Xbox 360, PS3, or PC gaming?

[NFD]

MrGiggles gifted me Counter Strike: Source on Steam <:

[Izzy]

I don't know what kind of games you have played but the speed you can turn around is dependent on a sensitivity variable that most games let you change. You can very easy turn around instantly in a console game. Also you would have to be using a controller incredibly bad if you are only using your two thumbs to play. You would have your two thumbs on the two analog sticks at all times allowing you to move and aim in any direction plus your index finger for a couple of things that you don't need to do at the same time and you have your ring fingers for triggers.

Most games including PC games wouldn't even let you press more then 4 things at once either way, so it doesn't really matter how many things you want to do at once.

edit: It seems to me that it would be a lot less precise to turn that fast on a console game. That is why I think it is more difficult or takes more skill to accurately do it.

[phe0nixblade]

Originally Posted by Izzy

I don't know what kind of games you have played but the speed you can turn around is dependent on a sensitivity variable that most games let you change. You can very easy turn around instantly in a console game. Also you would have to be using a controller incredibly bad if you are only using your two thumbs to play. You would have your two thumbs on the two analog sticks at all times allowing you to move and aim in any direction plus your index finger for a couple of things that you don't need to do at the same time and you have your ring fingers for triggers.

Most games including PC games wouldn't even let you press more then 4 things at once either way, so it doesn't really matter how many things you want to do at once.

But where they make it so you can turn instantly, they use auto-aim, whereas *most* PC FPS don't. I play tons of FPS on both Xbox 360 and PC, and I prefer it way more with a mouse.

[SylverDragon]

Personally Id go with my PS3 over my PC just simply cause my pc sucks :P But still, Im an rpg fiend, and the playstation has long been leader of developing some of the best rpg's the world has seen, just to name a few ... final fantasy (with nintendo aswell), grandia, kingdom hearts, xenosaga, and so on. Plus, in my opinion, console gaming is much more comfortable, and when going online, it definitely goes faster and plays better than my pc.

[Kerushii-Dono]

I have to go with the PS3 just because of the graphics, though they don't have many games that I'm dying to get. Little Big Planet is a good one though, it keeps you interested past the pre-made levels

I'd say the X-Box 360 but I always think of the red ring of death X.x

[Kekeb]

PC, competitive tf2

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by Izzy

It seems to me that it would be a lot less precise to turn that fast on a console game. That is why I think it is more difficult or takes more skill to accurately do it.

Late to the party, but nope Izzy. I mean, if a game for 360 is a straight port of a PC game, then it would be more difficult. But I view difficulty due to inferior control schemes as a bad thing. Most devs add subtle auto-aim and various other tweaks to help out a dual-stick player, so the skill level is about the same. Enemies shoot slower, everything tends to be more horizontally oriented, enlarged hitboxes, etc. Although, comparing "skill" requirements between them is ridiculous, really. Apples to oranges.

I prefer a controller for platformers and RPGs. Fighters, too. Everything else I try to get on PC if possible.

[adlp]

xbox for halo, rainbow six vegas 2, and MW2

[Genisis]

In my experience, PC takes a lot more skill than the console for FPS gaming. I started with Half-Life when I was 7, Team Fortress Classic when I was about 9 or 10 years old, then got into CS 1.6 and Source. It took insane amounts of practice to get into CAL in my 1.6 clan and do decently.

Then I'd go over to a friend's house, pop on to his console and destroy him at his own game (Halo, for example). The only shooter I have owned on a console is Perfect Dark, and I've barely played it (as awesome as it is). Then I would bring the friend over to my house to try gaming on a PC, and he'd get destroyed once again.

PC gaming is better in general, simply because of how much more flexible it is with its control scheme, whether it be an RPG, shooter, or strategy game. It demands a lot more from the gamer, but with that comes greater skill and performance. Give me a PC version any day. The only games I enjoy on consoles are arcade-style (like Castle Crashers) and I suppose if there were decent space combat simulators, I'd prefer them on the console (because then they would not have 350 different commands to learn, like Homeworld).

[Superfreak04]

Originally Posted by NFD

MrGiggles gifted me Counter Strike: Source on Steam <:

Should have gotten CS 1.6
>.>

[fido123]

TBH source is good. 1.6 is just popular because pretty much everybody who plays a lot of CS are prestigious ******s who think CS is the only good game in the world, and if the change the game slightly, they're not as good as they were as they have to adapt and therefore it sucks according to them.