GeorgW said:
Once again I feel insulted that you think I think higher of console gaming than PC gaming. It's the complete opposite, I just prefer to play some games on console. I recognize that PC gaming is better, I just don't want it. What is so wrong with having a different opinion than you and why can't you respect that?
Let's use your black ops example, I've played Black ops on both my laptop and my 360 (Omg, another huge surprise cuz you judged me from the first, admittedly wrong and I've already apologized for that, sentence I typed). I have 200 times as much ping on my laptop, and yes, I played on the server with the least lag that I could find. Only problem is that that server was in Germany and had 2000 ms ping.
I do not believe you. Either you are mistaken or making a gross exaggeration... again.
200x worse means that you are getting a ping of only 10 Milliseconds on 360! That is ridiculously low and on 360 it doesn't even tell you if you have 100ms or 1ms, it just has that useless mobile-phone bar thing.
In fact you could only do that if you were the host which is a complete cheat as everyone else who connects TO YOU will have a massive ping! What kind of ping do you get when you are not the host?
You claim you cannot find a single Black Ops server in all of Scandinavia? Closest one is in Germany? I actually know for a fact that there are Black Ops servers in Sweden:
http://www.gametracker.com/search/blackops/SE/
You see, less people play black ops on PC, and when you don't live in America, that's a problem. On the consoles I can always find someone in my country, which reduces lag significantly. For online games, ping is the most important for me when choosing which system to play it on, and I don't play multiplayer games on PC because of that. Also, all of my friends play on consoles, and guess what, I like my friends and want to play with them. I'm sure that's different for you, but that's the way my experience has been and it's turned me off multiplayer PC games completely.
Ah, the self-fulfilling prophecy of "my friends play on console so I play on console"
That guarantees that whoever has market share now will NEVER lose it. Imagine if people did that with all things, they wouldn't use something if most of the people they knew also used it, nothing would ever improve.
Now, let's see some of your other points... I hated bulletstorm and loved painkiller. What about my posts made you think otherwise?
Surely you realise how badly the developers went after getting sucked into the console development machine. Those market forces destroy great games trying to be like the few big sellers and failing badly.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A660-1GC if you feel like checking out the specs, and I can play most games well if I tamper with the settings.
You don't know your own specs? By the way the graphics card you have outperforms the xbox 360.
The problem I think is you are tricked by consoles into believing they run games as well as PC does. The reality is games like Halo 3 are a measly 640p resolution and struggle to maintain 30fps and with no anti-aliasing.
As for single player games, for most I really don't see the difference. I don't count pixels or framerate, I just want to have fun when I play games.
Well, you should. You don't have to be able to count the pixels to be impacted by lower resolution. Same with frame-rate, the difference between 30 and 60fps will affect how much fun you have even if you can't tell just by looking at it. That's for how the brain processes vision feedback.
Sometimes I just prefer to play on my big screen TV on my couch. That may not be your thing, but I like it and you'll just have to accept that.
Do you like that because of a genuine preference or because of the endless product placement selling the "console way" as the way to play games.
HDTV has so many disadvantages:
-added cost and power consumption
-occupies so much space
-denies a TV for group/social use for an individual's game
-TV speakers much harder to track sound than with Monitor + headset
-HDTVs consistently have worse input lag than Monitors, to quite a severe extent
-inflexible resolution support
-must be viewed from a distance where it is harder to focus on detail for that pixel-perfect precision
The problem I think for you is you are comparing a laptop screen with a HDTV. A big 24-inch monitor with 1080p resolution I can actually make use of that high resolution.
What I meant with day one patches was for my own software, not the game itself. Some games simply won't play on a computer without some serious fixes before. To give an example, to be able to play Magicka I had to go on the steam support forums for about an hour to find out what the problem was since I didn't get an error report, and then finally find out that my graphics card had locked it out and I had to manually force it to render it. If you want to take the time to fix that, fine, but sometimes I just want to sit down and play a new game as soon as I can and that bug pissed me off. Once again, we're just different there, and you don't have the right to say that your way is better.
Well a game like Magicka is on PC and not on XBL for a reason. The console system chews up talented developers and whores them out. Plus the simple fact that the game they are trying to make couldn't even be made on console for the restrictions of the platform.
LEARN FROM BULLETSTORM!
I agree with you that customisation is the best tool that a game can have (that's why I have oblivion and other games like it for the PC), but to once again use magicka as an example I didn't realize until I started playing the game that some vital commands were routed to keys that my keyboard simply doesn't have (that's what I meant by assuming I have english qwerty). I couldn't continue and couldn't save until after the tutorial, and therefore had to replay the entire tutorial. Once again, may not be a big problem for you (if you're american you've probably never even known this was an issue) but it kinda turned me off the game when the first two hours I had the game was so annoying.
It's a bit rich you implying American Hegemony when Magicka is a game entirely developed by Swedes in Sweden - your native land. You English is excellent by the way, why don't you have a Qwerty keyboard?
This game is an extreme example, it was a very small developer's very first game and it had a bad launch, it has been quite well patched now.
I'd much rather have a great game on PC that has teething problems (that ear easily fixed)...
... than mediocre trash on console that runs reliably but with design elements that are unfixable.
) and Magicka is a great game made by Swedes. That doesn't change the fact that they've routed button commands to buttons that don't exist on a Swedish keyboard. 
