Fuck you too! Starcraft sucks!
I guess I’m in the PC crowd. I have a PS2, but I can’t help but feel it was not money well spent. I’m not sure why I got it.
There’s very few console games that appeal to me. I love RPGs on the computer but can’t stand console RPGS. “Oh boy, I get to fight a slime AGAIN? I certainly hope this game is just preparing me for a big fight against a giant end boss, because I’ve NEVER seen that before!” Not too many of the other console offerings appeal to me much at all.
The other thing that has started to really grate on me about the consoles are the fact that we’ve decided that cutscenes are what everyone is tuning in for. If you ever want to simulate a console, put an anime tape in, let it play for a few minutes, then pause it and don’t start it again until you do ten push-ups. Repeat.
It also seems to me that the console developers have decided that hyperactive 13 year olds with the reflexes of squirrels need new and tougher challenges to defeat, so they keep raising the bar. Meanwhile, those of us who aren’t like that are left behind with a choice of either games we can’t play or Pikachu’s Color Matching Game. One of the games I enjoyed on the PS1 was Ape Escape, because the difficulty wasn’t too tough and rose gradually as the game went on – until the final level, which just spiked absurdly in toughness. I never finished it because at some point, dying every 3 seconds ceases to be fun.
The games I enjoy you won’t get on consoles. RPGs like Panescape Torment and Fallout. Freedom Force. That’s the stuff I’ve been liking.
My computer was in the shop last week for two days and I was going apeshit because I couldn’t play on it. So I cranked up the PS2 to get re-acquainted with it. After an hour or so I turned it off and decided to do crossword puzzles instead, because it just wasn’t cutting it.
I’m not saying consoles or their players suck, just that it’s not for me.
Let’s also not forget this analogy:
To be a PC Gamer, you need to own a WHOLE compter system. And with systems becoming more sophisticated, you need a computer system that can keep up with it. Your average PC game these days needs a pretty decent CD drive, a lotta RAM to install, and a lot of hard drive space to stay there. Your best bet is to hope that your parents have bought a decent enough system that you can install the latest games, and hope that they’re not Microsoft-happy to the point where there’s room left on the hard drive.
Console games are made for–face it–poorer people. Which is not to say that there’s something inherently lower class about consoles ($50+ per game?), BUT it’s a hell of a lot more affordable. Everyone owns a TV. A console is $150 at the cheapest, and you and your buddies can swap games. It’s ridiculously low-maintenance in comparison to a PC.
That, my friend, is why console games will prevail.
Hmm.
Starcraft: Ghost is a sad joke- a third person shooter? Boring. This is not even MADE by Blizzard. They have a third party doing it. Just like Duke Nukem: Manhatten Project (another stupid third person shooter based on a good, but old game) this is just a way of milking the franchise while development of the sequel continues.
Shooters on consoles stink- the keyboard and mouse combo are the key- as is the quicksave and multiplayer requirements.
However, sports games and driving games are more fun on consoles.
Horses for courses, I have a playstation 2, which I like, and a new Dimension 8200, PIV 2.53 arriving today!
Woot! NOLF2 here I come. Battlefield 1942 and high res, here I come. 
Have you played Metal Gear Solid 2? The gameplay sounds a lot like that, not boring at all.
Seriously, PC gamers must have some serious penis envy if they get this irrationally upset.
Ah… consoles!
::Turns on PS2, puts in GTA3, carjacks a cop infront of the police station::
Go Tars!
Don’t forget, in Liberty City, hookers are always in season!
You haven’t played Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, have you? What a stinkeroo that was. Contrast that with, oh, Halo… is that an inferior game because it’s on a console?
Be aware… if your answer is “yes”, boy howdy, am I gonna laugh my ass off…
Oh, and just to dispute the notion that PC gamers are somehow more “sophisticated”… go play a game of Counterstrike (or Q3, or Unreal Tournament, or Warcraft 3, or ANY online game) and count the number of times you see someone type with horrible grammar, mistakes, no punctuation, and a propensity for using the word “fag” to describe anyone and everyone.
Jeez, what a bunch of losers. “Oh, I have a PC, not an icky console.” “Well, I have a console, not one of those stupid PCs.” Pikers, the lot of you. Anyone who’s really serious about electronic gaming has a cutting edge PC and at least two currently supported consoles. Anyone with anything less isn’t a real gamer. Y’all might as well be playing CollecoVision.
OMG Zerg Rush!!1 HaX0r!! 1337!
Wha? Manhatten Project is a side scroller. It’s supposed to be like the old Duke Nukems. You know, nostalgia and all.
Thank you, Miller. Here I’ve got my PC for the bulk of my gaming, and over in the next room I’ve got an Xbox and a PS2 (no, they don’t annihilate each other when they come into contact) hooked up to a 36" TV and surround sound system.
You’d think that, with such a setup, I’d never be bored.
Actually so were Diablo and Brood war.
And really all you have to do to play this game is either rent a console or find an emulator of one of the consoles so you can play the game on your PC. Its not illegal to modify your PC to play games you own. I wont buy a console because of the cost(yes in fact it is a lot cheaper to upgrade if you don’t go for top of the line stuff), but you can always modify your PC to run whatever.
Emulate a modern console on a PC? Are you serious?
You might have some luck with the Xbox, since it’s basically a PC to begin with, but emulating a PS2 or GameCube won’t be viable for years. It’s hard enough to emulate a PS1!
The PS2 has a 128-bit CPU running at 300 MHz. Your PC has a 32-bit CPU, so you’d need to run at 1200 MHz just to get the same throughput - and that’s not counting the overhead of actually translating between the instruction sets, or emulating the vector/graphics/sound/IO coprocessors.
More like punk is to metal, as metal was around before punk was.
I think that consoles are fine for gaming up to a point. They are good for graphics-intensive games where quick reflexes are needed. However, I think that consoles reach a glass ceiling when it comes to giant involved RPGs. My examples is Fallout 2. The use of the mouse in the game is what would make it very difficult to play on a console without significantly more time needed to play. I look at consoles as giving a good solid fun time. However, computers are at a point where it seems that they can get more in-depth thanks to great memory and processors. There are games that suck for both platforms. I prefer PCs because they are multi-use and because I am more comfortable with a keyboard/mouse.
RexDart, the only way this OP would have been more of a train wreck is if you had posted in leet speak. Shouldn’t you be off playing CS calling people “n00bs” or “f4gs”?
Those are available for consoles - the PS2 has USB ports, so you can hook up a keyboard and mouse. Even the SNES had a mouse, which made Lemmings a lot more playable.
Trouble is, console games that require extra hardware have never done well (witness Sega CD, 32X, Menacer…), so developers are reluctant to make console games that can’t be played with a regular controller. Sure, there’s that upcoming Xbox game with the $500 cockpit controller, but it’ll flop.