PC games vs xbox360 games

[Mozgus]

Dude are you agreeing with me by arguing with me? I am literally defending PCs and PC gaming here and you still have a go?

What is your malfunction?

You could be giving the PC platform fellatio, but when you do it wrong, I'm here to let you know.

[Mozgus]

Yup, I called it. RE5 for PC.

http://kotaku.com/5076483/resident-evil-5-dated-for-pc

[Gamerforlife]

Reading this topic makes me realize two things:

1)I should sell my 360
2)Nintendo is smarter than I thought. Wii games wouldn't be quite the same on PC, which makes their console seem a bit more enticing now. At least it can provide something unique, while the 360 really does seem like PC-lite gaming

[Mozgus]

Reading this topic makes me realize two things:

1)I should sell my 360
2)Nintendo is smarter than I thought. Wii games wouldn't be quite the same on PC, which makes their console seem a bit more enticing now. At least it can provide something unique, while the 360 really does seem like PC-lite gaming

PC-lite? Meh, perhaps. I'd love to call it PC-simplified, but with all the hardware failures, I can't in good will say such a thing. The more I think about it, the more I realize that if 360 was as solid and reliable as a nintendo machine, I'd have left PC gaming in favor of it by now.

[Gamerforlife]

Reading this topic makes me realize two things:

1)I should sell my 360
2)Nintendo is smarter than I thought. Wii games wouldn't be quite the same on PC, which makes their console seem a bit more enticing now. At least it can provide something unique, while the 360 really does seem like PC-lite gaming

PC-lite? Meh, perhaps. I'd love to call it PC-simplified, but with all the hardware failures, I can't in good will say such a thing. The more I think about it, the more I realize that if 360 was as solid and reliable as a nintendo machine, I'd have left PC gaming in favor of it by now.

Good points. I know many people prefer consoles for simplicity, but crappy products with red rings of death certainly don't help lure PC gamers.

I think from now on I will wait when certain games come out on the 360 to see what the inevitable PC version is like. It seems like some games(like Viva Pinata)gain absolutely nothing from being ported to PC, but it's the enhanced ports like Mass Effect that have my interest. Unfortunately, it's hard to know if a port will be better or not unless the company says so ahead of time.

[executioner]

Reading this topic makes me realize two things:

1)I should sell my 360
2)Nintendo is smarter than I thought. Wii games wouldn't be quite the same on PC, which makes their console seem a bit more enticing now. At least it can provide something unique, while the 360 really does seem like PC-lite gaming

PC-lite? Meh, perhaps. I'd love to call it PC-simplified, but with all the hardware failures, I can't in good will say such a thing. The more I think about it, the more I realize that if 360 was as solid and reliable as a nintendo machine, I'd have left PC gaming in favor of it by now.

Good points. I know many people prefer consoles for simplicity, but crappy products with red rings of death certainly don't help lure PC gamers.

I think from now on I will wait when certain games come out on the 360 to see what the inevitable PC version is like. It seems like some games(like Viva Pinata)gain absolutely nothing from being ported to PC, but it's the enhanced ports like Mass Effect that have my interest. Unfortunately, it's hard to know if a port will be better or not unless the company says so ahead of time.

This was just the topic I was precisely looking for. About a week ago I decided to forget the idea of buying a 360 this year to a later date down the road maybe when they sell about $149.99 with all the needed accesories. There's only a handful of games I will be missing out but I don't have time to play them all and as I was reading about all the pc games released practically every good rated game has or will be released on the pc side, so a hardware upgrade for me is on the way. I'm currently running a P4 with an nvidia 6600 and there are a lot of game from the last three years I haven't played that can run fine, but since I already saved for a PS3 or 360 the cash will go to the pc and probably will spend less on the long run without worrying about rings of death.

[Pingfa]

It bugs me how most of the worthwhile 360 games are ported to the PC without the necessary tweaking. PC owners these days usually end up getting an inferior port because it's ported straight from the 360 so that it's just like the 360 game, only with slowdown. Severe slowdown in some cases.

I think it was the PC port of Rainbow Six: Vegas that had all-too-noticeable slowdown issues, especially in co-op.

[Mozgus]

It bugs me how most of the worthwhile 360 games are ported to the PC without the necessary tweaking. PC owners these days usually end up getting an inferior port because it's ported straight from the 360 so that it's just like the 360 game, only with slowdown. Severe slowdown in some cases.

I think it was the PC port of Rainbow Six: Vegas that had all-too-noticeable slowdown issues, especially in co-op.

