Oh Snap!

Also the perception, that 2 inches away from a computer monitor is the most comfortable position to play games in, is strange and twisted.

There is a lot of PC gaming even outside the MMO market. Yeah, I know sales aren't as high as on the console, but I'm quite happy with my PC as a gaming rig. I pretty much have access to every game I want, with a few minor exceptions (Ninja Gaiden 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Street Fighter II HD, and a few upcoming games like Resident Evil 5 and the Final Fantasy 13's).

"Apparently, Mr. Levine doesn’t have couch or a wireless controller. Trust us, those two things will absolutely change your perception of comfort gaming, Mr. Levine."

I don't think he meant comfortable in that sense. I think he meant comfortable in the sense of familiarity and control. I'm more comfortable playing FPS games on my PC than on a console, and I'm more comfortable playing a third-person adventure game on a console.

These arguments about price are ridiculous. It cost me 800 dollars (AU) to buy a rig that runs crysis on max with no aa or af at 1680x1050. 8800GT oc'ed + q6600 (g0 chip) oc'ed to 3GHz + ddr2 800 memory (2gb), whereas a ps3 costs 1000, and an xbox costs much less but is also less powerful. However notice the PC is more powerful than xbox + ps3 combined.

The mouse and keyboard have a different kind of comfortability to me.

...and lo, the e-peens start emerging from their nests

Release some PC games without DRM/Securom, and I'll buy them. Bioshock was a pretty bad trend setter in that department.

Come on Ken. Help us, help you.

The PC market is too splintered and subject to the greed of publishers and hardware vendors. The absolutely retarded DRM schemes that we are seeing right now are just kicking it while it's down. Hardware vendors are to blame for creating an inpenetrable wall of numbers that drive away anyone who isn't an enthusiast, system sellers for misleading consumers and publishers for downright fraudulent specifications. Developers also need to get their act together - GTA IV for example, a major release, is fucked on PC.

I echo Levine's sentiments, I enjoy some games on my console but there are some that I just have to play on my PC and that is where I feel most at home and in control.

I don't think there will be much change unless the big hardware vendors make a real effort to help the average consumer make informed choices and software publishers stop lying about required specs (minimum should be to get 30fps at lower settings, not fucking get as far as starting the game).

Brad Nicholson can take his controller and couch and shove them right up his ass.

Mouse, Keyboard, and a good office chair are the WAY TO BE.

Destructoid own jim sterling (or how ever you spell it) Is a prime example of a person I would never want to meet in game on xbox live and I am happy he does not play Pc left 4 dead or any other game.


Anthony Burch though your awsome welcome to PC left 4 dead land.

With MS moving to monopolise the PC controller market with the 360 pad you're halfway there Sharpless, now to just get a computer with a upper range video card and CPU made in the last two years. :P

Pisses me off when nothing supports the use of common controllers like the Logitech's any more and demands you use a 360 one. I've got a couple of wireless controllers for my 360 anyway but you can't use them without buying some proprietary piece of shit receiver from MS. Vultures.

Is it hard to get a 360 pad working with games? Most everything is tailored specifically for those. I use a Dualshock 2 for PC games all the time. Which, is why PC's are awesome, coz' you can use whatever controllers you can plug into the computer =D.

While building a gaming PC is cheap as shit, most people can't do that, so the only thing that can help PC's would be the retail mfr's making reasonable 3D hardware standard on every PC, because it's really not that expensive to get something decent in there. A video card that costs $50 _retail_ can run most PC games at some level. However Intel does everything they can to prevent this, so they can keep their shitty onboard video crap on as much as possible. And of course, all the mfr's are fine with it too, as it's the cheapest crap possible. Microsoft standardizing Vista on all retail computers could have helped, but they pussied out and let shitty onboard Intel chips be certified as "Vista Ready".

Personally, it's all about price for me. Don't say that it's cheap as shit, because it really isn't. For someone dirt poor like me, 50 bones for a video card is asking for a lot when there is other shit that needs to be paid. I agree that there needs to be standardization in PC gaming, along with an affordable price tag to go along with it.

I could not agree more with your last sentence, Brad.
Once I got my serious set-up...set up, I've never looked back at PC gaming.

My gaming enjoyment comes from a ratio of screen size versus sitting angle. I call the "Maxin' And Relaxin' Ratio." If I'm PC gaming, I'm at a ratio of 19"-to-90-degrees (think standard workstation setup.) If I'm console gaming, the ratio is turned up to a much more comfy 42"-to-120-degree ratio (think couch-slouchin'.)

I should make a chart, or something.

I can't help but laugh when people try to run games on intel intergrated chip set and ask me why it does not work.


Those are the problem, intel forces there crap GPU on every pre built machine and they can't do jack, but people with no idea what they are doing think it does since it is a "new PC" and it had a new CPU or what ever.


I mean really you can get a 4 year old GPU for like $20 and it will out perform those things then they go and buy some crappy CSI game or something.


So theere you go the main reason why people have performance issues they have no clue what will give them performance per dollar spent.


Or they buy some crappy laptop system with and intel chipset rather than a real GPU from aTI or nvida, and they expect desktop level perfromance from that thing and that is not what it is for a system like that is nothing more than a fancy type writer and you could have got one with a GPU in it for the same price.

And one last thing nobody has any idea HOw much that whole "I can sit on the couch with big TV arguments" make NO sense and is lame.

You can hook your DAmn HDTV into your PC the plug is right there on the damn GPU and there is a 3d mouse that acts like the wii and it works get over it that makes no sense.

Hell you can even connect a machine to the damn HDtv wirelesslesy and they do not have to be in the same room I do.


http://gizmodo.com/5015936/monster-digital-express-hd-system-their-first-wireless-hdmi-kit

In addition to $43 billion in computer hardware.