No, no, no - I get why you don’t like it (console “peasants,” as certain PC players so seriously say occasionally, are in the midst of dealing with cross-gen releasing that has revealed some lowered quality as we await the inevitable current-gen only future), and I get how you, as many people do, take your characterization of yourself seriously and others as less so. And I do indeed think that there is a niche spin to KC: D that will absolutely find a higher percentage in of buyers in the PC market than the console market, but that does’t make it any less smart or respectable that Warhorse’s ambition means they want and need to build for an audience that includes console players. And I wouldn’t be caught dead at crazy golf.
But for me, must-play gaming means one must have a console right now, but one doesn’t need a PC. Someday I’ll add a PC in the mix, I’m sure. I can’t resist the GTA IV graphical mods forever. I just can’t really think of any PC AAA exclusives…
Too Long Don’t Read - Just my personal explanation for why I can’t be without consoles despite being indeed what I consider serious.
But frankly, I am a marvelously picky guy (like I go to the movies alone because I’ll die if someone talks next to me and I have tape all over my room because I can’t have lights of any kind visible while I’m using my TV and I like police cars only to have red and blue lights, no other single or multiple color combos). That goes against the favor of PCs in my case. I find it unappealing that there isn’t a uniform experience that is ‘PC gaming’. I don’t like that few people have the same PC, and that they often look like they are built to be built, and that I have to research specs often to look at what the creators wanted me to see on that platform. I can’t handle that there are no go-to designs for PC control systems, that there are so many forums about problems and specs and monitoring software and over clocking and maybe needing to upgrade to max out a game every so often. That there is just no answer on anyone’s part as to what is actually ‘the’ definitive way to get all of the top titles to play in perfect fashion as the creators would set it up on a system.
I like consoles because someone made a great design, the creators set their game up (and sure, that means they set it somewhere that isn’t maxing out the graphical specs of a high end PC), and I get to go at it for years,
It isn’t just simple because I am not serious (I consider myself to be extremely serious compared to anyone else I know). I choose simple because it is beautiful, minimalist, and vast. That italicized black box with a stripe of light across it called PS4 is something that I can get what I want on. I want the cinematic titles that make my 5.1 sing, and I didn’t have to read and compare specs and order a piece to get that sound out of it. That’s a standard of that box, and I know it. I like the games that get the big budgets because unlike in film, more money means more support when it comes to games. I am interested in The Last of Us, Halo, Uncharted, Grand Theft Auto V, LA Noire, Red Dead Redemption, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and Mass Effect (not Mass Effect that I couldn’t play on day one, but Mass Effect that I got to play the day it premiered in 2007 after I followed it for over a year in the press, only on console, like many games have since). I am looking forward to playing Destiny and Uncharted PS4 and I loved Resident Evil 4 at launch and even The Wind Waker. Consoles just have the biggest, brightest titles in recent history all to themselves in many cases (and I guess I’ll be clear again, I’m a launch day guy, but obviously Resident Evil 4 has slept around for those who wait over the years).
I like my games to remind me of movies and moods and that means on my TV without having to make my own idea up about how to have that happen, and frankly, 60fps doesn’t look like movies, but I guess I’ll get used to that one since I’m sure everything is moving that way. I don’t want everyone’s zombie games, or retro platformers (you can count the non-AAA titles I’ve played last gen on one hand as I don’t care for arcade/micro-game/free-to-play/small games). I want what consoles thrive on. Those exclusives that are backed by the best budgets, studios, and consistency that you could ask for. I don’t want to learn what drivers for my audio and graphics cards from separate manufacturers do. I don’t want to pick LED lights for a clear desktop tower. I don’t want to check my system’s temperature and be dead clueless when something breaks or the framerate is low or the mod doesn’t work and on and on.
I hear PC gamers saying how they pay way less (as far as I know, I don’t think they could beat and outlast PS4 performance plus its included controller at that $400 I got it for in November and the $49 I pay for any $60 MSRP game on release day through my membership at Best Buy, which goes further in giving another $10 for console titles only on pre-orders of Watch Dogs, Arkham Knight, Destiny, and so on) and then they just tell me about independent games or Steam Sales on things I wanted on day one, so maybe I’m clueless as to how PC gaming costs less for people who like launch purchases of AAA titles. I certainly don’t see how I can pay less if I want my games always maxed out if I am going to play on PC because that certainly takes upgrading which costs hundreds over the lifetime that a console satisfies its market and creators.
Don’t get me wrong. I get absolutely jealous over some of the trailers that come out for these multi platform games that I know must be on a PC, but I also know that the compromise I’d have to make to avoid such visual compromises is just not how I envision great cinematic and moving game experiences. The Last of Us was too damn good for me to feel like I’m not reaching far enough in efforts to play my choice games.