Slowdown is rarely a universal flaw in a PC port, except for DMC3, which was caused by a buggy OGG Vorbis decoder. I played Vegas 1 and 2 fine dude. They just aren't very great games to begin with, so I stopped quickly.

[The Apprentice]

There's several good points in having a gaming pc. Games are cheaper vs 360, fps are better on the PC, greater option of control, better customization, plus you get a PC that you can do anything on.

Sure, games are cheap on PC, but often they have serious bugs that are fixed in a nausiating series of patches and fixes, or worse: "updates" Nothing better than going to play your newly installed software only to find you have to wait two hours for an update to download and install so you can't exploit some money-giving glitch that you would have never found in the first place.

I've said it before and I will always stick to it: PCs are the last resort. I will never buy a "gaming rig" because nomater how dressed up the casing is or how "with it" the naming trend is. ("Hey guys, lets call our generic Windows-box an 'Alienware'!!!1! Get it?!?! It's ALIEN because its advanced, and it's WARE because it's computer related!!1!" Zomg, somebody give that marketing-exec a cookie)

In the end their all just a bunch of retarded, incompatible idiot-boxes that manufacturers build a billion parts and prebuilt rigs to run the latest "cutting edge" bloated version of Windows. It doesn't matter how much money you spend, either. They go out of production and streight into the garage sales and pawn shops withen a couple of years as soon as GAME X decides it will only run on Nvidia or GAME Y decides it will only run on ATI. I don't care if that's a terrible example, it happens that way so fast and so often you'll wonder why you got a "gaming rig" in the first place.

Meanwhile PS2 owners dropped half the ammount of money for a modern gaming rig into a PS2 and accessories at launch 7 years ago and are still getting quality games at a respectable rate.

PCs do, however, make terrific office buddies, as well as a perfect home for malware and computer-crashing bugs.

[Mozgus]

There's several good points in having a gaming pc. Games are cheaper vs 360, fps are better on the PC, greater option of control, better customization, plus you get a PC that you can do anything on.

Sure, games are cheap on PC, but often they have serious bugs that are fixed in a nausiating series of patches and fixes, or worse: "updates" Nothing better than going to play your newly installed software only to find you have to wait two hours for an update to download and install so you can't exploit some money-giving glitch that you would have never found in the first place.

I've said it before and I will always stick to it: PCs are the last resort. I will never buy a "gaming rig" because nomater how dressed up the casing is or how "with it" the naming trend is. ("Hey guys, lets call our generic Windows-box an 'Alienware'!!!1! Get it?!?! It's ALIEN because its advanced, and it's WARE because it's computer related!!1!" Zomg, somebody give that marketing-exec a cookie)

In the end their all just a bunch of retarded, incompatible idiot-boxes that manufacturers build a billion parts and prebuilt rigs to run the latest "cutting edge" bloated version of Windows. It doesn't matter how much money you spend, either. They go out of production and streight into the garage sales and pawn shops withen a couple of years as soon as GAME X decides it will only run on Nvidia or GAME Y decides it will only run on ATI. I don't care if that's a terrible example, it happens that way so fast and so often you'll wonder why you got a "gaming rig" in the first place.

Meanwhile PS2 owners dropped half the ammount of money for a modern gaming rig into a PS2 and accessories at launch 7 years ago and are still getting quality games at a respectable rate.

PCs do, however, make terrific office buddies, as well as a perfect home for malware and computer-crashing bugs.

You talk about idiot-boxes, but if you have had the kinds of experiences you describe here with your PCs, I can only assume that you sir, are the idiot to those boxes. Clearly, you're doing something wrong.

Additional points:

My Playstations have given me more headaches than my PCs ever have, and from everything I hear, the 360 is far less stable than that.

PS2 is NOT receiving quality games at a respectable rate. for the first 2 and a half years, the system barely got anything worth playing, and for the last year or more, it's getting nothing but horrible salvaged down-ports from the current consoles, which often look worse than even the launch titles did originally.

What PC games run on nothing but the highest of end hardware? Besides Crysis, name me some. Go on. Feel free to validate the stereotype. I'd love to hear this because developers are not all stupid. Most do realize that to maximize sales, you must offer a game that will run on 5 year old machines or beyond.

With consoles becoming more like PCs with every generation, they too, are becoming buggy on launch. This is not a PC exclusive flaw. Countless games arrive on consoles with major issues, and you're lucky if they get patched out eventually. Blame the industry's rushed schedule. Most companies insist on meeting deadlines that are impossible without sacrificing the bug testing portion of the process.