The end of a gaming era....

I seem to spend a lot of time these days opening a game and playing it for 5 minutes, then close it down and opening another for 5 minutes....rinse and repeat! :(
 
Andr3w said:
I seem to spend a lot of time these days opening a game and playing it for 5 minutes, then close it down and opening another for 5 minutes....rinse and repeat! :(
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Same, although i got back in to WoW recently, thats stolen many hours off me.. just recently cancelled my subscription to start playing Destiny 2.. Thoroughly enjoying it right now, far better than the first.
 
lowrider007 said:
No reason you can't do both but good luck all the same.

I knew a guy older guy a long time back (that sadly died of cancer), he was gaming into his seventies, he used to use my credit card to secretly purchase graphics cards so his wife wouldn't know, he would pop the PC down mine for a 'repair' but really it was getting an upgrade! That guy was a teengager at heart serioualy.

I've just had a bit of a 'milestone' birthday myself and it got me thinking about gaming, a week later I'm addicted to Mario on the Nintendo Switch!
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its strange because i thought i would be one of those guys who game till later on in life but i do need to focus on photography a lot more and having £2000 worth of camera equipment sitting in the cupboard is not doing my skills any good.
 
Schizo said:
So tonight I sold my PC and gone to a laptop, gone as the days of gaming and sitting at my desk,feels good in some respecs but sad in some.

Anyone else done the same ?
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My games has increased if anything. But has diversified, i have gone from PC gaming to PC + consoles. PC gaming is too expensive now and i don't have the disposable income i used to have. Also coupled with the fact that i can play almost all of the same games on a console with 4k graphics for a fraction of the cost has pushed me to the Xbox/ps4. I do miss playing FPS with a keyboard and mouse, even after a few years i still think it's a far superior way to play over a controller.
 
I now have a gaming laptop. But it needs to be used with a keyboard/mouse to get the most out of it so you need a desk. Not that I use it at a deak as I have an old desktop with a 280x. So not too bad.

Don't own any of this gen of consoles.

I want to get back in to sitting at a desk tbh.
 
Its not the same, nothing compares to getting home, the wife is away on business and you get entire evening sat in the man cave just shooting stuff :)
 
If you can afford the space for a desk, a desktop PC is by far the most affordable method of none-walled garden computing. These people that replace their cost effective, modular and upgradable computers for exorbitantly priced, none-upgradable laptops and especially Apple iMacs have deeper pockets than me.

Although I have my moments, I'm mostly not a huge gamer these days. However my 5 year old i5 rig (albeit with the addition of an RX480 I purchased early this year for £200) can handle any game I throw at it with ease. The sheer range of cheap, esoteric titles often unavailable on other platforms make it worthwhile as far as I'm concerned.

Moreover, my rig can handle any work or multimedia task better than my work laptop or any of my portable devices. Not to mention with far superior usability.

I won't be throwing my PC away for a while yet. When I do upgrade, it won't be with top end components either...
 
I still game exclusively on PC. Because, well, it's just the best way to game and has been since the early 90s.

But the gaming industry is in a bad way atm, the big studios keep pumping out utter ***** and gamers who don't remember when things were better keep lapping it up :/
 
I am debating switching to a laptop. I have a fairly reasonable PC it doesn't really struggle with anything and I updated the GPU from a 970 to a water cooled 1080 but realise I don't really play anything too taxing, Team Fortress 2 doesn't really take much to run it. However on the other side I feel PC gaming has stagnated a bit, there is no killer app that can't really be done on consoles anymore. Maybe if Half-Life 3 got a release things would be different but you can;t really play benchmarks.

With modern laptops I think initially I would test the water with one of the AMD CPUs as the integrated graphics seem to be a bit stronger than the Intel equivalent before maybe going to a gaming laptop down the line if I needed it. Also with the XBox you can have the Xbox remote play or whatever it is called where you can stream to your laptop and use that for gaming if you wanted to.
 
I'll never get rid of my PC as I still prefer the power over a laptop, still prefer everything about it and use it a lot for photography and editing.

I do use a laptop though, just ideal for quick work on the go but I do find the screen sizes limiting.
 
I've not long upgraded my monitor and graphics card so I'm not sure I'll be ditching my desktop any time soon. I much prefer using it for general browsing and I use it for gaming and photo editing for which it is light years ahead! Nowadays I don't manage to get in much gaming but I like it there for when I do. My laptop came up with a load of graphical corruption this morning so I think the GPU may be on it's way out. I'm debating swapping it for something lower powered as I just don't make the use of it any more.
 
terley said:
Same, although i got back in to WoW recently, thats stolen many hours off me.. just recently cancelled my subscription to start playing Destiny 2.. Thoroughly enjoying it right now, far better than the first.
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I played WoW years ago quite a lot! Getting raging at a mate for using ice block on a fissure on KT ruining a 10 man undying run and other such rages.

Stopped for ages, didn't touch any games and then started on League of Legends as the same mates played it, such a frustrating game when you're crap at it.

Now I'm back on WoW on a vanilla private server, not even 60 yet and I've moaned about the grind.

Nothing is ticking the box the way the original Halo multiplayer or GTA3 did me for me. Memories of staying up all night eating cereal and going straight to school.
 
I play rocket league and borderlands that's all now.

Miss fallout, civ but they take up too much time.
Rocket league I can play with spare half hour
Borderlands if I have an hour + spare.
This is all on HTpc downstairs

Don't use my gaming rig anymore. But probably not worth hassle of selling it unless I decide to go to laptop. Which I always think about
 
I haven't gamed on a PC in about 3 years, last thing I played then was League of Legends occasionally. Played CoD on console a handful of times with mates but I don't own a console myself except a Gamecube for nostalgia purposes!

Maybe when I've got a dedicated study room in a couple of months I may get back into it lightly but I don't have the time to be honest.
 
Just upgraded my system and starting to question why, I barely game (anymore) :o:( and have an ever increasing backlog of games to try.

Need to get my mojo back!
 
jsmoke said:
Still play Enemy Territory, other than that a couple of games on phone/tablet. Still will never get rid of PC though.
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What Wolfenstein? As if that's still going! I used to play that game religiously - bloody loved the beach MP map!!!
 
I turned 30 in July, don't really game much at all anymore. It's mainly down to free time though and choosing to spend it doing other things. I think once we move next year, I should have a spare room which I can turn into a man cave so might game a bit more. My biggest gripe is the lack of games that really appeal to me; £40+ appeal to me. I loved Uncharted 4, looking forward to TLOU 2 but that's about it in recent times. BF1 is good but I don't have the time to get decent at it so MP is unenjoyable.
 
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