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Originally Posted by Junkenstein
Most of the time i think that consoles prevail out of laziness. The argument i always hear since the early playstation days is usually a variation of "Well if you have a console you just have to play the game and not worry about installing it, making it start and shit like that. you put it in and you play". Also magazine and software developers love to lie about the issue, saying that (i quote) "even the best PC cant give the performance of an XBOX360" (that was written on Gamespot).
Videogames are still seen as juvenile disposable garbage directed to kids, so the easiest way to market them is selling them as half baked items on a console.
Agreed. They're still psychos that dress like extras fro thew party in "Shining" (a reference that was re-enforced by the intro. i keep thinking of rapture like a steampunk version of the overlook hotel), but they play with my wekness this time. I might be a big and strong big daddy, but when they start playing sniper with me while aome of t hem surround me in a corner, it gets scary.
Note: Ryan's monologues are still priceless.
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The ease thing makes me laugh. You don't have to install! Unless you do! And if you do, it runs better! After 5 patches download! I can't think of the last time I had problems running a game on my PC but everytime I put a PS3 game in, I want to punch Sony in the face. The lies thing is a money hat thing, sadly.
I'll be interested to see how this generation plays over the next few years, consoles are a bit less powerful than the average PC with a decent graphics card right now but in a few years, the gap will be huge.
Aha, good call with The Shining. I did love that opening sequence. The game does a good job of making me feel threatened then powerful, then threatened again. I'm not helpless but I'm not the tank I feared I would be either and that feeling of never being safe was so crucial to the first game.
Funny you should mention Ryan
(spoilers) I wasn't really sold on Lamb until I heard the first debate tape; Ryan does one of his brilliant and disturbing speeches that perfectly outlines his ethos and then Lamb hits back with something just as effective that runs right over his. I'm not sure if she'll be as interesting as Ryan but I am giving her a chance now.