Skilled Seeker wrote...
QuentaSilmarillion wrote...
Console games = fail.
This. So many console fanboys have no idea what they're missing and what I hate the most is the misconception that PC games have worse graphics than consoles and are insanely complicated to play. Or that we have to shell out £300 a year to be able to play the latest games. It really goes to show how technologically illiterate the general population is. No wonder dumbed down consoles sell so easily.
And some of you PC fanboys really have some rather silly ideas about some of us console fanboys. Many of us are in fact not technologically impaired 12-year olds.
I was exclusively a PC gamer from the early 90 (when I went from an Amiga 500 to my first PC) until late 2007 when I bought a 360. Right now I have two gaming setups:
A PS3 hooked up to a 40" HDTV.
A Core 2 Quad PC with 8 GB RAM, a Geforce GTX 260 and a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.
Obviously the PC has the potential for better graphics - and ME2 certainly does look pretty damn good at 1920x1200 with all settings at high and 4xAA, 16xAF, just like many other games impress - but that's not stopping me from still enjoying a whole slew of PS3 games, some of them because they aren't available on PC, others because I just prefer playing them on a larger screen, with a gamepad and my a** parked in a comfortable chair. At the moment Just Cause 2 is such a game where I could have opted for the PC version instead.
And yes, I know all the very valid arguments that a PC can also be connected to a HDTV, allowing living room comfort and in some games even a gamepad if you prefer that input method (which I do in many game genres, including many shooters) - but in my home at least that's just not going to happen without rearranging furniture, running cables across the living room floor, and then spend an annoying amount of time moving hardware around and dis- and reconnecting cables when it's time to use my PC for other things than gaming again.
Or as QuentaSilmarillion didn't quite put it:
Console games = win.
PC games = win.
Both platforms (counting PS3 and 360 as one platform in this case) have their strengths, both platforms have a number of fantastic exclusive or semi-exclusive games.