[Rant] PC gaming is too expensive. 'Sup consoles.

Keep in mind console games are much pricier than PC versions of the same game and most console games don't support keyboard/mouse anyway.

I see them as different areas. Much like I wouldn't want to play Wii games on my Xbox, or DS games on my PS2, PC games have their own appeal, while console games have their own. You will never get anything like DX10 Crysis on a console, not by a mile. The console ports of PC versions are nearly always inferior or illsuited, and the people who praise them are usually simply used to the compromise already.

Then again, get a modded PS2 and you're set for easy, varied gaming for years. It really depends on what you seek.

Japanese RPGs, third-person action games, exclusive gems the likes of ICO, Okami, Final Fantasy XII, Gradius V, Metroid Prime or F-Zero GX, you've no choice but to go console.

Strategy, simulation, FPS, online anything, you can really only go with PC, as much as people insist that oh but the 360 pad works so well.

Kinda like when people keep telling me Resistance actually plays really, really well on the PS3's flabby analogue sticks. Or that the PSP's analogue nub is perfect for the likes of Prince of Persia.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Lukage

I have a 4-year old machine that runs Oblivion max settings with gigs upon gigs of added content. I can easily post screenshots of it, discuss it, and play it on just barely more than the cost of the PS3. And the controls are better. And I have the entire EVERYTHING that a console can do. This does so much more out of the box.

The thing with PC Oblivion's benefits over console versions is also how you get everything else not by Bethesda. Sure, there's a lot of really pointless and broken mods out there, but there's so many excellent usercreated mods that actually fix the game and make it more like it should have been in the first place.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by CelticWhisper

No more than HD resolution: Yes, good graphics look pretty.

I agree on the whole "HD doesn't make Blinx any less of a trainwreck of a character design" thing, very little on the PS3 and 360 appeals to me on an aesthetic level. There's only so many dark, urban third person shooters you can design, though you can't deny Crysis looks absolutely astounding. Valve and Crytek are among the few to show what can be achieved with technology and great design combined. Then you have the likes of Lucasart's Fracture, which is excellent technology bogged down by N64 Rare quality design work.

As for the whole Working Designs thing, had they simply translated and released their games, they'd have had no trouble getting them out quickly. Instead they chose to waste time with rewriting and pretty wrapping paper.

This isn't quite the same as taking the time to finetune and polish something properly (Ocarina of Time, Resident Evil 4, HL2, etc)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.