PC Master Race Consoles Vs PCs

[Bodhi]

Consoles being cheaper is a fallacy (even if you ignore the need to have a TV). The money you save in software over a few years more than makes up the difference, plus much of that software is expandable for free via mods.

You don't need to spend £1000+ on a PC, you can build a perfectly decent one for around £500

Also, horses for courses, if you prefer a console then go for it...that doesn't take away from the fact that a PC is more powerful and just better all round. There is nothing you can do on a console that you can't do on a PC, including gaming with a pad and using a TV but there are countless things you can do on a PC that a console will never be able to do.

Stuff you can do on a console you can't do on a PC:

Stream games from the main PC to another a la Remote Play (don't go there on Remote Desktop, as that would just suck)
Crowd 3 friends round for a decent game of footy / splitscreen FPS / Mario Kart
Go to Tesco next door, buy a game and start playing instantly
Play any console exclusives (Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, etc etc)
Tell members of the opposite sex that's how you play games

Granted there's loads you can do with a PC that you can't with a console, however they all seem to involve work, and I'd rather not spend all day staring at a screen, then all night staring at the same screen playing games. A PC can also give you an unbearable superiority complex that makes you a crushing bore on internet forums.

 

[Moriath]

Stuff you can do on a console you can't do on a PC:

Stream games from the main PC to another a la Remote Play (don't go there on Remote Desktop, as that would just suck)
Crowd 3 friends round for a decent game of footy / splitscreen FPS / Mario Kart
Go to Tesco next door, buy a game and start playing instantly
Play any console exclusives (Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, etc etc)
Tell members of the opposite sex that's how you play games

Granted there's loads you can do with a PC that you can't with a console, however they all seem to involve work, and I'd rather not spend all day staring at a screen, then all night staring at the same screen playing games. A PC can also give you an unbearable superiority complex that makes you a crushing bore on internet forums.

Steam can stream games from one pc to another.

 

[Raven]

Stuff you can do on a console you can't do on a PC:

Stream games from the main PC to another a la Remote Play (don't go there on Remote Desktop, as that would just suck)

Why would you want/need to? Just log into your steam/gog/amazon account and download and install, assuming you aren't on dialup.

Crowd 3 friends round for a decent game of footy / splitscreen FPS / Mario Kart

That's correct, you can crowd much more than 3, as many as you have room for on PC, if you wang it onto the TV and have enough wireless controllers.

Go to Tesco next door, buy a game and start playing instantly

No you can't you still have to install most on a console. Its probably faster (and much cheaper) to just download it on PC than fucking about with the plebs at Tesco, also, physical media stopped being useful 10 years ago, who the hell buys disks these days?

Play any console exclusives (Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, etc etc)

Plenty of decent PC exclusives too.

Tell members of the opposite sex that's how you play games

I take it all your female friends live in the 90s then?

Granted there's loads you can do with a PC that you can't with a console, however they all seem to involve work, and I'd rather not spend all day staring at a screen, then all night staring at the same screen playing games. A PC can also give you an unbearable superiority complex that makes you a crushing bore on internet forums.

Not really, pointing out the obvious to the uneducated is the right thing to do.

None of it takes that much work if you have an IQ over 50.

 

[Scouse]

Stuff you can do on a console you can't do on a PC:

Stream games from the main PC to another << can absolutely do that
Crowd 3 friends round for a decent game of footy / splitscreen FPS / Mario Kart << yay consoles?
Go to Tesco next door, buy a game and start playing instantly << LOL! Takes a couple of minutes for stuff to come down on my 150mb/s connection
Play any console exclusives (Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, etc etc) << meh, open platform FTW.
Tell members of the opposite sex that's how you play games << don't like them if they can't deal with who I am. PC is a nice shit filter...

Granted there's loads you can do with a PC that you can't with a console, however they all seem to involve work - disagree. Consoles are just cheap low-spec PC's with limited uses. My PC is never any trouble. Everything "just works" and I can, and do, all sorts of things other than games....

 

[AngelHeal]

i love consoles... but the people who still say it's a plug and play thingy... nono that's wayyyy back in the day.

Nowadays pc's start up as quick as consoles and dont even mention the updates on my ps4..

every friggin time i log in it says update available, and couple of gigs aint unusual. For the console itself, but also for games.

Oe look i bought fifa/nba/whatever..

please download our update first.. *gogo 14 hour update download and install*

 

[Bodhi]

Why would you want/need to? Just log into your steam/gog/amazon account and download and install, assuming you aren't on dialup.
That's correct, you can crowd much more than 3, as many as you have room for on PC, if you wang it onto the TV and have enough wireless controllers.
No you can't you still have to install most on a console. Its probably faster (and much cheaper) to just download it on PC than fucking about with the plebs at Tesco, also, physical media stopped being useful 10 years ago, who the hell buys disks these days?
Plenty of decent PC exclusives too.
I take it all your female friends live in the 90s then?


Not really, pointing out the obvious to the uneducated is the right thing to do.

None of it takes that much work if you have an IQ over 50.

