Comments on: What I Hate About Console Gaming

By: Se11001

Se11001 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:02:27 +0000

So true!

I hate the work that’s wasted to provide games for that shit! Consoles are for little children, nothing else.

By: krypto

krypto — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:55:19 +0000

PC’s are the best you can do so much more with i loved modifying GTA games and making them more to my taste and if you want to play old consoles or even the wii there are emulators out there that work really well now.

By: painkiller1961

painkiller1961 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:17:55 +0000

PC’s are Harley’s, Consoles are Vespa’s, big boys, little boys.

By: SIllyCONSOLEKids

SIllyCONSOLEKids — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:05:13 +0000

A few things about me first.

I am 19, female, and I love to play great games. Ive noticed most great games are on PC or better on the PC,. Dragon Age: Origins for example. And the reason I say most is because MADDEN is on consoles, i prefer the 360 when it comes to consoles.

Still gots lots of love for MicroSoft

Sure console gaming has its pluses. Like you can be a complete moron with the attention span of a gold fish.

I find it that your typical PC/PC gaming fanatic is smarter and know themselves better than your plug and play console gamer.

PCs do sooooooooooooooo much more than just play the latest cutting edge games with the best graphics.

they do everything besides iron your clothes.

you can just go to your local computer store and but yourself a gaming pc, or go on newegg.com or something, order all your parts wait 3 days to get them, be super exited when you do. put your baby together, fire her up and get the satisfaction of knowing YOU built it, you KNOW whats in it and whats its capable of and that you can have fun with it.

one more thing. upgrading isnt all that expensive. I can usually sell parts for about 75% of what i bought them for. maybe even higher. given the time is right. this is where you have to use your brain console gamers. if you are too lazy to do that, then you are obsolete like the platform you use to play.

yes PC gaming is more complicated but thats half the fun. clicking a few times to install the game isnt hard.

so please, if you are going to spend so much time playing games might as well pick up a good hobby that will help you in the future by the way the world is changing, PCs.

By: Superfakerbros

Superfakerbros — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:37:30 +0000

I disagree with many of what you have said. Mario, Zelda, and Metroid aren’t rehashed in the slightest unless you’re trying to say that to bash Nintendo and that’s really desperate. I have played games on my PC and the only thing it’s the best in are FPS otherwise it sucks for gaming. I’m going back to my PS3 and Wii.

By: lolwtf

lolwtf — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:50:33 +0000

ha is it cuz you can’t afford one? (no offense) or is it that your addicted to mmorpg’s? personally i hate pc games, the only reason ppl play at my school is because 1. didnt buy a console, or 2. console broke

By: blabla

blabla — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:20:48 +0000

PC RULES.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:45:35 +0000

PCs are my hobby, and thus I sink a lot of money into them. I’m also a fan of PC gaming, and the possibilities that come with it (mods, among other things as mentioned above). I’ve played games on consoles, but to be honest, I can never get used to it. I don’t think I’ll ever buy a console, at least not as long as PCs are available. I like to tinker and mess about with stuff, not just sit idly in a chair, thumbing away at a controller pad.

By: Oskar Lindblom

Oskar Lindblom — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:40:50 +0000

Me personally, what I particularly hate about console gaming is the fact that it is ruining the gaming quality in general for real gamers on any platform. Especially today’s money-centric game developers who have close to no passion nor heart for games try to direct their products to the casual and non-gamer audience in order to make score most profit.
To make a game that scores a lot of money one has to convert it to several consoles after being made for the PC (in most cases at least), make it so simple and hand holding that casuals can enjoy it and gamers buy it anyway and cut the overall freedom in the game so that they don’t make content that maybe only 10% of the players might stumble upon (instead games are linear, in order not to waste precious time on content that will not be experienced by the majority of players anyway).
This can be seen at best when there’s little or none at all Mod-community (both because of the fact that it is also a console game and because the lack of freedom/sandbox element often eliminate the purpose of modded content since it cannot be properly implanted anyway). Games end up being linear shooters with just good graphics.
This is the reason why I hardly enjoy the new games of today that are made by rich corporations like EA Games, EA Dice (mainly looking at Mirror’s Edge here), Activision Blizzard (after the merge) and the like. The last two epic true gamer’s games were TES IV: Oblivion and STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. Both were mainly PC games and have some of the strongest modding bases in internet history, an open environment with content that maybe only 10% of the players who play it stumble upon and are the only games since 2001 that I have spent over 100 hours each on (over 200 hours actually spent on both). Together with their mods, they should be the role-models after which more games should be made. Freedom requires being PC-game, PC-game breeds unity, unity breeds mod community, mods breed perfection to a game.
This is my view on this subject, sorry for not being able to keep it shorter (I tried!). Thanks for reading, and I’m not here to start a PC >/< console war.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:42:48 +0000

I’d have to agree with you Mike. Most of the interesting console games are PC titles too. Those few which do seem interesting are games you’ll play for a few hours every month, tops. (Fighting games and watered down RPGs mostly)

But I don’t quite understand why you took the original article seriously. It was clearly written by a younger console gamer and none of his arguments hold up to scrutiny, not even the one about consoles being more powerful than average (gaming) PCs. The Steam Hardway Survey unmasks that fallacy with ease.