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Fable III - Xbox 360 or PC?

Xbox 360 29 37.66%
 
PC 29 37.66%
 
Not buying 16 20.78%
 
Whatevers Cheaper 3 3.90%
 
Total:77
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well



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Scoobes said:
lostintheodyssey said:
Scoobes said:
lostintheodyssey said:
Rath said:
DirtyP2002 said:

it is a PS3-fansite, what do you expect?

There might be kinect features implemented via update, so Xbox 360. And you can use your old save games, so Xbox 360. There is no DRM, so Xbox 360. There is a limited edition for Xbox 360, so Xbox 360.

Well when you haven't got a 360, go PC.

To be honest graphics whores and people who prefer the keyboard/mouse interface will both lean towards the PC. Your comparison is clearly angled to the one side.


You make valid points but fable is a series who has a majority of its fanbase on consoles.  The first fable didn't come to pc until later on and the sequel never appeared on the pc.  Everyone knows that the 360 version is going to outsell the pc version unless something goes seriously wrong with the 360 version technically.

So for a poll to show the pc version being the more popular one shows how anti xbox 360 this site really is. 

It would be like someone doing a poll asking which version of street fighter are you going to get the pc version or a ps3 version.  I can guarrantee most would choose the ps3 despite the advantages of the pc because street fighter is a traditional console game whose fanbase is use to playing it on a console. 

But when it's a choice between 360 or pc things seem to change for people on this site.


@underlined

Or it shows how popular PC is on this website. I don't doubt the 360 version will outsell the PC version, but we're on a video games site here. The PC is the one machine we can all but gaurantee everyone has and on a games site, there will be a dispropotionate number of core PC fans for whom gaming will be a significant hobby for them (relative to the mainstream sites and media).

@ italics

Flawed analogy. Whilst fable may be a heavily console based game, the original was on PC and as a WRPG is actually very at home on the PC (where WRPGs are quite popular). It might not port well but it's still in a popular genre on PC, and these are all issues for the future. Street Fighter is a beat-em-up, a genre which has never been popular on PC. A fairer comparison would have been something like Fallout New Vegas, and I think you'd get similar results to the poll above.

On your point about how popular the pc is on this website.  You could get away with your comments if this site didn't keep up with what forums are being created and with how many people are commenting on them making them hot topics.  Compare the console threads and forums with the pc ones. 

No one seems to be commenting as frequently in the pc forum and no one seems to be creating topics that deal with the pc.  If the pc was so popular on this site like you claim then its topics would dominate this site and make the hot topics more often. Click on your home page where it shows the hot topics and tell me how many do you see for the pc.

-On your point #2  I said fable 1 was on the pc but it came 1 year later and it received the majority of its sales on the xbox.  Even if WRPGs are popular on the Pc Fable is still heavily console based which many core Pc fans usually hate because they say it's dumbed down for consoles and doesn't have all of the features that they have come to expect in a wrpg on the pc. 

You brought up Fallout which is a perfect example.  Fallout 3 was made with consoles heavily in mind.  Ask any core pc fan what they thought about Fallout 3 when compared to Fallout 2 and most will tell you it was crap because it was dumbed down for consoles.

Ahem. You're talking to a core PC fan. I own all the Fallout games except Fallout Tactics. I loved Fallout 3 except for GFWL. The game itself was very good and the user mods were highly impressive to the point where the modding community is still quite strong on Fallout 3. It's a very different experience to Fallout 2 and some will prefer Fallout 2 to 3, but definately not all. Whilst it may have been designed with consoles in mind, it retained some of the aspects that make PC gaming great, namely, the user mods.

On the first point, it's true that hardcore PC gamers aren't as prevalent as console gamers on this site, but I get the distinct impression a lot of gamers are both. A number of the Wii owners on this site for instance also game on PC because the Wii is a completely seperate experience to PC. Whilst they may game predominantly on one console, they also own a PC and will play games on PC.

