Phoenixmgs said:
The point is you will experience more issues on PC vs consoles. That's my whole point. Sure, in the end, a game will most likely be superior on PC after official/unofficial patches but you will definitely spend some time fiddling with settings, editing ini files, searching forums for a solution, just plain waiting for a fix, etc. Whereas I will waste less time doing those very things and more time playing games on a console.
"You will experience more issues on PC vs consoles"
You feel like qualifying that statement? I can't remember the last time a PC game broke down on me.
A gaming PC costs at least $500 whereas a Core 2 Duo machine (that can do everything a normal user needs) is probably only $100. You can have both a PC for doing standard work (and then some) and a console for the same price.
So you can either buy two machines for $500 or one machine for $500? Why does it matter, then? A good PC will cost you more up front than a console, but they usually last longer. You can just upgrade your PC with new parts when it becomes obsolete; you don't have to buy a whole new machine whenever Microsoft and Sony decide to stop development for the one you have.
I very rarely have the need (mainly the time) to go back and play older games. There's too many games that come out already with too little time to play them. I don't get why having basically an unlimited library is so great when I most likely would've played those older games back during their time if I wanted to play those games. Most games really don't hold up that well either. PlayStation has been pretty good with backwards compatibility as PS2 played PS1 games and PS3 can play PS1 games and PS2 games (with the right models). PS3 has a bunch of PS2 games for cheap on PSN, even not-so-popular games like God Hand. Since PS4 switched to PC architecture, it's not surprising it doesn't have BC. I'd think PS5 will have BC for PS4 as why would they switch architecture to something else.
This makes no sense; older games are not inherently more time consuming than newer games, nor are they any less worth our time. You want to play an older game? Just put off playing a new one for a little while. And old games most
certainly do hold up; there are plenty of NEW games that mimic the style of retro ones. Some of my favorite games of all time are more than ten years old; they didn't suddenly stop being well designed or written when graphics and physics technology evolved.
Besides, even if you somehow manage to never find any game older than 5-7 years that you enjoy, I can assure you that some day you'll want to revisit the games of today, which, if console manufacturers have their way, will become more and more difficult to find. Backwards compatibility on consoles is getting worse and worse; 360's and X-Bones only have it for select games, only certain PS3s have it, and the PS4 doesn't have it at all; these companies clearly do not consider it a priority, because they still treat video games like their toys, to be discarded as soon as a newer model arrives; as if they are nothing more than the sum of their parts, and are not worth preserving.
As a side not, and I can speak from personal experience here, there are plenty of PS2 games that backwards compatible PS3s have trouble running smoothly.
The point of a large library is not quantity, it's quality. Nobody has time to play every game they can get their hands on, but if you have a larger selection, you stand a better chance of being able to find quality games, by the rule of averages. You find more diamonds if you have more rough to sort through.
Personally, I have no idea how you manage to be bogged down with new games; most of them are short, even more aren't worth finishing, and plenty aren't worth playing in the first place. This is just as true for old games, but that's exactly the point; mediocrity is normal, by definition. I'v never found myself wishing I had fewer great games to play.
If I have to force myself to finish a game, it's probably not engaging enough for me to bother with.
But like I said, to each their own; it's your money and your time. If you're so set on consoles being superior to PCs, why do you even want to discuss it?