Humble Bundle: Is It the One Thing PC has over Xbox 360 and PS3?

[bullet_sandw1ch]

The "one" thing? No, not really.

Besides, aren't most HIB games on XLA anyway? I dunno, I don't keep up to date on their catalog, but I know Bastion for example is there.

i actually find it funny that bastion is in this bundle when it is better than most of todays games. better built, more fun, pure awesome in game form.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

PCs are better than consoles in many ways in that they have so many different (including very practical) uses alongside playing video games and all the extra utilities and functions a computer adds to a game.

The only real reason people use console is either because of naivety or their need for simplicity. Some people just aren't cut-out for computer gaming and hardware limitations, needs for upgrades, extra fiddling around, etc. Not to mention DRM.

PC is simply more complicated. Consoles are simple and generally long term options, whereas a pc can get out-dated rather quickly.

This comes from someone who has an xbox 360 (and normal xbox) both I got before getting this computer. Which can barely even run Portal, and yet I barely get on the xbox 360 (I have Live also) because the computer is just so superior, even though it's like 20 generations old, and I can handle the extra complexity that comes with it.

my 2 cent.

your 2 cents are ignorant. some people like consoles for the exclusive games, the more... social feel of an xbox or PS3. people dont have to be a simpleton to use a console. i think you should change your views, as you sound like an PC elitest ass, even though you have an xbox, which makes you a hipocritical elitest ass..

my 2 cents.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

Oh please... Still with the "My System" vs "Other Systems" dick-waving competition?

I play on PC, yet I'd say the console equivalent of the HiB would be stuff like the indie games on XBLA.

PC, Mac, XBox, PS, Wii... Different computer cases with different hardware and publisher preference, but one thing in common: They can all play videogames.

Quit this pointless conflict and go back to enjoying the actual games, rather than argue about the hardware.

except that the indie marketplace on xbox is 99.9% crap, while the pc has enough good indie games to make it worth it.

 

[Syzygy23]

"the ONE thing PC has over consoles"?

PC has MANY things over consoles.

And yes, the HIB would be ONE of those many things.

 

[Dryk]

Yep, you're exactly right. It's a PC only thing and it's most likely because about half of the games are PC exclusive. And of course, Microsoft barely acknowledges that Indie Games exist on the Xbox.

Here's a headline I've seen FAR too often (well twice, which is still too often)

"____ sells more copies on Steam in a few hours than in the ___ months it was on Xbox Live"

It happened to Sequence, it happened to Breath of Death and Cthulhu Saves the World. It's probably happened to a whole bunch of other games that we don't hear about.

 

[Xanadu84]

And yet there's still no equivalent to Super Mario Galaxy released on PC. When there is, I'll happily buy it, but there currently isn't, and that means that if you want platformers, you need a console. Sad, but true.

*Goes and plays Braid, Limbo, Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Sonic 4, Rayman Origins, Oddworld, Dustforce, Super Meat Boy, Terraria (kinda), Shank 1 and 2, VVVVVV, Trine 1 and 2, And Yet It Moves, Bob Came in Pieces, any emulator of games from past consoles...I could go on, but I won't.

Ill grant you that platformers are more at home on a console, many of those I listed are ports, and on a computer they require a controller, but the PC definitely has more then enough platformers to keep you busy. All of those games I mentioned are good, and many of them can at least compete with Mario, and allowing for taste, some I think are better. In the battle of the gameing platforms of choice, PC might be at a disadvantage, but it is hardly unarmed.

 

[Naeras]

And yet there's still no equivalent to Super Mario Galaxy released on PC. When there is, I'll happily buy it, but there currently isn't, and that means that if you want platformers, you need a console. Sad, but true.

*Goes and plays Braid, Limbo, Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Sonic 4, Rayman Origins, Oddworld, Dustforce, Super Meat Boy, Terraria (kinda), Shank 1 and 2, VVVVVV, Trine 1 and 2, And Yet It Moves, Bob Came in Pieces, any emulator of games from past consoles...I could go on, but I won't.

Ill grant you that platformers are more at home on a console, many of those I listed are ports, and on a computer they require a controller, but the PC definitely has more then enough platformers to keep you busy. All of those games I mentioned are good, and many of them can at least compete with Mario, and allowing for taste, some I think are better. In the battle of the gameing platforms of choice, PC might be at a disadvantage, but it is hardly unarmed.

While I didn't specify it in the post you're quoting now, I said PC haven't had a good 3D platformer in years in another one, hence Galaxy as my example rather than, say, New Super Mario Bros or Donkey Kong Country Returns. 2D platformers are far more common due to keyboards being a decent control method for them, and a lot of them are really good. Of course, a lot of them are also available on consoles as well as PC.