PC is the one machine nearly everyone on the site owns, so even if it isn't their primary gaming device, if a game they want to play is available on PC and they don't own a 360, they'll play it on PC. Just because people aren't talking about it doesn't mean people don't own and play on it. Also, a lot of the threads are popular due to the console wars which PC really isn't part of. If you took that fanboy fodder out of the forums then the Hot Topics would be a lot quieter (& more civilised, lol) and I think you'd see a lot of threads about multiplat games on 360/PS3/PC.

So what you're saying is people on this site with a wii and pc, a ps3 and pc, as well as people who game on a pc only may choose to get the game on the pc and combined they might outnumber the people who are going to get it on the 360.  Ok that is very possible. 

Although practically everyone owns a pc I question how many people actually own one capable of running modern games I wish I could find some reliable data on that.  I know dozens of console gamers and out of all of them I'm the only one with a pc capable of running modern games like dragon age origins and bioshock 2.

And you're 100% correct about the fanboy fodder lol



irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well


Those are good reasons but I noticed in your game collection you do own fable 2.  Do you not care about carrying your game save from fable 2 over to fable 3?



lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well


Those are good reasons but I noticed in your game collection you do own fable 2.  Do you not care about carrying your game save from fable 2 over to fable 3?

no not really, game saves have never really been omg must have, and no i don't actually own fable 2, I had only rented it, due to benig annoyed at spending a full game price on fable 1 and it being so dang short. Fable games are short enough to beat in a rent easy.  hmm thinking of that maybe i'll just rent this one as well. 



irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well


Those are good reasons but I noticed in your game collection you do own fable 2.  Do you not care about carrying your game save from fable 2 over to fable 3?

no not really, game saves have never really been omg must have, and no i don't actually own fable 2, I had only rented it, due to benig annoyed at spending a full game price on fable 1 and it being so dang short. Fable games are short enough to beat in a rent easy.  hmm thinking of that maybe i'll just rent this one as well. 

Ok well do what makes you happy.  I also noticed that you have mass effect and cod 4 in your 360 collection instead of the better pc versions of those games and all of your pc games seem to be really old.  Do you have a pc capable of running fable 3 and other modern games with decent fps at an hd resolution?

Edit) I just saw dragon age origins on your list nevermind.



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I am not buying this since Fable 1 was an extremely meh experience and Fable 2 even moreso, and it was buggy. I haven't seen Molyneux release a game that wasn't thoroughly mediocre since Dungeon Keeper and I highly doubt Fable 3 will be any different.

Though if I was going to buy it would obviously be on the PC. It's 100% guarnatee that it will look and run better and in the off chance they don't get lazy, but they will, and have a true PC experience then I might even get it.



lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well


Those are good reasons but I noticed in your game collection you do own fable 2.  Do you not care about carrying your game save from fable 2 over to fable 3?

no not really, game saves have never really been omg must have, and no i don't actually own fable 2, I had only rented it, due to benig annoyed at spending a full game price on fable 1 and it being so dang short. Fable games are short enough to beat in a rent easy.  hmm thinking of that maybe i'll just rent this one as well. 

Ok well do what makes you happy.  I also noticed that you have mass effect and cod 4 in your 360 collection instead of the better pc versions of those games and all of your pc games seem to be really old.  Do you have a pc capable of running fable 3 and other modern games with decent fps at an hd resolution?

Edit) I just saw dragon age origins on your list nevermind.

well most of my games on list aren't owned, its just if you have played say halo 3, cod 4, ect for hundreds of hours on someone elses console, be a roomate or friend you kind of have right to put it down.  I put a game down, not on ownage, but on I have knowledge about it and am able to talk about it and not some unknowlegable biased person regarding said game.  mass effect i would have bought for pc, but my roomate bought it for the 360 before me, so why waste money right.

but yea my pc is fine to play these high tech new games.  speaking of which i am so pumped for witcher 2 right now.



irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
shio said:
NNN2004 said:
ArcticGabe said:

I suppose PC version will be more popular on this website, but Xbox360 version for me.



because its full of fanboys :(

or maybe because the PC version will be superior and cheaper?!


