Consoles are this eras PCs

[vlad321]

Squilliam said:

I used to be an extremely hardcore PC supporter. My first post on this site (You can look it up if you want) was in support of the uber awesomeness of the PC gaming empire. See, my PS3 I had at the time was merely a sideshow to the main event which was my PC.

What happened since? Well I started buying my games *gasp* and once that happened I found better value for money from consoles than the PC. When I wasn't paying a cent it was no issue for me to deal with the problems that came with PC gaming because I wasn't paying for them. I could easily look up cracks and patches and cracked patches etc to get my games up and running and that was the cost for what were essentially free games. As a paying consumer I didn't feel all too happy putting up with the issues on the PC and in the end I really only play one game on the PC now regularly which is Civ IV and I post on vgchartz at the same time. (Alt-Tab)

What I do now is completely different, I still don't buy all that many games however I rent them a LOT and I get a discount from renting games so much. But I never have issues. You know I had to get over my 'PC-gamer angst' of not being able to save every 10-15 mins because I was scared of crashes. I have thousands of hours now on the system and only 2 crashes to speak of. Just that relief is worth going console rather than PC. Console gaming, heck even owning 3 consoles for me is cheaper than owning a gaming PC. I used to be a pathalogical upgrader because I couldn't stand not being able to run games at a high frame-rate.

Has the PC gaming community lost anything? No, because I hardly ever bought a game. But the console gaming community has gained a paying consumer, and yet the PC gaming never managed to transition me to actually paying for the games in the first place. From now on, im actually more comfortable on the console than a PC. 20+ years of almost strictly PC FPS+Strategy+RPG gaming and now I feel more comfortable with a controller than the mouse+keyboard for game genres such as FPS and RPG. It took me 20 years of use to become extremely good with the mouse and it took less than a year to unlearn all of that.

See that's me right there. The thing is unlike what the HD people say about the Wii and how the wii is ruining games, there is a very marginal overlap in genres between the two, generally the HD gamers bitch about the "Wii" games.  The HD FPS Startegy, and RPG games are VERY simple in comparison to the PC ones from back in the day. There is only so much you can do in a game where you have a shoot button and a cover button, basically. It seems they focus more on just the shooting part, yet when you measure it up to the old pure shooting games on the PC like Quake/UT, they fail miserably when measured up against them. Controls aside, the gameplay itself is far simpler, look at Halo Wars. It's absolutely AMAZING, except that when you measure it up to something that came out even more than 10 years ago it fails miserably. Relatively, yes having an HD console right now would be better. If you add in older games I wouldn't trade my PC for a console ever. As you can see most of my problems lie with the games themselves and I completely blame developers and no one else for this ridiculous drop in quality.

 

The Wii on the other hadn took a completely different approach, its games are made to be pure fun, nothing complicated, just go in and have fun with your friends. There is minimal overlap with the PC staple genres. The only comparable game like that on the HD consoles really is LBP, and I fucking despise the down syndrome fucktard that we all call Sackboy, I wanna throw my controller out the window every time I have to jump...