Realism is overrated and tedious.Originally Posted by DaftPunk
Also PC needs more Gladius.
They're both co-op zombie shooters, albeit with different perspectives.
Unless you'd count Skyrim and Baldur's Gate as being in seperate genres too as one is in first person and the other is top down?
Last edited by TheXand; 03-12-2012 at 10:04 PM.
Talk for yourself.
... I take the lives of a few to protect the lives of many. I commit acts of war to preserve the greater peace. I take no joy in killing, but make no mistake; I'll do what needs to be done. Because it's my job. It's my duty. My name is Sam Fisher, and I am a Splinter Cell.
We can't all lead the exciting double life of a secret agent in world rife with conspiracy.
Yeah I second that the PC does seem to miss out on quite a lot of the bright colourful and rather fun looking action adventure and/or platform games (though we did, thankfully, get Psychonauts), which I've always thought was a bit of a shame.
It was why I was initially glad to see Darksiders (albeit I'd have preferred something actually bright and colourful, although the gameplay was initially satisfying the aesthetics don't particularly appeal to me) until I gave up in frustration at the damage sponge of the first proper boss.
Well that a lot of the indie who published on XBLA seem to be catching onto the fact that Microsoft is, you know, insane, we're getting a lot of those great indie games that used to be exclusive to that platform. Now it's just the same thing we've always missed out on, which is console publisher held IPs and Japanse games. Hopefully with Capcom beginning to publish more of their titles on PC, and actually do a good job of it, and the talks of Platinum planning something with Valve, we'll begin to see more Japanese games on the PC. I would love to play Bayonetta or Armored Core with a stable fps, and you'd think the developers would want their games to be played that way...
You're quite right, except I quite liked the stylings of Darksiders. I can't get me enough of angels and demons and apocalyptic wars.
And what about games does each console miss out on that are only for PC, and games that are only on certain consoles.
I could go for Devil May Cry.
Everything else has been ported, is garbage, or overrated mediocrity.
Mark me down for a Devil May Cry, too. Also Red Dead Redemption.
The PC port of DMC 3 is decent.
They're absolutely separate genres. One is a party-based ATP game, the other is a first person sandbox ARPG. In one combat is a challenge requiring examination and tactics, in the other combat is a way to reward characters for exploring.
They're 2D but Pixeljunk Eden and Rayman Origins seem to fit the bill. Also Sonic Generations.
Different gameplay mechanics perhaps yet both are ultimately RPG's and thus very much in the same genre.
Much like how Blackjack and Roulette are both very different games yet still gambling games.
I'm weary of having to emulate my Spyro, Croc, Gex, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter and Crash Bandicoot games. I was hooked on them when they were released and I'm still hooked on them now. I just don't want to have to lug consoles and TVs about with me whenever I move, which is all too often. A lot of my favourite Megadrive games have seen ports or had PC versions at the time, so there's no real loss there.
The big game I can think of that the PC is missing out on, is The World Ends With You. That said, I can't see how it'd work out all that well, while the mouse can emulate the stylus pretty well, I just don't think it'd play as intuitively. A Wacom, perhaps. But damn... what a game.
mickygor, Battlefield 3
Otmer, League of Legends EUW
Bastiat, Planetside 2, Miller NC
Damn , if you think l4d was about that you either never played versus or were so drunk/sleep deprived/fell on your head the day before that you really didn't get it.
Yeah a mouse wouldn't be the same... I don't think this one would work. Pity though, this game alone made my purchase of a DS worth it.
TWEWY was the only DS game that really made me question the dual-screen concept. I didn't feel like I had enough eyes.
Clearly a game developed for a superior race.
Ugh, I don't want to get into definitions of RPG but that's purposefully reductive. If you use a definition of RPG that broad, than half the games made are RPGs, which leads to an inability to use genre as an accurate descriptor. That's why it's more productive to use gameplay and camera angle as descriptors than genre. Baldur's Gate looks nothing like Skyrim. It plays nothing like Skyrim.
It's silly to compare L4D and Dead Nation, when there are games far closer to it on PC. There's Zombie Shooter 2 and Nation Red, All Zombies Must Die, or to a lesser extent Renegade Ops and Alien Swarm.
And blackjack is a card game before it is a gambling game. How often do people play roulette at home?
Last edited by Internet; 04-12-2012 at 01:01 PM.
Definitely, yea. When I got my DSi, I'd mostly got it for the pokémon games, but they were left in the wayside for Advance Wars and TWEWY.
mickygor, Battlefield 3
Otmer, League of Legends EUW
Bastiat, Planetside 2, Miller NC
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