Meh.
Think the answer lies somewhere inbetween your and the OP case.
Primarily I love good games - and will go to whatever platform provides them for me.
How this panned out for me was consoles mainly. I loved my PC, but usually a dedicated console gave you better bang for buck with dedicated exclusives.
When the 360…

My greatest fear is that it’ll be rubbish.
I think I picked up the first Dishonoured and Sleeping Dogs in a Steam sale about the same time - and loved finding two great unappreciated games. Fastforward 2+ years later they’re both back, but Sleeping Dogs is some god-awful pay-to-play-I-blame-the-iPhone-for-everything…

Nope - not at all.
One of those rare games that has that fantastic sense of “world” about it.
Re-downloading from Steam as I type, and I have a personal mission to finish it off - and then the DLC before D2 (and if it’s rubbish, I may cry man-tears).

OK - I *WILL* finished Dishonoured this weekend.
Absolutely loved that game, have gone on and on about it to other people - yet never quite finished it. Just one of those things I obsessed over, then work ramped up to insane levels, and I needed some disc space back and... I have no excuse I know.. looking at my…

Lovely - but it’s all still brown/grey.
I’m sure all of Rocksteady Batman games are *awesome* - but god, they’re depressing to look at.

Dunno - but it’s let me ask for a refund on Ground Zeroes (so wanted to like, but didn’t fit), despite the fact I bought it an age ago.
Let’s see how flexible they are.

I still do admire him - as a designer and figurehead.
Loved him at Bullfrog onwards - *but* those were great companies, with some great people also in the credits.
Don’t mean to disparage 22cans - but there’s more to a great game appearing than Peter having a great game in his head.

No.
Although it’s grown on me - by not breaking in recent memory.

What I’d really like to see from them, is mandatory (or at least ‘heavily recommended’) reduction in quality, to get it up to a baseline of performance.
Also would be interested to know if the Oculus (and HTC thingie) are G-sync/free-sync enabled. Can’t help but feel next step is instead of endlessly punching in…

Agreed.
Pleasing utilitarian, but not ugly design - with a great big “great big games go here maw” and a controller that was ripped out of a cabinet.

Out of the ones above, it has to be the European/Jap SNES.
Not so much for the looks, but the feel of the thing. Yes, definitely plastic, but just felt like it was built to…

Give a shit?
I’ll be watching on TV, with a beer in my hand.

$30??
For the price of postage you can get a cable that’ll use USB for power, and pipe a random HD into your eSata port.
Smidge more for something that’ll pipe the data through to USB3.
Smidge for for the same, with an enclosure.

$30??
For the price of postage you can get a cable that’ll use USB for power, and pipe a random HD into your eSata…

With my probably undoubtedly-uninformed-hat on, just seemed more respectful of her.
‘Spectating’ most of these online spats, they just seem to be full of idiots with keyboards, gunning for people who fight back. Absurd rhetoric on both sides, but gets a conversation going. Omelettes, eggs, and all the rest.
This just…

Rare didn’t just become great when Nintendo strolled up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_…

RAT9.
Had mine for years now, and just love the fact it can cope with my great big flipper-hands.

RAT9.
Had mine for years now, and just love the fact it can cope with my great big flipper-hands.

Oh god, I'd forgotten 'modem standards' as well. K56flex was a joy when suddenly all BBS suddenly seemed to support something that worked, fast, and didn't bankrupt all involved.

I hear lots of good things about their high-end stuff. One I had was a cheap one I picked up for a 2nd PC for my living room TV. Other people didn't seem to have a problem, just me and a few other confused people on random forums.

However. I am never going to put myself through that again. Maybe it's my middle-age and…

I'm not sure 'good' is the word.. I always see AMD as some US-made v8 muscle car. Raw power that costs nothing and will overturn the moment you see a corner. It's not just the drivers - I used to have two 6990's I heated my house with and the 1200W PSU I had to feed them with.
nVidia seems the more european version -…

You don't need to - I promise.
Buy an Asus mobo, buy any K series (semi-unlocked) Intel CPU with stock cooler in the box (thermal good neatly pre-applied) and then stick in some memory.
All clicks together in seconds - and then your motherboard will volunteer to see what can be overclocked and ask your memory what…

Agreed.
It's not so much that you can't buy a decent gaming machine for a reasonable markup - it's that building it is what makes it yours. There are millions of PCs, but *this one* is mine.
Also once you build and realize its not scary, you can then 'evolve it' component by component.
Think I've had my own PC for 20…