PC gaming is dead-- long live PC gaming

[vlad321]

oniyide said:

^^^those are all your opinions. THe fact of the matter is that there is no genre on PC that does not have a console equivalent in some way. The analog sticks are slow??? OK ill give you that, but your acting like COD on PC is a completly different game than console COD there all FPSs no matter how inferior you think the analogs are. Dragon Age was in depth but not Fallout or ME, i disagree. I hate MMORPGs but i played FF11 on PS2 years ago I didnt have a problem. Diablo 3 is coming to consoles so lets see how that does.

How is it an opinon that the analog stick cannot respond as quickly as a mouse? How is it an opinoin that a keyboard has many times more buttons than a controller? How is it an opinion that you can't have a game which requires 12 keys because a controller that doesn't have them? Or that you can't have a game which is faster than how fast the analog sticks react? Do tell me, because I am curious how these facts are opinions.

Any game that requried any of those, had to be ismplified to fit the restrictoins, that's just how it is. RPGs, Startegy, and FPSes are among those that relied heavily upon both those factors, and when you reduced ability to control them you had to alternate mechanics so that it woudl fit the limitation of the hardware.

Edit: Here you go, the words of a developer on the concessions that have to be made on consoles because they don't handle as well as PCs when it comes to FPSes:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/1/24/new-world-record/

My favorite quote is : "PC players long for a game that they can play on a PC versus people playing on a console just for the pwnage of console newbie meat."  It's funny because it's true.