Poll: Console RTS >PC RTS

[Chunko]

My favorite genre is RTS. For most of my life I've been playing them on my P.C. However just recently I got "Halo Wars" and "Red Alert 3" for my xbox. Believe it or not I liked the console RTS controls better than the PC RTS controls. It felt way more organic to paint over the units to select them, instead of selecting them using click and drag. And the subtraction of the minimap didn't bother me at all. Not to mention that the graphics are waaay better on consoles. What do you think?

 

[messy]

I disagree massively, the only thing that annoys me about consoles you can't hotkey units as easily and I normally have numbers 0-9 designated to units such as 9 is always my planes/air units for WC3 and RA2

 

[Chunko]

I disagree massively, the only thing that annoys me about consoles you can't hotkey units as easily and I normally have numbers 0-9 designated to units such as 9 is always my planes/air units for WC3 and RA2

I think you can assign groups in red alert 3, I never used it though.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

 

[Chunko]

I'm a troll?...

 

[Radeonx]

I disagree.
I prefer the controls on the PC, and it is much easier to micro manage on a key board.

 

[Chunko]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

 

[YuheJi]

Have you ever played any of the Relic RTSes? Because those are all beautiful games with excellent animations, and click and drag isn't needed as much (because infantry always come in squads in those games).

 

[MercenaryCanary]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

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Please explain that power hungry game that shines so brightly in the graphics department called Crysis then.

The PC games look better then the console games IF you have the requirements for such.

 

[Chunko]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

Ok yes. Yes you are a troll.

Not to mention that the graphics are waaay better on consoles.

Yeah, you're a troll.

How is that a troll statement? I'm not attacking any one particular game.

 

[Chunko]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

...
Please explain that power hungry game that shines so brightly in the graphics department called Crysis then.

The PC games look better then the console games IF you have the requirements for such.

Not everyone has enough money to spend on an expensive PC

 

[Nimbus]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

You're an idiot, then? PCs have had better graphics that consoles since a year after this generation started. It has always been this way.

PC Graphics > Console Graphics, no arguments.

 

[Trivun]

Spoiler: Snipped Flame

If anyone's a troll, it's you. Stop posting stupid pictures that contribute nothing to the thread. If anyone else reads this, please report this guy too. He's just trying to flame the OP because he disagrees with what the OP thinks. I hope you learn your lesson, mate.

Anyway, back on topic. I played Halo Wars and it's one of my favourite RTSs, I feel that Halo Wars is a prime example of a console RTS done right. The controls work pretty well and they definitely fit the genre. However, I started playing PC RTSs with Total Annihilation years ago, and after AoE, DoW and Total War, I still much prefer the PC RTS. I have no doubt that console RTSs can be done well, Halo Wars and Red Alert 3 (apparently, I've seen it but never played it) are proof of this. It just depends on the developer and how exactly they can make the transition from PC based to Console based.

 

[TelHybrid]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

Please learn a little more about technology.

It's a known fact that PCs are generally capable of better graphics than consoles. There's multiple different new PC components released every year, all based around a similar architecture that doesn't involve a super complicated programming language.

Console components are outdated about a year after release, and awkward to code for with proprietary architectures in comparison to PC. Also what are games developed with? Oh yeah... PC.

I don't know why I'm wasting my time. Obvious troll is obvious. Just fancied a rant I guess.

 

[messy]

I disagree massively, the only thing that annoys me about consoles you can't hotkey units as easily and I normally have numbers 0-9 designated to units such as 9 is always my planes/air units for WC3 and RA2

I think you can assign groups in red alert 3, I never used it though.

Its just a lot easier on PC I find when you have the buttons laid in front of you in a row, but this could be force of habit because as I've said certain numbers just mean different things to me 1 and 2= infantry and 3 and 4 tanks, the navy was normally 5-6 7 normally represented hero units (like tanya) and 8 was one off units like chorno-legionaries in RA2 used to collect crates around the map

 

[Poomanchu745]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

LOL wow this is a troll if ive ever seen one. That has to be one of the dumbest and most outlandish statements ever uttered in the history of the world.

 

[Poomanchu745]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

...
Please explain that power hungry game that shines so brightly in the graphics department called Crysis then.

The PC games look better then the console games IF you have the requirements for such.

Not everyone has enough money to spend on an expensive PC

Thats like saying your 3rd grade daughter's macaroni picture is better than the mona lisa because not everyone can afford the mona lisa. Its a flawed argument.

 

[Legion]

Spoiler: Snipped Flame

If anyone's a troll, it's you. Stop posting stupid pictures that contribute nothing to the thread. If anyone else reads this, please report this guy too. He's just trying to flame the OP because he disagrees with what the OP thinks. I hope you learn your lesson, mate.

That was my reaction too up until reading the part where he says consoles have better graphics than PC's. I am starting to think that he may be a troll, because nobody in their right mind would dispute that PC's have superior graphics, especially when it comes to a genre such as RTS.

 

[obisean]

It just feels better and everything moves faster with a pc rts. I really liked halo wars, but i wouldve enjoyed it more on pc.

but those great graphics wouldn't have been possible on the PC

...
Please explain that power hungry game that shines so brightly in the graphics department called Crysis then.

The PC games look better then the console games IF you have the requirements for such.

Not everyone has enough money to spend on an expensive PC

Is that really a fair argument? That's like saying "Madden looks better on 360 than it does on PS2, therefore X360 is better than PS3."

 

[Anacortian]

This is really an argument between the comparative virtues of the keyboard/mouse can console controller set-up. This is especially obvious when you remember that you can buy a console control for you computer.

Keyboard/mouse wins every time. It just has more buttons. Furthermore, typing has made it so that these buttons are in intuitive locations. If you can word process, you can pick up gaming controls on a computer. I would venture to suppose that the best console control RTS player would get the stuffing beaten out of him by an adequate player interfacing with a keyboard and a mouse.

As said before, we are only talking of the peripheral controlling device; we are not talking about the core system. Go find the touch-table/vocal interface for Warcraft III on Youtube. That kicks ass. While it is designed for a computer, it can easily be adapted for a console.