Undeniable proof that RO2 is better than anything on consoles...

[TheRealGunther]

Especially considering my CPU is the biggest bottleneck on my computer right now, so in order to get better power I need to buy a whole new computer, something that isn't going to happen for quite a while. Being a college student is a rather expensive affair, especially when you're paying for it yourself.

Na if you motherboard cant handle a new CPU u just need 2 things a MB and a CPU.The rest of your hardware will just plug into the new motherboard.Anyone on a tighter budget I would never recommend buying a new PC just buy a couple parts as you need and upgrade in steps.In fact I have used the same case for the last 10 years just upgrading parts as needed.

 

[Josef Nader]

Na if you motherboard cant handle a new CPU u just need 2 things a MB and a CPU.The rest of your hardware will just plug into the new motherboard.Anyone on a tighter budget I would never recommend buying a new PC just buy a couple parts as you need and upgrade in steps.In fact I have used the same case for the last 10 years just upgrading parts as needed.

Yeah, I'm still looking at $500+ for any sort of significant upgrade.

 

[PermenentMarker]

What a waste. Could have made a great softmod box... screw the xbox games I like that hardware to have ALL retro consols running on it

 

[Cpt-Praxius]

I'm not sure what your point is. You made a sweeping statement with nothing to back it up. Pc is the best platform for all genres in my opinion. The only time it loses out is if a game wasn't ported over to it.

Regardless of genre it doesn't matter. I have controllers hooked up to my PC and my PC hooked up to my TV. Therefore I have the best of all worlds. There is nothing a console can do my PC can't do better (other than the games which aren't ported as I mentioned before).

You may not have this kind of set up. But that isn't the fault of the platform, that is because of you.

As for your comment about RPGs, I completely disagree with you. The simpler RPGs, which I also like I play on my PC with a pad if necessary. But I myself love Planescape Torment, not Mass Effect.

Don't get me wrong though, you are welcome to your views, but bear in mind they annoyed me enough for me to register for this site to make this futile comment.

Just to comment about what you said about a PC being able to do anything a console can..... a PC can do pretty much everything an XboX or PS can do, but things like what the Wii & XBox can do with using your entire body, PC's are still a bit lacking in those areas.

You can purchase add ons for your PC to do many of the things like the above, but very few games are designed for the PC for those things.

I still prefer PC's over consoles just because they're simply better in almost every aspect, but consoles do have their advantages in certain situations.

 

[SCandChives]

but things like what the Wii & XBox can do with using your entire body, PC's are still a bit lacking in those areas.

You can purchase add ons for your PC to do many of the things like the above, but very few games are designed for the PC for those things.

Of course theres not much variety in stuff for the Kinect though, aside from some dancing games and Gunstringer (I think that's its name). Stuff like the Kinect has a lot of potential that would probably be better used on the PC, thats just Kinect though.

 

[Josef Nader]

Of course theres not much variety in stuff for the Kinect though, aside from some dancing games and Gunstringer (I think that's its name). Stuff like the Kinect has a lot of potential that would probably be better used on the PC, thats just Kinect though.

My PC is in my room, where there isn't a whole lot of room to move around between my desk, bed, dresser, TV stand, night stand, etc.

My 360's in my living room, with the easily movable coffee table.

Now, I don't own a Kinect, but I'm not moving my computer to a more open area so I can play mo-cap games on my 22" screen when I have a perfectly good big-screen in the living room. A 12 year old, 250lb CRT big screen with crayon marks and dead pixels, but a much better screen for wildly flailing my arms in front of than my desktop.

 

[Icey_Pain]

They're also the reason that developers spend time optimizing their game properly and the reason that I can play new games on my older rig.

I don't have the money to keep upgrading my computer. Some of us have to buy food and pay rent and whatnot.

Of course having to upgrade your hardware can be quite costly. But I don't agree that because of consoles we have better optimised games. Because that is simply not true. The reason that you are able to play 5 year old games is because the graphical innovations have been very lacking.
Even Battlefield 3 hardly looks good if you consider that most of it's beauty comes from high resolution textures and a whole bunch of shaders, because the amount of polygons on some of the objects is nothing to write home about.

If anything, the consoles are the very reason that most games aren't optimised. Many games start off with a console as the leading platform, then the developers try to port it to the PC to gain some extra cash, but they tend to spend less time optimising it for the PC since it's not going to sell as much as on the consoles anyways.

You'd think that this is the fault of piracy, but actually it's more the fault of developers thinking that gamers actually want games that severely lack content due to the limitations of console hardware.
Yet publishers will do everything in their power to blame the consumer, I just know that when a game is good I will buy it.

 

[Dee0342]

You'd think that this is the fault of piracy, but actually it's more the fault of developers thinking that gamers actually want games that severely lack content due to the limitations of console hardware.
Yet publishers will do everything in their power to blame the consumer, I just know that when a game is good I will buy it.

In the end its just the developers fault not the consoles limitations.
Look at new Deus Ex, I believe it ( correct me if necesarry ) was inhouse made for the consoles and the PC version was done by an outside party.
In the end the PC version is superior to the console version because of lower loading times and better performance even though the game was made for consoles.

Its easy to blame the limitations of the console for everything but in the end its just the developers being lazy because the PC gaming consumers will still buy their product even though they complain about it.

 

[DiedTrying]

I'm not even going to bother.

I thought we were joking around with each other based on your first post when you were teasing me?



All my posts to you were in good faith.

 

[TheRealGunther]

Yeah, I'm still looking at $500+ for any sort of significant upgrade.

If you shop around you can get this for about 350 bucks a great cpu/MB pack and a great! bang for your buck

http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=ABeXTtSxLZKXtweC88WCBA&ved=0CEIQ8gIwAw

 

[Josef Nader]

If you shop around you can get this for about 350 bucks a great cpu/MB pack and a great! bang for your buck

http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=ABeXTtSxLZKXtweC88WCBA&ved=0CEIQ8gIwAw

Neat!

Now if I could just afford the $350...

*Continues eating cold generic brand beans out of the can*

 

[SCandChives]

I thought we were joking around with each other based on your first post when you were teasing me?



All my posts to you were in good faith.

Oh, I'd thought you'd taken it seriously and I'm getting sick of the pointless arguments that don't matter (not that this thread is one of these). I guess it really was "a simple misunderstanding" then, ahh well all is well with the world (mostly), no offense was intended.

Neat!

Now if I could just afford the $350...

*Continues eating cold generic brand beans out of the can*

Good God man, someone quickly, set up a charity. He needs some help.