could tell my new card was being held back for $80. Thats when I said fuck this and got a 360. A one time $200 fee and a $20 HD from a friend. With Microsoft claiming a 10 year shelf run just like the PS2 had(which I think can easily be done) that gives me plenty of gaming time left with it. Im not some 360 fanboy, and like I said I have my own gaming computer as well. That was my experience and maybe yours went way differently, but no need to get all jumpy on us only cause we dont agree with you. Winning internet forum arguements doesnt add any inches to your dick.........

My thoughtts exactly.

[miked]

Haha nice ryan. For a second I was starting to get a little angry with mozgus and that brought me back down to reality.

[the7k]

It's not just Crysis, it's just that Crysis happens to be the most obvious example of it. Just like I'd mention Daikatana if we were talking about disappointments in gaming; it's not the only disappointment, just the most obvious one. Strategy games, the main reason I played games on the PC, are starting to use graphics as detailed as First Person Shooters, and having that many hi-poly models on the screen at once, with explosions and all sorts of debris flying around in wide open spaces is surely enough to make most computers cry in pain.

Even when my PC was fairly recent, I was constantly replacing part on it until I got it to this point, where I pretty much can't upgrade anything else on it without getting a new Mother Board.

Hey, if you enjoy your PC and don't need a console, that's great for you. It's just that when it comes to the PC, all there really is to it are First Person Shooters, Strategy Games and Western RPGs. I've never been a big fan of dungeon crawlers, most FPSs tend to be about the same as reskinning other FPSs, and the strategy genre went stale after Ensemble were content to just make AoE expansions for the rest of its days. So, for me, a PC is only good for the Indie/Doujin games, emulation, and Steam.

The other main thing going for the PC, in my eyes, was online gaming. If you wanted to play with others, you didn't have to bring them to your house; you could call them up and tell them to meet up on battlenet/won/whatever. Now that consoles have this as well as the ability to play with chums in your house, the PC isn't quite as necessary for gaming as it once was.

I'll never forget the good ol' days of Deus Ex, Half-Life, Quake 2, Unreal Tournament, Age of Empires, Warcraft, Starcraft, etc. Those days are gone now. If I wanna play a FPS, I'd rather play Resistance or Gears of War, where the main fun is going through the agony with a friend next to you. If I wanna play a strategy game... well, I'm pretty much SOL there. It's either roll out Warcraft III for the uptenth time, try to deal with FFXII: Revenant Wings and the fickle DS stylus, or play Turn-Based Tactical RPGS (As I have been.)

[Mozgus]

With Microsoft claiming a 10 year shelf run just like the PS2 had(which I think can easily be done)

You are so naive. 360 will not last that long. The PS2 didn't either. It hasn't even been 10 years yet. Saying the PS2 has lived 10 years is just like saying the DC has lived for 10 years. The DC still gets a game every few months, so technically it's still alive. PS2 hasn't gotten anything decent in a long time, (yes, fuck Persona 4).

And once again, PC gaming costs more because it does more. Far more. If that's too hard for you to understand, then I argue that it's merely the video card that turns a PC into a gaming PC. Sub $200 video cards beat the pants off of any 360 any day.

[miked]

your dick must be 10 feet by now. Keep talking. Your PC is your golden gaming god and you make love to it nightly, WE GET IT.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

With Microsoft claiming a 10 year shelf run just like the PS2 had(which I think can easily be done)

You are so naive. 360 will not last that long. The PS2 didn't either. It hasn't even been 10 years yet. Saying the PS2 has lived 10 years is just like saying the DC has lived for 10 years. The DC still gets a game every few months, so technically it's still alive. PS2 hasn't gotten anything decent in a long time, (yes, fuck Persona 4).

And once again, PC gaming costs more because it does more. Far more. If that's too hard for you to understand, then I argue that it's merely the video card that turns a PC into a gaming PC. Sub $200 video cards beat the pants off of any 360 any day.

I must say this, go online get a 2.1ghz Core 2 Duo for 50 bucks, get an 8600gt OC 512mb for 50, get 2gb of RAM for 30, get a 120gb HDD for like 20, get your average cheap dell tower from 2 years ago, there goes 200 and BAM! theres a 350 dollar gaming pc. The only way PC gaming is truely expensive is if you are "hardcore" and need to buy updated hardware so you can run everything on ultra-high with 300x antialiasing and 720x anistropic filtering with enough dynamic lights, shadows, and pixel shading to blow youre fucking head off. Unfortunatly, thats what most PC gamers like to do.

[The Apprentice]

your dick must be 10 feet by now. Keep talking. Your PC is your golden gaming god and you make love to it nightly, WE GET IT.

Milked has won. I have to say I agree with just about everything he's posted in this thread so far.