You Know What Bugs Me About PC Gaming Culture?

How often does that happen, though?

 

Only if you don't spend a thousand pounds on the best hardware. Otherwise it's not necessarily cheaper over all. And it is relatively only cheaper the more games you buy over time. It's not great if you buy one a month for example, you'd really have to be a committed gamer. It's why i call them PC Elitists, because it's only a few who can afford the high end lifestyle.

 

Consoles getting titles first clearly is a big bonus.

 

The absolute biggest games will still be 60 dollars, but a lot of slightly less popular stuff will come out for $29.99 on PC
I don't exactly know where I could go to provide a list for you, though a person recently gifted me the Lego Movie Game, which launched at 30 dollars, compared to the 50-60 it saw on consoles. Not the best example, but I've seen it with plenty of other games (including physical releases)vand if I find better examples I'll send em your way

Did a little math. Let's suppose you buy my laptop, which set me back 1700 dollars and can play pretty much anything on max settings. You you buy a brand new game every month, and you save 30 dollars, it'd take a little over 4 years to break even. Now suppose you're a little patient, and you can jsut wait for a Steam sale to get what you want for like 7 bucks, at that point you'll probably still be looking at 40 dollars for the console counterpart (45 if Canadian) it jsut sort of adds up, and a high quality computer is a long term investment, so breaking even over a long period isn't exactly crazy. And if you buy a bunch of 30 dollar games for 5 bucks in one month... you jsut closed the gap a lot more

Depends. Microsoft's contract states that their version of a multiconsole game can't come out any later than the first version. This lead to severe delays in stuff like Rayman Legends
Comparatively, PC ports are VERY frequently more of a second though, often delayed for upwards of a month

 

Over here, big triple A PC games have regularly been £30, whilst games on the consoles were £40. I save £10 a game, generally. However, PC games are increasingly being priced at £40 on Steam, stuff like Saints Row 4, Thief, from what I remember. Console games have also been increased since the new gen, from forty to £50 on average now.

Buying your laptop, from currency convertor and the usual mark up of hardware prices, would cost about £1100-1200.

Think it might take 5 or more years, and that's as long as you don't upgrade any parts.

 

Not really.

 

So me playing Rising over a year before it came out means nothing to you? That's fine, but I'm glad I got it when I did.

There are clear cut differences in the platforms- no need to be so defensive.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT.. Some people prefer getting a console over a PC. And, egads, they're not wrong D: But, MORE GASPS, neither are the PC folk! D: It's preference, there's no winner.

 

and then there's people like me who don't subscribe to an entire industry and just play games that interest them and let that decide what platforms they own.

 

what bugs me is the fact whenever mentioning anything about console gaming in front of a pc gamer they always have a tendency to say "PC Master race" at least that is how it plays out with PC gamer's at college.

 

Upgrading parts on a laptop is a huge pain, and it'll easily last more than five years.
PLUS, it's a Laptop, those are by their nature more expensive. A PC with similar specs would be significantly cheaper

 

It's a Zero Punctuation joke. Don't take it seriously.


In terms of cost strictly speaking a PC WOULD be cheaper

It may be a plus but it's an incredibly minor plus in comparison to everything else.
Getting to play X first is nice and dandy but when X:Upgraded version comes out later on then don't you think it would've been cooler if you go to play THAT one first and not your not upgraded version?

 

Not really, it doesn't bother me. I'm going to buy MGSV: GZ on the Xbox 360 because I'd rather play it than wait till I get an X1 or PS4. Generally the upgrades are just graphics and I personally couldn't give a crap about some pixels here or there. Another example would be that I much prefer Tomb Raider 2013 than Tomb Raider: Definitive Version because I prefer the old model over a new model that I think looks awful and some DLC that I don't care about anyway. I just don't care- they play the same, have most of the same content (that matters), and tell the same story. It looks like my preference dictates how I spend my money on my hobby yet again.

 

PC Master Race WAS a joke, but it's cited seriously by a lot of people. Yahtzee has actually said he regrets creating the term

On the chart, 650 seems a bit low end for a gaming PC. I doubt you can buy a prebuilt PC as powerful as a next gen console for that little. It's also kinda weird including PS+ the way it is, yes it's required for online, but you also get free games by the month (I beleive somebody calculated the value of all the games made free in 2012 as somewhere in the vicinity of 1300 dollars)

Finally, getting to play a game first is pretty important for series you're invested in, or games you're excited about. I'm certainly not going to wait around ebcause of the possibiltiy of a PC port for KH3, for example

 

Don't forget a developer you're invested in. I certainly wanted Killer is Dead long before the PC port was announced. I grabbed Yaiba too, which I doubt will get a port. I'll probably feel the need to pick up Dark Souls II before the PC port is finished, too.

 

But you can get Final Fantasy on the PC!

 

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
My PC cost around 500 and has been going strong for years now. You really shouldn't be going above 650 for a PC otherwise you are wasting money.

Also if you are invested into the series wouldn't you want to play the game in it's most refined form so that you get the best experience possible?
If you just wanted to get to the end of the game then yeah who cares what version you get
But if you really want that superb experience then shouldn't you wait a bit more?

 

One, PC builder. You can't compare building your own PC, because for one thing, barely anybody has the skill to do that, and two, building your own console isn't an option.

Anyways, most refined version? That's insanely debatable. I hear more about bad PC ports than I do excellent or even decent ones. And if you buy a cheap computer you're not going to be able to enjoy it in that refined state anyways
And... a lot of people don't care. I don't care if playing KH3 six months early means I don't get to play it with 16xAA, or that thing that makes slanted textures look better. I want that game at my finger tips at the earliest point possible

 

What makes you think I'm exclusively talking about PC ports? I was talking about later and superior versions to a game. Like the PS3 version of Eternal Sonata being superior to the 360 version.

If you don't CARE about how you play the series then wouldn't that mean you're not as invested into it as you may think?

 

Eh, I assumed on the PC ports thing, but yeah, ideally you'd want to play the game the best way possible

You're not invested in a series if you don't spend a bunch of money to play it at the highest possible resolution? People can be invested in things other than performance. Story, for example, or in the case of multiplayer, they go where their friends are

Anyways, gonna test that first bit

 

What makes you think the later versions can't have more story?
Resident Evil 4 on the PS2 features an entirely new playthrough as a completely different character ALONG with new weapons, items, etc.