Console games don't have to be expensive with a bit of comon sense, In the past week I have bought Little Big planet for £8.50 and SF4 for £18. Yes, if you walk into a high-street shop and pick up a new release it's going to cost you £40 but within a month a lot of these will be on ebay or the shelves of 2nd hand game shops. Even supermarkets are worth a look sometimes. I suppose I slightly resent the money I have spent on my PC. My current plan is to leave the PC as it is and maybe buy a £100 graphics card much later down the line if it's going to be much faster than what I have now. If at that point my E8500 is deemed all but useless for gaming then I'm not sure what I will do.
I completely agree that FPS games are better with a mouse and keyboard. The only problem is that there isn't much out there apart from console ports. I'm pretty sure when/If half life 2 EP3 or Half life 3 comes out I'll be straight on it.
And finally yes, a lot of console ports on the PC seem to require a lot of power. More than they should. But making games is about making money and once they have released the XBOX360 and PS3 version if they can do a quick cheap PC port, then they will. But the reasons are irrelevant to the end user. The fact is that console ports on the PC rarely look that much better than the console version even on a high-end PC and even when they do, you are focusing one just one aspect of a game. While the PC gamers are reading and running benchamarks for a game, trying ultra-high settings and 4xAA, trying different drivers sets etc, the console gamers are playing the game and playing online with their mates.
I completely agree that FPS games are better with a mouse and keyboard. The only problem is that there isn't much out there apart from console ports. I'm pretty sure when/If half life 2 EP3 or Half life 3 comes out I'll be straight on it.
And finally yes, a lot of console ports on the PC seem to require a lot of power. More than they should. But making games is about making money and once they have released the XBOX360 and PS3 version if they can do a quick cheap PC port, then they will. But the reasons are irrelevant to the end user. The fact is that console ports on the PC rarely look that much better than the console version even on a high-end PC and even when they do, you are focusing one just one aspect of a game. While the PC gamers are reading and running benchamarks for a game, trying ultra-high settings and 4xAA, trying different drivers sets etc, the console gamers are playing the game and playing online with their mates.
Last edited:
, no real point unless they drop the price to £200 or less
) the true home of the shooters but much more expencive than console gaming, personaly i have spent £800 over the last 2 months and will be spending more next week to upgrade my case and cooling (OCUK can i get shares or something 
just waiting till all the dlc and patch's have come out and things to settle down then i'll be back to the wastelands, just bought farcry2 and a few other games from a well known auction site for peanuts so have something to do while i wait for fallout 3 to sort it's self out and MW2 to come out in november but with that might have to look out for a new team cos my mate's in my current team like ww2 shooters but i like modern warfare, just hope the maps are bigger than the last one, 40+ players on most of the maps in the old one was frantic (shipment (or whatever it was called) was just stupid even for 10 players)
