Zontar said:
Not so much now, but back in 04-08 it was pretty common to see people calling PC gaming dead due to the dramatic drop in PC gaming between the mid 90s and mid 2000s. A lot of PC gamers haven't let that go, kind of the same way Nintendo fanboys haven't let the fact the company bounced back from third to first place between generations die down.
Playing that game are we now. Says it all really, though these type of threads are usually a pretty good indication anyway.
You can attempt to appear reasonable all you want, but people will notice those slip ups that betray the illusion.
Tayh said:
valve's iron-tight grasp on the PC market grows stronger. Hurray for monopolies!
Fuck the freedom of choice, nobody wants that shit anyways.
Hey now Valve are good guys they'll never do that... and they don't have a monopoly anyway who told you that. Forget anything that goes counter to that, a lot of other people have.
Gailim said:
The exclusives argument doesn't work in consoles favor.
besides that is a terrible reason to buy a platform. There are fantastic games on every platform these days. Not having certain games is not important. you can still have tons of fun without them. The only good reason to buy a platform is because you believe that platform offers an inherently superior experience to the alternatives. No game is so much better than it's competitors that it is worth dropping $3-500 just to play that one game. It is a crutch used by platform makers to avoid having to compete on the actual quality of their machine.
in short, if you believe that the WiiU gamepad/Motion controller offers a compelling gameplay alternative then by all means get a WiiU, but saying you got it because of MK8 is a bit silly. There are TONS of other great racing games out there that offer a great time with friends
Just burying yourself with all that. Gaming is about the games, not the pieces of plastic and metal you use to play them on.
To sum it up you're saying: "I myself don't have access to the consoles and their exclusives... but... that is fine because who needs those games, I don't want to play them anyway...".
The "inherently superior experience" is loaded and very common in those types of posts. You're saying it because you think that as you're talking about PCs far beyond the current consoles (which isn't the norm but I don't need to go there) that your statement is rock solid. The problem is your other statements and "loyalty" weakens it to the point of irrelevance... its quite simply not credible.
The "compete on the actual quality" is rarer though you'll find a couple of folk here who have that stance... though one sadly got recently banned. However as I said to them consoles are not == pre-built PCs. Consoles are purchased with the customer having faith in exclusives being produced specifically for it (or if brought later the exclusives already existing). A pre built PC is just a PC you pay more for like say those fabled Steam Machines everyone was going mad for not that long ago for very odd reasons.
You should try it before you deem it unimportant. Many of the best games are exclusives, being a multiplatform god I know such things trust me. I'm confident you wouldn't be able to name a single game that gives a experience like MK8 on PC as that is seemingly the contest you wish to have.
