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Welcome to Morning Hangover -- an excellent way to start your day with the crew at TheFeed...no matter what you're recovering from. Every morning you'll hear musings from our editors and have the chance to share your thoughts on what's going on in the gaming world.
Patrick Klepek: Once, I was a PC gamer. I have fond memories of countless hours sucked into LucasArts adventure games, first-person-shooters I was probably too young for and discovering endless user generated content for my games, years before it became a buzz word with console games. Around the time my video card was unable to support the latest releases -- roughly when Half-Life 2 hit, the last major video game I played from start to finish on a PC -- I became primarily a console gamer. Keeping up with the latest advancements in console hardware every few years was enough for me, even if there were plenty of reasons to be jealous of PC users. Are you like me? Did you eventually give up on the PC as a central gaming platform, or are you still in it?
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zombiekiller2112
CONSOLES SUCK i hate having 12 year old screaming in my ear saying oh you cheated
badATchaos
I am now and will always be a PC gamer. Consoles are and will always be inferior to the PC platform. Simply because PC technology doesn't have a 5-6 year generation gap. PC tech is always the latest and greatest. Also since it's on the PC you can mod your game to make more personal. -Make the game your own. Also on the PC you got dedicated third party servers on which your clan or your buddies can just hang out and if you want mod it to do what ever you want. The only down side the PC gaming is that there's like 100% more hackers on the platform because of the ability to mod.
goodbiscuits
Man I used to play age of empires to death. My last PC game was battlefield 2. PC gaming just seems to consume your life more. I don't know what it is. On console gaming now for simplicity and convenience.
LOPster
You can build a PC that will run MW2 for less than 700$. And thats from scratch.
300$ in upgrades(or less probably) every 3 years(if not longer) is not that bad considering the advantages you gain over consoles.
Just think how old the hardware is inside the 360....it's about at the end of its lifecycle they just string you along getting more money out of you while giving you a diminished product. Until you pop 400$ on the next console.
Its the same as PCs, you just don't notice it because you are getting a lower quality product anyway.
UnJaked
I use to be a pc gamer but now i'm xbot all the way its just easier i get home from a long days work and just put the game in and it run. really theres not much different any more the consoles are so powerful and any good game on pc except for rts is developed for 360 and ported over to pc. the last good pc game to come out was crysis or stalker.
Memu
If it is out on PC, I'll usually get it on PC. That is why I only have 4 xbox 360 games. MS sells a thing for $10 that plugs into USB and lets you use your 360 controllers on PC. It is the one thing MS sells that has a better than fair price. Most games work best with keyboard/mouse anyway, but for those that don't. Modern video cards have outputs that plug directly into your HDTV. Unless you need to play those exclusives that are on 360 but not PC, you are better off just getting a PC. The hardware is a little more costly than a 360, but you can make it up in the price of games if you buy a lot of games.
jahlov420
i used to game on my pc so much....every bit of my gaming was on there. i would join clans, play matches, make playoff, win championships. but when i turned 23 i got married and had a kid. i still tryed to play but life was making it hard to find the time to play everynight like i used to. then i had another kid and it was nearly impossible. i moved over to console gaming because i found it easier to play more frequently. but hands down......a mouse and keyboard make the best controls for games.
Silky08
Well you could always go the criminal root after upgrading your pc to super high levels. Several people with this mentality justify their prices to go super expensive so they 'compensate' by pirating games, movies, and music without ever leaving their home. Some actually pirate their PC's worth of hardware and above so they actually get a criminal net worth of $0 loss when in actuality they're hurting the economy.
PC gaming is a very risky world for developers to go into. The only genre that the PC gaming world will be able to hit a snag against PC pirateers is most likely the online kind. I hear World of Warcraft is doing well did they reach the 20 million mark yet?
ex-PC gamer.
Silky08
PC gaming isn't dead per se. I love the user generated content TES:IV comes out with. However the mod train is slowing down disappointingly after roughly 4 years. Now I'm looking forward to Dragon Age Origins and the user generated content they come out with. Hopefully my laptop can keep up with it. It was barely able to keep up with Crysis.
h4x121
I love pc gaming, I think it is far better than console gaming. Better graphics, constantly updated hardware, plenty of free mods for pretty much every game. But what it comes down to for me is the cost. It just takes too much money to keep upgrading a pc all the time, and making sure that games will run on ur pc. Then there is always the chance of random incompatibility issues.
