RE: Post your rig information
March 26, 2012 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2012 at 1:28 am by R-e-n-n-a-t.)
*sigh*
So not the point of the thread.
This was started by a pc gamer, with the hope that people could compare specs. It was hijacked by console gamers who apparently exist to talk about hardware that's ten years old, and to insult everyone for who the post was intended.
There's a serious misconception about when people need to upgrade. I could keep my same pc for ten years and play the newest games, as long as I was content that they would never look better than they do now. Having a PC doesn't force you to upgrade to play the latest games. It just gives you the option.
I hate to tell you, but once that 720 hits the market no company will be caught dead making 360 games. Meanwhile, I'll still be playing the latest games without upgrading a bit. Not on the highest graphical settings, but you've already said that doesn't matter. And at some point, as others have said, consoles die and it's either not worth it to get another one, or impossible to find another one. PCs stay backwards compatible. Just yesterday I played Daggerfall, a game from the 90's designed for a DOS OS. It's a great game, but console games from the 90's are no longer played since nobody has the console or the projection TV to play them on. Sooner or later the 360 will hit that point, and it won't matter how smexy it is.
You'll just wish you could play the old games again, and the new games, and wonder why you bought a money-pit.
In short, a PC will let you play longer, it'll keep your favorite games up to date, it'll let you play the newest games, it'd give you access to hundreds of legal freeware games, it'll be out of date less quickly than a console, etc. My own card will be strong well into the PS4 lifecycle as long as I'm content with graphics merely double what the 360 has, and only slightly better than what the 720 will have. It's not an exaggeration to say that, if you know some tricks, you don't need to upgrade for longer than with a console and still get the eyecandy if you're so inclined.
So not the point of the thread.
This was started by a pc gamer, with the hope that people could compare specs. It was hijacked by console gamers who apparently exist to talk about hardware that's ten years old, and to insult everyone for who the post was intended.
There's a serious misconception about when people need to upgrade. I could keep my same pc for ten years and play the newest games, as long as I was content that they would never look better than they do now. Having a PC doesn't force you to upgrade to play the latest games. It just gives you the option.
I hate to tell you, but once that 720 hits the market no company will be caught dead making 360 games. Meanwhile, I'll still be playing the latest games without upgrading a bit. Not on the highest graphical settings, but you've already said that doesn't matter. And at some point, as others have said, consoles die and it's either not worth it to get another one, or impossible to find another one. PCs stay backwards compatible. Just yesterday I played Daggerfall, a game from the 90's designed for a DOS OS. It's a great game, but console games from the 90's are no longer played since nobody has the console or the projection TV to play them on. Sooner or later the 360 will hit that point, and it won't matter how smexy it is.
You'll just wish you could play the old games again, and the new games, and wonder why you bought a money-pit.
In short, a PC will let you play longer, it'll keep your favorite games up to date, it'll let you play the newest games, it'd give you access to hundreds of legal freeware games, it'll be out of date less quickly than a console, etc. My own card will be strong well into the PS4 lifecycle as long as I'm content with graphics merely double what the 360 has, and only slightly better than what the 720 will have. It's not an exaggeration to say that, if you know some tricks, you don't need to upgrade for longer than with a console and still get the eyecandy if you're so inclined.
