Kinect Man Says "Hardly Anyone" Plays PC Shooters Anymore
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Again it would be nice if Kinect man qualified the statement. Maybe the fact that they are relatively old games that are still popular, that he meant hardly anyone BUYS the new FPS's being made for PC. I dunno. The guy shouldn't have made the claim without numbers if he wasn't looking to take a beating in the various forums of the interwebs.GideonB said:
Team Fortress 2 is almost impossible to play on console for the lack of "hitscan" weapons, that is weapons with zero flight time so for moving targets you only have to aim onto them to hit them. Console FPS are only playable at all thanks to quite ridiculous levels of aim-assist or (sticky aiming).
But that won't do any good when you have to aim rockets at enemies feet in FRONT of where they are running, or arc multiple grenades in quick succession or time an arrow.
COD type games "can" work on consoles once your muscle memory learns to exploit the "crosshair stickiness" over enemy targets, even a drunk can be a "masterful" quick-scoping sniper. This makes for fun but shallow gameplay, after playing World at War on PC recently it is a whole different beast than from console, you really have to work for your kills but can be so much quicker.
But really, console has always been more popular than PC, though more people watch Family Guy than Arrested Development, so what does that prove?
But that won't do any good when you have to aim rockets at enemies feet in FRONT of where they are running, or arc multiple grenades in quick succession or time an arrow.
COD type games "can" work on consoles once your muscle memory learns to exploit the "crosshair stickiness" over enemy targets, even a drunk can be a "masterful" quick-scoping sniper. This makes for fun but shallow gameplay, after playing World at War on PC recently it is a whole different beast than from console, you really have to work for your kills but can be so much quicker.
But really, console has always been more popular than PC, though more people watch Family Guy than Arrested Development, so what does that prove?
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Yeah no one plays shooters on pcs highly popular team fortress 2 servers are all barren they should stop making shooters for the pc and go to consoles /sarcasm
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post, but I think you are agreeing with me. I was saying Halo didn't bring FPS titles to the console as a mainstream genre. GoldenEye was to thank for that.delanofilms said:
And honestly, I had never heard of Marathon before it was released on Live. For me, Quake was the series that got me into FPS titles, and CounterStrike was the first real major online FPS title I can recall.
"Who wants to pretend their hand is a gun, I mean what is this, third grade? *Pew, pew pew pew*"Yer man o said:
In all seriousness, he's obviously speaking either without thinking or deliberatly stupidly. There are still QuakeWorld servers running for christ's sake.
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What's with Microsoft lately, man?
They're appealing to the casual gamers WAY too hard. Knowing casual gamers, they'll get tired of Kinect and the Microsoft will have to deal with a lot of angry gamers... On xbox and apparently on PC now.
Also also: Nobody plays pc shooters? What the fuck am I hearing...?
What's with Microsoft lately, man?
They're appealing to the casual gamers WAY too hard. Knowing casual gamers, they'll get tired of Kinect and the Microsoft will have to deal with a lot of angry gamers... On xbox and apparently on PC now.
Also also: Nobody plays pc shooters? What the fuck am I hearing...?
