Osprey39 wrote...
jawlz wrote...
To be fair, even if your PC is in the same state that it was 2 years ago and can still play most games you can throw at it, I can say the same thing for my xbox 360, and that cost less 2 years ago than a new PC would have.
Other than that, I generally agree with you, though I've found myself liking FPS's more on the consoles after playing through Bioshock on the 360 and not the PC.
I wasn't trying to say PCs are cheaper to own, just that it isn't necessary to spend $400 every other year to upgrade. You can run stuff at less than supermaxawesome detail and it can still look really good and have good framerates. Most of the stuff on max details is fluff you only notice during pauses and cutscenes anyway.
As for your take on FPS games, I'm 180 degrees the opposite. I hate trying to aim with the silly little joystick. It's so much less precise than a mouse, especially a good gaming mouse. I work with a console devotee and we have this argument constantly. I usually just say if dual analog sticks were better for moving a pointer around (which is all your crosshair is) then every PC would have a joystick sitting next to the keyboard instead of a mouse. I also point out that Shadowrun, the only FPS I know of where 360 players and PC players can play together, intentionally deadened the controls for the PC players to make it fairer for the console players. Never played the game as I heard it sucked but that is pretty telling. I'm not trying to say you're wrong for liking FPS games on consoles, just stating why I don't like them at all on that platform.
That's cool. Honestly, I'm not a huge FPS fan to begin with, and frankly I'm not good enough on either a console or the pc to be handicapped by controls much more than I am to begin with as a player. Definitely felt like you did when I first started playing FPS's on consoles, however. Now I'm proficient at both the controller and the keyboard/mouse setup, and have mastered neither, haha.
As far as the PC, yeah. I went all out about 3 years ago for a kickass pc, and it still runs most things fine (I actually upgraded the video card for DA, but it could have still run it without the upgrade as well, just with lower detail/framerates). A PC is obviously more of an investment than a console, but then it's far more useful for most tasks than consoles are as well. There are tradeoffs with everything.
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