Let me first start out by saying I agree with you wholeheartedly. As much as I love my PC, the average consumer is a lot more comfortable with a console for a bevy of reasons, the ones you mentioned, but also the following.netroam wrote: It's sad to see they don't make so many adventure games anymore - that the world is suddenly fill of requests for first person shooters which frankly I can't see the big fuss about. Every game in that genre is the same - what makes one game different from another? I really can't see it.
/// NetRoam
1.) Consoles don't have software that comes with hardware requirements. Everything released for the console, plays on the console. With each new game that comes out on a PC, you have to be sure that your system is advanced enough to handle it.
2.) PC games sometimes can just be overloaded with so many bugs, that your average consumer will just get frustrated with it, and never use it again.
3.) Overall ease of use. I mean, let's face it. You have techno wizards who used to get into their computer mainframe, and overclock their cpus to play the new game that just came out ... and then you have people like me. We just wanna play the game, and we don't want to have to go through miles of technical detail just to do so.
Now, let me get to the part I quoted you on
...When it comes to first person shooters, I'll attempt to explain thier appeal, and such to the majority of the gaming world, or at least to myself. Don't get me wrong, I will always be an adventure fan first, but games like Halo, Red Faction, Doom 3, and pretty much every game that puts you in a game with a gun, and things to shoot accomplish one thing. Grisly satisfaction. And I know I'm not the only one who enjoys it ... After a week of driving, coming home and being able pick up a controller and not think, or use my brain, but just mindlessly mow down legions upon legions of covenant, or whatever bad guy is taking up the screen at the time, is just flat out relaxing. It's the old Grand Theft Auto thing, to me. I loved that game because it allowed me to do things I couldn't do in real life. Like instead of just honking the horn at the guy in front of me in traffic for being a moron, I can just plow into his rear end, rip him out of his car, and beat him with a baseball bat.
As sad as it sounds to say it, these kind of games sell so well, because of that feeling you get when you do such a thing. I won't lie and say I don't enjoy it, because I do. I don't agree with the rating though. I do believe those games should have been AO to begin with (GTA games) ... The story, more often than not, is just filler to give your gunslinging a purpose.
That's why the genre continues to pump out carbon copy after carbon copy ...
I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.
Consoles are certainly not devoid of hardware trouble and bugs. Anybody remember blowing into NES cartridges? Konami and Namco both made light gun games for the Playstation, and of course they only worked with their own guns. After the first shipment of Playstations, Sony weakened the laser that reads the CD so that it couldn't read home burned CD-ROMs. However, with due time the wear and tear sometimes caused the console to stop reading legitimate CD-ROMs too. Console games also do have bugs, and when that happens there is no patch to download.
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
-Bob Dylan
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
-Bob Dylan
Sure thing. Yeah I do remember the old blowing into the NES cart technique. It sort of became second nature to me after a while. I remember I had my own technique for blowing out those hard to get to work cartridges. (My dragon warrior only worked if I blew it out my special wayCrowley wrote:Consoles are certainly not devoid of hardware trouble and bugs. Anybody remember blowing into NES cartridges? Konami and Namco both made light gun games for the Playstation, and of course they only worked with their own guns. After the first shipment of Playstations, Sony weakened the laser that reads the CD so that it couldn't read home burned CD-ROMs. However, with due time the wear and tear sometimes caused the console to stop reading legitimate CD-ROMs too. Console games also do have bugs, and when that happens there is no patch to download.
)Those things have been problems with consoles in the past, and I even had the problem you're speaking of with the Playstation. I remember being very upset that my old playstation quit working, but I kinda lost that anger when I purchased the PS2, and I had the backwards compatibility.
However, those bugs aside, I have to say that when it comes to the *amount* of bugs, the PC, and every iteration of it that I've had since my old P100, has had a substantially more amount than any console I've ever had. If I had to run a list of bugs, and quirks, and problems with games I had over the years, I would say that 2/3 of these problems come from the PC versions of games I've tried to get to work. As it goes as a game platform, I think the consoles will slowly faze out the computers in consumers minds (I think it's safe to say that's already happened ... and alot more in recent years ), simply because even with the problems that do crop up, they are alot less than most computer games. That can be said, citing all the patches and fixes that have been released for games over the years ...
But with all that said, I will still always be a PC Gamer, just on a smaller level than I used to be. I'm more excited about the X-box 360, than anything else, because I just know I'm going to lose another year of my life to the new Morrowing coming out.
I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.