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[PA Comic] Friday, January 9, 2015 - Power Creep
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How about phones or cardboard/paperstock/plastic?
Sticks held like guns and dustbin lids for shields or gtfo
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we looked at the specs on our current PCs
looked at the costs of upgrades
...and just turned in our 360s and bought two Xbox Ones instead and it was a fuck ton less money.
I mean, on the plus side with how weird the camera movement feels on KBAM in DA that was probably the right call.
Also I remember the first game I shelled out a bunch of change to get my PC up to running:
It uh, put me off the practice. These days I just buy the best I can afford when I get a PC and say fuck it if I can't run a game well.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Really? Good luck playing games on a modern console with a flexible, precise keyboard and mouse setup - it's gamepad or bust!
Anyway I just looked at the Witcher 3 sysreqs and my machine hits or exceeds all of them comfortably. I don't particularly want to play the game myself so it's academic to me but I'm glad that with the launch of a new console hardware generation developers feel comfortable pushing the limits... at least for a couple of years until PC hardware has left the consoles in the dust again.
So... I'll be waiting on a Steam sale and upgrading my computer when prices drop on parts.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
To me, "controller" means a gamepad. If I'd meant keyboard, mouse, or joystick, I'd have said so.
Some games work better with a controller.
Some people have unique preferences for one or the other in certain situations. Your personal preference is not objectively correct for everybody else.
Now if you'll excuse me, there's an argument about whether Elvis or The Beatles were better that I need to go break up.
Besides in a year or two a Skynet will cost about fifty bucks
Not to seem unsympathetic, but I'm a little confused by this. Isn't this why system requirements are listed? So people can avoid buying games they won't be able to run? I don't understand why this would happen.
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To me, "gamepad" means Wii U.
System requirements are super weird and sometimes inaccurate.
Partly because peoples definition of 'runs' for a game can be different (some people play stuff at basically 5fps if they really love the game) and partly because there's alot of weird and varied computer rigs out there so you can get odd cases where something that should be below the specs can run it surprisingly well and things that should be above the specs can't.
Also you get companies who are basically talking shit out their arse for specs like Ubisoft has been ever since next gen dropped.
Yeah, even I was surprised by how fast we covered all the bases.
I'm looking at you, Ubi.
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I never managed to get into it for this reason, I kept thinking "In a game purportedly about narrative choice if my PC is going to be this fucking boring then why not go the whole hog and make him a bioware style player created blank slate? At least then I might have some shot at getting invested in him."
It was bound to happen. Each game has been witcher than the last.
Until I discovered the majesty of e-mail alerts from Newegg and Amazon.
When you can get a $500 card for $280 with free two-day shipping it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to invest in a console unless you absolutely MUST play an exclusive title on said console or the only way to enjoy a social gaming experience with your friends is to own the console on which they're all playing.
Granted, you ideally have to have access to the bonus hobby funding at a moment's notice to take advantage of these "CRAZY DEALZ" but if you do you can stay ahead of the curve comfortably without ever falling into a power deficit.
It's like waiting for Steam Sales. Patience, young padawan.
EDIT: On the other hand, one has to wonder if there is an event horizon where the two will finally meet. There was a time when everyone thought the console was going to just become another PC but instead it went a whole other direction and became a fully functional home entertainment device. I don't think the two will ever be interchangeable but I do wonder if there will ever be a time when the specs will be so similar that the difference between the two will be negligible.
Seeing as consoles are static I don't imagine that will ever be the case. I guess what it boils down to is how deep we plunge into the uncanny valley.
My computer barely runs Civilization V.
*Barely*
To give you an idea, I need to set aside 45 minutes to start the game. Then 30 minutes to load my save or get a new game started or whatever. Based on this, and other examples, as much as I would like to play Dragon Age Inquisition or The Witcher, it's just not happening on my computer ever.
Witchaga.
I just got the 360 version. I just bought a WiiU, no way I'm going to get another console.
I have to admit, the "turned in our 360s" hurt me in the brainparts. I thought the Xbone isn't backwards compatible? So you can't play any of your 360 games again? No one last spin around a favorite RPG? No getting some DLC for a game during the slow months? No hopping in multiplayer with some friends, no picking up a few missed 360 classics you never got around to? eeee.....
Not judging you here, but I never had the capacity to do that. Hell, the only reason I don't still have an NES and SNES is my brother claimed them. Well, and they were barely working. I still have my PS2 up on my backup TV, and it gets semi-regular use.