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Originally posted by KraftSLU
Im not getting what you mean by 'pc-like' games... When I think PC gaming I think mouse+keyboard in conjunction with the game. When I think console games I think 'controller'. All of the games coming out for xbox will use the controller end of the spectrum. Not to rag on you, but could you elaborate on 'pc-like' and tell me why xbox games are more 'pc-like' than PS2 or GC's games?
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Oh, don't get me wrong - the PS2 has more than it's fair share of PC-like games, but the PS2 library is extremely vast so a lower percentage of games are PC-like...
For example, I consider FPS' to be PC games. Why? Cos I'm yet to play a console FPS that is as good as a PC one. Same with RTS'... Games such as Halo, Unreal Championship, Star Wars: Galaxies and so on are game types that traditionally would be at home on a PC. And given that the aforementioned games will come out on PC in one form or another, I have no need to buy an XBox to play them.
And it's the same reason why I have Max Payne, Deus Ex, Half-Life and Quake 3 on my PC rather than my PS2.
Those types of game
feel better on my PC. Just like driving, fighting and shoot-em-ups
feel better on my PS2 or Dreamcast (and would probably feel better on XBox too).
Having played 'console' games on PC (Res Evil and FFVII spring immediately to mind), they have felt just as 'clumsy' as the PC ports on PSX/PS2 have to me.
But by virtue of the fact that the XBox shares many PC-like features (Intel, Win2K, NVdidia, etc), and hence makes PC ports a helluva lot easier than it would to PS2, means we'll see a lot more PC ports (or games that are PC-esque) appearing on it.
This is not a rag on the XBox, it's a rag on gaming styles.... and put simply, if I want to play PC-like games then I'll buy them for, and play them on, my PC.... Not PS2, XBox or whatever...
- S