Comment Re:Keep It Simple Stupid (Score 1) 1540
Common misconception? It's more a question of personnal taste than a misconception.
I own an Athlon 64 3000, 1 GB of Ram, and an ATI 9600 XT, my games are stored on a Raptor 10000 RPM Hard disk. Not the latest hardware, but my system hardly qualifies as "totally obsolete" wouldn't you say? And as far as i'm concerned the following games are *unplayable*, even at the lowest resolution and the lowest level of detail :
-Doom 3 (everything works perfect, until i meet a monster - then framerates drop so bad that it's unplayable)
-X3 : The Reunion (cute, but so sloooooooow)
-Prey
-Oblivion (plays well on interior levels, but outside fights turns the whole thing into a nice slideshow)
Mind you, i'm very picky when frame rates are concerned; Anything below 20 FPS makes the game simply not worth playing for me.
So NO, as far as i'm concerned, 2 year-old hardware just doesn't cut it for new games.
(And yes, you might get better graphics with a PC than with a console, but hey, that's an advantage consoles have - your typical TV screen is much more forgiving than a pc monitor, and you don't need to pump pixels at 1600x1200 to get a nice picture. Then again, I ain't rich enough to own a huge LCD or Plasma tv...)
I own an Athlon 64 3000, 1 GB of Ram, and an ATI 9600 XT, my games are stored on a Raptor 10000 RPM Hard disk. Not the latest hardware, but my system hardly qualifies as "totally obsolete" wouldn't you say? And as far as i'm concerned the following games are *unplayable*, even at the lowest resolution and the lowest level of detail :
-Doom 3 (everything works perfect, until i meet a monster - then framerates drop so bad that it's unplayable)
-X3 : The Reunion (cute, but so sloooooooow)
-Prey
-Oblivion (plays well on interior levels, but outside fights turns the whole thing into a nice slideshow)
Mind you, i'm very picky when frame rates are concerned; Anything below 20 FPS makes the game simply not worth playing for me.
So NO, as far as i'm concerned, 2 year-old hardware just doesn't cut it for new games.
(And yes, you might get better graphics with a PC than with a console, but hey, that's an advantage consoles have - your typical TV screen is much more forgiving than a pc monitor, and you don't need to pump pixels at 1600x1200 to get a nice picture. Then again, I ain't rich enough to own a huge LCD or Plasma tv...)
