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[Teabaggin Krogan]

I really need to stop playing ME3 MP for long enough to go back and finish Dark Souils 2.

Indeed you should, and then play it over again! 

[Chealec]

My best friend is a tinkerer, and I'm not.  He thinks I'm a moron, despite it taking him at least two seconds to work out his left from his right.  I'm not a moron, I just hate computers.  As a photographer who learned my trade in a darkroom, I found the switch to digital to be a double-edged sword.  Speed and convenience is undeniable, as is the wealth of processing options, but you don't lose analogue stuff like prints and negatives, unlike hard drives and memory cards which all die sooner or later.  I've had two major failures, losing some important images, and I've also had 3 desktops and two laptops (and two digital cameras) which just simply died in ways that were uneconomical to fix.  Only one console has ever given me problems - Collectors killed my first PS3's Blueray drive - but all the others still work, including my Pong machine from 78 or 79.  

 

I've only ever bought one game at full price on day of release - ME3 - so I'll stick with what I trust, and will buy a PS4 as soon as there's a game I actually want to play.  At this stage that looks like it might be ME4! As I said, my mate thinks I'm a moron, because he enjoys your approach and it's incomprehensible to him that I view consoles through a more favourable filter, but I'm glad you do seem to understand, even if you disagree. 

 

I knew a guy who worked on PC hardware all day, he can strip a box down replace the CPU (including cleaning off the thermal paste from the mobo) and get it running again in less time than it takes most people to drink a cup of coffee... he prefers consoles because he spends all day poking about PC internals and doesn't want to do that when he gets home. Trust me, preferring consoles doesn't make you a moron

 

So yeah, whatever works best for you - I went more down the PC route because, back in the day, before the PS1, console games tended towards platformers and beat-em-ups and I preferred Civ, Populous and SimCity (on the Amiga)... the PS really was a game-changer IMO, it was the first console I found that "got" that gamers are getting older ... the original Grand Theft Auto was stunning (to me anyway) for the fact that it was on a console. The graphics and sheer tweakability of the cars in Gran Turismo and as for Tomb Raider - they took a sort of Prince of Persia game (the original was a 2d scroller), made it 3d and threw in some dinosaurs! Yeah, I still remember how awesome I found that bloody T-Rex on level 1-4

 

I'll always be a "PC gamer" but the lines between "computer game" and "console game" only really exist in a few genres now - so you pays your money and makes your choice... or pay more money and don't make the choice, have both! I've got a PC and I've owned a PS1, PS2 and PS3 (I'll probably get a PS4 when GT7 comes out) - my brother is also a PC gamer but he's got a WiiU and plays Lego Marvel with his kids and I know quite a few "hardcore" PC gamers (you know, people who take LoL or DOTA seriously) who own a WiiU for beer, pizza and Mario Cart nights.

 

 

Oh, as an aside, you've probably got an external HDD for backing up photos - you may find this app handy: http://sourceforge.n...s/freefilesync/it's a pretty good little free file synching app (as you may guess from the name); I use it to run weekly backups of my localhost (I'm a web-dev by trade) to an external drive - odds on losing both the drive in your machine and your external backup together should be pretty slim - this just makes managing the synching pretty painless