Difference Between Farcry 2 on PC and Consoles?

[G33kinator]

Originally Posted by -={Stalwart Death}=-

Certain consoles like 360, overheat and die too quickly.
The least you'll get from a PC from DAYS of playing is crashes or freezing.
There

Never happens to me.

I wouldnt speak on all of us. if i was you.

On consoles or pc. i never had a issuie. with anything in my life. Only BSOD's i ever gotton was due to my own fault for overclocking consoles never got broke. nothing. Not even my 4 year old pc hardware died. I must be lucky.

[Junk angel]

Generally, the older 360s and ps3 will possibly even have trouble running the game seamlessly, as it's console version is mostly optimised at the newer ones.
One of the reasons why a lot of people will probably experience the red ring now more than ever.

Not to mention that mouse+keyboard>Gamepad.
And the mods and whatever that will show up sooner or later on the pc.

All in all, if you disregard the DRM, which will hopefully get removed just as bioshocks did, PC>Console in all aspects.

[BlitZ, The 57th]

Originally Posted by wraithcat

Generally, the older 360s and ps3 will possibly even have trouble running the game seamlessly, as it's console version is mostly optimised at the newer ones.
One of the reasons why a lot of people will probably experience the red ring now more than ever.

Not to mention that mouse+keyboard>Gamepad.
And the mods and whatever that will show up sooner or later on the pc.

All in all, if you disregard the DRM, which will hopefully get removed just as bioshocks did, PC>Console in all aspects.

[*The.Doctor]

Originally Posted by wraithcat

And the mods and whatever that will show up sooner or later on the pc.

Mods are one of the best parts of PC gaming. With a good modding community PC games can last seemingly forever as there is always fresh stuff being added.

[bud389]

Originally Posted by G33kinator

Far cry 2 is compressed is why its so small.

Most pc games are compressed and consoles arnt as consoles cant take compressed games.

Doesn't matter how big a game is on console, because the only memory req are the saves you make, which are only 300kb's to 3 mb's and with a 20gb hard drive with a 50 mb memory card, i don't think you'll be worrying about space.

Oh and i've had my 360 since a couple months after the console was launched, never encountered RROD and never had any problems with it.

[Fyurii]

Originally Posted by bud389

Doesn't matter how big a game is on console, because the only memory req are the saves you make, which are only 300kb's to 3 mb's and with a 20gb hard drive with a 50 mb memory card, i don't think you'll be worrying about space.

Memory is in regards to the amount of RAM, not the space taken up by the game or a savegame.

[bud389]

Bah, went to gamestop today and just said "Screw it" and bought it for PC. The guy actually gave me the preorder edition (i didn't preorder it) which gives 6 extra bonus missions.

[Badha1rday]

Originally Posted by bud389

Also Xbox 360...

I see. Exceeded bandwith looks great with HDR.

[bud389]

Originally Posted by BadHairDay

I see. Exceeded bandwith looks great with HDR.

No, gay ass picture was probably broken or something.

[Fyurii]

Originally Posted by bud389

Bah, went to gamestop today and just said "Screw it" and bought it for PC. The guy actually gave me the preorder edition (i didn't preorder it) which gives 6 extra bonus missions.

Well that's a nice bonus!

At the end of the day, the performance difference between PC and console can be very little.

However, PCs always have the potential to run a game far better/smoother than a console.


The upside/downside (depending on how one chooses to look at it) of PC gaming, is that PCs can be upgraded for "near"/"far" future use.
The upside/downside (again, depending on how one looks at it) of console gaming, is that a console only needs upgrading to the next model, when companies favour the "superior" or "next-gen" console.