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When a Console is better than your PC...
- Thread starter DONOHUE07
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Yeah nearly every game I have has native controller support.
I don't really play rts any more I did used to like playing command and conqeur at desk with monitor.
Wouldn't the low framerate be an issue if your a keyboard mouse player?
I play all my games on pad with fairyl low sensitivity so 60fps seems fine for me but i know when you use mouse and start turning screen quickly 60fps isn't great.
For numerous reasons.
I prefer driving, Action RPG, Action, 3rd person etc games on console using a pad
There are games out on consoles that I can't get on PC.
Majority of the people I play with don't own a PC so most games I play multi-player are console based
No matter what anyone says, consoles do offer a far greater ease of use and pick up and play than a PC.
I don't like to pigeon hole myself to a single platform either.
Soldato
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Pretty much sums it up.
I'd feel the difference, yes. But it's something that I'd quickly get used to again. I'd also be in the same boat (so to speak) as everyone else, whereas on PC in any given multiplayer game there are usually people running all sorts of different refresh rates and FPS. This gives a competitive advantage to some of those players.
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Many people here are complaining that pc gaming is more expensive etc, but that isn't the case (for most people anyway), here is why, today many people need at least a half decent PC at home for work, all you need to do is slap a £250 GPU and you got a decent gaming pc for half the price of the scorpio!
The great advantage of the console isn't in its price/performance, optimizations, ease of use, or any other gibberish people generally claim in order to fuel their rationalizations. Its great boon is psychological in nature. If you look at a PC, and shop around, wait for a few deals, find some second hand offers on trusted markets (such as this forums'), you can absolutely put together a phenomenal PC (i7 Ivy bridge or higher, 970 or higher, etc) for no more than £5-600 which will, to put it mildly, crush a console in terms of value & performance (never mind all the other things you can do with such a powerful PC besides gaming). But when you have a 970, you can look at a 980, you can look at a 1080, at a 1080 ti, two 1080 tis, three, four... from a 144hz monitor, to a 144hz monitor with ips panel, to a 144hz monitor with ips panel and gsync, to a 144hz monitor with ips panel and gsync and hdr, and ultra wide, and bigger size, and more connectors, and bla, bla, bla bla, bla. And you can do this for so many aspects of the PC, it's almost impossible to not feel like you're "missing out" sub-consciously. On the other hand, if you buy an xbox one, then you bought an xbox one (and whatever the newest version will be). Simply put, the totem pole for consoles is very short and includes everyone with that console. You switch over to the PC on the other hand and the combinations are in the 1000s, across too many areas to count, and it's very easy to feel like you're low on the totem pole. Again, this is more sub-conscious than a conscious thought. That's why you have so many people around with upgradeitis, who already have thousand £££ PCs but who nonetheless spend many times more time ogling and day dreaming about yet new hardware than actually game, and people with £200 consoles simply fire them up and play. At a certain point it's no longer about the hardware & gaming, it's about something else, a more instinctual pursuit - being the guy who has a bigger & better tool; never mind actual usage.
Update:
Looks like I need to speed up my desicion, it seems like my GPU has died, I have been developing a few issues recently anyway, possibly driver related since the Win10 creators update, my HDMI audio kept vanishing and I was continuously updating and rolling back my graphics driver to re enable the audio. It was also getting stupidly warm, 95 degrees, and this isn't a reference 290 either, have had lots of crashes due to my PC overheating. I have been getting plenty of red screen of deaths too, never had them before, after a quick google search it does seem to GPU related.
Not sure
Looks like I need to speed up my desicion, it seems like my GPU has died, I have been developing a few issues recently anyway, possibly driver related since the Win10 creators update, my HDMI audio kept vanishing and I was continuously updating and rolling back my graphics driver to re enable the audio. It was also getting stupidly warm, 95 degrees, and this isn't a reference 290 either, have had lots of crashes due to my PC overheating. I have been getting plenty of red screen of deaths too, never had them before, after a quick google search it does seem to GPU related.
Not sure