[QUOTE="jetthrovegas"]

I am a console user. Let's get that out of the way right up front. I have played games on PC (System Shock 2, Morrowind, Warcraft, etc.), but I am primarily aconsole user.I like the simple plug and playhardware, I like the big TV's and thesplitcreen versus matches, I like the fact that I don't have to worry about specs when I buy a game.

But, because of this Manhunt 2 fiasco, I have realized that the future of gaming is on the PC. While the consoles have restrictive licensing on Adult Only rated games that prevents them from even being released the PC encourages complete and total creative freedom.You can play adult games, you can download new (and maybe restricted) games off ofthe internet, it is simply a completely free gaming platform.

OnPC there is no company telling me what I can't see and what is good for my children. On the PC there are no restrictions on playing games that may be "psychologically harmful". Hell, even if publishers stopped releaseing AO games altogether, you could still download adult content games from the internet, perhaps directly from devs who are fed up with the moral police who tell them what can and cannot be portrayed in a video game!

Sure, I may love the simplicity of consoles, but unless the console manufacturers change their policies on AO games,I will be dropping some extra cash in the next gen.

Because no amount of savings and ease of use is worth having Big Brother cover your eyes for you.

JPOBS

What did youlol at? The word "fiasco"?

I am a console user. Let's get that out of the way right up front. I have played games on PC (System Shock 2, Morrowind, Warcraft, etc.), but I am primarily aconsole user.I like the simple plug and playhardware, I like the big TV's and thesplitcreen versus matches, I like the fact that I don't have to worry about specs when I buy a game.

But, because of this Manhunt 2 fiasco, I have realized that the future of gaming is on the PC. While the consoles have restrictive licensing on Adult Only rated games that prevents them from even being released the PC encourages complete and total creative freedom.You can play adult games, you can download new (and maybe restricted) games off ofthe internet, it is simply a completely free gaming platform.

OnPC there is no company telling me what I can't see and what is good for my children. On the PC there are no restrictions on playing games that may be "psychologically harmful". Hell, even if publishers stopped releaseing AO games altogether, you could still download adult content games from the internet, perhaps directly from devs who are fed up with the moral police who tell them what can and cannot be portrayed in a video game!

Sure, I may love the simplicity of consoles, but unless the console manufacturers change their policies on AO games,I will be dropping some extra cash in the next gen.

Because no amount of savings and ease of use is worth having Big Brother cover your eyes for you.

hey we were all casuals at one point in our lives..:roll:redandblack23

Yeah, well we were all infants once too, that doesn't mean I have to respect someone who still plays with a pacifier and a rattle!

So, please. Stop saying casual games suck, or casual systems suck, just because they are casual. Because to many, casual games can be really fun.

NATATO

Casual games suck. I don't know what a "casual system" is, but casual games suck.

And I don't care what "many" think.

[QUOTE="jetthrovegas"]

People like the TC trying to push casual games on us is exactly why casual games are hated!

"Stop saying casual games suck, or casual systems suck, just because they are casual. Because to many, casual games can be really fun. "

Stop telling me what games are fun. I will decide. I am entitled to my own opinion, and I hate casual games by definition.

NATATO

your missing the point. I'm not saying "Everyone love casual games right now"

If a casual came up to you and told you your favorite hardcore game sucks. You'd say "Shut up, you don't know what your talking about casual" Except he does! TO him, hardcore games are not fun.

There is no such thing as an expert of fun. Of course you know what you like, but don't hate casual games just because YOU don't like them

I do hate casual games because I dislike them. That is the point! I hate them, and I don't want to play them, and I don't think of the people that play them as true gamers.

I think that after MH2, Rockstar is going to try and be as un-controversial as they can with GTA4. We might be looking at the tamest GTA yet, because Take Two will want to play it safe this time around. They used to feed off of controversy, but lately they've been getting a lot more than they bargained for. The last thing they probably want right now is for another game to get banned.Timstuff

Rockstar and Take-two have some serious stones... they may suprise us.

People seem to forget that the PSOne introduced casuals to the market to begin with...-The-G-Man-

You are largely correct... although PC onling gaming had broken some casual barriers prior to Psone.