To console, or not to console...

[qaz156]

So I guess project New J, and Mass Effect by Bioware are going console, Jade Empire already was. This unfortunately, feels like a growing trend among companies who have games I like to play. Thus the question is whether or not to dish the money to play those darn games that will ONLY be on console... and if so then which? Xbox360? PS3? The new Nintendo system (although doubt the companies I like: Obsidian/Bioware etc will be making for Nintendo). I think I'll just wait to see if these games turn out to be any good, THEN buy the darn console if I feel a severe drought of pc games. Hopefully the RPGs pretty much all go to one system like xbox, (Jade is already on it I think) so I don't have to consider choosing one console over another. I dunno. This situation really sucks I think. I will always have a computer, thus it's easy to play pc games. But buying a console just doesn't feel right. What do you all think?

[Diamond]

Yes, buying a console doesn't feel right for me too. It seems that I just will not be buying Bioware games anymore.

[Nick_i_am]

Wait, wasn't KotoR a console game too?

[CoM_Solaufein]

Consoles are evil, stay away from them.

[Surreptishus]

If a console has a few games you like, buy it if you want, let go of the snobbery.

 

The drawbacks and advantages of consoles versus PC has been debated to death and beyond. The only worthwhile opinion is your own - form it by trying out some games, exercise it by buying or not.

 

A game should be evaluated on its own merits and not those of its platform or any preconceptions one may have about said platform.

[Pope]

I've no problems with consoles, I've just got a problem with the Xbox, more precisely with Microsoft who's trying to force Western RPG's out of their natural habitat, i.e. PC's!!

[Diamond]

If a console has a few games you like, buy it if you want, let go of the snobbery.

It is not snobbery. It doesn't feel right. Perhaps I'm too conservative.

Aside from that, I am quite a casual gamer lately and mostly use PC for things other than games and I can't justify investing money in a game-only device.

[Surreptishus]

It is not snobbery. It doesn't feel right. Perhaps I'm too conservative.

Aside from that, I am quite a casual gamer lately and mostly use PC for things other than games and I can't justify investing money in a game-only device.

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The snobbery comment was directed at the community at large, the Kaftan Barlasts etc

If it doesnt feel right does that not imply you hold the opinion that consoles are in some way wrong?

 

Fair enough if one is a casual gamer, buying a device to play games isn't really justifiable, keep that in mind during your next video card upgrade.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Consoles are only good for keeping the kids amused. PCs are so much better for games plus it's other uses and tasks.

[Kaftan Barlast]

The snobbery comment was directed at the community at large, the Kaftan Barlasts etc

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Heh. But my dislike of consoles is well-founded and based on reasonable principles, not snobbery.

 

 

 

The only merit of a console is that it allows you to play games with just the unit, a tv set and a game.

 

 

 

..then that theyre planning to implement things like limited user licenses which means that you wont be able to play even singleplayer games longer than 2-3weeks without paying a monthly license. Thats just dirty... like so many other things about consoles

[Vashanti]

My brother in law is a chip designer out in Silicon Valley, and has always been very anti-Microsoft, "oh we won't be having any of THEIR products in my house!"

 

Until he won a free X-Box at a conference.

 

Now he LOVES that console and buys games for it, but still grumbles a bit now and then.

 

:D

[Judge Hades]

I have no problem in buying a console but I do have a problem with buying a X Box 360.

[Nick_i_am]

The problem only comes when a 'consoleization' damages what would have otherwise been a great PC game and turns it into an awkward port.

[Hurlshort]

This is what you need to do...wait until it's your birthday in August, then ask for gift cards to EB games or Gamestop. Take those, and your old Xbox in, and trade it for a new Xbox360. There ya go...at least that's my plan.

 

Consoles aren't as good as PC's, but they have uses. My Xbox is also my movie player.

[Judge Hades]

My PC is my word processor, game machine, movie player, graphic editor, stereo, spreadsheet, net browser, and so forth and so on...

[LadyCrimson]

To me it's just practicality. Consoles still make hardly any games I'd consider playing, thus, I see no need to buy one, even if I do miss a game or three. Their only appeal at the moment would be as something my husband and I could sit on the couch and play together side by side once in a while...and I doubt it'd even get much use that way, since he's not all that into games.

 

I may always own a computer, but if I didn't play games, it's likely I would put far less money into upgrading the PC all the time, since one doesn't need the Uber graphic card or RAM etc. for word processing, or even most home digital photography work. And if that was the case, I'd have more to spend on buying/updating multiple consoles, so....

 

I'm still open to the idea of a console, as long as I don't feel like I'm buying one because of a single game. If more developers start producing console games, perhaps the variety will also increase - tho I've been waiting for 18 years and they still haven't changed one whit IMO in those terms. Until then...consoles...meh.

[LadyCrimson]

I forgot to add, that I do like the idea of having a unified platform for home electronic entertainment, whether it's 'console' or something else. If all the console/game companies would band together to share creative effort and profit of one unified platform, instead of individually trying to 'corner' the market and forcing people to choose between them, I'd be all for it. Ideally, then, there'd be no more having to worry whether or not your specific PC configuration will run the game you want, because they'd all be written for the same platform/hardware. Game programmers would be able to focus a little more on games that would reach everyone, and not on cross-platform compatability etc.

 

Not that I think it's likely to ever happen...or, even if it did, there'd be too much bickering over stuff, including creative environment/freedom, and it'd fall apart...but I do like the idea.

[Gabrielle]

Consoles suck. Period.

 

Game over!

[Blank]

Consoles suck. Period.

 

Game over!

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Gabs, look at the long, thought-out posts that LadyCrimson made just prior to your spam. as a female member of this forum, you should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Gabrielle]

It's not spam I gave you my f****** opinion.

[Krookie]

Wait, wasn't KotoR a console game too?

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Yup, but people don't really count it as one cause it came out for the PC after it's XBox release.

[thepixiesrock]

Consoles suck. Period.

 

Game over!

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Gabs, look at the long, thought-out posts that LadyCrimson made just prior to your spam. as a female member of this forum, you should be ashamed of yourself.

 

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Gabrielle doesn't need any reasoning behind what she says.

[Darth Launch]

Gabrielle doesn't need any reasoning behind what she says.

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Mr. Pixies... I take my hat off to you for that awesome Supermarket game thingy thread... genius

 

Oh, and I hate PCs... hate them! :angry:

[Gabrielle]

Gabrielle doesn't need any reasoning behind what she says.

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Mr. Pixies... I take my hat off to you for that awesome Supermarket game thingy thread... genius

 

Oh, and I hate PCs... hate them! :angry:

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It saddens me deeply to think we are no longer friends.

[Darth Launch]

It saddens me deeply to think we are no longer friends. 

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Why's that?

 

Just because I hate my PC? You would hate it too if it gave you as much as hassle as it's given me... I'm planning on gutting it and then burning the rest once I've finished uni...