I'd say it's pretty uneducated not to be able to tell when someone's on a windup, and has got at least 3 bites from what I can tell. I'm guessing that puts your iq at about 51 then?

It would explain why you struggle with simple tasks like going to Tesco, or classing Minesweeper as a decent exclusive.....

 

[Bodhi]

i love consoles... but the people who still say it's a plug and play thingy... nono that's wayyyy back in the day.

Nowadays pc's start up as quick as consoles and dont even mention the updates on my ps4..

every friggin time i log in it says update available, and couple of gigs aint unusual. For the console itself, but also for games.

Oe look i bought fifa/nba/whatever..

please download our update first.. *gogo 14 hour update download and install*

Leave it in rest mode then it gets the updates when its off, and the install routine is hardly a chore, the game is playable long before its finished.

 

[Raven]

It would explain why you struggle with simple tasks like going to Tesco, or classing Minesweeper as a decent exclusive.....

Chock full of chavs. Horrible place.

 

[Raven]

Leave it in rest mode then it gets the updates when its off, and the install routine is hardly a chore, the game is playable long before its finished.

only if you pay a sub

 

[Billargh]

Not really, pointing out the obvious to the uneducated is the right thing to do.

Jesus Christ...

 

[Bodhi]

only if you pay a sub

That's Ps3, pretty sure the 4 does it anyway. But when the sub gets you so many free games, it's no big issue

 

[Raven]

I really think its time for a satire tag anyway.

 

[Raven]

Jesus Christ...

Piss taking doesn't come across very well in text.

( I couldn't actually care less what people play games on)

 

[Billargh]

Piss taking doesn't come across very well in text.

( I couldn't actually care less what people play games on)

Alas, it's not one of those things that get better with repetition.

 

[leggy]

Superiority: Possessing a consumer product with a capital value greater than its nearest rival.

 

[old.Osy]

Superiority: Possessing a consumer product with a capital value greater than its nearest rival.

Why you gotta be like that man, huh? Breaking down things to elemental bits then attributing adjectives while it's disjointed from its real value, i mean, hell...

You don't see anyone telling Moriath his shock tactics are actually a defensive mechanism, meant to help him come to terms with his inferiority.

So let's play nice, eh?

 

[Moriath]

Why you gotta be like that man, huh? Breaking down things to elemental bits then attributing adjectives while it's disjointed from its real value, i mean, hell...

You don't see anyone telling Moriath his shock tactics are actually a defensive mechanism, meant to help him come to terms with his inferiority.

So let's play nice, eh?

At least @Moriath me when you talk about me dude. Shock isnt the intention. Its the way i see the world. But go on believing everyone see stuff as you do

 

[Trem]

The Xbox One is a fucking nightmare. That isn't plug and play, I fucking hate it, the security or child proofing or whatever the fuck it is Microsoft have on it is pathetic. My son hasn't touched his for months because last time it was turned on it needed me to re do all the log in bollocks again, which I had already done.

Pile of shit, fuck you consoles... apart from the SNES.

 

[Hawkwind]

Stuff you can do on a console you can't do on a PC:

Stream games from the main PC to another a la Remote Play (don't go there on Remote Desktop, as that would just suck)

Nvidia Gamestream does exactly that. Streams games from PC to a remote Shield/Shield Tablet, was playing Hawken like that for months. Works really well on FPS type shiz.

 

[MYstIC G]

Oh wow so now we've got two threads full of crap because someone has decided they know the gameplay for an unreleased title is shit...

Better hope Bethesda don't think to leave the wheel out of the PC version then, wouldn't want this all to be for nothing...

 

[Adari]

Why is this even a point anyway, arent you all 20+ by now at least? Consoles is for kids?

 

[Trem]

Why is this even a point anyway, arent you all 20+ by now at least? Consoles is for kids?

I'm 24.

 

[Raven]

Inches?

 

[Trem]

Inches?

Cock? No, that's about 3 inches fully excited.

 

[ECA]

Why is this even a thread.
The only validpoint anyones made is but muh exclusives.

Besides everyone knows carbs are bad for you.

 

[old.Tohtori]

If i had to cherrypick arguments for PC i'd ofcourse pick modding. That's the single most compelling side of PC and it's missing on the console side, but it's going to change in time too. I can see a steam-workshop type of thing on consoles(as long as the games are moddable). Otherwise it's a case of comfort to power conversion that's slowly fading.

 

[BloodOmen]

Why is this even a thread.
The only validpoint anyones made is but muh exclusives.

Besides everyone knows carbs are bad for you.

No idea, I thought we got over the whole PC vs Consoles thing years ago who gives a shit really, they both play games thus this is a none issue.

 

[leggy]

Why is this even a thread.
The only validpoint anyones made is but muh exclusives.

Besides everyone knows carbs are bad for you.

It was a joke thread.

And it's a thread because the sanctimonious among us can't leave the subject alone and continue to pollute other perfectly good threads.

 

[Adari]

Are there any other PS exclusives than Little Big Planet? Something worth the handicap

 

[Scouse]

Exclusives.

Another reason why consoles are shit. Puts games in the hands of corporations so you have to buy their hardware to play them.