Terminate421 said:
Emergent System said:
The only reason I even own any consoles is because of exclusives.
SonOfVoorhees said:
PC gamers care more about graphics and physics than the actual game....these things are not important. Making the graphics better with a mod dont make the game better. The game is what it is, the story etc can not be changed. Each to their own i guess. Just buy the games you love to play and you will be fine.
'Cuz games like minecraft just blow everything else out of the water when it comes to pure graphical orgasmictude.
First, He wasn't just talking about Graphics. Second, Minecraft is on Xbox too (YES I KNOW ITS NOT PC'D BUT AT LEAST ITS THERE)
Do I really need to point out that minecraft doesn't exactly feature amazing physics either? And the xbox port is a poor shadow of the PC version, lagging behind in features, and limited in world size, which is
practically infinite on the PC.
Terminate421 said:
There are times where I just like to sit down and enjoy the base game that the industry gave us. Consoles allow that option. PC's allow you to tweak it.
Even better, did anyone even think of MASS MARKET APPEAL?!? How would you like to see a commercial for say....Dead Space: Terrifying Nightmare Version and think "Oh wow, this will look fun on my xbox!" Then you find out that its available for PC only. Fair enough, you get it and find out your computer cannot handle the game since you have the same PC you've had since 2010. So now you bought a game you cannot use unless you spend more money to UPGRADE the PC.
Consoles allow flexibility. They allow the games that you buy to age well (Not graphically but in use). I still have my old N64 and sit down to enjoy Starfox 64 on there, I turn it on and there I am doing a barrel roll in less than 30 seconds.
I'm not sure why you say that the ability to use old consoles to play old games is "allowing flexibility", since it does the opposite of that.
You may be able to dedicate space in your home to storing all your old consoles, then drag them out and plug them in to play whichever game you feel like, within the fancifully claimed 30 seconds (which assumes you have access to the hardware in the first place, which isn't necessarily the case for someone who isn't at least as dedicated to gaming on their consoles as I am to gaming on my computer), but I can do the same for decades old games on my computer right now, and I don't need to maintain a shrine to my various old consoles to be able to do that.
It may take longer than 30 seconds to install Baldur's Gate again (though not much longer), and probably a while longer to get over any technical difficulties involved in playing it on a so much newer computer (I remember getting Icewind Dale 2 to work a year back was fairly troublesome), but problematic software is easier to deal with than problematic hardware. I can also get the full BGtutu experience, if I wish (as clearly I would)!
Incidentally, I just realized Baldur's Gate is almost 15 years old. Man, times sure does fly.
Anyway. As for price, yeah, PCs are more expensive, at least when console generations are 7+ years, but I haven't had to replace mine in 5 years yet (except to add more RAM and HD space), and it still runs new games just fine on max settings. Granted, it was a very expensive PC for its time (I could probably buy 5 of them for the same price today - totally wasn't worth the price by the way, at least not for what I was using it for, but I digress), but if you buy cheap ones and you are satisfied with playing games on lower settings (which'd still be far superior to anything a console could put out) when it gets old, it's not that much more expensive.
I could go on for a while, but I'm out of time. TL;DR: Consoles don't have any upsides other than a low initial cost and ease-to-use (which, granted, includes the ease with which games are made for them), while PCs have many advantages, not the least of which is flexibility - which consoles do not have, and I'm not sure why anyone would think they do. My PC could play damn near every game out there if not for anti-consumer barriers keeping it from happening. "Anti-consumer" may sound a bit hyperbolic - maybe it should be called "pro-capitalism" - but it is what it is.
You may feel good pluggin in that N64 and playin' sum starfox, but even without access to the hardware I could do basically the same with an emulator right now, and I'm pretty sure you can't fire up BG without a PC. Well... maybe if someone
really knew what they were doing they could pull something like that off...