[QUOTE="JimmyT2"]Your over 25 and you are able to find a large number of games that appeal to you on consoles? I envy you because I always feel console games are targeted at teens with the exception of a few. Some appeal to people of all ages but others are just make me feel like I'm having a mid-life crysis. On PC I feel there is less games that try to be "cool" (what teens consider cool anyway) and attract the teen audience. I probably didn't explain that well.DespizingU

Yeah, you must have not explained that well, because all I read was a bunch of ignorance. I don't know what age has anything to do with console gaming.

I'm 29, and find a TON of console games appealing. And a lot of those games are from Nintendo. The same games that most little kids around here categorize as "kiddie". And I find a bunch of games on the pc appealing too. I enjoy playing games, and kind of games. So as long as that games is well made, and fun, I don't care who it is targeted at.

So yeah, if you envy the topic post(or me for that matter), for being an older gamer and finding a lot of games on consoles appealing, then you really need to expand your gaming horizons. Stop focusing on if a game is trying to be "cool"(which I have no idea what you mean by this) or not, and just have fun playing it.

Hey if you can enjoy games aimed at a teenage or younger audience more power to you and as I said I envy people like you. I wish I could roll back the clock but when I play games with music/slang/themes that are way past my time I can't help feeling I'm having a midlife crysis and wanting to be younger then I am. I don't like that feeling so I avoid games that make me feel that way. Posting on these forums makes me feel bad enough as it is and I really need to stop doing it.

Good stuff, MS fans.Udsen

I think you mean to say Boware fans. MS dissolved Digital Anvil and I will never forgive them for that. With EA buying Bioware this could be one of the last really good Bioware games. It didn't take that long for EA to ruin Origin which actually lead to the Wing Commander developers leaving to form Digital Anvil and MS buying and dissolving them after Freelancer and Brute Force (a game they should have never made because it wasn't their style, they are good at space sims not TPS) were commercial failures.

[QUOTE="JimmyT2"]My 360 scratched my copy of Mass Effect. It still works, most of the time but the PC version could not be released soon enough.KingOfKonging

Really? THat sucks, I've never heard of that happening.

What's your tag?

Yeah it's the first time it's happened to me and ME was the reason I bought the 360. If it were not for ME being so good something like this would have been grounds for me to sell my 360 and ME but instead I'm considering buying the game again and yet another time if a PC version is released. Games this good only come out every few years if we are lucky, despite it's frame rate issues the game is solid gold.

I understand where you are coming from, but as i said in a previous thread i made. Sure the PC version might play slightly better, but i already own a 360 and PS3 and have never really played a PC game before, and i only have a little 19 Inch LCD computer monitor and just factory gateway computer speakers.. Why pay extra money for a Video card when I can play it on my 50 Inch Samsung 1080 with full surrond sound in the comfort of my living roomChristopherM80

That's fine. The console version does have advantages I guess and if you already have a good setup like that and you don't mind using a controller then go ahead. However the full experience of UT3 will be the PC version or at least it has been in the past with UT games. Console will likely come closer then they have before to providing a similar experience. I was a bit harsh on the console version in that other thread because the title of the thread stirred me up but I strongly think the PC version is the way to experience UT3.

Gamespot's UT3 performance guide. I just want to make sure people who don't don't keep up with PC gaming know it isn't going to cost you an arm or a leg to play the PC version at higher quality then consoles. For most people all you will need to buy is a cheap video card.

Unreal Tournament 3, based on Epic's Unreal Engine 3, has been in development for years. BioShock, Gears of War, and Mass Effect also use Unreal Engine 3 yet preceded Unreal Tournament 3's arrival by a few months, and almost a year in the case of Gears of War. The games may all use the same engine, but they have very different hardware requirements. Whereas BioShock requires powerful hardware to run, Unreal Tournament 3 doesn't leave anyone out of the fun. Mid-range CPUs and video cards from two years ago can run the game just fine, and with marvelous image quality. Of course, if you want more performance, higher resolutions, and antialiasing, more power is the way to go.

Our slowest machine, a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 paired with a GeForce 6800, didn't churn out a playable frame rate at 1600x1200 with maximum quality, but we got it humming along just fine after reducing the resolution and tweaking the quality settings.

Keep in mind that if you pair a similar CPU to the P4 3.0 Ghz with a faster card then the 6800 (which is two generations old and more powerful cards are dirt cheap these days) it would run it better and you would not have to reduce the details below maximum. Also keep in mind they tested at 1600X1200 which is a much higher resolution then consoles 1280X720 (720P) and the game would run much better at 1280X1024 which is still higher res then consoles. That's all I wanted to say, thank you for listening.

http://gamespot.com/features/6183499/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1

People think Halo is better then Crysis? I think it's more likely people have played Halo and not Crysis but say Halo is the best because it's the one they own.

[QUOTE="JimmyT2"]Why would you play it on consoles? Even a low end PC can run it no problems and this is the type of game you just don't play on consoles. Dreams-Visions

UT has worked fine on consoles in the past. not as perfect as the PC, but not doggie poo. You act like this is the first console UT game.

No it hasn't worked fine and considering you only need an $80 card to run it better then it will run on the PS3 there is no reason to play dog poo. I wouldn't bother playing an UT game unless it's on PC, I rented both UT (PS2) and UC (Xbox) out of interest and they were beyond terrible. Calling them dog poo would be generous.

[QUOTE="JimmyT2"]Why would you play it on consoles? Even a low end PC can run it no problems and this is the type of game you just don't play on consoles. ChristopherM80

I was raised on consoles, i never was into PC gaming. Honestly ive never played a UT game before in my life. But i do know i love FPS online games, and I love Epic, and I loved Gears of war so i know ill love this game. I dont like super fast paced shooters. so im glad the PS3 version will be slower

Now is the time to get into PC gaming. All you need is a half decent CPU and a 8600GT (budget card) to play the game at 1600X1200 @ 43 FPS max quality with a keyboard and mouse. Surely that sounds more appealing then playing it on the PS3 at 30 FPS lower detail/resolution and no proper mod support.

http://gamespot.com/features/6183499/p-4.html