I’ve done the same, I have a desktop which I built myself in this very room. I spent a good 1400 dollars. My point is, lets say your buying $700 laptop, spend an extra 200 bucks, and you’ll most likely have something worth gaming with. Unless the manufacturer who is selling is Apple, Alienware or some other overly expensive company. For example, you can get a good gaming laptop for Asus for pretty cheap now.
I have no idea how you get it down to around $200.
Correction: I’m at lvl 70, a commander.
Modern Warfare 2?
I’m only up to lvl 44 or so [:(]
I played the first Modern Warfare a little bit and enjoyed it, but not as much as the original WWII series of CoD games I used to play competitively.
As far as I know MW2 has no dedicated server support? Boo, I’m glad I don’t play games anymore then. That would’ve pissed me off. (That, and the fact that upgrading my PC every year is an incredibly costly venture when parts need to be imported into South Africa [:#] )
I can’t wait for Mass Effect 2 to come out. 4 days feels like a lifetime. I felt this way before Fallout 3 too.
You guys care, I’m sure. [:P]
You can’t, not for gaming, any new PC that cheap will have integrated graphics (even the best is worthless for modern games) and a free OS (Linux), thus severely limiting your gaming options. The fact that you can buy what is effectively a gaming PC (Xbox 360) for $200 cannot be matched in the PC world. Again my point is that price drives everything. Consoles are doing better than PC gaming (Outside of MMOs) for just this reason.
QFT. I recently spent like 1200 dollars on a gaming computer (and I’ll probably need a new graphics card in like six months or something) and my brand new xbox, including hd cables and a two year warranty only cost me 250.
I played both left 4 dead 1 and 2 the second it came out on steam, I preordered them both a month in advance.
Your totally right. The Xbox is an example of the market. PC gaming was losing popularity to the N64 and PS1, microsoft made the system in reaction. Consoles were gaining popularity due to price. Ever noticed how the first one is as pig as a pc, looks like one, has modified usb ports for controller ports, a hardrive, and is named after the direct x software.
My point was simply to spend extra if your investing in a new pc, if you want the gaming that is.
Assassin’s Creed 2 is educational. No seriously, did you know Machiavelli was an assassin?
I thank you Ubisoft, for opening my eyes to the truth.
And I’m a level 80 warlock! …oh, wrong game. <.<
Maybe if they didn’t have IP ‘rights’ over their software, a company could be formed to program a commercial emulator for consoles on the pc ><
MMOs… but also FPS, RTS… and if you plug in a controller its the same thing. And despite PC gaming dieing, we still get a lot of the ‘big’ releases like Arkham Asylum and MW2..
And a lot of games are much better suited for PCs, both controller wise, and how it runs.
The PC as a gaming platform has been dead for years. Now that consoles have hard drives, networks, USB peripherals, high definition screens and the most advanced graphics chips, and yet still cost about the same as a mini-laptop with no gaming features, anyone would be a fool to develop games for the PC.
I don’t understand this discussion.
Liberarianism is about politics and coercion not video games.
Even if video games is tied with the state and the military has created some video games and is training gamers for war that doesn’t make them Un-libertarian per se. As to opposing it from a moral argument outside libertarianism ,I don’t see what’s wrong with them either.
Paul Cantor calls them the future biggest artform.He reminds us that media which was once low culture now is considered high culture e.g. novels were once seen as trashy and encouraging sex now they are seen as classical and intellectual.He also has said in an interview he believes(cultural) conservatives should embrace not deride popular culture.
Think of it this way,It’s better individuals shoot humans and are engaged in violence in unreal video games than doing it in real life. Afterall in this world of statism and postmodernist decay we all need a little bit of fantasy and escape from time to time.Plus If people are playing video games rather than voting or listening to media lies then that’s commendable.
Well first there was some confusion between some posters and Liberty Student, a whole lot of serious discussion, little debate, then it ended turning into a discussion soley on video games.
I strongly agree with the post, I have always seen video games as a new art/entertainment medium. It is why it gets more scrutiny, and people react more sensitively towards it.
Sorry I didn’t mean I didn’t understand as in I confused , I meant I don’t see what the reasoning is behind the anti-video games position.
Maybe Libertystudent opposes glorification of violence.Ok.I disagree but ok.Only thing is that’s a personal opinion or belief and not one related to libertarianism.Libertarianism neither opposes nor supports video games.Again remember libertarianism does not oppose violence per se just the initiation of violence.Since video games are not real and the characters in the game aren’t , violence isn’t Truly taking place.
One thought: if your argument was correct - video games involve coercion ,wouldn’t that mean that video games would need to be banned?
If your argument is video games increase violence in real life, I’m not sure that’s proven fact. Of course some have copied games but oftentimes there were psychological factors that inclined them to want to act that way that the games merely reinforced.
I think a number of major high profile libertarians play them and see no conflict.
Simulated violence IS NOT real violence that must be remembered.
I would argue( from a position not involving libertarianism) there is nothing immoral in simulated violence or any other act which in real life is immoral and (from a libertarian position) a crime i.e. rights violation/NAP violation.
Libertyand life : So I understand you, do you mean you agree with me or libertystudent?
sorry I didnt know what you meant by “I strongly agree with THE post”.
I guess it was a typo, I mean THIS. I agreed with the things you were saying in your previous post.
You’ve heard the zombie song in L4D2 right?