Didn't know there were so many gamers here. When do you guys work with those PCs? I can't help but waste time on games if I have a powerful computer.
Is PC gaming dead yet?
- Thread starter dmnEPC
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You can pick up a gaming laptop for between 1-2k that should be able to play any titles that come out for at least the next couple of years. Check out the ROG laptops by ASUS or perhaps MSI's gaming laptops.
I just buy games on sale and play them for about 2 hours and then stop. I have a huge backlog of games I'll never play, but at one point thought was interesting. It seems to be pretty common among PC gamers, especially after your first few sales. You can pick up entire series of games for <$5. Honestly, I've stopped trying to beat games entirely anymore. I just play until I'm satisfied.
There's no need to read all of this thread or all of this post...
Catch the highlights
PC gaming has ALWAYS been better than consoles from the start of the discussion. The only "true" argument was that console gamers did not see console titles on PC's.
However, historically PC gamers never cared about console gamers or the games they played. In more recent years the lines have blurred and the typical PC gamer is not the same as years ago. Hence, this near idiotic thread.
To be clear, that's not anything about the participants here but the mere fact that on a webmaster, coding, computer based forum there is even a thought of consoles as better shows a dramatic change of the population.
As it stands now, just about all "major" titles have versions for PC's and consoles. Then that goes again into the PC crowd as once a land of people who didn't want the same stuff as the "popular kids" or the "in-crowd". Things are different now.
Even when companies say they're going to do an exclusive for consoles, they usually back out because there is more power on PC's and PC users typically have more money. Companies not going to lose out on money.
Look at TitanFall Xbox exclusive...yeah right. PC users demanded it and thus it comes.
If any of you think Call of Duty Advanced Warfare or Tom Clancy's the Division will look or play better on a console, you're sadly mistaken. Controller or not.
My last and current rig from 2012
i7 3770 chip
16GB memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 680FTW 4GB
120GB SSD Raid OS drives
3TB Raid storage / data drives
Water-cooled
The only thing upgraded is the monitor and that's because of accidentally dropping the previous. Went from 24-inch to a 27-inch LG EA63 IPS.
All games still DEFAULT to ultra settings.
Lots of great paid games and plenty of FREE games that almost boggle the mind.
Recent STEAM downloads
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms
Warframe
Defiance
Rift
Planetside 2
Neverwinter
Firefall
Let's not forget these are all FREE.
Get a STEAM account buy on Amazon. Works for me.
Catch the highlights
PC gaming has ALWAYS been better than consoles from the start of the discussion. The only "true" argument was that console gamers did not see console titles on PC's.
However, historically PC gamers never cared about console gamers or the games they played. In more recent years the lines have blurred and the typical PC gamer is not the same as years ago. Hence, this near idiotic thread.
To be clear, that's not anything about the participants here but the mere fact that on a webmaster, coding, computer based forum there is even a thought of consoles as better shows a dramatic change of the population.
As it stands now, just about all "major" titles have versions for PC's and consoles. Then that goes again into the PC crowd as once a land of people who didn't want the same stuff as the "popular kids" or the "in-crowd". Things are different now.
Even when companies say they're going to do an exclusive for consoles, they usually back out because there is more power on PC's and PC users typically have more money. Companies not going to lose out on money.
Look at TitanFall Xbox exclusive...yeah right. PC users demanded it and thus it comes.
If any of you think Call of Duty Advanced Warfare or Tom Clancy's the Division will look or play better on a console, you're sadly mistaken. Controller or not.
My last and current rig from 2012
i7 3770 chip
16GB memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 680FTW 4GB
120GB SSD Raid OS drives
3TB Raid storage / data drives
Water-cooled
The only thing upgraded is the monitor and that's because of accidentally dropping the previous. Went from 24-inch to a 27-inch LG EA63 IPS.
All games still DEFAULT to ultra settings.
Lots of great paid games and plenty of FREE games that almost boggle the mind.
Recent STEAM downloads
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms
Warframe
Defiance
Rift
Planetside 2
Neverwinter
Firefall
Let's not forget these are all FREE.
Get a STEAM account buy on Amazon. Works for me.
If you spend any time on that game, drop me a PM. I've got a char that's over lvl 5k there and I can help you run the expert co-op maps and stuff.
Although, Elite Dangerous beta 2 just dropped yesterday and Star Citizen released a patch yesterday too, so I'll be busy flying space ships for a while.
PC gaming isn't even that expensive. You can buy a 2-3 year old computer for next to nothing and put a couple hundred bucks into it (new gpu and psu) and play games fine for the next 3 years. Way cheaper than buying consoles in the long run.
I may be biased though. Always been a PC gamer.
I may be biased though. Always been a PC gamer.