Yeah i understand that my Sandybridge i5 with 6970 graphics still has about two years left in it whilst i await the price cutting for the next gen console to happen .

I also think i understand that the realise of these next gen console is a good thing for all gaming platforms as it finally pushes the development cycle along . That's right 3 year old PC looks terrible and struggles to play new games ( how it used to be )

Now i backed away from PC gaming when the xbox 360 and PS3 came out as i could not justify how much i would have to invest in my PC system to bring it up to a comparable console specification ( at the time ) .

But this gaming rig i now have was brought second hand about a year ago from a friend that was off to travel the world ( yeah i robbed him ), its about 2 maybe 3 years old and still competitive .

Hang on ! nearly three years old and still competitive , and yes im talking about a gaming rig that when i was a real enthusiast PC gamer you had a three year life cycle before you had to look at complete rebuilds .

So that's it really , PC gaming is about to get expensive again as playing a new realise on ultra setting on 3 year old hardware only shows how stagnated PC gaming has become from a 7 year life cycle of the console .

If i remember rightly the Xbox 360 and PS3 had a 4 year window in which mainstream PC gaming could not compete on price and performance , don't get me wrong a top of the line PC could still outperform a console on the console day of release but a top of the line PC is not mainstream , its elites and very expensive . myself and many others feel that a 5 year life cycle for a console is about right if they had done a 5 year , i probably never would of brought a new gaming PC .

So finally get to my point , as in welcome back the three year life cycle the constant upgrades the constant money spending the jumping between platforms in the hunt for the best bang for buck gaming experience . Its a real shame my bank manger does not have the same enthusiasm for gaming as i have .

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Yup. I agree there. We need shorter turnarounds for new consoles. My own PC is running a 5870 and old Sandybridge i7. It runs everything on high if not totally maxed out. Some of the post processing stuff I don't notice anyway so that can be turned off if I need the extra FPS.

Had my current build for a long time. I'm wondering when this HSA stuff will be available for us then, it might make a real difference. And I've only seen what AMD have to offer so that'd be interesting to finally have them come back on top for CPU/APUs like the old days. Wonder what Intel are planning eh?

Well, looks like you got a bargain PC then. Most of my real life mates don't play games at all or if they do then it's on a console so no cheap comps for me. I think we will soon start to see greater leaps in graphics then, perhaps when GTA V comes out for PC that will require a proper upgrade to run it with high graphics quality effects. Haven't seen Crysis 3 properly so I'm not judging on that basis but from the screenshots I've seen it doesn't look great as I think T2D will testify.

We will have to go on a special Swanny hunting BF4 mission methinks and see if that's true or not. But something tells me I'd need some backup with me as I'm always getting my head shot off online. Sometimes it's no fun at all!

yeah i think the game boring as **** and not even as good as Crysis 2 but very familiar territory but rushed if you ask me.

Multiplayer offers nothing and i just don't like it.

Im back playing Killzone 3 a game from 2 years ago and its much more fun.

Crysis has always been about the single player, Crysis 3 is a return to form and a mixture of what the first 2 titles offered, thankfully less narrow console levels that dominated 2.

Multiplayer you have to go back to Crysis for but then its doubtful many play it now, 2 was not bad just have to learn how to use the weapons and the suit.

For the Crysis series it goes Crysis/3/2 in that order.

I liked Crysis 2 but could never get the multiplayer if I'm honest,some multiplayer games just dont have what it takes,take the new Tomb Raider game which is getting amazing reviews,only negative point been the multiplayer that gamers demand for £40.

Crysis was never about the multiplayer, its always been about the single player and what the suit can do in the environment.

Tomb Raider is another single player game, can add in co-op etc but people expect mutliplayer to come with most games these days, yet reviews look down on the weak multiplayer- have to wonder why put them in.
Single player story lines are expensive to produce so you rarely get games that are good at both the SP/MP, its usually one or the other.

If there is one thing I don't like in games, it's magic suits. I downloaded DUST 514, took one look at the vast array of suit options and deleted it again.

The only suits I've enoyed in a long time have been in FC3, me parasuit and me flying squirrel suit.

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So you're a car man are ya? Looks like you know your stuff too.

I knows what I cants affords Olive, ugh ugh ugh.

...you will have to trade in your latest console the N64 you are playing........

Never!.......owned one.