I have noticed that when comparing PC and console games, it's a lot like comparing music. PC games would be rock music and console games would be rap.
Console games are like rap...First off, the fan base. Rap attracts a younger crowd...consoles attract a younger crowd. Rap songs come off as big and flashy and the "cool" thing, but really they fail to offer any real depth or innovation....just like console games. Speaking of innovation, You console fanboys might think Halo is the best thing since sliced bread, but here is some trivia for you:
The first Halo game was announced on July 21, 1999 during the Macworld Conference & Expo. It was originally planned to be a RTS game for the Mac and Windows, but later changed into a third person action game. On June 19, 2000 Microsoft acquired Bungie Studios and Halo became an Xbox exclusive title...So your "big hit", one of the biggest selling game in console game history....is a PC game at birth.
Which brings me to my next comparison. Console games, like rap, tend to take a lot of their content from already existing ideas. This would be in the form of game ports and sampling/covering songs. How many great rock songs have been ruined by crappy rap artists covering, or sampling them....and how many great PC games were made a mockery of being ported to console. In all fairness though, this is more of an old-school trait for console games, and not so much now. Back in the day, consoles received a lot of PC ports because the PC had already been out for some time and had time to establish a line of "hit" games. So they figured, if it worked on the PC, why not on console? As we realized through the years, some games are just meant to be played on PC. Today, games are typicallyreleased on bo th platforms quite often from the start...Rap on the other-hand, continues to butcher Rock songs rather than actually think of original beats and ideas.
New rap songs tends to be cool for a couple weeks, and then die. And when they die, they do not fade away gracefully, they crash and burn. you might as well bury it in a lead box, cover it with cement, and build a skyscraper on top of it. How many times have you seen someone on the road bumpin "the Fat Boys" or "Fresh Prince." It's not cool to play old rap, and it's not cool to play old console games....I've actually seen people look online, and make fun of people if they were playing an older game. In fact, if you want to play an older console game online...good like finding people on the servers. Whereas on the PC, like rock music, old is perfectly fine. Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Neil Young, all are just as popular now as they were when they were new. And you will still find people playing games like Doom, UT, Starcraft, and D2 online....And the PC attracts an older, more mature crowd, so they won't make fun of you if you choose to play the older titles.
If you have any comments to say...well, thats what forums are for.
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