Console Video Games

[Demon of Undoing]

[Ibrahim]

[YMix]

[Tinker]

It's not terribly expensive to build a gaming machine. But if you don't need a new machine generally I don't recommend it. But you can do one for under $ 800 easily these days. Whenever I build a new computer I always make sure its gaming compatible.

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Half a Terrabyte HDD is $ 40

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i7 3.06ghz Quad core is $ 360 (This could be a place to save a hundred bucks by going with prior gen gear)

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Motherboard $ 200 (This one isn't super great with a max of 6 Gigs of RAM capacity. But 6 gigs is fine for any game.)

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Graphics Card $ 135 (This is the most important piece, don't go any lower than this. Can go much higher. The Graphics card is the place where you have the most variability on performance. 1GB of RAM minimum for gaming.)

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DVD Burner $ 20

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3 GB RAM $ 60.

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Gaming Case $ 85 (Very important that it keeps it cool as modern processors run very hot, so your CPU and GPU will create a lot of heat)

Oh wait, I forgot the Windows OEM. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6832116986
$ 100.

So this machine would cost you $ 1000. It's just what I eyeballed. You can get a 22 in flatscreen for about $ 100 now. You can spend as much as you want on a gaming mouse and it indeed DOES make a difference in gameplay. Gaming mice are between $ 50 and $ 250.

Gaming is no longer the most intense thing one can do on a computer. Audio/Graphics/Video production are really what you need high performance for. The machine I pointed out here should run every game on the market at the second highest graphics settings if not the highest.

The CPU is where you can save money on this machine really. If anyone is in the market, I do not recommend buying this machine that I have outlined because it was just a quick and dirty mock-up and I wouldn't want people to buy incompatible parts. But the compatible parts will be comparably priced. It's all about ports. Your Graphics card should be PCI-Express. RAM these days is all DDR, make sure the motherboard supports the particular type of RAM you are getting. The Motherboard and CPU are a mated pair so you have to get the right Motherboard for the CPU that you buy.

[Demon of Undoing]

[Ibrahim]

[Hapax Legomenon]

Wii, sports games online, Madden and Tiger Woods, especially. Wii is the best for fun, light-hearted games of other stripes too, I think. Plus all of the old school games on the Virtual Console for a few bucks.

[Tinker]

[noddy]

best thing i ever did was replace my crazy linux/windows media setup with a ps3 - no longer am i the only one that can drive it, i also get many valuable hours of my life back because i no longer stuff around with drivers and settings and various workarounds.

many moons ago i played competitive quakeworld and it can only be done with mouse/kb .. was pretty good at it but not in the same league as the hyper kids, i couldnt rocket blast someone into the air then hold them up their with the lazer.

still havent finished red dead redemption either and its the first game in a long time ive even been slightly suckered in to.. portal and the new dues ex are the new ones i would investigate if i had the time and inclination..

[Demon of Undoing]

When I say lack of situational awareness, I mean the inability to discern what is happening in the game based off of an inch- wide radar screen and stereo sounds coming from speakers ten inches apart. When I go hunting, I might stop for ten minutes just to smell the air. I can't smell through a Sony.

[noddy]

yeh in fps the situational awareness is purely "owning the map" ... knowing where the goodies are, knowing where the players are and being able to predict where they will go based on all that.

[Demon of Undoing]

Yeah, that's another thing that pisses me off. It's all a bunch of glorified paintball fields. There are no edge borders in the real world( well, sometimes).

[Tinker]

[Colonel Sun]

[noddy]

http://deadendthrills.com

truly games as art - havent got into the tech detail yet, but a hacker with a photographers eye has injected his own custom rendering routines into classic 3d games and then rendered the scenery and game art in hi res.

[Ibrahim]

Anybody gotten into Skyrim? I don't have time in my life for that right now, but if I had it all to do over I think I'd just be some slacker taking 12 years to do his art history B.A. and living vicariously though games like this.

[Tinker]

[Ibrahim]

I don't really know the hardware details, but I assume what you're describing is super-plus-good? What are you going to do with all the new horsepower?

[Tinker]

[Ibrahim]

[Tinker]

[YMix]

[Ibrahim]

[YMix]

I am just an aging drummer boy, and in the wars I used to play
And I've called the tune to many a torture session
Now they say I am a war criminal and I'm fading away
Father, please hear my confession

[Ibrahim]

Yesterday somebody told me to do search twitter for Pearl Harbor Day, which I did and I was surprised to see that apparently this is still a big deal in the US, and also that a million teenagers were both uninformed and hate-filled. Just nonstop variations of "fuckyou sneaky japs im glad we nuked your yellow asses." So the idea that today's kids want to commit some digital war crimes is not that amazing to me. Maybe if they get their torture and murder rocks off via games or comic books or whatever they will be too fat, lazy, and apathetic to start goose-stepping into a real war crimes situation.

Not exactly inspiring stuff, but that's the best I can do with it.