N64 or PS1?
 

Poll coming :spin:

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(would have included the Saturn but who would have honestly voted for it)

PS1.. Gamecube wasn't too bad either

Ah I didn't want the votes to be private

Sega megadrive

Excuse me that wasn't an option now was it :nono:

I do beg your pardon jake....barring the vastly superior megadrive I guess Playstation

N64. Loved the PS1 too but has to be 64

N64..

I loved Mario Party, Mario 64 and NWO Revenge and No Mercy way too much :love:

But PS1 was a stellar console as well, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot were ****ing classics.

This, deserves to win for Mario 64 alone

We all know that the Megadrive is great but it's from a different era :idc:

First console I ever bought was a PS1. Always been more of a PC gamer. Its clearly the best, always has been and always will be. The PC that is.

PS1 <3

..:lovedup:...

Whilst I love the N64 the PlayStation trumps it for me. As great as they are for open source, community content and cheap indie games PCs back catalogues for true triple A titles just cannot compare to consoles. And nobody goes around to a mates house with a pizza and some smokes to watch them play Rome : Total War with themselves. PC gamers are solitary creatures who brag endlessly about whats under their hood.

Never heard of LAN parties then?

These days all these games can be played online. PC's can also be updated within minutes, the new xbox is already outdated when compared to the PC. People using it will be using the same graphics card for the next 10 years and thus having a sub par experience.

Playstation trumps Nintendo in every way

Of course I have heard of LAN parties but Doom II was a long time ago, brother. And playing against strangers online is nothing compared to four chums squinting to see a splitscreen, munching each others supply of health packs.

Who cares about high end PC gaming? Nobody is developing for it because the market is too small and the benchmark is decided by what is in consoles. Most devs want their software to run on consoles too and the tech can be stretched a lot. Sure Skyrim don't look as good on the 360 but hey I paid for it 8 years ago and I still do not feel like I am missing out on much.

Conversly because most people do not have the time or money to update their rigs every year, most of the mostly widely played PC titles run on years old systems rendering the whole technology argument close to meaningless.

PC gamers can run a dull, glorified tech demo like Crysis 3 on max settings but at the end of the day most of the geniunly stunning games this year - like every year - will be coming to consoles. All my friends will be up for a game and nobody will have to worry if their Intel 600x Jabbahut will be good enough for it.

http://i.imgur.com/P6jdDxr.png>> The games that tried to emulate its success

Ew I bought Mario 3D Land a few weeks back and returned it, was so boring

What's that got to do with Mario 64 though :laugh:

Tomb Raider II is better than any Mario. It's got dat Venice and Monks who beat people around with sticks. And all those levels where the level tries to kill you.

To update a gaming PC you would have to spend less than half of what you spend on buying an Xbox/PS..whatever. A game on the PC will get released and be playable for years because they are constantly 'modded' by the players...a concept that would be totally alien to console users.

Nobody developing for the PC? That is just simply not true and quite funny.

Most games that are out on the PC a console would not have a hope in hell of even loading.

Vanilla Skyrim looks **** on the PC because it is a port from the consoles. But hey you can mod it to take full advantage of a PC's capabilities.

How much is the new xbox? Around the £600 mark? I bought my gaming PC and a 30" HD monitor for less than that.

You certainly do not need to spend stupid money on a gaming PC capable of running each and every game that is out now. Mine is nowhere near 'top end' and I quite easily play every game going on max settings.

Once you have a gaming PC, and you want to upgrade in 5 years or so, you can go out spend a couple of hundred on a graphics card, some RAM and a new processor and you have a gaming machine that is head and shoulders above any console they will ever bring out.

Either that or you can go out and spend £600 on the next Xbox.


Those 'genuinely stunning games' you are going to get on the consoles, are in the PC world, about 5 years out of date.

as usual, the range of titles with the PS was a lot better, but in terms of redefining gaming, the N64 was pretty much the best of all time. Super Mario 64 was the first to use missions-within-missions (how many games now require objectives? Rather than kill Bowser or get to the end), dynamic cameras and (I'm sure others will claim the contrary) probably the first great open world 3D platform.

