Quote Originally Posted by biohead View Post
i built a cheap gaming rig for a friend way back with a single 3850 in it. ran crysis on low/medium but still looked good, and he loved the game. i cannot imagine people switching to consoles because they can't max out the graphics on their PCs.
Some PC games are only good maxed out for people, and that's been a recent trend. Doom 3, Crysis, it's a long list.

Back in the day of MP only, running everything at ultra low gave you a massive advantage so max graphics and high res was for noobs that didn't know how to play. Now, to get the "immersion" factor, you have to max it out.

If you can max out a game, buy it on PC, if not buy it on console and hope the stupid devs get the drift, looks like EPIC and CRYTEK got it, who wants to get whacked with the common sense bat next?

As for consoles, there are plenty of great games on them that aren't rubbish. I've been playing a lot of Demon Souls, Hardcorps, and MVC3 lately, all top notch quality games.

PC gaming has move to all about graphics, so I can completely understand moving away from it if you can't max it out.

Hence piracy and steam sales and demos. Test it, if it can be maxed buy it at launch when it counts, if not, buy it when it's two bucks. No need to pay full price for a product you can't really use.