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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: inowereulive10
games consoles are better for gaming than PC.
Wrong. Just because the majority of the market is in consoles does not equate better quality. The majority of s*** titles come out onto the console; refined console games are usually ported and, most of the time, only quality games are developed for the PC.
Posted by:inowereulive10
buying an xbox 360 for example i spend £280, if i want a PC that can play the latest games i have to spend close to £1000.
Yeah, right off the bat. That will then last you 2 - 3 years, after which you will then need to upgrade if you truly want to play the newest game alive. Even then upgrading to a better video card will cost you about 300 US/218 Euro, which will then set you for another 2 - 3 years. In the long run, you're still looking at costs versus buying a whole new system, new controllers, new games, and being stuck with doing little with a console--or upgrading every two or three years to not only harness gaming potential, but modding, surfing the web, and what ever other poison you'd like to perform with your PC.
PCs are expensive because they serve more than one purpose, unlike a console. It's logical. And if you aren't able to save up 300 US/218 Euro in two to three years...well, you need to rethink your savings plan then.
Posted by:inowereulive10
with a console i get 3 - 5 years of kickass games withought have to worry about upgrading anything, with a top spec PC you will mabye get about 2 or 3 before i have to worry about getting a new graphics card ect
All it is is trade off. There is only so much a console game can offer. In the end its not like you can mod the hell out of it to maximize potential. Take, for instance, Oblivion PC vs. Oblivion Xbox (and soon Oblivion PS3). For the Xbox version, you're limited to only being able to download the mods Bethseda has to offer, and even then you have to pay for them. On the PC, we have a data base that houses over 7,850 mods for Oblivion. I currently have over 100 mods installed for Oblivion, and all of them were for free. Also, not only were they free, but the game is completely different. It's actually good now. The playing experience is completely different.
So, as I said, trade off. With the PC you are bound to have endless options when it comes to the end game of a game. On a console though? You just go out and buy another, beat it in a week or two, and repeat the process. I'm still getting my fill from Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Oblivion, and Neverwinter Nights due to the custom ability offered not only in mods, but in their toolsets as well. The console has what, Tony Hawk Pro Skater for custom ability? There's innovation for you.
Posted by:inowereulive10
as far as the keybord and mouse vs joypad argument, mabye you get more aim help with a joypad but a jopad can move around and jump around way better then a keyboard and mouse.
That doesn't even make any sense. If aim is equated to moving around, then how the hell does a console controller have better movement? Also, how the hell does a console controller jump better? It's a buttton you push. You press jump. You jump. Oooh, big feat accomplished.
What you were looking for is how fluid and precise movement is with a mouse and keyboard combined, compared to a console controller and its analog control sticks that fly left or right when you nudge them, offering little control to kb+m users who are used to high sensitivity. Then again, with a kb+m, we aren't exactly getting our PC games filled with auto aim and bullet magnetism, now are we?
Posted by:inowereulive10
plus i cant BXR u with a keyboard
This is a bad thing?
Posted by:inowereulive10
the only good thing about PC gaming is that if your video card gets fried then i can buy a new part, not wait 3 mounts for it to be repaired
Read my previous points. The PC platform thrives with FPS, MMO, and RTS. We have everything else as well, though people would like to tell you Adventure, Racing, and Fighters work better on consoles. Adventure games are long since dead and have been an added element in FPS games and Racing and Fighters still truly thrive in the arcade. You can still do plenty of Racing games on the PC as well; not to mention you can just go out and simply buy a steering wheel/peddle controller to plug-n-play.
Let's not forget how our online play is also FREE and is not subjugated to go through corporate greed.
Not a bad speech :-). I totally love racing games (well the challenging ones), and theres one racing game that completely annihilates every other racing game out there, both through uniqueness, skillness required, low system requirements and mad ass graphics, and that is Trackmania Nations and Trackmania United. Something you can't get on the console because its simply to good for it :-).
Other than that, read the guys post above.