I blame PCs for the PCification of console gaming

[Durananrananrananran]

Wassup?

I've been reading this forum and others and thinking - PC gamers, sometimes, some of them, like to blame consoles for the fact that some game features are not quite to their liking. Fair enough, I thinks, it must be annoying to have things like a menu you can't use a mouse on, or textures that would have looked just as good on a 5 year old graphics card.

But, as a console gamer, I have something to say. You can say what you like about consoles ruining PC gaming. I'm not emotionally affected by it: I didn't design or build said games. I just enjoy what I enjoy.

But what I enjoy has been marred by the PCification of console gaming. Things from PC games that console gamers shouldn't have to endure. I'm talking about:

Games having to install before you can play them. I don't need to name examples
Games needing patches to work properly. As if I'm running Windows 2000 and it's made for 9x
Pointless graphics options. Why should I need to select whether I want V-sync? You're built for a console, just be what's best
Games not working on certain hardware versions. God of War, you started it
Software as a service pricing models. No, I don't want to pay monthly or for specific features
Everything being brown. Because I want to blame this arbitrarily on PCs

My sense of irony just wants to redress some balance. I'm not out to blame anyone. Can't we all just get along?

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[Radeonx]

Well, at least you found a clever way to bring this up other then simply stating how the dicks who ***** about the mainstreaming of PCs are just being massive cunts. While it is true, a good joke now and again is always welcome.
Bravo on your creativity!

 

[tthor]

Huh, this topic almost made sense...
Nice try, though.

 

[Schweetness101]

Technically your console is still a computer so it is not exempt from having to install games and patches and properly configure hardware. Also, the effect people complain about consoles having on games for pc is that they over-simplify and in other ways change the gameplay. Your complaints don't have anything to do with games or gameplay but with computers in general.

Or was this a joke? Irony is hard to pick up over text...

 

[Catchy Slogan]

This is pretty good. Gave me a giggle.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Prepare for counter-trolling!!!

But what I enjoy has been marred by the PCification of console gaming. Things from PC games that console gamers shouldn't have to endure. I'm talking about:

That's not our fault at all.

It's the logical progression of the games console. With each generation console gamers have demanded more (henceforth moar) everything, moar graphics, moar players, moar online, moar content and it's got to be a DVD player and a CD player and get facebook (and so it goes on).

These things increase complexity, something has to give and that something is it all arriving in the box (or on the disc) on day one and never needing for it to be altered in the console's lifetime.

Unfortunately there is neither the technical knowledge nor will to learn to cope with the increases in comlpexity that console players have been demanding. The result is now the systems are marred with various 'enhancing features' and when something doesn't work the console is considered broken because very few people are willing or able to tinker under the hood like PC users do as a matter of routine.

None of these things are terminal, but they do need a change in the attitudes of consumers so they can accept the consequences of what they've (we've) been demanding for the last twenty years.

 

[Keava]

Pointless graphics options. Why should I need to select whether I want V-sync? You're built for a console, just be what's best

Just to clear something out. V-sync is more display related, CRT/Analog displays use different method than LCD, plus different refresh rates between different screens.

And no. We can't get along. We need to hate each other so in 200 years we can have United Nation of Console Gamers at war with The PC Federation which will end up in lovely slaughter for all.

 

[Irridium]

Nice job. And I agree, I'd like everyone to just get along as well.

I'm not sure if you're serious or joking. Which are you?

Or was this a joke? Irony is hard to pick up over text...

Um...

My sense of irony just wants to redress some balance. I'm not out to blame anyone. Can't we all just get along?

New plan, sit back and watch people misunderstand this, even though the OP kind of says he's not really that serious.

 

[braincore02]

Games having to install before you can play them. I don't need to name examples
Games needing patches to work properly. As if I'm running Windows 2000 and it's made for 9x

I think this is mostly because consoles now come standard with internet enabled and with HDD's for the first time in console history, and the devs are going to take advantage of that to meet their often ridiculous deadlines then fix it later. But obviously you're not being serious so I bet you've already figured on that.

 

[Durananrananrananran]

I'm not sure if you're serious or joking. Which are you?

That is actually what I look like (kind of, I do have a beard), and I do likes me some ale. If I said I was being deadly serious, would you believe me?

 

[Omnific One]

Games having to install before you can play them. I don't need to name examples: That's Sony...
Games needing patches to work properly. As if I'm running Windows 2000 and it's made for 9x: Patches... which improve the game and make it run properly...
Pointless graphics options. Why should I need to select whether I want V-sync? You're built for a console, just be what's best: What games are you playing?
Games not working on certain hardware versions. God of War, you started it: Again, Sony...
Software as a service pricing models. No, I don't want to pay monthly or for specific features: How is this from the PC?
Everything being brown. Because I want to blame this arbitrarily on PCs: "Arbitrarily." I don't even need to refute that one.

Please tell me you are joking...

 

[Durananrananrananran]

I'm not sure if you're serious or joking. Which are you?

That is actually what I look like (kind of, I do have a beard), and I do likes me some ale. If I said I was being deadly serious, would you believe me?

There are lots asinine console apologists, making such statements I wouldn't put past whom, in this forum, so yes. What's the point of your thread, anyway? You're not going to quelch the argument by thinking up some complete non-sequitur points.

The point of my thread is to poke fun at the argument.

 

[Neonit]

because we really need to feed the trolls and increase the ever-growing population engaging in flamewars....

i really get the impression that most of those crusades are caused by "im not secure about my choice so i will point out faults in other's"

and if you are trying to stop that kinds of wars, this is not a good way of doing it.


besides, everyone knows pc's are better. consoles are for peasants who cant afford real machine.

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[Chibz]

I propose a forced separation. PC gamers are free to spend however much money they want on their...

Spoiler: ONE MACHINE, EQUAL TO THE GODS!

And I get to enjoy gaming on my functional $150 (total price with taxes, TYVM) 360. Playing the exact same games. And if they try to say I'm "gaming wrong" I get to call them an arrogant SOB, and to drink... a very unpleasant thing to drink.

Edit: 1995. What a year.

 

[Blank Kold]

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Pretty much, im not overly certain if he's being satirical or not. Even if he's not, this does bring up points about how stupid the parallel argument, that of consolification, actually is.

 

[Wintermoot]

I think we have more to endure from developers dumbing down stuff pretty much everything you said is rare