Half-life 1 is a godly game.

Half-Life 2, even though I loved it, isn't AS great as everyone says, mainly because of all the hype, like Halo 3. Halo 3 was a great game, but people put it on a pedestal and it just couldn't live up to it no matter what it did, same goes with Half-Life 2. People were saying it would be the next huge leap (considering that it was the successor to one of the greatest games of all time, Half-Life) but it just didn't meet that (because it realistically couldn't). That's why you get threads like this.

By the way, who ever said Halo 2 was the worst in the series is kidding themselves, it had graphical and gameplay leaps over it's predecessor and it's story was the best of the 3, considering that Halo 1's plot was subdued and Halo 3's basically cut out arbiters story (making certain plot points feel emotionless) AND it had pretty bad pacing. Halo 2's was good because it gave you the other side of the story, though a little too often and too prolonged, I still welcomed it.

It is actually proveable that PC gaming is better over consoles and is not just an opinion but a fact. The only thing console's beat PC at is simplicity, they used to beat it price wise to but if you get a console + an HD TV now it usually costs the same if not more than a PC, with the exception of the Wii.

A mouse has a much higher accuracy over an analogue stick, and unlike an analogue stick which can only move so far in one direction a mouse can move as far as you can possibly move it on your playing surface.

Also if you were to change from looking left to right on an anlogue stick or up and down or any other opposite direction change the analogue stick first has to travel to the center which that entire time you will still be moving in the previous direction just slowing down and then you have to accelerate to the direction you are now trying to go and then meeting the maximum speed the analogue stick and sensitivity you have allows. A mouse however has no native point and you will start turning immediately once a direction change is made.

The keyboard also includes over 100 buttons in much closer proximity to each other per square inch than on a console making control a lot better.

And your "High Definition" TV's are ages behind computer monitors which go all the way up to 3840x2400 resolution. Not only that but we never have to do split screen which drops your resolution even further when you do.

Also we don't have to pay for XBox Live or any other service other than our basic internet fees.

Another advantage is price:

PS3/360 games=$60

PC games=$50

Our games also go on sale much quicker and drop in price down to $20 usually after a year because the PC market is being taken over by online downloads through Steam or Direct2Drive and other services so stores can't sell them for to high of a price anymore. So we get a better version of the game for a lower price and more user created content.

I've been PC gaming since I was 4 years old and I certainly plan to stick to it. I've converted most of my gaming friends to the PC gaming side, even some of them becoming more hardcore into it than me.

Oh and I guess I might as well list some advantages consoles have just so I don't get flamed

For one thing they are much simpler and don't require as much maintanence. I have to reinstall the drivers on my computer tomorrow because something got screwed up and some games won't run now and its really frustrating.

Another thing is no upgrades are ever required, your console will work for you until the generation is up and even then you can still get some fun out of it through the next generation and beyond.

And with consoles you just have to put the disk in to play and no installation or other things required. I've had to buy three new hard drives for my 4 desktops that I have in the past year just because of space issues.

But anyways in conclusion, PC gaming is better than Console gaming when it comes to playing the games but it is usually more expensive and complicated.

~Ickalanda

Now now... Seriously, have you ever played Halo in your entire life? In my opinion it redefined console FPSs like Goldeneye 007 did at the time of the N64.

What I can't understand about this kind of opinion is the fact that you're just dissing the game for a stupid reason that isn't proved at all. I've never had an Xbox and I never was a fanboy of Microsoft or whatever, but all I knew was that it was "the game" that I've always wanted to get. I was a GameCube and PlayStation 2 owner at the time, but I also happened to enjoy the Halo series for what it gave us, the players.

I don't want to be mean or anything, but do yourself a favor and go play Halo, please!

I almost posted this when the thread was started and now I wish I had ....

It needed to be said! 

Jeeze. This thread is makes me sad about the current state of gaming. So very sad.