Griffith4100
I'm an avid PC gamer and love the lan scenes, but the pc train is slowly losing momentum with games, anymore its just ports of console games. So, after seeing SC2 with no release date in sight this year, and just a bunch of time wasting MMO's lined up, I decided to buy a ps3 and Killzone 2. Just starting up a game without bumping through resolutions or anti-aliasing while checking my fps is a relief. Yet, as much as I love the simplicity of console games, I'll always love PC's for their competitively skilled online play you just can't get out of a console controller. I also hold large lan parties every other month, so its fun to own your friends with your favorite 3 Hatch Mutalisk rush.
Octaviux
No, I'm sorry for your loss
bleedthrough
I actually went the opposite route, while I used to play PC games sparingly I was alwaus an avid console gamer into a few years ago, now I'm mainly into PC games. I like being able to have everything at my fingertips on a PC, consoles now are essentially trying to be PC's, trying to sell features that have always been associated with PC's long before consoles. I like the PC gaming community better as well, great for content.
Cobra180
For me, consoles games are for platformers and fighting games, while PC gaming is for FPS games, RPG's, and any other games where precision / interface control is necessary. The mouse and keyboard are unparalleled as far as controls go, and until you can find me a console gamer who can pull off twitch shots in games like Quake, I will not think otherwise.
It annoys me that PC gamers are getting the shaft more than we used to. It seems that more and more games are turning out to be dumbed-down console ports these days (consolitis). Would it really be all that difficult to make games a little more PC friendly? Is it so much to ask for just a little gun recoil, rather than bullet spread in a game like CoD? lol.
SteveKB
I just switched to being a pc gamer a couple months ago and I'm satisfied with the awesomeness. Having money helps >:D
I do wish however that players on a pc could play with console games (in online matches as an option incase people think their may be hackers on the pc version :p)
can't wait to play crysis 2(after I upgrade my sub par gfx card) or trackmania 2
imisshalo3
Hell No! I mean I'm proud of my PS3 sitting on my table, but.... Xbox convinced me that consoles are a degrade from PC games. Some of the most dazzling, and amazing games out there have been on PC and I'm proud of them. But I am ashamed of the fact that my 360 hardly works, hads loads of problems, and is so god damn cheap. If anything go PS3, but Microsoft has scewed me over on the console front, so I get the BEST gaming experience, on my PC!
benjgold
I hear you. I grew up at a time when consoles like the 2600, and later, the nes, were for idle gaming. Serious gamers played on a pc. I eventually gave up trying to keep my machine state of the art. Instead, I just stayed a few years behind the times playing older games. Playing console games didn't appeal to me, though. I loved the whole experience of immersion that I got from a pc monitor. How could I get that from playing games on my TV? It seemed unlikely. Then my wife surprised me with a ps2 for my birthday. Her way of trying to bring me into the 21st century. Over time I fell in love with it. Now, seeing the amazing things that are being done on consoles, I'm glad I traded up. My pc is for work and for online activities other than gaming. My ps3, 360, and wii are for game time. Man, is my wife sorry now that she bought me that ps2. :)
edgeofblade
Yes, I'm a "PC Gamer" I suppose.
I play Magic The Gathering Online...
PCTech714
Not including the arcades, my first video game experience was with the Atari 2600/VCS. It was my last console until the current generation because I found computer games superior to their console counterparts until recently. Commodore 64 then Commodore Amiga, then a series of self-built IBM compatibles.
After a PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, I've settled one one console (the 360), although I might be getting a PS3 Slim in a few months.
As far as PC games, nothing recent has grabbed my attention. I tried Champions Online, but found myself losing interest quickly. I've been going back a decade and playing the Baldur's Gate games again (I'm a huge RPG'er), but I've spent more time with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Rock Band 2, Arkham Asylum and Brutal Legand over the last couple of months.
Dragon Age: Origins is already pre-ordered for the 360, even though a PC version will be out. Assassin's Creed 2 is a must buy (also available for PC, I'm sure) and Mass Effect 2 in January, yet all of these games will be for my 360. I've been trying to figure out why (since 1080p is so low resolution compared to my PC) and I think it comes down to 2 thing: everybody else I know is getting these games for the 360 and it's so nice to sit on my sofa and play using a simplified control scheme on a 55" screen.
Marc_OS
This may be because I was in my gaming prime back in the magical age when PC's had all the best games, but PC gaming is still the only way to play in my mind. There is just no better combo than keyboard/mouse.
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