Unfortunately. The retail industry for PCs is full of scams and con artists (aka shops). The most reliable way to get a proper PC for gaming is to have it home built (yourself or a friend who is in the know) or find a good independant e-tail site that actually care about customer satisfaction.
Alienware (Dell rebranded and in fancy looking cases) are a total rip off. They use cheap components and overcharge loads.
Here in the UK, overclockers.co.uk is the pla...
hahaha. lol.
Go away. You are wrong / being a troll.
Don't know how to build your own? Guess what, nobody does when they are born... Just google it, it's easier than lego.
Don't buy an alienware or it will crash and stutter. 'nless you know, you have a spare 5 grand lying around.
Er... take the OS from your old PC/Laptop. The licenses are transferrable in most situations.
Graphics card is the thing that is worth splashing out on.
Next gen will be like a $1000 PC of today (gtx 580 equivalent graphics). However, because of the standardized hardware they can optimise for it more, later into the generation.
But avatar like graphics at 60fps in realtime without input lag, will not be possible until we have quantum computers in mainstream use (20 years at the earliest).
However seeing as this is consoles, graphics (shinyness and stuff) take a priority over gameplay, input lag, frame rate an...
this ^
And there will be plenty of said twats here on n4g in no time.
Er. AA won't exist in the future. Because graphics will be rendered via raytracing (how CGI like Avatar is made) not rasterization (textured polygon primitives).
games are becoming more and more of a pain to develop
No they won't.
Well... unless the 720 costs $720,000 on launch.
360 uses proprietary crap HDDs and they don't want you to change it, they want you to buy their overpriced junk ones. The reason everybody thought the 360 was so cheap was because of the stupid version that didn't even have a HDD (and was hence practically useless). Then everybody had to go out and spend $80 on an overpriced junk drive that was only bloody 20GB - which would promptly fill up, requiring a $150 expenditure on a tiny little 120GB drive.
PS3 uses standard...
lol, well next gen will be the same dude - but for all platforms. I guess you should give up gaming then. The bigger and more complex games get, the more they will need to be on hard drives (faster than disks, and can be considered an infinite resource by the developer).
And that isn't even remotely a reason why people would buy consoles :/
Infact, if you want to be able to instantly switch between games you would be using a PC. Literally you just double click the...
The reason people perceive more PS3 fanboys is because it is a better console and so there are more people arguing in it's favour. Simple. My 360 has only been turned on in the past 2 years to play ODST and Reach - it is a Halo box and nothing more, oh and it managed to red ring twice with how little I have used it. The PS3 was "worse" for a while because it had very few decent games, but now it is vastly superior to the 360 - by leaps and bounds. Still, I play all multiplats on...
Nice article. Sim City urgently needs a reboot but they won't do it right, same with a whole load of other games - they just won't be able to recreate the magic in a modern engine. They are probably best left as they are.
Except Half Life, Valve will do that right. And at the same time, hopefully Counter Strike. Source is far too buggy now, they kept making pointless changes to it and they refuse to fix it (which shouldn't be legal because the game I/we bought in ...
lol.
Go to any computer component site.
Stick any cheap ass components in your basket.
Done.
Yeah, ME wasn't particularly good. Loads of people would die for that game so I guess I had to mention it >_<
Also, Bioshock is nothing compared to System Shock. Though it is different enough to be an entirely new game, they really did kinda steal their own idea and publish it into a larger market.
I love the way hardly anybody on N4G has even the slightest understanding of how the TV and PC monitor industry works >_<
Only a few companies actually make the screen panels: Samsung do, I think LG do too - and Dell make monitor panels also. The panels of the same size/tech are made in individual batched but they are not all identical. The panels are tested and separated into divisions of quality, even dead pixel count (don't ever buy a budget brand, ever). Compani...
Glassless can only work (ANY type of glassless that can ever be made by mankind at any point in the future) for a specific location in relation to the screen.
That is why it is possible for a monitor, and for the 3DS. It would be really impractical for a TV because they are designed with the assumption of multiple concurrent users.
No.