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IllegalPaladin on 04 August 2008
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Squilliam said:
IllegalPaladin said:
I don't know, I'm torn really.

$199 is a nice price, but correct me if I'm wrong, but that's going to be the Arcade price right? If so, I would have to think about a hard drive and online. If this is the case, I wouldn't even bother with the arcade and just get the premium.

However, I also have my PC which I use for gaming. Thus, Mass Effect, Gears of War, and many other Xbox 360 games can also be available to me with free online. So what am I really missing?

It depends on what you want.

A console is useful for local multiplayer with friends, games like Gears/Halo are pretty fun if you've got someone there to play along with you. IMO much more fun than going online and you get to play a lot of the console exclusive HD games as well.

The Racing genre is pretty much console dominated and so are the sports games if you like those.

If you like JRPGs like FF - Mistwalker has the main FF producer also, (Lost Odyssey) and some exclusive WRPGS like Fable 2 aren't available on PC.

If you have a wired controller you can use it on your PC if you haven't already so it can perform a double duty between the Xbox360 and PC, saving you $40

I have a gaming PC and an Xbox360 and yet the Xbox360 gets as much use for me as my PC, so I think it can definately be justified.

 

Yes, those are good points on games. I haven't been a big RPG fan (outside of some western RPG's and Final Fantasy) and Racing/sports games don't interest me that much in the long term, I just get bored of them pretty quickly. That's why I think my PS3 is a good way to experience the best of both worlds. Obivously I'm not knocking on the 360 here, not like I'm ignoring many of it's great games lol.

Also, the PS3 controller can be used on your PC, but the driver is user made and not anything official so I don't know how many games it would work with (apart from emulators). I tried using it with portal and it wasn't that great, but that's kind of my error since the mouse/keyboard is like my home turf. I didn't get a chance to play any games with it, but I did try out the Xbox 360 controller and it's driver to take a look at it's UI. I was scared to see the similar Xbox 360 interface for the controller pop up on my screen, lol. Just like seeing screenshots of the Windows Live interface on Gears of War.