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Daniel Nations of examiner.com has blogged about recent comments by one man named Randy Stude. The response is to do with Randy's "PC's conquer all else" attitude, relating it to the current consoles war which is plaguing all the blogs and news sites.
Read on to learn his opinion on this new war.
Of course, it is no great surprise that the President of the PC Gaming Alliance would make bold claims about the innovations found in the PC gaming world while downplaying the role of piracy. And we certainly don't expect him to give a long speech about how the rise of the Internet allowed PC game developers to release unfinished games knowing that it is easy to patch them after release.
Consoles are going to vanish back into the PC? Manufacturers are going to offer a console video game option? Are they going to have parallel hardware inside of the PC, Randy, or is Sony going to stop selling the PlayStation 3 in favor of having emulator available to run on people's laptops?
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- Console games lack innovation that PC games have? (gonintendo.com)
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Second . . . if someone want to leave one of the consoles for another just as he said about the PC "Fine, go for it, don't let the door hit you on the way out" is definitely a fine retort and not left for the school cafeteria at all. I own all the consoles. Each have pros and cons. I will not argue or fight to have one person stay with one console. If someone doesn't like a console, then why should they buy it? If you don't like a console, then why should someone else who DOES like it, NOT buy it?
I hate the console war and the types of people it produces: fanboys (or I should say I hate the way fanboys post or act. I don't hate them personally . . . just what they do.)
Personally, I don't care if PC is better or whatever console is better than this console, so on, so forth. I made a decision to purchase my 360 over two years ago, and I don't regret it. It's personal choice, in the end, so why do people insist on continuing writing these articles? Whether they're comparing PC-to-console or console-to-console, in the end, it's just a bunch of guys trying to have a cock fight.
And I agree with all you said!
I guess you could always connect a 360 controller to the PC though, but then you're practically back to the starting place of why so many people buy consoles... They're cheaper and less complicated. Consoles are evolving, but they're still centered around a single purpose, and that's to play video games. I think that's the basic reason why so many people prefer them over PCs.
Plugging a 360 controller to your PC in order to play an FPS is like choosing to handicap yourself.
FPS games aren't unplayable on the console, but they are superior on the PC, that's just fact.
I haven't had very much experience playing FPS games on PC, though. So I will admit that my opinion is somewhat biased. I've only played older FPS games (like Starsiege, Tribes, etc), and some other games that are free.
Besides, I think if the PC gamers really had more skill due to their setup, they'd at least have some popular pro leagues and stuff, you know? The MLG players that play games like Halo don't seem to have any trouble at all with using controllers.
Exactly, you don't have the experience in both to make an informed decision. I was a console gamer for many years and still play Halo 3 on my roommate's 360 every now and then.
Are you kidding me? You obviously have no idea how big the PC eSports scene is.
WCG: their main attractions are PC games
GGL: supports COD for both PC and 360, but PC is by far more popular
ESWC: their main game has been Counter-Strike 1.6 for years
CEVO-Pro and CAL-Invite are popular ladders for high-tier players, CS and CoD4 on PC are big on their list.
And I'm not even talking about the monstrous Starcraft(RTS) and Sudden Attack(FPS) leagues in Korea that are viewed by millions regularly.
MLG is nothing.
PCs have POTENTIAL power - if you have a fully-maxed out PC, you will be able to play games smoother and with better graphics than their console counterparts. HOWEVER, the flipside of this is that when your PC isn't maxed out, then the gaming standard will often suffer as a result - my friend can play Stranglehold on his PC and have it look better than it does on my PS3, but can he say the same thing about GTAIV? No; because his PC is already out-of-date.
The beauty of consoles is that a single piece of hardware can span a generation, whilst PCs need to constantly update. If your PC could run GTAIII, did that mean it could run Resident Evil IV? Almost certainly not. Yet the PS2 was capable of running both games, as well as even more taxing ones such as God Of War II, with complete ease and no need to upgrade.
So basically put, PCs always have the potential to be more powerful than consoles; but that potential power needs to be unlocked by the user, and is a costly and ultimately time-consuming experience.
Downsides to the PC: to maintain that edge you have to regularly update your components. I don't believe this is as bad as some people make it out to be, but it is a reality.
But just as I think the PC is 'better' than a console, for someone who is only interested in games, a console is probably your better bet. A console is straight-forward, and the contemporary library of available games is more impressive.
Then again, if you are going to need a computer anyways, you might as well spend the extra $200 or $300 to make it a gaming PC (which can be accomplished pretty much by just buying a good video card.)
I think taker4ever had it right in the last line above.
Case in point: The Sims 2, expensive brand new computer, couldn't even get a whole number as the frames per second...
Of course consoles have their generations but 6 years for a hardware upgrade is much more acceptable than 6 months.
But if your computer can run the game then it often is alot better.
I personally feel it should be left out entirely. I've seen worse fanboys that idolize the PC then consoles, but either way both are bad.
Anyway I was tempted not to read this article just because I knew it would be a fanboyish comment, which I read it and it was. So I'll ask this, Randy Stude are you an idiot, or did you just smoke too much weed or was drunk when you stated this?
But I lol at them now. From what I've read, the PC version of GTA was badly optimized for PC's (you need a better PC to run it on minimum than Crysis. Talk about bad optimization), the shades look worse than on consoles even on max shader effects and so on.
I don't think it's better than the consoles, you don't have to Install games and waste time, and I find console games better.
Just my personal opinion.
E.g. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 = excel on PC format and will have a greater lifespan: fallout3nexus.com
Most multiplayer heavy games, I lean towards the 360 because there are more friends with it.
Fighters, unique games, IMPORTS (bluray and games), Metal Gear and other franchises with roots w/Sony I lean there. Also a lot of retro games I go for on the PS3 (Bionic Commando Rearmed) because of the Dpad. Just feels better playing these games IMHO on that platform.
And then there is the wii, which unfortunately is only used for NES and SNES classics, and unique games to the console, like No More Heroes and the upcoming Mad World and Deadly Creatures.
To each his own.
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