PC gaming>>>console gaming. This has absolutely has no objective basis, but this was how I really grew up gaming so there's just something that makes it really easy to get lost in a game by sitting close to a monitor with a mouse in one hand, and your other hand's fingers on the keyboard. Now I just need a new monitor, though I might want to hold off as the courier may well just be an axe murderer, and the axes that we have grown very fond of. HD actually matters on something like Crysis.* Plus the games. Warhead was the first game I've played this generation based on the Doom style of gameplay intead of the CoD style. And Wars...huge maps, vehicles, and just general chaos. That is how it should be done. Unless you're Killzone 2

Of course matters of the physical may not be the reason at all. Perhaps the games are just better. In fact, they probably are. Nyaa And of coures you can even play at higher resolutions than 1080P, thus making the PS3/360 as obsolete as the Wii. And 90% of games are Little Big Planet, but with more creative and talented people working on mods.

Posted by Foolz Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:50:19 (comments: 52)
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Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:41:35
Foolz said:

Obviously my point was you'll find mods for many games, and you'll find things a hell of a lot better than anything you could find on LBP.

And to answer your question: yes, easily. For everything other than practical reasons which don't have any relevance to the debate I would take a PC over a console any day.

LBP is not mods, its a level creator with built in sharing and community features, what is so hard to understand about that. A mod by definition modifies a game, in LBP creating levels IS the game.

Ok for what games would you rather have a PC over a console cause I never see you talking about any PC games.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:46:16
aspro said:

There is certainly something to be said about PC gaming being more absorbing.  It takes in your attention in a way that the console cannot.

I don't understand this. For me being at a desk with a keyboard and mouse, devices not made for gaming completely sucks me out of any immersion. I am very much aware that I am on a PC. Sitting in my chair, in my room with my nice HDTV with a controller in hand with great sound is far more immersive. How do you watch movies, stuck to a desk, no you watch them on a TV or a big screen. Games like movies have the same effect to suck you in, especially when you are more comfortable so you can focus only on the display.  Being closer to a screen does not make for a more immersive experience its more about the environment and to me a desk kills it.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:50:58
TV is a lay-back experience, PC is a lean-forward experience (these are terms used in the industry).

When I am playing a PC game the screen is about 20 inches from my face and takes up almost all of my sight.  When I am watching TV I am 6 foot back.  If I die, I may pause and then flip over to cable TV for a while, I might notice my wife in my peripheral vision etc...

When gaming on the PC, that is ALL I am doing. No room for distraction.

Console game controller WIN. It's like and extension of my brain. But for field of view, PC wins.
 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:54:40
aspro said:
TV is a lay-back experience, PC is a lean-forward experience (these are terms used in the industry).



When I am playing a PC game the screen is about 20 inches from my face and takes up almost all of my sight.  When I am watching TV I am 6 foot back.  If I die, I may pause and then flip over to cable TV for a while, I might notice my wife in my peripheral vision etc...



When gaming on the PC, that is ALL I am doing. No room for distraction.



Console game controller WIN. It's like and extension of my brain. But for field of view, PC wins.

So move your chair in front of the TV. Nyaa I have no distractions in my room, as I said its about the environment. Your setup is more of a living room kind of thing so yeah there it would be more distracting. I have it in a small room so its far more focused.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:58:06
Dvader said:

LBP is not mods, its a level creator with built in sharing and community features, what is so hard to understand about that. A mod by definition modifies a game, in LBP creating levels IS the game.

Ok for what games would you rather have a PC over a console cause I never see you talking about any PC games.

You can make new mods with games. And there's Gary's Mod anyway which has more freedom than LBP and is basically a game creation tool. I don't want to start this headbanging contest on this subject that you've been engaged in before, though. Even though I did. Nyaa Sorry!

And that'd be because up until now I was using the other computer. If the website was a few years older you would have. Nyaa And you will now...actually the depends on the practicalities.

aspro said:
TV is a lay-back experience, PC is a lean-forward experience (these are terms used in the industry).


