The Ultimate Platform War Thread

[silent VI]

ill stick with my ps2 plays games better wont freeze wont bug out games cost like one dollar or however much a blank cd costs ps2 has the best game develpoers square rockstar activision its net ready the only downside i can see is no cool ass looking game mods pc do kick ass i will admit but for games ps2 is the way to go

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by DrunkeNStylE@4 November 2003 - 00:56
ill stick with my ps2 plays games better wont freeze wont bug out games cost like one dollar or however much a blank cd costs ps2 has the best game develpoers square rockstar activision its net ready the only downside i can see is no cool ass looking game mods pc do kick ass i will admit but for games ps2 is the way to go

ps2 has good games, but not as many good games as pc. and pc games are much more free. u can dl them, and play them, without having to buy dvds and dvd burner for like $100. quality is pretty much the same. and the bugs, well, if ur a pro, then u should have no probs

[silent VI]

lol my comps a piece of shit (ithink) if i wanted to games pc id be way way way to expensive btw i got xbox to so tons of pc games are released for it i way prefer my ps2 though games cost me like a dollar a piece for my ps2 my xbox are 20 but thats fora brand new packaged game i got my ps2 for 20 bones and x box for 60 (canadian) so for me 80 dollares canadian for both systems games are cheap run better. but im mad into games yo if i had a top of the line supercomp id get down with pc gaming cause i love those cool skins and mods

[note235]

I'm with pc. They are expensive but then you could upgrade them but on the console like Xbox Ps Xbox2 and Ps2 came out and Psx.Thank You.

[swarnel]

PC
so much more u can do with them,

[Vamp]

Emulators for consoles defeat the purpose when using them on a PC... For one thing you need an absolute beast to run them, plus, it would cost less to just buy the console then to buy a PC that can handle them... Why not play games on something that is dedicated to playing games, and looks as good as PC?

You can download mods/patches for games for Xbox.

I use my PC to play the odd game, like Deus Ex, Alice, Max Payne 2 or something like that, Internet, DVD Rippng and video-ediitng and leave the consoles to the games, which is what they're meant for.

As someone once said, when a developer develops a game for a console, They know exactly what the console's hardware is so they don't have to think about whether the game would run badly for some systems then it would for others.

With a PC, they can only make a game with generic standards in mind because4 they don't know what system someone is going to be using.

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by Vamp@3 November 2003 - 14:45

PC: Cons

Have to get patches, updates etc

Thats not a con, if anything thats a Pro.

Who here likes to play a buggy console game that cannot be fixed no matter how hard you try?

You can download mods/patches for games for Xbox.
Thats only just starting, and making working console mods requires more than just the console required to play it. Downloadable content is ok though.

This has been out on the PC for years though, and is much more widespread.

As someone once said, when a developer develops a game for a console, They know exactly what the console's hardware is so they don't have to think about whether the game would run badly for some systems then it would for others.
Worse graphics... You can upgrade a PC when you need to, if you need to. A PC that will play most games is not so expensive now, especially if you build your own.

[Vamp]

Defiently not worse graphics! I play my console on a 80" Flatron TV, the graphics for Halo and Splinter-Cell surpass their PC Counterparts.

The only things I don't like about consoles is controller sensitivty. When I play the odd game on PC I have the sens. on full. Luckily, some games allow you to adjust controller sensitivity, like Halo which is great because I play better with a controller then with a mouse and keyboard...

One (out of the hundred) things I love about consoles.

The fact that you CAN download mods and patches, I downloaded the new mission to Splinter Cell, Kola Cell... They might not be as readily available as PC mods, but I can see it happening in the future. A magazine called N.A.G releases mods and patches for PS2 and Xbox games.

I don't think you can say a console is inferior to a PC unless you have a bunch of consoles plus a decent PC.

I own Xbox, Ps2 and Dreamcast + a plathora of games and I much prefer consoles to PC, my thumbs adapt to the controllers and I can play like a fish in water... Consoles are Super-Standard gaming ona Not-having-to-worry-about-system-specs-or-upgrades platform. When games come out multi-platform, The consoles usually get better marks then the PC... Such as Halo and Enter The Matrix.

[ApacNTS]

I'd have to say PC has the advantage, not only for the programming ablities, quicker upgrades for games, but since the online factor is present, that is a huge step forward for them. now in the past few years that has been acclimated to the dreamcast/ps2/xbox/gamecube, but since microsoft has being doing it for years they got the map already charted. i wouldnt be suprised if apple didnt try to compete soon, however i hope for gamers sake they do not, i mean wouldnt you just hate to be playing and then the game freezes for 30mins. from what i've heard/read about newer game systems slated for release, essentially they have made a scaled down computer with even more power. the list read cd/dvdrom reader/burner, 40-80gb Harddrives, online support, keyboard mouse support, a dvd recorder for tv/dvd/vcr players. pretty much its your pc taken down to the size of a xbox or ps2.

back to the game systems of now, they are good and advance every few years but, it can take quite many years for things to be fixed and adjusted, computers have simpler fixes to them, a patch and a vulnerabiltiy is fixed instantly via download.

my vote goes PC hands down.

[Mad Cat]

What about graphics? People were playing crappy graphics from PS1s and N64s while PC people were getting sound visuals from games like UT.

More good points about PCs:
Freely available software/games from the Internet
Emulators (theres a few for consoles, but the PC rules in this area)
You can play games from the past (I know you can play PS1 games in a PS2, but thats about a 5-6 year period, PC players can get games from the 80s, and even some from earlier)
A lot of console games that are good get ported to PC [but are usually screwed up by crap developers, you get the odd nice port, like Halo (new maps and stuff that we can piss the X-Box people off with)]

EDIT: Hehe just posting as I read through

The consoles usually get better marks then the PC... Such as Halo and Enter The Matrix

Isn't that saying something to you? PC players will disregard this game as its stupid, but console people's worlds revolve around it...