Mass Effect Coming to the PC

External Since: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 3064

Thus spake Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick.TakeThisOut@nospam.io>, Sat, 15 Mar 2008
16:02:56 -0500, Anno Domini:

>In article <LrVCj.3564$Ff4.2117@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>,
>Morgan <Nospam.TakeThisOut@nospam.com> wrote:
>>"Kyle Haight" <khaight.TakeThisOut@lefDELETEtistME.org> wrote in
>>message news:pKCdnVMCMNcagkHanZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com
>>>
>>> I crossed the line and became a dual PC/console gamer in
>>> December of last year. I'll stack my PC RPG credentials
>>> up against anyone; I cut my teeth on the original
>>> Wizardry on the Apple 2 back in the mid-1980's. I bought
>>> a console specifically to play Mass Effect, and I enjoyed
>>> it quite a bit, and I expect to play more console games
> <snip>
>>I don't get this childish fanboy idea that you must be loyal to one platform
>>or another. I got a 360 about a month ago due to the dwindling supply of
>>decent games for the PC and a couple of Consol only games that I wanted to
>>play. I still use my PC for games, and will continue to use it for games
>>but I'm not going to refuse to get a console due to some idiotic schoolyard
>>mentality. Hell I might even get a PS3 to widen my choice further and watch
>>BlueRay films.
>
>I would like to echo the sentiment, and to add only this: The games are
>what matters, and not what platform they're made for. We're all gamers,
>and we don't benefit from intramural conflict among ourselves. What we do
>benefit from is healthy competition from the game developers, but this
>sometimes translates into fanboy arguments as their marketing methods
>filter down into the masses. As long as we buy what we enjoy playing I
>think everybody's safe.

BZZT! Nice try though K - come back in 10 years when all that's left on the
market are 2 minute noodle console games for drooling idiots. Just don't
blame ME! :-p

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Nostromo

External Since: Jun 15, 2007 Posts: 143

"Werewolf" <nunya.TakeThisOut@biteme.net> wrote in message
news:E4_Cj.69238$497.38197@newsfe14.phx
> Kyle Haight wrote:
>
> > PC gamers have been complaining for years about having
> > to pay for "beta quality" software that needs multiple
> > patches before it runs properly. Seems like the
> > developers have started using console gamers as their
> > beta testers, which is arguably a good thing if you're
> > a PC gamer.
>
> No it isn't.
>
> Console players are a less demanding bunch more used to
> click fests than games where any serious amount of brain
> power is demanded.

Serious amounts of brain power? You're having a laugh aren't you? What
game have you played that requires a *serious* amount of brain power? I play
both console games and PC games, am I more stupid when playing a Console
game? Preferring PC games isn't a mark of intelligence, it just means that
we have different tastes. Yes I generally prefer games with more complex
game mechanics myself but that makes me no more intelligent than someone who
prefers less complex games. Hell my old Networking lecturer liked beat 'em
ups and he had a bloody PhD.

> Consoles are to PC's what mixing retards, normals and
> exceptionally smart students all into the same class did
> to education in the US. In other words dumbed it down to
> the lowest common denominator.

Not sure about the US but in the UK teachers simply differentiat the level
of work depending on the student/class.