Poll: PC and Consoles. A CIVIL Discussion?

[SenseOfTumour]

This should set some people off.

Here goes...

I played Bulletstorm on my PC... with a 360 pad... and enjoyed it.

Sorry!

Honestly tho, despite my strange use of a pad on a PC FPS, some games work better on a PC, and some work better sprawled on a couch with a pad and some mates. It's why so many of us have a console AND a PC.

 

[thatcanadianguy]

honestly, console for me. theres so much variation in PC's. take my laptop. i cant run most high end games on it without it looking like a slideshow on powerpoint. whereas with a ps3, no mattter WHAT game i buy, i know its always gunna run smoothly on my ps3. and now that console games are acceptiong mouse and keyboards, thers really no reason to do any serious gameing on the pc

 

[Treblaine]

Well PC can offer so much more, but you have to put IN so much more.

I can totally understand why the majority aren't willing to put in that effort but the majority must realise that 100% of people are not going to settle for the status-quo and want to push the limits. It's an 80-20 split

I have an Xbox 360 and a PS3.

My 360 I have plugged into an old VGA monitor (that VGA output is so handy) so I use it in my room when the computer room is out-of-use. As a result I find myself using it more than my PS3 which is sharing a monitor with my PC. As a result every time I sit down to play my PS3... I get drawn to all my PC games instead.

GRR!! I still haven't finished Uncharted 2, I keep getting distracted by:

-TF2
-Black Ops
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Bioshock
-Minecraft

Maybe I need to move my PS3 to HDTV. If people won't mind me borrowing it.

 

[Treblaine]

This should set some people off.

Here goes...

I played Bulletstorm on my PC... with a 360 pad... and enjoyed it.

Sorry!

Honestly tho, despite my strange use of a pad on a PC FPS, some games work better on a PC, and some work better sprawled on a couch with a pad and some mates. It's why so many of us have a console AND a PC.

Does aim-assist kick-in when you switch to gamepad mode?

Because I played Black ops on PC for a bit with a game-pad... it was well laid out but NO AIM ASSIST! Yet playing against mouse wielding opponents = ungodly domination.

 

[Woodsey]

PC R TEH ULTIMATEZ.

Got a 360 and PS3 as well, but the 360 is essentially redundant, and the PS3 is used to catch the awesome-o exclusives that I'd otherwise miss.

Also, this whole "civil discussion - which do you play on" topic has come up more times than a 13-year-old guy in a women's changing room.

 

[Treblaine]

no mattter WHAT game i buy, i know its always gunna run smoothly on my ps3.

O Rly?

Maybe because I'm a frame-rate-whore but consoles and especially PS3 do not give the framerate smoothness I desire.

Devs seem to be more ambitious on PS3 (killzone 2) that can cut the frame-rate from to 18fps, or they are simply lazy and hand their 360 code to some third party to port to PS3 with inevitable performance nosedives.

But I can see where you are coming from, unless you have the right hardware and right settings for PC then fame rate will turn to a slideshow. but IF you are anal enough (like me) to fiddle with those settings then you can get a solid 60 frames per second full v-sync and anti-aliasing too. But via brute force processing power and meticulous tweaking.

Many games benefit from PC's awesome power and customisability, Bad Company 2 is one, able to play in 1080p and 60fps really changes how fast paced the gameplay can be from consoles' 720p 30fps.

Laptop isn't very good example of PC gaming as:
-stuck to a small screen
-pay premium for compact components of equivalent power + portable battery power ect
-can't really upgrade in any way
-components tend to be geared towards battery endurance than performance.

on dekstop however if you are savvy you can get a LOT for your money.

8800GT was a great card back in 2007, still kicks ass today and even better adding another one (£50 refurbished) in SLI will offer max setting and frame/res for all the latest games.

PC is a labour of love, you have to read SO MUCH to figure out what to do and you will pay dearly for any mistakes, but high risk comes with high reward.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I mainly use my 360 for gaming because when it comes to multiplayer, most of my friends own one. I do use my laptop mainly for PC exclusives like Europa Universallis III, Champions Online, and Minecraft. I'll also generally get old games for my laptop as well because backwards compatability on the 360 can be awkward because even if the game is backwards compatible the textures are usually off to varying degrees.

 

[scorptatious]

Normally I'm a console man myself, but I have recently been playing games on the PC. Not in the way you'd normally think though. I'm playing old Pokemon games through an online emulator.

By the way:

Spoiler

Fuck Whitney. Seriously.

Overall, I'll have to go with consoles. The Xbox 360 to be specific. As my laptop isn't powerful to handle games like Half-Life or Team Fortress 2. (I have tried to play TF2 on it before. Didn't work out so well...)

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Spoiler: PC vs Console *debates* make me do this

But seriously, my Xbox 360 is still my primary method of gaming because of my large collection of games. Sadly enough, the vast majority of those 360 games are shooters. I'm slowly but surely gaining a decent collection of PC games, and I haven't touched a 360 game (aside from GH: Warriors of Rock) since I built my PC two months back.

Plus, my computer is overdue for a cleaning.

 

[the_green_dragon]

Snip

If only they made building a PC accessable, at the moment you really need to research it, or have a friend who knows this stuff to help you out. You walk into a store and the bits and pieces are everywhere and most are NOT compadible.