PC gaming is dead-- long live PC gaming

[vlad321]

oniyide said:

@vlad321  can you tell me about these actual PC games. Because last time i checked COD was a PC game and now its dominant on the consoles and there are more FPSs on Consoles than there have ever been. So what are these FPSs that are on PC and not on consoles. Strategy games can and have been done on consoles (Ruse) being one. RPGS??? Last time i checked i didnt see alot of JRPGS on the PC or do those not count. and if your talking WRPGS your big ones (Fallouts, oblivions, MEs) are on consoles. IMHO there is no genre that is on PC that cant be covered on the Consoles. sure i can see how some games might suffer in translation but you still get the basic game anyway

COD is a slow game, and I find it interesting how big of a name it got once it went on consoles because it was just ok back when the series was on PC. You CAN'T do any FPS games which are fastpaced simply because the analog sticks are slow. Penny Arcade even had a guest writer who explained this more mathematically when he talked about MNC (free weekend on steam now, interesting game). He explained why many mechanics that work on consoles just can't happen on the PC. It's because the PC is capable of so much more control that the mechanics the console games have to try and make up for it are basically what hacks are for the PC.

Fallout, Obliovion, and ME, are not in-depth RPGs. DAO is the closest thing in recent consoles have to a deep RPG and it was pretty because you couldn't control it well. Try any MMORPG, or anytihng in the vein of NWN/BG2 and Diablo 2. They just can't happen with analog sticks.

Also don't even start me on the Strategy games. They are impossible on the consoles. Halo was the best attempt at an RTS and as far as RTS games go it was pretty bland and mediocre. Again, because of the limitations of the controller.

You just can't get the experience of any of those on a console. If you remember, UT3 was 33% slower on the console version than the PC exactly because of that. There are limitations, and many changes to mechanics had to be made to shoehorn some types of games on the limiting analog sticks.