Vrock wrote:on physical format
Are you insisting on physical media out of legal concerns or something else?
Personal computing discussed
Vrock wrote:on physical format
but you like Vrock only see what you want to see and are as incapable of having this discussion.
I don't care
it's personal choice
End User wrote:Vrock wrote:on physical format
Are you insisting on physical media out of legal concerns or something else?
Vrock wrote:End User wrote:Vrock wrote:on physical format
Are you insisting on physical media out of legal concerns or something else?
Physical media provides the highest quality, legal content available.
I think we can all agree that the PC would always win by a long shot if they had better support as a gaming platform from the companies that matter most. Microsoft itself has acknowledged that they've been failing at this for a long time now.
Vrock wrote:With enough time, money, tweaking, and desire, a PC can do anything a console can do, and do it better, I absolutely don't dispute that. You PC guys seem to think you're scoring a point by saying that, but in reality all it shows is how much you really miss the point of consoles to begin with.
End of the day the STUPID consumer that consoles are supposed to be target at don't have to be simple, streamlined, price competative, functional, safe or any of that stuff
Just reflect on the near 100 percent failure rate of the xbox.
JustAnEngineer wrote:That's not what I wrote. You have mis-attributed Vrock's crusade against PC gaming to me.
SPOOFE wrote:I completely disagree. I think all three consoles are far more simple, streamlined, price competitive, and functional compared to PC's. I don't know what you meant by "safe", but I assure you that a console will never molest your kids, attack your wife, or steal your beer.
kamikaziechameleon wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:That's not what I wrote. You have mis-attributed Vrock's crusade against PC gaming to me.
LOL, can't find the quote anymore someone might have edited it heck I might have goofed when paring down the post.
JustAnEngineer wrote:kamikaziechameleon wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:That's not what I wrote. You have mis-attributed Vrock's crusade against PC gaming to me.
LOL, can't find the quote anymore someone might have edited it heck I might have goofed when paring down the post.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=79074&start=90#p1104181
I don't want to paint one platform as definitively better than the other
Mr. Bamboo Head wrote:just bought a split fish shark 360 in a last ditch attempt to give it another shot
Vrock wrote:Mr. Bamboo Head wrote:just bought a split fish shark 360 in a last ditch attempt to give it another shot
Good luck. I tried a Split fish for the PS3 once. It was buggy and unreliable. I returned it.
SPOOFE wrote:I don't want to paint one platform as definitively better than the other
But you DO want to call people "stupid consumers" and "gits". Come on. As if there aren't morons in any large population.
I just don't understand that "blame the consoles" mentality. It's all one market. "Games". That's the market. Sure, you can split it up into numerous sub-categories, but I can't stress enough: Pretty much every negative thing to be said about consoles is a result of "popularity", not form factor, and pretty much every point has an analogue from the days when PC gaming was king. If PC gaming was king again, we'd just see the preponderance of those negative points transfer to the other side of the fence, where the grass if obviously greener, right?
PetMiceRnice wrote:Well I'll tell you something. In the 1980s, I owned an Atari 2600 for a while and then Atari XL/XE/ST computers. I got my first PC in 1991 and was a pretty devoted PC gamer right up until the time when Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 was first released. I bought a LOT of PC games over the years and have a lot of fond memories to go with it. But when this whole thing came out about having to activate your PC games (even to play in single player mode) or to limit the number of times I could install a game (what if I format my hard drive?), or insist that I have a persistent Internet connection in order to play, or some other such thing, I decided to pull the plug. I also was not in agreement with Steam.
Since I still wanted to game, of course I was forced to look at the consoles. I will say that I have been happy with my console experience, but I will say that FPS and RTS games are better on the PC. However, although mouse and keyboard is better, I've adapted quite well to using the thumbsticks on my Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3 consoles for the shooters. It's also a hoot that the PS3 is backwards compatible with the PS1 and so I've been playing old favorites like NHL 99 on it. I see now that a lot of console games have "online activation" passes, but I don't game online, so that doesn't affect me. Switching from the PC to the consoles has saved me a lot of money in hardware costs and provides me with a perfectly acceptable gaming experience, although I've been more of a casual gamer for the past several years.
For what it's worth, I still have two of my old PC gaming towers and a lot of my old PC games, and will fire them up here and there. I still enjoy it!
No matter what platform you play on they'll get you.