PC is the best platform for one reason

Yet again hermits prove PC's value for production far outways its gaming possibilites.Cecil7

[QUOTE="Cecil7"]Yet again hermits prove PC's value for production far outways its gaming possibilites.Saturos3091

It's another one of Wok7's bandodger accounts. Don't bother with him.

But on topic: Mods.

Not the best of reasons I think, how about because PC is the engine that drives gaming technology?

Every PC gamer that buys hardware such as a graphics card is adding to the budget for R&D to develop better hardware, which learns from the previous generation of hardware that had millions to test the technology. Engines advance to take advantage of these new technologies to produce more advanced games; which in turn pushes the need for more powerful hardware.

PC gaming fuels the need for technological development, unlike consoles that are trapped in time and encourage no advancement in hardware or software. Engines designed to utilise hardware that stays the same does not encourage progress; by the time the console has reached the end of its product life cycle it has produced nothing to aid the next generation.

Console gamers would hate to admit it; but they are reliant on PC to make their 'next gen' possible.

Customization.. Its the PC's greatest strength and greatest weakness.

Customization.. Its the PC's greatest strength and greatest weakness.

sSubZerOo

er cusomization is a choice! so I can only see it as a strength!

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Customization.. Its the PC's greatest strength and greatest weakness.

Great_Ragnarok

er cusomization is a choice! so I can only see it as a strength!

Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.

Woha woha woha woha woha boy. Calm down. It isn't development on why it's the best.

I'll give you one reason. Just one. I only need one reason on why PC is the best platform for games. You know what it is? It's a game.

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Starcraft.

Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.

sSubZerOo

If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.

Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.

GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.

Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.

PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.

Without the PC there would be no games because people use PC's to make the games you love on your pathetic consoles:P lolMac_Gamer101

dam i wish i could have one of those 4.0GHZ cell models in my PC... but w/e quad core will do for now..zomgwtfbbqlol1

You know without specialist programming Cell is just a single core processor? Even with specialist programming; there are pros and cons to both designs, there are things your quad core will be better at than Cell.

[QUOTE="zomgwtfbbqlol1"]dam i wish i could have one of those 4.0GHZ cell models in my PC... but w/e quad core will do for now..AnnoyedDragon

You know without specialist programming Cell is just a single core processor? Even with specialist programming; there are pros and cons to both designs, there are things your quad core will be better at than Cell.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.

AnnoyedDragon

If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.

Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.

GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.

Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.

PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.

[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Customization is a weakness as well.. With out standardiized builds like a console, system reqs are put into play meaning games may steeper then other.. This also leads with numerous problems that can occur.. This customization can some times leads to unneccesary complication.

NamelessPlayer

If people focus on only the downsides and not the merits then they won't be able to appreciate PC gaming.

Take drivers for instance; console users see drivers as an annoying choir, a needless requirement that their systems have 'evolved' beyond the need of.

GPU drivers add an optional layer of quality customisation for your game experience; beyond that of what the developers offered, there are things you can enable/disable in your drivers that the developers didn't include in the game. Drivers made anti aliasing in unreal engine 3 games possible while others tried to market it as only being possible in DX10. Drivers allow post release optimisation in games long after the developers have abandoned them; so performance in a game like Crysis continues to increase despite there being no more patches, Crysis today runs better on the same hardware than after the last patch was released.

Upgrading drivers are a chore; but they give us so many other things in return for staying up to date. People can only focus on the downsides and make consoles sound so much better because of them; but they will never benefit from the advantages if they choose to make that switch.

PC is about your experience; that is why we have customisable settings, if you go to consoles you give up that freedom in the name of convenience.

lol about the sig thing...

he does bring up a good point "eh?"

Should've said mods.Saturos3091

Exactly. Christ, user mods made Oblivion a decent game on PC, that alone should get it nominated for sainthood by the Pope.