resident_jisen, I get what you mean. I've had one console of my own, my entire life: a Dreamcast. And I very much enjoyed it, the time that I did spend on it, as unfortunately it died far too quickly. Jet Set Radio was awesome, some Resident Evil 3 and a miscellanea of others were always pleasant as I wasn't used to playing consoles. I had played consoles before, on occasion, either a recent one at a friend's for a jiffy or an old one of my brother's, such as the Master System 2. But this was a different experience and I enjoyed it. A game like JSRadio is played better on a pad and even RE3 felt good to play as I sat comfortably on the living room couch and watched my game on the TV, farther away than usual. Disc 1 of Grandia II was also an enjoyably different experience, it being a console j-RPG -- Disc 2 was unreadable; most of the games I played on it were borrowed. :V
Having said that, the PC continues to be my preferred and foremost gaming platform. I can do so much more on the PC, which I've learned to use since I was but a wee kid. Consoles have been trying to catch, gaining more and more functionality, but it's never the same. And if you know how to build-buy a PC, you can get a much better deal than buying a recent console, [b]even[/b] if you know how to get hold of burned console game discs. Because in the end, whatever you can do on the console, you can do better on the PC, with the exceptions that are certain games, like racing ones. But to work, to take notes, to browse the interwebs, the PC is vastly more practical. I've felt very tempted by consoles, but I've never doubted that the PC was still the best for gaming, for someone who's familiar with it as I am and isn't a fan of the more simpler games that are often made for consoles. Even during the recent dark age of the PC, where so many seemingly great releases were kept away from that platform, which now seems to happen less frequently, even then did I find PC to be the platform for me. As enjoyable as a pad can be, being on the couch, playing on the teli, I always feel more in control of the interactivity with a mouse and a keyboard. And this is triply so for an FPS. RTS also can't be properly played with a pad. And top-down view RPGs as well, unless they're simpler, console-oriented.
Not to mention I have my classics on the PC as well, which I very much enjoyed in my youth and occasionally get a kick in replaying. There's always more that I haven't gotten around to or even thought of. Console classics? Whether I played them a bit, more than a bit, or I just know of them and never got to play, emulators available on the PC allow me access to them all, nowadays. And the only reason you don't proper emulators for the PS3 and X360 is because they intentionally constructed them to work, well... essentially differently than a PC, data is processed in a different pattern or some such. Which basically implies that emulation has to [i]translate[/i] the processing to one that is apt for the PC, which requires hardware that is exponentially more powerful than the respective console's. It's very impractical, thus there's little interest in making such a difficult emulator, especially when there's already so much available, of which the Wii is included, by now.
Consoles can server as great side-platforms. If you're a gamer, you're better off having and taking a console with you than a laptop, unless you require one for other purposes. For people who are absolutely uninterested in anything other than the gaming, they're the better choice, too. But for the rest of us, they can't possibly be the main platform.
TL;DR: good games on consoles, but they ain't for FPS, RTS and old-style western RPGs.
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