Ken Levine likes PC gaming, would like to have it back

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.

@MotoRobo

You're the idiot. He never said that problem hadn't been addressed in consoles - he merely said it was a problem present in PCs.

Ever thought maybe he liked the strengths that you yourself commented on over consoles despite the PCs other weaknesses?

@Wedge

Agreed on all points. (Except I don't use a dualshock 2.)

Alos from looking down allt he comments again I must once again respectfully as Cube to GTFO.

Funny Jim's the reason he wouldn't want to play console games because Cube appears to be the kind of person that puts me off playing ANY games online. PC or otherwise.

I don't see how a price being comparable to a current console isn't cheap as shit. A current console is what $300-$400? The sponsor for the dToid contest isn't actually that bad, they would build you a gaming PC in that price range. Stick a video card in this thing and you're good to go. However hobbyist retailers still aren't the Dells and HPs and all that crap, where too many computers are still bought, and it's unlikely they'll ever be motivated to improve either.

@ LsTr_Of_SmG,
the things he's complaining about are the trade-offs for a PC's strengths. If he prefers the flipside then he would rationally prefer consoles. If he wants fewer specifications to work w/he can pick any console and have one set of specs. to maximize for over years. The right to complain is voided when a viable alternative's available and ignored. He may as well say "I wish spoons would cut better".

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.