I respect those who prefer the playstation because it was also awesome (and to be honest, that start-up sound is probably equivalent with an orgasm to me), but I grew up loving the N64. Goldeneye, Banjo & Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Kart, Pokemon Stadium, Snowboard Kids... all brilliant, all responsible for wasting about 25% of my childhood.

also nothing screams loneliness quite like PC gaming, can't be arsed with it

Shaun :worship:

PS1, they were both excellent consoles but I have fonder memories of the PS1.

The hours I spent on the FFs, Tekken 1-3, Rival Schools, Soul Blade etc.

Also, there are games on the PC like Planetside 2 that are totally free to play and still look better than any console game out there, that you would probably pay upwards of £50 for on the consoles :joker:

In what whacky ass hood do you inhabit where the likes of Dead Space, Uncharted and The Last Of Us were five years out of date when they were released? Planet My PC Can Do A Higher Resoloution Version Of That? Who cares. People wonder why PC gamers sound entitled.

The Xbox One clocks in at 500 euro. The PS4 400. Most of those units will shift and find their way into homes when it will retail for 300 and will sit untouched earning back your money for the better part of a decade. Get me a PC and 7-8 years of the necessary upgrades necessary to run the swathes of apparent PC titles consoles cannot run for the same price and I will show you dozens more yearly five star titles for consoles that all but negate the argument anyway.

Metal Gear? The console. Virginia Tech? The PC.

Rightio Stu. Go to your happy place and carry on with your overpriced, out of date but newly released consoles. Its not my job to convince you.

And you and all the other tech spec jihads can go modding turbans on to your characters when GTA gets ported in six months time. Stick that in your DOS box.

Yeahhhhhh.

PC Gaming is far too expensive for me, I like League of Legends and the odd Indie Game but that's it.

Wasn't really a massive fan of the N64, Crash and Spyro always appealed to me more then Mario and although i loved the two Zelda games i really didn't find the same replay value in them as the Final Fantasy games, most PS games were obviously a lot more darker then your the N64 catalogue - Dino Crisis, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Metal Gear and Tomb Raider, the Sports games were on a different level you had Gran Turismo, Pes, Tony Hawks, The Smackdown Games, the start of Fifa's popularity. but as the famous saying goes FFVII sold the Playstation and the reason why the playstation sold well over double then what the N64 sold

Simulation Games, Football Manager, Escape From Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Age of Empires and The Total War Games

the only games i'd rather play on a PC then a Console.


I played Warcraft for a bit but got up to level 27 or 28 and then i lost interest i went back on there a few months after though and challenged some level 15 to a duel with all his clan watching on forming a circle around us and he killed me with one attack, i haven't been on since.

That makes no sense really. You can buy a good gaming PC for the same price as the new xbox, and then it is upgradeable at any time which a console isnt. There are loads of games like the one you mentioned, planetside 2 etc that are totally free to play. The ones you buy are nowhere near the £50 you would buy a console game for.

A typical console generation lasts around five years, I bet if you were to take the cost of an average console and the cost of keeping a PC upgraded over the span of five years then the costs would be similar or higher for the PC, Especially if you aren't tech savvy enough to do it yourself.

The lifespan of a gaming PC without upgrade is probably five years, if not more. Once you've spent the initial 4-600 on building a complete unit, you're probably looking at spending a couple of hundred every few years and thats if you wanted to have a cutting edge PC. The key with PC's is not to buy one off the shelf by walking into PC World, cos they charge the earth. There are endless companies online where you pick and choose what you want in your 'rig' and they build it for you, with a little bit of research you will have a machine that is far superior to any console, no matter what anyone says.

I used http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/gaming-pcs-computers.asp to put mine together.

As of this moment I can play any game you care to mention on high-max settings and that will be the same for at least the next 5 years. After that without touching anything I will be able to play new games at still an acceptable level.

Console gaming is so much more expensive, its just the easy way of doing it as it involves no research whatsoever, you just buy the shiny box and away you go. Thats what the companies rely on. Laziness.

Planetside 2 is coming to the PS4 though, free to play :p Also console gaming is generally easier as you buy a console, and it can play games for the next 7-8 years, you dont have to look for new graphics cards, motherboards, and all the other techy wekky stuff just to have the latest games in max settings.

Wow, you're calling me lazy and insinuating I'm stupid. You're doing wonders for dispelling the PC Gamer stereotype.

Don't be such a drama queen, I was not calling you individually lazy at all. I was saying the attitude where people buy consoles because its easy is lazy.