Paragon Fury said:
It because PC gamers had for the longest time built themselves up in a nice little, secure bubble where they actually were superior in most ways to any current-day console. Right around the time of N64 - PS1 Era, they sensed a looming threat to their preferred gaming system. They still had most points up on consoles, but they saw a change coming.
And then Halo 2 and the advent of Xbox Live happened. And the 2 of the 4 biggest advantages, shooters and multiplayer, suddenly got shotgunned by a man in green armor, and PC gaming started its meltdown.
It only went downhill from there; it became (and still is becoming) increasingly more profitable to develop for consoles than for PCs. And for a while it was really to get all sorts of crazy ideas for games green-lit on consoles, while PC gamers remained rather staunch in what they wanted.
And then another key element of PC gaming's reign got taken away from them; great stories. When things like Jade Empire, Oblivion, etc. started showing up on consoles, something that traditionally been the realm of PC gaming was again lost to consoles.
And now, the final thing which PC gamers hold desperately to is becoming less and less relevant, and thats scary for them. Their technological superiority has long been the cornerstone to their arguments, but now that gap is shrinking, and they are faced with a gaming world where not many people really give fuck that their PC rigs can run Crysis 2 with 8x Anti-Aliasing at max settings at 60FPS.
While PC gaming still has the RTS and MMO market on lockdown, I wouldn't hold my breath for them for long; you know that some ambitious developer out there is looking to make them a big hit out on consoles too, in order to lap up some of that delicious, recurring MMO and RTS money.
And then you combine all this with PC gaming's general "Fuck all y'all" attitude towards everyone, even people who are nice to them, the gaming community as a whole cares less and less about them. Which makes the PC community angrier, which makes people like them less, and on and on.
Of course, the irony is that PC gamers really only have themselves to blame; gamers and devs. wasted almost no time in setting up an "Us vs. Them" situation with PCs and consoles, and PC gamers did almost nothing to stop it, since console gamers really didn't have that kind of influence back then.
this is the reason why pc gamers hate consoles.
it's because of the stupidity of it's users. if this kid right here knew any history about gaming in general or popular franchises and their fall from grace, he would know that many of them were due to consoles.
let's start educating this console peasant shall we?
He claims that xbox live and halo took away from PC? Hrm, well we got halo 2 on pc which sold terribly and we still have online capabilities with pc which are superior in everyway to xbox live and guess what, its free. But since simpletons like yourself choose to have your parents pay for xbox live each month that give companies like Microsoft the idea that people are willing to pay for online. One day other will follow this trend, and it's because of people liek yourself that it exists. Same goes for DLC (which at one point was always free on PC). There's one reason why console gamers are inferior. They have no backbone and buy into everything people tell them.
Next, there's no doubt there's more money in consoles. Of course there is. The general public is getting stupider and lazier in everything they do. Look at the latest testing scores for US schools. Why bother learning how to build a computer for the right price when we can go out and purchase something premade for us. It easier and takes less time, and lacks any real knowledge except what the walmart employee tells us. In the end though, all console owners prolly have a computer and could have easily used the money towards that to subsidize their gaming computer. So its not like they dont have the money. It's because they're too lazy to learn.
You claim we lost great stories. Hrm, we do have Oblivion (the superior version with better textures and greater draw distance) so how did you take away stories? Do you have STALKER, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, World of Warcraft or the upcoming The Old Republic. We have almost every game that console players do and more. But nice try.
And then you contradict yourself by saying we're losing our technological superiority and yet who cares if we can play things with better graphics and frame rates than others??? What?! We are technologically superior and always will be. PC gaming is always evolving, console gaming is stagnant. Learn the difference and you'll know we're always going to be superior.
I'll address everything else you just said with this. We have a fuck you attitude to many because they think we'll accept any shitty product they put out.
Let's look at this shall we.
Rainbow Six once a tactical FPS is now a run and gun. Why? Consoles
Deus Ex which was once a hybrid RPG FPS that had much depth and complexity to its mechanics was then turned into, wow and FPS. What else is new. And when did that happen. OHHH when it moved to consoles.
Ghost Recon - consolized
System Shock 2 - consolized (Bioshock, practically same shit if you've played both)
Splinter Cell - with the latest one, completely bastardized due to the popularity of shooters. thanks consoles.
Must i even go into the withholding content on discs due to DLC argument?
thanks console owners.
Games will always go down in history as being superior on pc. When you guys want to play your halo in 35 years you'll have problems finding an xbox to play it on but guess what? We wont. And we'll be playing it in HD too.
PC gaming HD since the 90's. Console gaming, still not HD.
keep holding game back from it's true potential console.
now that you've been educated. go back and play your xbawks.
SID & FAT AGNUS all the way.
