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hunter_alien on 16 September 2009
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vlad321 said:
Final-Fan said:

So right now the score is:

Consoles: Platformers, party games, fighting

PC: FPS, RTS

On the chopping block --
MMORPG (I'd say PC just because that's where the action seems to be)
Sports (I vote console, reasoning similar to MMO)
SHMUP (I vote console)
JRPG (I vote no advantage -- consoles get more action but I dunno if there's any inherent superiority of consoles)
WRPG (I vote no advantage -- see above, only PC)
SRPG (I vote no advantage -- see above, consoles again)
Point-and-click adventure (I'm inclined to vote PC, reasoning similar to MMO)

How do you communicate in MMOs? Surely not voice chat. Also what action seems to be there? FFXI is the only decent MMORPG on a console and even that is very limited compared to the PC one. Theres a reason people buy it for the PC not the PS2.

I'll give you SHMUP, for the simple fact of the old school shmups on the good ol' systems.

JRPGS are basically TBS games with a more linear story, something the PC dominates at. Far easir to manage Civ4, total war, etc. with a mouse than a JRPG. Hate scrolling through menus and targets.

WRPG- Look at NeverWinter Nights, Baldur's gate, etc. You can't pull that shit off on a console. NWN had 36 hotkeys FFS (ctrl and shift modifier keys to all the F keys).

SRPG- Look at my reasoning behind JRPGs, except you get Fire Emblem which is absolutely badass.

Poit and click - Agreed, hard to point and click with analog sticks.

Shooters, before GoldenEye there was Quake several years earlier. Though the missoin things weren't as cool, multiplayer was much easier to handle mostly because of controls.

Adventure- I hope you don't mean that Zelda innovatted as much as King's quest, 2 years before Zelda. The closest thing to adventure is Zack and Wiki, which sadly didn't sell so well. Should have sold a lot more it was hella fun.

And yes, RPGs. Hack and slash games have been ripping off Diablo and JRPGs have been ripping off older dungeon crawlers from the PC.

 

 

Hey E.T. was basicly an adventure game and lets be honest that came out for the Atari 2600... also tough Alone in the Dark came out for the PC frist it got it done right IMO with RE first. Both gameplay and popularity wise...

 

Then there is the action/adventure genre like Uncharted which cannot be put in any exact category IMO and there is nowhere near a game like that on the PC. It combines platforming, 3rd person action, stealth in a new and unique way. Not even Thief didnt manage to do all that my friend And then there is the racing genre that was created again on the Atari 2600 and same is with the sport genre.... so no, your "solid" facts arent that exact



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