Graphics are one major advantage that PC has over console, and are the easiest to point out. Now, I say major in the sense that, when done properly, the gap between the two is massive, not that its the most important advantage or anything.
However, it is still important. Games are visual. If textures make my eyes bleed, like a number of ones in Skyrim and the ones I've seen from the Dark Souls PC port without the resolution fix, I'm not going to enjoy it as its painful to view. Now, maybe I have a higher threshold than many for what makes my eyes bleed, but generally if its excessively blurry and I either need to focus a reasonable degree more than normal to make out the details, or in some cases make them up by myself, its painful.
Note that this is mostly an issue in contrast with what the game tries to do. I don't mind Minecraft's original graphics. They don't hurt my eyes to play with, as that's what the game tries to look like, and it pulls it off. Dark Souls and Skyrim, and a number of other games try to look realistic or semi-realistic, and when there's a 512*512 texture taking up half of my 2560*1440 screen, it looks REALLY bad.
Of course, there are other reasons PC versions are better. Smoother gameplay and FPS, more precise controls with more potential options, mods, FAR faster loading times [SSD], far better multitasking [I can be looking up a guide online with Music playing through Itunes with a PDF open for instructions, and my emails open whilst I'm playing a system intensive game and not receive any significant lag, all on the one machine], Exclusives which spread beyond a couple of games to pretty much entire genres, such as RTS, MMO and 4X games which are rare on, and rarer done well on, consoles or hand held devices. Games are also generally cheaper on the PC, and dependent on the situation you're in they can be cheaper [For example, I'd have to buy a TV to play a console. I don't have to buy anything but a part or two every 8-10 years to play PC].
thepyrethatburns said:
So we're on the Escapist, one of the places where a common refrain among 360/ps3 users that criticizes the Wii is graphics but, when it comes to PC vs 360, the graphics argument suddenly becomes old and tired.
Wow. Simply...wow.
Yeah, IKR?
I remember pointing this out on about 3 to 4 threads discussing how useless the Wii was because it was less powerful than a console, yet that argument is redundant for PC vs Console?
A bit of a double standard there IMO.
Shadowstar38 said:
A slightly prettier picture isnt really a good enough argument for PC gaming to be superior. And really, that and the "FPS's are better" arguments are the only ones I've heard. spoken ad nauseum.
You really haven't been in many PC vs Console threads then have you?
Good thing really, as they generally become Shitstorms right from the OP, but there are a lot more arguments for PC over console than simple graphics and FPS, see many posts in this thread for examples thereof.
