PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? 324
thsoundman sends in a blog post from Rahul Sood, CTO of HP's gaming business, who claims there was once a project in development at Microsoft to let Xbox users compete against PC users playing the same game. According to Sood, the project was killed because the console players kept getting destroyed by their PC counterparts. He wrote, "Those of us who have been in the gaming business for over a decade know the real deal. You simply don't get the same level of detail or control as you do with a PC over a console. It's a real shame that Microsoft killed this — because had they kept it alive it might have actually increased the desire of game developers and gamers alike to continue developing and playing rich experiences on the PC, which would trickle down to the console as it has in the past."
Re:Not a surprise (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Keyboard and mouse (Score:5, Funny)
No, the PC gamer on the console would still win.
He would rage at the damn xbox controller so hard that he would beat the guy using his PC with it until he had a concussion.
Re:That's really what it comes down to (Score:3, Funny)
>>>the 3rd person shooter is a big step backward. Instead of feeling like you're actually in the game, you feel like you're controlling a marionette with slack wires. Walk up to a low wall in a third-person game and you don't know if your character is going to jump over it, use it for cover or just run into it and stand there. You end up making adjustments that necessarily detract from the experience.
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You guys take your gaming way too seriously.
(dusts off Commodore to play some Red Storm Rising)
PC/Mac vs. Console Gaming (Score:2, Funny)
Remember when Civilization IV was so kick butt on Windows and Mac systems? Sid never learned his lesson from when he made Civ 1 for the SNES and other consoles, it does better on PCs and people who play game consoles aren't smart enough to figure out Civ IV so they made Civilization Revolution instead or Civ IV for Dummies and dumbed down everything.
Look the game consoles are mostly used by young people in college or ready to go t college or in high school and yes even as young as age 6 using their parent's account and credit card (they lied about their age BTW as most kids do) and then when us college graduates who own PC or Mac systems in our 30's 40's etc grew up playing games just like these for the past 10 to 20 years of course we are going to do better. You grow up playing Wolf3D, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, etc, and you get really good playing shoot 'e, up gun games and you put us with n00bz barely able to figure out how to aim much less use a gun.
It isn't our fault we are sad geezers with sharp shooting skills, I am related to the McCoys in the Hatfield/McCoy feud and got the sharp shooter gene passed on to my son, who can take out the other people in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.0 game that he has to mute the talk of other people who always cuss him out be they old geezers, young adults, teenagers, pre-teens or whatever because I taught him my gun fighting skills with Wolf3D, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, etc before he even got to video game consoles.
Re:Moddable fighting games (Score:2, Funny)
Reports of Homebrew's death on firmware 4.3 have been greatly exaggerated.
Look at your controller... Now back to me (Score:4, Funny)
Get off my lawn (Score:3, Funny)