Oh how i miss the old days of PC gaming.

[Pumpkinstew]

I had similar issues to Streeteh with Fallout 3. I got it on launch day and never got it through the opening cutscene.
My preference now is to get a game on Xbox over PC because I know it will work. And if it's PC exclusive (like an MMO) then you can have more confidence that the devs will have done a better job of testing it instead of just handing over the 360 code to a third party to do a shoddy port of.

[Dymetrie]

Well I don't have a super computer, just an X2 4400+ with 4GB RAM and an 8800... Yet I don't have to tweak any of the games that I play at all, and they all run perfectly.

Although, saying that then GTA IV does judder every now and then, but that could be linked to my wallpaper rotation

Oh, and almost every game I have sets itself to 'high' settings automagically...

Much better than my old Acorn Electron where I had to fiddle with the volume wheel on the tape recorder to even get games to load!

[loki]

Originally Posted by Dymetrie

Well I don't have a super computer, just an X2 4400+ with 4GB RAM and an 8800... Yet I don't have to tweak any of the games that I play at all, and they all run perfectly.

Although, saying that then GTA IV does judder every now and then, but that could be linked to my wallpaper rotation

Oh, and almost every game I have sets itself to 'high' settings automagically...

Much better than my old Acorn Electron where I had to fiddle with the volume wheel on the tape recorder to even get games to load!

This

It really bemuses me when the (often false) argument of it costs £x (insert overinflated cost of choice) to play games on a decent PC or supposed driver or patch issue is the death knell of PC gaming. Quite often the people who go on about patching issues are the ones that haven't really played anything on PC for some time. If you want to justify playing the latest games at the best possible quality by having to build an uber PC then knock yourself out but it's completely unnecessary.


I buy my games through Steam, they load and they work, all on high settings, no messing on with incomparability issues and it install patches when released by the dev exactly the same way as it does on PSN or XBL. Maybe my experience is different to other people and I have just fallen lucky by building my PC and everything works all the time everytime out of the box so to speak

[Admiral Huddy]

I still love PC gaming but it's only one half of the interest tbh .. not just the gaming but tweaking around and so forth.. I have tried the Xbox but i find the controller to fiddly and I just can't seem to lock on to a target. My son finds it very amusing.

I haven't upgraded in awhile though.. my 8800GTX plays Bioshock 2 and MW2 at 1920 with AA no problems