Anyone else here in the post-PC era?

if you cannot understand the difference between adult things and child things I doubt I can explain it to you. Are we Comparing a Mercedes Benz and a Kia? what makes a Mercedes "better" if the power, and engineering, is not part of the equation, after all your Kia (console) is so much cheaper, and you can still drive to work in it. ::rolls eyes::Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.

you have a joystick for your PC? I wasn't even sure they made those anymore.

LOL! Says the guy who's telling me all about video games. Yeah, just keep telling yourself how "adult" you are. In point of fact, nothing makes the Mercedes better. Luxury cars are a scam for man-children who don't know the difference between price and quality.

Can you believe my GT is LarniEvC?Sad.I'll add you.

By "joystick" I meant the Playstation Controller ones... but to answer your question, yea I do have a joystick for my PC... for flying (its just too bad I fly way better with the mouse Anyways,I will be buying Modern Warfare 3 for the PS3 and Battlefield 3 for the PC...I do better in the close-quarter combat of MW3 with a controller and I do better in the distant-combat of BF3 with the mouse.Too, Battlefield has so many more functions like squad commands and targeting that I think you pretty much need a keyboard.But for MW3, since we're talking about modern warfare and the most powerful modern weapon to date is the knife... well, I just find knifing people a lot easier with a controller

Shit I forgot to invite you... and I don't even remember what my name is on Steam.

The problem for me is that I enjoy MMO's (just to brag, currently in the SWTOR beta). No one has made a decent MMO (IMHO) for consoles that I have seen. That could definitely change in the future, but at this point you need a PC if you want to play the best MMO's. The way that MMO's are currently designed it is nearly impossible to port them over to portable devices and consoles. They are too complex. A good example is FFXIV. They tried to make FFXIV as complex as other PC MMO's but still make it accessible to console players. It was a complete failure. DCUO is a major improvement over FFXIV, but it still isn't close the quality of other MMO's.I will agree that consoles are easily the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to gaming. The PC treadmill isn't quite as bad as you make it out to be, but it is still way more expensive than the console treadmill.

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Me neither. I think all platforms have strengths and weaknesses, and that they should be compared on that basis instead of on AE's stupid basis of "PC's are for adults, you lamer."

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Exactly. If Angry Birds and Farmville are your addictions of choice a portable device is definitely the way to go. With so many new platforms coming out people really need to understand what their minimum specs are and make purchases around that spec. You don't need a the latest Intel $3,000 dollar rig to check Facebook and watch Netflix.

Yeah, I think that's true. If MMO's are your thing then yeah, you've got to be on PC. But you can ease off on the upgrade treadmill because of their generally lower requirements. It's the guys who want to run Crysis or want Assassins Creed to look like it does on the consoles who are dropping tons of cash. They have to. What a waste.

Hey, I liked that game! Played many hours on the PS2. What do you mean "failure"? Its still up and running I think.It was god-aweful difficult though... I remember the first time I played WoW after FFXI and I thought: "This is retarded, the tell me exactly where I have to go to complete this quest"I don't feel that way anymore though, cause I realized that FFXI was damn-near impossible to complete quests without some help.

Yeah, taq's talking about FFXIV, not FFXI. FFXIV sucked balls, FFXI didn't, but was hard as hell.

Oh, wow, didn't see that. I never heard about FFXIV... what a failure!Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

Without breaking the NDA...good, bad or indifferent?

When I had to turn my company phone in and needed to buy one, my first decision was to not get an iPhone. Apple software is just confusing to use. I worked just fine with DOS from 1985 to 1996. I've been very productive with Windows. I can even work on a Linux box. But trying to do anything productive on a Mac is just an exercise in frustration. I did get a iPod and even the Windows version of iTunes is too user-unfriendly. And unfortunately, Microsoft keeps trying to make Windows more like the Mac; I feel very hampered working on Windows 7 now and their having fracked up Search (which worked wonderfully up to XP) does not help the matter any.At a recent family gathering, my niece brought her iPad2, which my great-nephew played on most of the time. When my sisters were trying to remember how far they used to travel to bike to our grandparents' in the next town, I suggested we use Google Earth to figure it out, since I had done that before on Google Earth. So my niece downloaded Google Earth onto her iPad2 and we set up to figure it out. OK, where's the tool bar? It doesn't have a tool bar. Where's the main menu? It doesn't have that either. So how are we to get to the Ruler dialog? Try to right-click on that. What do you mean we can't even right-click on anything? Needless to say, we couldn't accomplish anything except to find where she now lives back east so she could show her mom. I had to wait until I got home and could run the real Google Earth to answer the original question (5 miles one way).Just sounds like an expensive toy. Even the touchpad typing doesn't appeal to me because I'm a touch-typist. No tactile feedback.

iOS devices aren't Macs. Remember when we were talking about that? Why would it have any of those things? It's a program you use with your fingers.

Well, having just arrived here ...No, they're not Macs, but they do use Apple software. Therefore, they are equivalent and just as undesirable. Which means that they had to strip out a lot of functionality. And only be able to offer a clumsy, limited interface. With far less functionality.A toy that you and your friends can geek out over. OK, might be useful to take to the library for taking down notes.