How do 'console only' gamers put up with the dearth of decent titles?

I play on both PC and console and I'm currently the owner of all 3 'last-gen' consoles.  I like to at least try most of the decent games that get released but yet I rarely find myself actually having to switch a console on.

Conversly I find that I'm spending a huge amount of time on my PC.  High quality games release almost daily it seems (slight exaggerartion but it does sometimes appear to be that way) and I actually have a large backlog of games waiting to be played....and that's before I dive into the mods for them!

I've never had a backlog on console, typically anything decent gets played for the 8 (ish) hours it takes to complete (most console exclusives and XBLA/PSN titles seem to fall under this catagory and i'm not a big MP shooter fan) and then the console goes back to dust collection mode for the next 6 months.

I enjoy playing a wide variety of good games so waiting that long for decent titles would drive me mad, how do you cope with it? 

Do other things that life offers.

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whiskeystrike

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FoxbatAlpha

Lack of...

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i love you!

Sweenix

Thanks.  I may love you too but I don't yet know you well enough to say for sure.

Hug? 

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i love you!

1080pOnly

Thanks.  I may love you too but I don't yet know you well enough to say for sure.

Hug? 

I've been a console gamer for over a decade and I've never found myself to be lacking in choices of games to buy. Don't know what you're on about. khoofia_pika

There are plenty of choices of games to buy, I agree.  There are very few choices of decent games to buy and what's worse is that 90% of them are FPS/TPS rehashes.

Sweenix

Right back at ya!

They have multiplats... but yeah, if you're a PC gamer holding onto your console only for the exclusives, it won't get much use. I know my PS3 could go for a few months with minimal use.

Id trade a pc with all quality titles ever released for it for every console and all the quality titles released for them anyday. If your running dry on quality console titles then your gaming wrong.

Id trade a pc with all quality titles ever released for it for every console and all the quality titles released for them anyday. If your running dry on quality console titles then your gaming wrong.

WilliamRLBaker

Previous gen consoles are so much hassle to use AND there isn't space under my TV for all of the devices I'd need.  You're argument is realistically invalidated by the fact that you'd need an entire room just to house the consoles let alone the peripherals to go with them.  The PC would just be, you know, a single PC with all of the games.

However, in your hypothetical situation that doesn't really bear relevence to this thread, I still disagree that the consoles would have a higher quanitity of and better versions of games than the PC. 

If you feel I might have missed any gems on the consoles this gen then please feel free to point them out because this would be the only way i'm 'doing it wrong'.

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"]I've been a console gamer for over a decade and I've never found myself to be lacking in choices of games to buy. Don't know what you're on about. 1080pOnly

There are plenty of choices of games to buy, I agree.  There are very few choices of decent games to buy and what's worse is that 90% of them are FPS/TPS rehashes.

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[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"]I've been a console gamer for over a decade and I've never found myself to be lacking in choices of games to buy. Don't know what you're on about. khoofia_pika

There are plenty of choices of games to buy, I agree.  There are very few choices of decent games to buy and what's worse is that 90% of them are FPS/TPS rehashes.

That's what I'm not seeing I guess... maybe because I don't pay enough attention to the multiplats on console? Or because there are so few exclusives on console these days?  I think I should really have said that there are a dearth of console exclusive experiences available.

What reasons do I have to switch on my consoles? TLOU was cool, for like 10 hours.

Life has full of things to do.

People who get mad waiting for a game are basement dwellers. That's for sure.

I'm looking at my library this gen, i would say about half of the retail titles are not available on PC.

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"][QUOTE="1080pOnly"]

There are plenty of choices of games to buy, I agree.  There are very few choices of decent games to buy and what's worse is that 90% of them are FPS/TPS rehashes.

1080pOnly

That's what I'm not seeing I guess... maybe because I don't pay enough attention to the multiplats on console? Or because there are so few exclusives on console these days?  I think I should really have said that there are a dearth of console exclusive experiences available.

What reasons do I have to switch on my consoles? TLOU was cool, for like 10 hours.

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FoxbatAlpha

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"]I've been a console gamer for over a decade and I've never found myself to be lacking in choices of games to buy. Don't know what you're on about. 1080pOnly

There are plenty of choices of games to buy, I agree.  There are very few choices of decent games to buy and what's worse is that 90% of them are FPS/TPS rehashes.

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

i love you!

1080pOnly

Thanks.  I may love you too but I don't yet know you well enough to say for sure.

Hug? 

No idea what you're talking about. There's all kinds of games to play.

No idea what you're talking about. There's all kinds of games to play.

Michael0134567

You can tell the OP has selective observation when a reply like this enters the discussion ;)

Console gaming 4 life! 

I've got a backlog of nine console games (current gen only) at the moment, and that's after buying three new ones yesterday. :P Different strokes for different people. 

its not like i would want to be a console only gamer but building a rig cost a pretty penny and im not that tech savvy to be able to do something like that

with that said, i have over 137 console games (120 physical and the rest are either psn/xbla games) so i wouldnt call that a dearth of decent titles.

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No idea what you're talking about. There's all kinds of games to play.

AdobeArtist

You can tell the OP has selective observation when a reply like this enters the discussion ;)

I do just fine.

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[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

No idea what you're talking about. There's all kinds of games to play.

Michael0134567

You can tell the OP has selective observation when a reply like this enters the discussion ;)

No denying that. But the truth was still self evident in your post :)

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"][QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

You can tell the OP has selective observation when a reply like this enters the discussion ;)

AdobeArtist

No denying that. But the truth was still self evident in your post :)

I play on both PC and console and I'm currently the owner of all 3 'last-gen' consoles.  I like to at least try most of the decent games that get released but yet I rarely find myself actually having to switch a console on.

Conversly I find that I'm spending a huge amount of time on my PC.  High quality games release almost daily it seems (slight exaggerartion but it does sometimes appear to be that way) and I actually have a large backlog of games waiting to be played....and that's before I dive into the mods for them!

I've never had a backlog on console, typically anything decent gets played for the 8 (ish) hours it takes to complete (most console exclusives and XBLA/PSN titles seem to fall under this catagory and i'm not a big MP shooter fan) and then the console goes back to dust collection mode for the next 6 months.

I enjoy playing a wide variety of good games so waiting that long for decent titles would drive me mad, how do you cope with it? 

1080pOnly

The type of games that are released for pc-only on a daily basis are not decent.

They are usually equivalent to flash games that you can play for free on the internet.

I really wonder who the heck buys games like battleblock theatre...You can play games better than that on the internet on a 10 year old PC.

The type of games that are released for pc-only on a daily basis are not decent.

They are usually equivalent to flash games that you can play for free on the internet.

 

I really wonder who the heck buys games like battleblock theatre...You can play games better than that on the internet on a 10 year old PC.

call_of_duty_10

battleblock theater is an xbox game

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The type of games that are released for pc-only on a daily basis are not decent.

They are usually equivalent to flash games that you can play for free on the internet.

 

I really wonder who the heck buys games like battleblock theatre...You can play games better than that on the internet on a 10 year old PC.

lostrib

battleblock theater is an xbox game

Wasn't trying to attack the PC anyway.

Games like battleblock theatre and most indie games on PC should NOT be compared to big budget retail titles.You cannot play games like gears of war or uncharted on the internet for free.You MUST pay for these games,since they are unique and there are no substitutes for them.

But sidescroller indie games....fvck them.They are comparable to flash games.Even if you do not have a 360,you can play something very similar to limbo or Bat. theatre on the internet.