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Worth Even Owning A PC Now?
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Just silly. I use my PC for more things unrelated to MMO's. There is many single player games that are far better than MMO's and worth playing my friend.
Yes, but PC gaming companies aren't exactly known for being very lucrative outside of the gaming market as well. So it is rather irrelevant for gaming companies to consider how big the PC market is outside of gaming. When people state "PC is dying", I am assuming that they always mean "PC gaming is becoming less and less lucrative for the gaming companies".
I very much agree that consoles should not compete with PC via specs. They should just be good enough for the grand majority of the target audience.
My current gaming computer is already better than both the new consoles coming out. In a couple of years my PC will be several times better while the consoles slowly become obsolete. I game on triple monitors at 5760x1080. Consoles have nothing to offer me.
I like to multitask. I usually game while listening to Pandora and regularly check things on the web. While I'm sure the consoles will offer these features individually I highly doubt that it will allow them all simultaneously.
I also use my PC for creative hobbies. Game development on Cryengine 3, sketching with sketchbook, and 3d modeling.
Yep!
BTW if you are an Australian the next gen consoles are not $399 and $499. They are both pretty much $600 and the PS4 is more expensive than the Xbox 1 by a few dollars. For that $600 you can put together a gaming rig of higher spec than the PS4 (without keyboard mouse and monitor but you do not get those with a console anyhow).
No, its not worth owning a PC anymore, please, go back to your console brethren. There is nothing for you here.
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Are you out of your mind? Console graphics are still 1 generation behind PC.
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Let's look at this more closely.
Here we have FFXIVARR and a comparison vid of the PC&PS3 versions of the game.
Being a legacy member i can say i have played the game full blast on my system and it looks fantastic. Even so i still think it looks pretty good on the PS3 so i would imagine it will look way better on the PS4, even so it's still not enough to make me want to get rid of my system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mGZW-6oaNQ
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I think it's more worth it than ever honestly. The consoles are becoming more and more restricting as they try everything they can to prevent piracy and continually add more DRM. You can't buy used games, you can't get amazing third-party download deals and it will be harder than ever to pirate games. Who wants to spend $500 on the console and $60 per game when you can just buy a PC for $1000 with much better specs and get all the killer deals/freedom you can handle?
Consoles/Phones/Tablets still suck compared to PC when it comes to everything non-gaming related too. I'd only buy a console if you have some expendable cash and are desperate to play some exclusive titles. Definitely don't recommend buying these things at launch for $500 with a lineup of 10 crappy games to choose from though.
The thing that should be resonating right now is the poor quality of art design, animations, and realistic atmospheric effects in most PC MMORPGs as compared to the newer titles on the upcoming console systems.
I'm not sure why MMORPG = Graphics from 7 years ago.
I know that it takes a long time to develop a game, but the choices made in technology used, as well as the look of the games (Cartoony art that combines with outdated graphics capabilities) just makes PC games look like bargain bin garbage. Look at the animations in games like Assassin's Creed, the environmental interaction in games like The Division. MMOs are typically eye-garbage compared to these games, and on top of that are mostly WoW rip-off garbage. The consumer base is being taken on a ride by the clowns who make this garbage.
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PC > Console.
Hands down. Next topic please.
console mmorpgs are not going to win the family vote. Pc's are so versatile, homework work, studies etc and gaming.
My house hold has around 5 pc's that are viable for modern mmorpgs. Not sure I be willing to spend another 2 odd grand to enable the house hold to play console based mmorpgs.
For me the console has lost its luster, many titles feature no multiplayer possibility, where as the 1st generation consoles were about getting 3/4 people around one and having a blast with friends.
Pc is here to stay, its just so much more than a gaming machine.
MMORPG's have lesser graphics for many reasons. The first and probably most important one is the amount of players on screen. You don't see 50+ players on screen in Assassin's Creed and that's why it can get away with better graphics. Second, they want to get as many customers as possible and people have PC's of varying power. They wouldn't get enough customers for it to be worth releasing if they only targeted people with $3000 PC's. Lastly, you have to consider the latency involved, server stress and the effect thousands of players have on the game.
The cartoon style is just because everybody thinks it sells. They only think so because World of Warcraft used a cartoon-like style and was extremely successful. You can blame WoW for almost every western MMORPG looking like a cartoon. It was actually common for developers to use a more realistic style before WoW came around.
End of year consoles already far behind high end pc's.
PC in so many ways alot more flexible and freedom.
Hardware wise high end PC always SUPERIOR.
Mods or indiegames.
KB/M always win over gamepad or waving hands.
PC more complex games POSIBLE.
Controls and movement PC game combine with UI superior to these simplified console games.
List can go on why PC is so much more then a limited console.
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That's a good point about the number of players and the power of the machine needed. I agree with you that WoW lowered the bar. I think its fine to have some cartoony games out there, but when you look at the hyper-realistic graphics on the console games you have to wonder.
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Odd I own a good pc and these graphics look quite nice to me........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uibnf_Q_51s
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Im moving into Film editing for a profession so i need a hefty computer. actually i need something more powerful then a high end gaming computer to be able to do alot of the things i need to for my industry. That being said, i have no reason for a console since my PC will be able to run anything the consoles throw out, even probubly emulated aswell.
Because i can.
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Not really. The video cards used for film editing are different than the ones used in gaming. Remember the video toaster? I mean Babylon 5 was done initially on Amiga's with video toaster boards.
A console can be a cheap alternative to a good gaming PC, if you dan't want to spend taht much / don't know how to build your own gaming machine / don't wan't to deal with possible incompatibilities / want to buy the damn thing go home plug it and play.
Other than that, PC will always be superior to any console, as a multimedia entertaiment system. I don't know about gaming, maybe some time in the future it will be impractical to build a PC powerful enough to match a console in gaming terms, but PC will always allow you to do much more things than just playing.
It is only a matter of preferences, really.
PC has had quality like this for a while.
The problem i see is that ps3 graphics quality may look great when you first buy the system, But its is only going to diminish as the hardware ages while the PC continues to evolve..
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