is PC gaming dead ?

its fucking dead you cunts

What’s a console? Is that like that Wii gadget that children play ? Consoles are for knuckle draggers like Lammie (He’s only got 2 fingers 1 thumb per hand – perfect for consoles and wanking)

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For me I think they’re both bobbing along still but it is/has/and always will be about what games you want to play.
I’m shocked that someone actually said FPS games on PS3 rather than PC! But then I think that was Turks, he doesn’t have a clue.

Sports games are quality with joypads. I love sports games hence consoles are a good choice for me.#

FPS games are always going to be better on PCs (as you guys have already said) due to the setup of a mouse and a keyboard.

And the rest? I mean things like Just Cause play well enough with a joypad as does Splinter Cell and Burnouts. I’m never going to attempt to play CIV on an xbox, that’s madness!

Egg – If you are thinking of getting a console though you’ve gotta go xbox as that’s where most of us are talking shit online on Xbox Live.

PC all the way for me. Had a working 360 for over a year, and the only kind of games i preferred playing on it were Pro Evo and Need for Speed/Gran Turismo style games.. and I only fired it up maybe a dozen times – since it buggered up I’ve not replaced it.

As for the price, I had to replace my GFX card this year, but that was because it died (my fault, poor conditions I keep it in – for reference my xbox has also died, but not my fault, kept it in good nick. Not RRoD either, so no extended warranty for me) – got one for under £90 that does me fine, and have recently built new machines very capable of decent gaming (she uses it for warcraft, so i’m extrapolating with the “decent” qualifier) – built my rig 3 years ago, felt no need to upgrade since.

The biggest thing about the 2 choices for me is the style, and yes, quality of the games available. As stated previously on this thread the most in depth console game doesnt measure up to the engrossing qualities of most PC games. I also like flight sims, and the only one’s I’ve played on a console have felt more like late-90’s arcade-y flight sims (Strike Commander, anyone?) – hard to get a ‘feel’ for the environment at all. There are always exceptions, but by and large, console games do feel like they are aimed at the widest possible audience (obvious really, why cut yourself out of a massive market of people who 6 years ago wouldn’t have classed themselves as ‘gamers’?) – i’m not taking issue with that, I think it’s great to introduce a new generation and an older generation to an avenue of entertainment they would otherwise have missed out on, however, that level of ‘pick up and play’ simplicity just doesnt do it for me.

Biggest example of my bias towards PC games has to be Bioshock. Kinda bought into some of the hype around it before it came out, got it for my 360 and spent the next eight hours dissapointed. Much prefer halflife – million reasons why.
A mate of mine was dead excited, but he’s a console kid through and through..
Played it on the PC shortly afterwards, and it just felt like it was made for a console throughout, with no thought given to how tactile it would feel on a PC. Its my biggest gripe with games in general at the moment, too many console-ports…

anyway.. ’nuff said.

In summary, both have thier place, but for ‘serious’ gaming, PC all the way.

I like the comfort of being able to sit on my sofa, be playing withing 2 minutes and finish an hour later and do something else. As a PC gamer I would lose hours without noticing and feel groggy after.

Also I find games (usually) more polished on a console than PC – none of that EA releasing a half finished game crap.

I have tried to come back to PC gaming but cannot do it (but cheers Doc for talking me in to buying a £150 graphics card!)

@streff wrote:

and who the hell is voting ‘neither’ on a gaming forum? what platform do they use? Tabletop? I thought that was the dead format these days…

My bad! I swear my one eye read it as ‘either.’