The last word...

Not so long ago some crazy Russian started an arguement about the state of the PC, now him and that Stephen fellow both voiced their opinions but we promised to leave the last word to the readers so here it is.

This time it is the view of Ashley Dorsett who emailed us on the subject:

'Had a whole essay's worth about this but couldn't copy and paste it over...

Basically I don't understand why people say PC is dead and console is king. There are several reasons I know why they say it buts its useless. I agree with what you said, and a big thing about the PC is it has the flexablity and creativity in which the consoles don't have. They tried but in my eyes failed with little big planet. If you compare this game to other simular games on the PC E.g. Garry's Mod, it just doesn't compare. Ok in little big planet you get set items to make set things and play in side scroller. Where as with garry's mod you can put other source based games into it then do anything you want with the characters, then you can download other things like cars etc and make your own tracks like from need for speed (Quite fun doing that actually). Seeing as that game is only £5, came out years ago and was orginally a free mod, and yet it still beats current games.

FPS, well you are correct again, analog is not as good as mouse and keyboard, its fluant and easy to move around. also when you are aiming you don't zoom past the enemy 7 times before hitting them once with a bullet. I don't get how some console players say the amount of buttons put PC at a disadvantage, its easier.
But this one might just be me because I have been playing Doom & Quake since I was like 5 on the PC.

Theres are some style games that PC doesn't win at but they don't release a lot of them, these being adventure/action games such as "Batman: Arkham Asylum" and sidescroller games. These types of games normally come out as download only off steam.

Finally the cost aspect. Xbox players normally bring this up most because there whole £150 cheaply made console. This is true that it is the cheapest beating the PC by far, having to spend around £500 for a good one but you can get one for around £300 which is ok.They also bring up the fact that PC needs to be updated every 1 to 3 years and rant about that. But even though this is true it does not mean its still more expensive. What they care to forget about is the fact that PC gets its updates 100% free and do not have to pay for xbox live. One years worth of saving via this way means you can easily buy that needed graphics card. But then finally the games themself are £10 cheaper. You can now buy Bioshock, Elderscroll, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2 episode 1, Portal, Mirrors Edge, Prince of Persia and Fallout 3 for under £60 on PC if you look in the right places. Where as it would cost around £100 for xbox's cheap ways. Theres no need to mention PS3 because we know it is more expensive than Xbox. So through all these little costs that Xbox requires it actually costs more to run.

PC can only do 1 thing as a mistake and this is to make the games so advance that the general public cant play the games. This was seen with crysis, if you wanna spend a lot of money on your computer theres nothing stopping you but not everyone does. Those types of games are for people who want to "Flex their computers muscles". So they need to target major audiences like Activision have with Call of Duty and Like Maxis did with The Sims 3.

PC is seen as the dying grandad but it truely isn't. I'd say its the young farther who knows best and all. It would also be very naive and gets confused at some things but everyone does. This being action adventures and sidescrollers. But I also see consoles as the teenager who thinks he knows best and all. Much like its fanboys (Mainly xbox ones).
PC still has more to show and will be king of the game for a long time with releases like CoD4:MW2, L4D2 being released. (Can't wait... they look so good...). It is the way it is and always was and will be for a long time. Online wise, faster, easier, cheaper, better, more updates and with Microsoft's greedy ways they will get money out of you in anyway possiable.

P.s. Well I guess it turned into an Essay @.@ Sorry about that. Plus I'm too lazy to read through it all for errors, so I might have gone off track and missed the point in the way I was writing, just wrote what came to mind.
P.s.s. Also what Steam games you play, other than counter strike.

Ashley D.'