Michael Futter writes: One of the things that has bothered me since I was young has been the phenomenon known as “console wars.” The Mario versus Sonic debates of my grammar school playground gave way to bickering over CDs and cartridges when Sony entered the market. Now, we largely have the same games to play with simultaneous day and date releases (with red blood for all!) and people still spend time complaining on message boards rather than actually enjoying the entertainment.
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Putting Ads in a pay-to-play Premium title? Well done Microsoft. Well done /s This is really scummy.
This game will never change because these sweatlords love buying up all the skins and bundles that become obsolete the following year. They're the ones perpetuating Activision's greed.
If Microsoft introduces adverts into its other games I hope it can do them without disrupting the immersion of the game world. So for example in the new Fable game it would look out of place if there was a billboard advertising Cadillacs.
A far better way to do it would be to have a wizard conjure a 'dream cloud' in front of your character and then in the cloud you can see the Cadillac car and see the text with price and availability and hear a booming sales voice promoting the car. That would work so well as it wouldn't be a billboard and completely, 100%, fit in with your character's adventuring in Albion. Doesn't that sound so much better?!
@venom, or how about our of 100 farts in Albion, 1 of them has a Cadillac pop out
The biggest problem with the PC gaming market is the constant need to upgrade. With a console, there is no costly upgrades needing to take place every 6 months because your machine can't handle the newest games. If it wasn't for Steam, I doubt a lot of people would even bother with PCs anymore, save your WoWs and StarCrafts.
Still, I too am sick of console fanboys. :)
PC isn't as bad these days - buy a system once every few years and you are good to go. If the devs would keep taking advantage of the hardware life would be perfect for those of us on the superior system. = P
Consoles do seem to feel more and more like PCs without the kind of ease-of-use that keyboards and mice provide. Of course, 360 and PS3 do have those little keyboards which mount on the controller... those always seemed a little small, but are they practical for this?
At least the Wii Remote makes a decent substitute for a mouse (I'm assuming the PS Move as well, but I've not spent enough time with one to know; the people at the Sony Store couldn't seem to be arsed to even keep the thing charged, much less attempt to actually sell it to me).
Anyway, I don't think the console wars are ever going to end so long as there are games which one machine will play that others won't; if it were like DVD or Blu-ray players, among other electronics which have numerous brands all making machines which still run the same discs, then maybe it would end.
Then again, they tried that with the 3DO, and that didn't quite work out.
What kills me is that in a piece about finding a way to move past the console wars, it seems that many of the people rushing to comment are just fanning the flames.
How about talking about ways we can all play together and enjoy the experiences the way we want to?
The derogatory comments, the flame baiting and the sweeping generalizations aren't helping... they are just sinking the discourse into the quicksand. Step back for a second, read the piece, think about how we can possibly find some common ground and then go back to playing games the way *you* want to play them.
Don't try to convince someone else that they are doing it wrong, you're just going to frustrate everyone.
IMO, life would be so much better for me if I could use my G13 game pad and mouse for Killzone 2. I'm a fan of the PS controller but it needs a slight redsign when it comes to playing FPS.