<p>I know there aren’t a lot of parents into computer gaming, but is anyone else excited about the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution? My son and I are huge fans of the original Deus Ex and are totally psyched about the new one, although we’re going to wait for the price to come down a bit before we buy it.</p>
<p>Just don’t get it at gamestop. They’ve been opening the new game packages and taking the vouchers out of them and then selling them as new.</p>
<p>I’m more of a consel gamer rather then a pc one :)</p>
<p>Ooh, we PC gamers have some nasty names for console gamers. :D</p>
<p>I buy most of my games online through Steam. They have some great older games for $5 or $10, which keep me occupied so that I spend less money on new hardware to run the latest games. I tend to go more for a good story than top-notch graphics, so I’m usually just as happy with an older, cheaper game as with a new one. But for Human Revolution, I think it just might be worth upgrading my system.</p>
<p>lol i grew up a pc gamer with Doom and duke nukem (the original). 
I even remember adding more memory into the old windows '95 comp of mine so we could play Myst.</p>
<p>I’ve never used steam before. But i’m the same way with games, i’ll wait a while before buying (ie; major price drop) because of the high sticker price. But if the game is attractive enough… i’ll splerge.</p>
<p>The last time I splurged on a brand-new game was Assassin’s Creed, and my system couldn’t run it worth a darn. That’s when I decided that there are lots of older, cheaper games I should play first.</p>
<p>Steam is really cool. Not every game is available, but most of the good ones are, and they have really good sales. I got Bioshock for about $10 within six months of its release, for example. I also like the file management system; Steam downloads everything in the background while you go about your business, and there’s no storing a bunch of disks, etc. Also, it’s portable; anywhere you can log into Steam and download the files, you can play any game you’ve ever purchased.</p>
<p>I like consoles for the ability to get Netflix easily on the television, though. It’s so much of a pain to hook my computer up to my television that I usually just watch movies on my monitor instead.</p>