When I am playing a PC game the screen is about 20 inches from my face and takes up almost all of my sight.  When I am watching TV I am 6 foot back.  If I die, I may pause and then flip over to cable TV for a while, I might notice my wife in my peripheral vision etc...


When gaming on the PC, that is ALL I am doing. No room for distraction.


Console game controller WIN. It's like and extension of my brain. But for field of view, PC wins.

You can easily use a controller on the computer! Though, i suppose you can also play consoles on monitors.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:12:26

You guys realize that you can connect PC on pretty much all the modern TVs right? Also you can use a controller if you want. Not that it matters much, because when it comes to FPS and RTS keyboard and mouse rule.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:04:55
Iga_Bobovic said:

You guys realize that you can connect PC on pretty much all the modern TVs right? Also you can use a controller if you want. Not that it matters much, because when it comes to FPS and RTS keyboard and mouse rule.

I am no fan of keyboard and mouse for FPSs but I understand the benefits of it for competition. But you guys like straining your fingers on a keyboard to do basic actions rather than having it all comfortably laid out on a controller?

RTS definetely needs a keyboard and mouse.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:15:15
For me while I do enjoy PC gaming when comparing it to console gaming, console gaming wins hands down. There's just an overwhelmingly larger selection of games to play on home consoles then on PC. Sure there's been some console type games appearing on PC but it's a bit helter-skelter and sometimes sequels to these games don't follow up on the PC. Choice of games is my main reason but ease of use plays a role as well. When I hear about how a game looks and plays on a console I know if I get it then it will perform exactly the same way for me.
 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:35:35
Dvader said:

There is nothing to school. If I never get a gaming PC for the rest of my life, I will be totally fine, there are almost no PC exclusives that I care about. I cannot live without consoles (you know I dont mean that literally). Flip it on yourself, will you be ok without ever getting a new console. Think of the tons and tons of exclusives you would be missing out on in a wide variety of genres.

I don't care for strategy games, thats about the only genre PC has major exclusives. FPS, they practically all come out on consoles, same with RPGs. Really think about this, name me one major action/adventure PC exclusive in the last oh 5 years.  Name me one major platformer PC exclusive in the last 5 years. Hell name me one exclusive Japanese PC game. Fighting game? Music game? Action game, DMC/GoW like? JRPG? Sports sim? Its like those genres just don't exist. In those genres, the ones I care about have I missed anything cause I don't have a gaming PC, NOPE.

So that is where I am coming from. I understand that PCs get a ton of games from consoles as well and it has a huge selection. I am not talking about what you can play on PC, you can play all sorts of games. I am talking about what you can ONLY play on PC compared to what you can ONLY play on consoles and its no contest really.

1. Yeah. I would be alright without getting a new console ever again. As a matter of fact, I am thinking of that approach when the next generation of consoles arrives, whenever that is. As long as I have enough quality stuff to play, I wouldn't be missing on anything.

2. I do care for strategy games. I don't give two shits about platformers even though I do play one here and there. Where does that leave us? I don't understand the fixation with exclusives when you're talking about "console gaming". You're lumping all three systems with an aggregate cost of almost 1000 bucks into an amorphous blob that magically has every exclusive under the sun covered. Even exclusive "japanese games" whatever the hell those are.

3. Yeah, it's really no contest. On PC I can play stuff that you wouldn't find on any console. Games like Amnesia, The Witcher, StarCraft II, Diablo III, the Anno series (the real ones), Europa Universalis III, Dawn of War games, The Longest Journey, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the Total War series, King's Bounty games, Mount & Blade, any MMO worth playing including free to play games such as LOTRO, the Civilization series, among others I'm not into such as combat simulators and hardcore racing games that shit all over GT5, plus most multiplatform games cheaper and with settings that put any console to shame with a minimal investment, and that offer wide support for any kind of gamepad or peripheral. Those are the games I'm interested in. Fortunately, I can indulge in both worlds, but if I was pressed to choose, I would go PC and wouldn't look behind.

 
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:41:01

And this "comfy couch" mentality has to stop. You can connect a PC to your HDTV and play it from your couch with a gamepad. If there is anything that characterizes PC gaming is flexibility. You can do things your way.

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