The 10 commandments of PC games

[vlad321]

blkfish92 said:

Scoobes said:

It would be more useful if you actually put in some discussion points other than just, "I play Starcraft 2 and console games". Zarx posted 2 detailed articles about the direction devs are taking with PC games. It might be more helpful if you gave some input into what you thnk of the current direction and the current goings on in the industry with these articles in mind. With you comming from a pre-dominantly console POV it would be fairly interesting too.

Alrighty then fair enough I see the thread's some what of a rant on what devs do to pc games, ranging form controller use to mouse speed, to me that sounds like such a hassle to deal with, so my question is what's preventing most pc gamers from playing on consoles instead?

Is it the community? I do understand because the console community can be pretty damn STUPID at times. For example, at times I would play KZ3 on my fancy ps triple I meet people on bluetooth talking in game that are just plain awful people. Like, these people just mess with the team and what not, an example being when there's some dumb guy on the opposing team whom team that goes 1 kill 12 deaths and his team wins and he starts bad mouthing my team, of which I may be 20 kills 11 deaths, and man it just gets me to wondering like what the hell you did worse than the worse guy on my losing team you freak!

Well the community can be a huge reason as to stick to pc gaming even with all the hassle, at least that's my guess, but what's really the issue at hand? Why not play console games to avoid the hassle?

Because consoles are too restricting  in controls and multiplayer and some of those restrictions cause some serious dumbing down for certian genres (particularly FPS,RPG,and RTS). Then there is LIVE and PSN (though live is slightly worse since it actually asks you to pay, lawl).  They are centralized and highly controlled environments. Off the top of my head I can tell you that team fortress, counter-strike, aliean swarm, and dozens of other mods out there we got for games for FREE. People literally spent thousands of hours on a mod for half-life and its first iteration was free. How many such things came from console games? Not to mention free maps (not all good but some are superb), models, skins, etc. The latency is too high on those services as well due to lack of dedicated servers most of the time, and if  a given service goes down ALL my games are screwed. Multiplayer on consoles, the techinical side, is just... bad and in a sorry condition.