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For those of you planning to buy Fallout 3 immediately (I certainly am), which system are you purchasing it for?
I've posted this in the PC forum, so obviously I'm thinking PC, and hey, I had to put it somewhere. I actually bought a 360 in 2006 to play Oblivion. It went well, though I had some disc-read errors. However, these days, I have a decent PC, which I upgraded the hell out of over time. But since they're not releasing system requirements for Fallout 3 (still!), how am I to know?
My PC has an AMD dual-core processor running at 2.5 Ghz or so (per core), 4gb of RAM (why do I capitalize RAM but not gb?), and an Nvidia 8800 GT video card. I forget what variety the card is, but it's stock overclocked. I did a lot of research, and it's one of the best of the 8800s.
So you'd think my PC would run it better than my 360, but who the hell even knows?
Maybe if I were smart, I wouldn't buy it right away; I'd get demos on 360 and PC both and see how they run, how stable the different versions are, and I'd listen to comparisons from the gaming media and users.
Something else to consider is whether there will be user-created content. For Oblivion, there was a ton of stuff. I actually bought a copy of Oblivion for my PC as well and spent extreme amounts of time earlier this summer downloading a bunch of stuff and getting it all working together. (But have I actually played it? No. Lame.) I would have felt left-out, missing all that by just playing on 360, but I still had the core experience there, and it was fantastic and obsessing.
Except for the disc-read errors... (But the fall dashboard update, which will allow "installation" of games to a hard disc, solves that for the most part... and creates HDD space issues since I only have a 20gb drive.)
Another consideration might be that I play Xbox in a comfy chair. My PC chair is not comfy, and I already spend too much time sitting here. There is also the issue of interface device. Oblivion was great (probably best) with a mouse/keyboard, but it was fine on the control pad as well. I wonder how Fallout 3 will behave in that sense?
Sorry, that was long, but that's the dilemma. I already have the PC version pre-ordered for $49.99. There's another plus for the PC--it's $10 cheaper! I don't care about all the extras and junk.
I've posted this in the PC forum, so obviously I'm thinking PC, and hey, I had to put it somewhere. I actually bought a 360 in 2006 to play Oblivion. It went well, though I had some disc-read errors. However, these days, I have a decent PC, which I upgraded the hell out of over time. But since they're not releasing system requirements for Fallout 3 (still!), how am I to know?
My PC has an AMD dual-core processor running at 2.5 Ghz or so (per core), 4gb of RAM (why do I capitalize RAM but not gb?), and an Nvidia 8800 GT video card. I forget what variety the card is, but it's stock overclocked. I did a lot of research, and it's one of the best of the 8800s.
So you'd think my PC would run it better than my 360, but who the hell even knows?
Maybe if I were smart, I wouldn't buy it right away; I'd get demos on 360 and PC both and see how they run, how stable the different versions are, and I'd listen to comparisons from the gaming media and users.
Something else to consider is whether there will be user-created content. For Oblivion, there was a ton of stuff. I actually bought a copy of Oblivion for my PC as well and spent extreme amounts of time earlier this summer downloading a bunch of stuff and getting it all working together. (But have I actually played it? No. Lame.) I would have felt left-out, missing all that by just playing on 360, but I still had the core experience there, and it was fantastic and obsessing.
Except for the disc-read errors... (But the fall dashboard update, which will allow "installation" of games to a hard disc, solves that for the most part... and creates HDD space issues since I only have a 20gb drive.)
Another consideration might be that I play Xbox in a comfy chair. My PC chair is not comfy, and I already spend too much time sitting here. There is also the issue of interface device. Oblivion was great (probably best) with a mouse/keyboard, but it was fine on the control pad as well. I wonder how Fallout 3 will behave in that sense?
Sorry, that was long, but that's the dilemma. I already have the PC version pre-ordered for $49.99. There's another plus for the PC--it's $10 cheaper! I don't care about all the extras and junk.