The You-Know-Who-Deletes-A-New-Boring-Hang Out - Dong Edition

[Gare]

Also, DAT HAIR

INDEED.

I'm getting horny just thinking about it!

[Gare]

To be fair PC gaming wouldn't have such a reputation if companies learned to port their shit right. So yeah your frustrations/complaints are justified.

Framerate drops would really bother me on a console, though. I cringed just watching some gameplay vids of Lords of Shadow the other day. Ugh. Seriously, anything below 30 FPS is not fucking acceptable. Hell anything below 40 tends to bother me.

Man I'm so setting myself up here for a "PC elitist" flame war.

[Corey]

To be fair PC gaming wouldn't have such a reputation if companies learned to port their shit right. So yeah your frustrations/complaints are justified.

Framerate drops would really bother me on a console, though. I cringed just watching some gameplay vids of Lords of Shadow the other day. Ugh. Seriously, anything below 30 FPS is not fucking acceptable. Hell anything below 40 tends to bother me.

Man I'm so setting myself up here for a "PC elitist" flame war.

I'm actually half and half. Consoles are great because you can just buy yoru game and play it, not having to worry about "Oh shit I hope my drivers work, Tesselations aren't working! Shit it's ATI optimized, etc..."

Then on the other hand, nice ass graphics. (sometimes, I've seen plenty of games that were better on console with max settings on pc, but it's probably those bad ports or whatever)
It's hard to argue the gorgeous graphics that PC can rock. Typically hair actually, now that I think about it. Alice had nice hair, and Tomb Raider has fucking blow me way hair. When I looked up after it crashed and froze my PC from troubleshooting, I thought for a second I left a movie running.

[Drageuth]

To be fair PC gaming wouldn't have such a reputation if companies learned to port their shit right. So yeah your frustrations/complaints are justified.

Framerate drops would really bother me on a console, though. I cringed just watching some gameplay vids of Lords of Shadow the other day. Ugh. Seriously, anything below 30 FPS is not fucking acceptable. Hell anything below 40 tends to bother me.

Man I'm so setting myself up here for a "PC elitist" flame war.

Framerate drops really bother me on console. There's no excuse for it, especially in a game like Tomb Raider or Lords of Shadow (both of which I've had minor framerate issues with). If you're developing a game that's going to be played on a console, it should run exactly the way that you want it to on the console and there should be no issues in that regard, unless the player overloads the screen with items (map editting/level building comes to mind).

I remember trying to get into PC games "back in the day" (early-2000s), but my PC couldn't even run Quake II properly. I finally upgraded it a little bit, and I could run Tribes 2... but that was about as good as I could get. For someone who was 14-15 at the time with no money, that was really the end of what I could do to try and get it working. My hardware just wasn't capable of running the newer games (I believe at the time I tried getting games like Enter The Matrix, Max Payne 2, and probably others that I can't recall at the moment). At that age, I had no money, especially not enough to build a decent gaming PC. That kind of put the kibosh on that.

It's not as much of a deal nowadays -- in all honesty, there is no reason why I couldn't own a great gaming PC right now, considering how much I spend on games in the year -- but whenever I think about PC games, I remember being denied being able to play games back then because my hardware wasn't good enough, and it gives me a bad feeling and I leave it alone.

[Gare]

Hopefully the framerate issues will stop once the new consoles are out? Hopefully. The PS3 and 360 are getting frame drops because they're running on a billion years old hardware while devs are still trying to push graphics beyond the hardware's limits. Many console games are even capped to 30 FPS while on PC it can handle 60 just fine if you have the rig for it. So basically the current generation has gone on for way too long.

[Drageuth]

Framerate issues will never stop. There will be some games that run amazing, and some where they try to squeeze just a little bit too much out of a game and it can't handle it. For some reason I was getting framerate issues on some of the in-game cutscenes in Tomb Raider last night, but gameplay itself was just fine.

I'm not enough of a graphic-phile to really care about how a game looks. As long as it's aesthetically pleasing, that's all I care about. It doesn't need to look "OH MY GOD SO GORGEOUS," even though those are nice sometimes. There are a few flagship games on PC (the Crysis series being the obvious example) that have found the balance between good game and amazing graphics. But I'll take the last sentence of your post and kind of highlight it here... "if you have the rig for it."

A lot of people, at least right now, aren't going to get the full experience out of Crysis 3. Hell, there are even a lot of people who are talking about how much the hair-tech stuff in Tomb Raider fucks up their framerate.

To each their own. In the long run, if you care about getting the absolute best of out of all of your games, and are willing to put in the time to do so, then PC gaming is by far the best choice in that regard. If you care about audio, then PC gaming is by far the best choice. If you care about graphics, then PC is by far the best. In pretty much all regards, PC games almost always overpower their console counterparts (with the exception of shitty PC ports. I've heard Darksiders was a terrible port, if I am remembering correctly).

What console gamers get is a consistent experience that costs next to nothing after the initial setup. It's something that a parent can buy for their kids and forget about if they aren't interested in games. And it's something that doesn't require troubleshooting (with some very rare exceptions). People have different tastes.

[Raype]

To go the hilarious route;

Consoles are the Windows of gaming.

PC's are the Linux of gaming.

Tablets are the OSX of gaming.

[Drageuth]

That's pretty much the best analogy there is for it, honestly.

Also, does Steam have an option for gift cards yet? Similar to how you can buy MS Points or $20 PSN cards at the store, is there a similar option like that for Steam now? I remember looking into that a while ago and there was nothing.

[Raype]

That's pretty much the best analogy there is for it, honestly.

Also, does Steam have an option for gift cards yet? Similar to how you can buy MS Points or $20 PSN cards at the store, is there a similar option like that for Steam now? I remember looking into that a while ago and there was nothing.

Steam gift cards, yes.

https://store.steampowered.com/account/redeemwalletcode

[Drageuth]

Sweet, good to know. Next time I'm out and about somewhere I'll see if any of the stores I go to actually have them.

[Zaladane]

[Sprung]

Upgraded my Internet.

before:


after:


It took 4 calls to the idiots that work for Xfinity, but I finally got the speed.

[Raype]

Upgraded my Internet.

before:


after:


It took 4 calls to the idiots that work for Xfinity, but I finally got the speed.

You should have just stated that if this thing drops below 50 Mb/s it'll explode.

[Gare]

Darksiders was a fine port. It ran fine on my old 8800gt so yeah.

I'm not a huge graphics whore, but sometimes I like all the shinies. I remember playing Dark Souls PC in 1080p and realizing just how much effort the devs put into all the details that you ultimately can't really make out on consoles. http://www.gameranx.com/img/12-Aug/dscomparison.jpeg

[Gare]

Also there's a mod on PC for Dark Souls that changes the "You Died" message to this: http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/...1348065124.jpg

How can you not love that.