Steel_Wind
General Manager
While I appreciate the sentiment that players want their PC Game with depth and complexity, the gratuitous hatred for console games heaped out here is at the point where it is just frikkin' silly.
Here's a thought. If you can manage it? Grab yourself a nice HDTV and a 360 or PS3 (in the end, you will probably want both - but just one will do for now). Pick up a bunch of used games for cheap and maybe a new triple A title that catches your eye.
Play em, then play 'em some more. Relax. Put your feet up. You'll find pretty quickly that all this cloud of PC vs. Console bullshit disappates fairly quickly when put to the test of just playing the damn things.
I'm not saying that the complexity of Civ 4 will suddenly be rediscovered while playing your copy of Civ Revolution. But if you kick the tires on, say, Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3, you'll probably find that there are as many tactical choices in that game as you ever had in most of the vaunted RPGs that have been enshrined here in the Temple of the RPG Gaming Gods.
Most of all? If you get a console and start to really play it and use it? You'll find that your gaming options increase greatly and you end up playing more games and having more fun talking about them, too.
Some games work better on a console, too. For example, I could never get into Oblivion on the PC. Try as I could, it just wasn't for me. I heaped scorn and abuse upon it from time-to-time in my PC superiority complex days, too.
Lately, I have bought the Oblivion: Game of the Year edition recently on the 360 for $10. (Main game and both expansions. Did I mention used console games are cheap as hell?)
Know what? Oblivion plays >>better<< on my 360 than on my uber gaming PC. I don't mean load times and graphic immersion. I mean the overall flow and gameplay just FEELS better on the couch than in front of a monitor. I don't know why that would be so, but I am finding it to be true nonetheless. Oblivion? Fun and very enjoyable game. I apologize for my snide comments about it made over past years, too.
Seriously. A 360 costs so frikkin little these days. It's cheap as hell to give it a real try and put aside your prejudices. So give it a try. You might find the gulf between the platforms and the games you profess to love and hate is not so very big after all.
Here's a thought. If you can manage it? Grab yourself a nice HDTV and a 360 or PS3 (in the end, you will probably want both - but just one will do for now). Pick up a bunch of used games for cheap and maybe a new triple A title that catches your eye.
Play em, then play 'em some more. Relax. Put your feet up. You'll find pretty quickly that all this cloud of PC vs. Console bullshit disappates fairly quickly when put to the test of just playing the damn things.
I'm not saying that the complexity of Civ 4 will suddenly be rediscovered while playing your copy of Civ Revolution. But if you kick the tires on, say, Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3, you'll probably find that there are as many tactical choices in that game as you ever had in most of the vaunted RPGs that have been enshrined here in the Temple of the RPG Gaming Gods.
Most of all? If you get a console and start to really play it and use it? You'll find that your gaming options increase greatly and you end up playing more games and having more fun talking about them, too.
Some games work better on a console, too. For example, I could never get into Oblivion on the PC. Try as I could, it just wasn't for me. I heaped scorn and abuse upon it from time-to-time in my PC superiority complex days, too.
Lately, I have bought the Oblivion: Game of the Year edition recently on the 360 for $10. (Main game and both expansions. Did I mention used console games are cheap as hell?)
Know what? Oblivion plays >>better<< on my 360 than on my uber gaming PC. I don't mean load times and graphic immersion. I mean the overall flow and gameplay just FEELS better on the couch than in front of a monitor. I don't know why that would be so, but I am finding it to be true nonetheless. Oblivion? Fun and very enjoyable game. I apologize for my snide comments about it made over past years, too.
Seriously. A 360 costs so frikkin little these days. It's cheap as hell to give it a real try and put aside your prejudices. So give it a try. You might find the gulf between the platforms and the games you profess to love and hate is not so very big after all.