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PC vs. Consoles

Unread postby icycalm » 11 Dec 2012 10:31

It's a funny thing about NeoGAF. There's so much shit in there, but now and again there are also some genuinely good threads where a ton of genuinely knowledgeable and well-spoken gamers come out of the woodwork. Take this thread, for instance:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503517

I am halfway through page 2, and it's a joy to read. Naturally there is the occasional ignorant or even stupid post, but most of them are sensible, and some of them are great. Take this for example:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... st45273110

dark10x wrote:In 2006, I'd say Gears of War was looking better than anything available on the PC at that time. By the end of 2007 things changed with Crysis, obviously, but Gears was top of the heap back in 06.


That's exactly how things happened, and it is nice to see someone on that huge, generally godawful forum who remembers it.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... st45273292

kinggroin wrote:Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Gamcube and Xbox were the first time (barring resolution) that I can remember consoles offering games that didn't quite have a match on the PC. Soul Caliber, Tekken Tag, Rogue Squadron, Dead or Alive 3 were absolute show stoppers.


Again correct (well, apart from Tekken Tag, which was so awful aesthetically that it was hard to pay attention to whatever technical merit it may have had), but what I don't see anyone realizing is that it was really with the arrival of the XBOX, and the huge and steadily increasing influx of ports from the PC to the console world (and eventually also the other way around), that people started comparing console and PC specs directly. Before that, any comparisons would have been fruitless, since consoles and PCs featured DIFFERENT KINDS OF GAMES, so it'd make no difference if one category of machines was more powerful than the other, since PLAYERS SIMPLY DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN THEM. If you wanted to play RTSes, FPSes, grand strategy games, adventure games and the like you got a PC, and if you wanted third-person 3D or 2D action, and some quirky Japanese genres like SRPGs, JRPGs and whathaveyou, you got a console. But like I said, the Xbox changed all that -- slowly at first of course, but things eventually escalated to the point where, a decade later, I am seriously considering whether there is any point in having consoles at all any more.

But anyway, great thread, will keep reading. Thanks NeoGAF.
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