Most of fables fans are on consoles so the 360 version should still be the most popular despite the pc version being cheaper.  I'm not sure how superior the pc version will be most developers do quick console to pc ports nowadays.

for me pc, due to to reasons

1. cheaper

2. always have full access to my pc whenever i want.  tv could be used by someone

oh and i guess 3. can watch tv while playing game as well


Those are good reasons but I noticed in your game collection you do own fable 2.  Do you not care about carrying your game save from fable 2 over to fable 3?

no not really, game saves have never really been omg must have, and no i don't actually own fable 2, I had only rented it, due to benig annoyed at spending a full game price on fable 1 and it being so dang short. Fable games are short enough to beat in a rent easy.  hmm thinking of that maybe i'll just rent this one as well. 

Ok well do what makes you happy.  I also noticed that you have mass effect and cod 4 in your 360 collection instead of the better pc versions of those games and all of your pc games seem to be really old.  Do you have a pc capable of running fable 3 and other modern games with decent fps at an hd resolution?

Edit) I just saw dragon age origins on your list nevermind.

well most of my games on list aren't owned, its just if you have played say halo 3, cod 4, ect for hundreds of hours on someone elses console, be a roomate or friend you kind of have right to put it down.  I put a game down, not on ownage, but on I have knowledge about it and am able to talk about it and not some unknowlegable biased person regarding said game.  mass effect i would have bought for pc, but my roomate bought it for the 360 before me, so why waste money right.

but yea my pc is fine to play these high tech new games.  speaking of which i am so pumped for witcher 2 right now.

Yeah the witcher 2 is going to be great the original witcher is one of the reasons I have a pc that's capable of gaming even though I primarily game on consoles.  Dragon Age Origins is the other reason and I'm looking for to that sequel as well.



lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:

well most of my games on list aren't owned, its just if you have played say halo 3, cod 4, ect for hundreds of hours on someone elses console, be a roomate or friend you kind of have right to put it down.  I put a game down, not on ownage, but on I have knowledge about it and am able to talk about it and not some unknowlegable biased person regarding said game.  mass effect i would have bought for pc, but my roomate bought it for the 360 before me, so why waste money right.

but yea my pc is fine to play these high tech new games.  speaking of which i am so pumped for witcher 2 right now.

Yeah the witcher 2 is going to be great the original witcher is one of the reasons I have a pc that's capable of gaming even though I primarily game on consoles.  Dragon Age Origins is the other reason and I'm looking for to that sequel as well.

ha speaking of dragon age, how pathetic is that new dlc.

I mean really, we already know how that story goes.  Lilliana told us in her little side character background story, and we got the conclusion for it.



irstupid said:
lostintheodyssey said:
irstupid said:

well most of my games on list aren't owned, its just if you have played say halo 3, cod 4, ect for hundreds of hours on someone elses console, be a roomate or friend you kind of have right to put it down.  I put a game down, not on ownage, but on I have knowledge about it and am able to talk about it and not some unknowlegable biased person regarding said game.  mass effect i would have bought for pc, but my roomate bought it for the 360 before me, so why waste money right.

but yea my pc is fine to play these high tech new games.  speaking of which i am so pumped for witcher 2 right now.

Yeah the witcher 2 is going to be great the original witcher is one of the reasons I have a pc that's capable of gaming even though I primarily game on consoles.  Dragon Age Origins is the other reason and I'm looking for to that sequel as well.

ha speaking of dragon age, how pathetic is that new dlc.

I mean really, we already know how that story goes.  Lilliana told us in her little side character background story, and we got the conclusion for it.

Yeah I haven't even bothered to buy any of the dlc for the game this newest one isn't going to change my mind.  Have you tried the Awakening expansion pack it got decent reviews but I haven't tried it yet?