 

[Oskuro]

except that the indie marketplace on xbox is 99.9% crap, while the pc has enough good indie games to make it worth it.

Hardly my point. If the indie market becomes profitable in the eyes of the industry (as it seems to be becoming, seeing how EA is trying to pose as "Indie" these days) there'll be better outlets for the consoles (for a certain value of "better").

My point is that hardware just enables the act of playing, and arguing about which is "superior" is pointless.

But hey, do not let reason get in the way of yet another Platforms Flame War. (How do I make the eye-rolling smiley?)

 

[Xanadu84]

And yet there's still no equivalent to Super Mario Galaxy released on PC. When there is, I'll happily buy it, but there currently isn't, and that means that if you want platformers, you need a console. Sad, but true.

*Goes and plays Braid, Limbo, Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Sonic 4, Rayman Origins, Oddworld, Dustforce, Super Meat Boy, Terraria (kinda), Shank 1 and 2, VVVVVV, Trine 1 and 2, And Yet It Moves, Bob Came in Pieces, any emulator of games from past consoles...I could go on, but I won't.

Ill grant you that platformers are more at home on a console, many of those I listed are ports, and on a computer they require a controller, but the PC definitely has more then enough platformers to keep you busy. All of those games I mentioned are good, and many of them can at least compete with Mario, and allowing for taste, some I think are better. In the battle of the gameing platforms of choice, PC might be at a disadvantage, but it is hardly unarmed.

While I didn't specify it in the post you're quoting now, I said PC haven't had a good 3D platformer in years in another one, hence Galaxy as my example rather than, say, New Super Mario Bros or Donkey Kong Country Returns. 2D platformers are far more common due to keyboards being a decent control method for them, and a lot of them are really good. Of course, a lot of them are also available on consoles as well as PC.

Oh I'm definitely agreeing that in the world of platformers, the console has an advantage. Also, I have to admit that its hard for me to name 3D platformers even on consoles that don't bleed into other genres. Does Prince of Persia count? Is Trine amply 3d to count as a 3d platformer? Does Mirrors Edge count as, "Recent"? I guess the only point I really want to make here is that Consoles have the advantage in the platform department, including 3D platforming in particular, but PCs are just at a disadvantage, not completely out of the race. Generally when weighing your gameing device of choice, every option has a little of what you want, some just have more of it. I think that's fair.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

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your 2 cents are ignorant. some people like consoles for the exclusive games, the more... social feel of an xbox or PS3.

The internet is hardly a social hub, a super information highway between peoples, and is not an awesome tool to manage large amounts of people into a single group. No way.

people dont have to be a simpleton to use a console. i think you should change your views, as you sound like an PC elitest ass, even though you have an xbox, which makes you a hipocritical elitest ass..

my 2 cents.

I owned the xbox before I owned a PC. So I'm not being hypocritical, if anything I have both sides of the matter thoroughly thought-out. It's just situationally ironic that I own both, and also prefer this shitty ass PC.

I NEVER said people HAVE to be a simpleton to own an xbox. I said that they desire simplicity in gaming. That does not say they're stupid, it says they'd rather not wasting their time with a computer, which is far more complicated in it's use and is also very maintenance heavy, and especially since you have to be very sure that your computer can run a game before you buy it, which involves a lot of research to make damn sure. And of course... there's the almost PC-exclusive DRM.

I am saying the computer is better in the vast amount of uses it has and how it has the ability to improve gameplay ten-fold (mods, customization, etc.) so there is more bang for your buck. Also computers were just as expensive and xbox 360s when they first came out if you simply wanted a gaming computer, assuming your not a mega-graphics whore . Even today, you can buy the individual parts of a computer and be able to play every game on the market ATM. It would only cost approximately 350 dollars from my calculations, which included finding each part I am able to immediately buy off ebay and newegg etc.

And of course, I could list off the mass amounts of other uses a computer is capable of in entirety. But then I'd be writing a god damn 1,000 page book.

well, i do admit that youve got me here. thank you for the good argument, i really do relish these moments [and no im not being sarcastic].

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

except that the indie marketplace on xbox is 99.9% crap, while the pc has enough good indie games to make it worth it.

Hardly my point. If the indie market becomes profitable in the eyes of the industry (as it seems to be becoming, seeing how EA is trying to pose as "Indie" these days) there'll be better outlets for the consoles (for a certain value of "better").

My point is that hardware just enables the act of playing, and arguing about which is "superior" is pointless.

But hey, do not let reason get in the way of yet another Platforms Flame War. (How do I make the eye-rolling smiley?)

i think i would jump off a bridge if i started a flame war. im normally the person that defuses them among friends/family.