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Originally Posted by sperry
I'll give you that the consoles don't have any racing simulators that are as good as the ones on the PC... but F1-2002 is out on XBox too, and well I was done w/ NASCAR games right about the same time I stopped watching NASCAR on TV.
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I'm really not that into the circle track stuff anymore, but the sim itself has a couple of sweet road racing mods for it. Driving a trans-am car around 1967-era Spa-Francorchamps is a lot of fun.
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Let's face it... the PC as a gaming platform is going away. Consoles are getting the horsepower, and more importantly, the support, to completely replace them. When the next generation of consoles come out, I hope to be able to ditch my PC in favor for a tiny, light laptop and a wicked console that I don't have to think about since it will simply run cool games, fast.
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I'll also give you that PC's, and dealing with their issues, suck large donkey rod. However, my issues with consoles are as follows:
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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
I... especially can't stand their stupid little controllers either.
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This one's a deal breaker for me - I just cannot deal with the controllers on consoles. To me, the control is jerky, imprecise and non-repeatable on every single console game I've played. It's nowhere near a good mouse.
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I mostly like playing strategy games like Total War and racing simulators, neither of which have good equivalents on consoles.
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When I do play something else it's usually a FPS type game like Doom3, Half-life, etc., which I think are best experienced with fine, precise mouse control... which leads back to issue #1.
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The 3rd-person perspective games like GTA which are so popular on consoles lose their entertainment value for me after about 15 minutes, because I just can't immerse myself in the experience unless I'm playing from the 1st-person perspective.
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I already have a PC, and probably always will out of necessity. I'd rather just play games on the hardware I already have rather than clutter up my place with more frigging electronics...