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Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.05.14 16:50:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:If a game is on PC or a console, I get it on PC. The reason is generally a "no matter what happens to my PC, I can play it." In a year or two when this PC is dead, I will still be able to play X-COM on my Steam. In 5 years, I can load that bad boy up no problem. In 5 years, I wouldn't necessarily be able to do that as easily with a PS3 version of X-COM. As others have mentioned, a PC is generally better if you have the same library of games. I don't mean that as a "PC Master Race!" thing because that is just silly. No one would question that a console is more powerful than an iPhone game or have "Console Master Race!" thrown in their face. A PC is generally more powerful than a console with Total Biscuit, a PC gaming YouTuber, recently did a mailbag episode of "I am a console player; why should I get a PC?" and was fairly non-biased it in. You can find the video here.
^ This
When the new X-COM came out I was very tempted to get it on PS3, because the way they adapted it made it seem very friendly to the controller input and it seemed like it would be fun to play on the couch. But in the end I got it through Steam, because I realized that like the original X-COM it was probably a game I would play again and again for more than a decade. I know that a decade from now, whatever happens with technology, that I'll be able to load up that game that I already own onto my PC and play it. Without having to pay for it a second time, and without hoping that a hardware vendor wouldn't decide that they couldn't do compatibility with old games. In the very worst case scenario I'd be able to fire up a virtual machine and play it that way.
This is why the only games I've bought for my PS3 have been PS3 exclusives, or second hand copies of assassin's creed (which I doubt I'll want to play again 10 years from now)
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Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.05.14 19:32:00 -
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>See you don't have to buy the newest of the newest
That's kind of a key thing when you're building a PC if you don't want to really bling it out. Since you can change individual components of your machine there's a continual arms race between the manufacturers to release the biggest and bestest thing. This is most noticeable in video cards. That constant churn is enabled by charging a huge premium for bleeding edge gear, but you don't need bleeding edge gear since the most recent games were designed to run on far less powerful cards. If you compare the specs of video cards you'll find there's a point where a moderate increase in processing speed / power.
For example
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-750-ti-33-94339.htm
vs
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-760-directcu-de-85679-1396.htm
vs
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-780-poseidon-7f-95510-1226.htm
All the same make and brand, with very small differences between the first two and an extra gig of ram and a little more power on the third, but with huge differences in price. When I build a new machine (once every 8 to 10 years) or upgrade my video card, I go for one at about the relative price range of the first one on that list. Then I use it until it croaks or I literally cannot play a game I want with it on low settings. That takes about 4 years.
The two most important components to spend lots on are the motherboard, to make sure it has plenty of upgrade capability, and your power supply (because newer, bigger video cards need more juice). If you buy those two things top of the line, or at least not out of the bargain bin, a long time will go by before you need any major upgrades. A new video card every 3 or 4 years and possibly a better CPU at some point over the lifetime of that tower, and that's it. The only time it gets expensive is when you're no longer able to upgrade with the motherboard you have, because by that point it often turns out that the architecture of that board is obsolete and you can't re-use your cpu or memory.
Then you buy a new mobo, cpu, ram and video card...then reuse the old case, hard drive(s), power supply etc.
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