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Matsu
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2006-11-12, 09:54

Untill now the games that have been different enough to require the specific strengths of a PC, that is keyboard and mouse input, and a higher resolution screen -- things like RTS -- have played just fine on lower spec computers. No need for a specific machine built for that purpose . The other popular genre, the FPS, often pushes the hardware limits, and will need a higher spec machine, but these games have little but graphical overkill going for them. They're all boring, run around and shoot stuff, environments within which gameplay is pretty much the same old same old.

Computer and console gaming are not comparable at all -- console gaming is far superior! Computer gaming is more about measuring hardware performance than actually playing said games, and too a large extent the development reflects that. So much goes into pushing graphical boundaries there doesn't seem to be much left over for working on new, unique and -- wait for it -- FUN concepts... Yes, yes, some people like them, but they're mostly socially maladjusted, pimple faced teen boys who split their time evenly between fragging and whacking -- not that there's anything wrong with that.

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