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| Thread ID: 106409 | 2010-01-07 11:44:00 | Video games on PC | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 846690 | 2010-01-07 21:13:00 | These days you can get the same games for the PC and console(s). A PC has semi or full HD and a console has HDMI. With limits to the human eye, is there much diff between semi and full HD for games? Is there going to be much diff between an expensive PC running at top frames per sec vs a console that might run at a lower rate? For the hardware, I thought games were preferable to a lesser core and higher Ghz so I was a bit surprised my system ran it without issues. Ah .. not into games that much so not upgrading my video card :D This is my first game that I played since a year buying my PC and it was a demo. Nor would I want to spend that amount of money on the video card every 6 months :p |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 846691 | 2010-01-07 22:10:00 | As a 360 owner myself I can say "most" console Games feel like they are dumbed down kiddy crap. If your into first person shooters and Real time strategy PC is the ONLY way to go, a controller is just NOT precise enough. I also run a 360 controller on my PC for the odd play of Dirt2 etc. If your into car raceing and platform type a games console might be for you. A medium to high end PC has vastly superior graphics to either the 360 or PS3 unless its a direct port like COD4 Modern Warefare 2. The PC is held back with no improved graphics over console except you'll prob be running in higher resolutions. In Games like Fallout 3 on PC/360/PS3 the PC shines as resolutions are higher and view distances are much better with far less slow downs etc. www.gametrailers.com Here on Batman the texture's and frame rate is clearly better on the pc, no surprise. www.eurogamer.net Any game that is multi platform, the PC usually wins. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 846692 | 2010-01-07 22:34:00 | Big screen is certainly a bonus for console gaming, But the 22" LCD on the PC is also damn fine, especially as you sit just a few inches from it. I'm yet to find a console game that distracts me for more then a couple of hours, and so far haven't found a racing game worthy of using a steering wheel, I do want to try Forza 3 but it would have to be a pretty damn big improvement over Forza 2. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 846693 | 2010-01-07 23:24:00 | As i'm not a pc gamer, I will take your word for it. But playing a game on a PS3 on a 50 plasma is amazing. No worries if the new game will run properly on the console. Couldn't think of anything worse then bringing a new game home and not knowing if the console will play it or not. At least on paper I am right. The higher end components of PCs are certainly better than any consoles out there. But Speedy is right....it depends on the game developers to make games that can take advantage of these jigh-end components. And if I'm not wrong I think they're making Crysis 2 to also play on PS3? :( If that's the case hopefully the PC version won't suffer the same problems other games that are multi-platform suffer. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 846694 | 2010-01-07 23:38:00 | At least on paper I am right. The higher end components of PCs are certainly better than any consoles out there. But Speedy is right....it depends on the game developers to make games that can take advantage of these jigh-end components. And if I'm not wrong I think they're making Crysis 2 to also play on PS3? :( If that's the case hopefully the PC version won't suffer the same problems other games that are multi-platform suffer. When I said PC gaming was dead, it was a bit tongue and cheek. Games platforms that were originally PC biased COD for example, on the latest title their have stopped dedicated servers for them. So when once games on the PC were the most important market for the developers, it is now consoles. Any new cross platform game out these days, the PC version is only a fraction of the sales of the consoles. |
plod (107) | ||
| 846695 | 2010-01-07 23:43:00 | And if I'm not wrong I think they're making Crysis 2 to also play on PS3? :( If that's the case hopefully the PC version won't suffer the same problems other games that are multi-platform suffer. And Xbox 360. But yea it will be very interesting to see what Crytek do as they already clearly stated Cryengine 2 had no chance of running on the consoles due to here hardware limitations. One suspects Cryengine 3 will be nerfed and Crysis 2 will be far less of a Sandbox and more heavily scripted like Modern warfare which will be a huge shame. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 846696 | 2010-01-08 00:19:00 | I don't have a console but I think that gamers are possibly partly responsible for better, faster, grunty and so on PCs. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 846697 | 2010-01-08 00:22:00 | I would say gaming is the biggest reason for hardware development or was | plod (107) | ||
| 846698 | 2010-01-08 03:59:00 | There are no new consoles due for release, except perhaps a HD wii | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 846699 | 2010-01-08 06:29:00 | Every aspect of gaming is better on pc except for the need to update, but even then a pc thats a year or even 2 years old could play a new game and its still likely to look better than a console. Il agree racing games are better on console, but when you have xbox controller + full hd on the computer the console doesnt have a chance. Any game that requires precision with a pointer (FPS) and pretty much everything else is alot easier with a mouse and keyboard. I played alot of PS1 and PS2 before I started gaming more heavily on PC and I wont be going back. Consoles are ruining PC gaming as well with all the crappy ports we seem to be getting. GTA4 for example. If they didnt have to spend so much time optimizing it for consoles then they might have put some time into optimizing it for PC And as Sweep and Plod said, gaming is the reason hardware is getting better, even for consoles. But consoles will always follow the PC benchmark I reckon |
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