Not me. You can't upgrade your console so the games are always limited to whatever maximum graphics the console was made with.
With PCs, the graphics in games keep getting more advanced, and if your PC can't handle it, just replace the graphics card rather than the whole thing. Plus it's still going to have all your old games on there and be backwards compatible.
What games companies should do is make all games for PC and then port them to consoles by dumbing them down, stripping out levels and using low res graphics, lowering the quality of the audio, etc.
At the moment, they are doing it the other way round, so that's why console games ported to PC look like they had last year's PC graphics technology.
The benefit of consoles (for users) is that you don't have to adjust your hardware, the developers have to adjust their games. So it's less work for you and you can expect a more consistent quality. Not sure though why they should strip out levels for the console version.
For developers the key benefit is that they're not trying to hit a moving target. The platform is what it is and your software doesn't have to scale from an ancient GF4 to the newest and greatest. The biggest drawbacks are the cluttered console (and API) landscape and the costs and limitations imposed by the console makers.
P.S. My PS3 runs all Sony games starting at 1996, how many PC games from that era can you play out of the box?
The benefit of consoles (for users) is that you don't have to adjust your hardware, the developers have to adjust their games. So it's less work for you and you can expect a more consistent quality. Not sure though why they should strip out levels for the console version.
For developers the key benefit is that they're not trying to hit a moving target. The platform is what it is and your software doesn't have to scale from an ancient GF4 to the newest and greatest. The biggest drawbacks are the cluttered console (and API) landscape and the costs and limitations imposed by the console makers.
P.S. My PS3 runs all Sony games starting at 1996, how many PC games from that era can you play out of the box?
Starting with monkey Island and nintendo emulator games, and other old classic games of other genre. ALOT!
PC always beats console. Sure there can be consoles with better graphic but 2 yrs from the release of the consoles PC surpass it. For me consoles are better when it involves a different type of gameplay like using a control and Wii motion. Keyboards always complicate things.
Well, the fastest PC will almost always beat the latest console, but remember: when you create a game you can't make it only for the hardcore crowd. It has to work on moderately old hardware as well, so PC games are all about compromise as well.
BTW, I said "out of the box", not with additional tools. I can play SNES and Scumm on my PS3 as well via Linux.
That isn't really a difference at all... i'm pretty sure i wouldn't be able to play...say...Curse of Monkey Island, let alone either of the first two games on my new, Vista-running computer. I had to let go of a bunch of old computer games i had because they were for Windows 95/98
I can play all my old games on my Vista computer. In fact, Theme Hospital from 1995 runs fine without any compatibility mode.
I was playing The Dig a couple of months ago using SCUMMVM, and also I recently downloaded Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis via Steam and it seems to run fine on Vista (obviously that's a recently released update though. The others are all original running off their original CDs from the 90s.)
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The benefit of consoles (for users) is that you don't have to adjust your hardware, the developers have to adjust their games. So it's less work for you and you can expect a more consistent quality. Not sure though why they should strip out levels for the console version.
For developers the key benefit is that they're not trying to hit a moving target. The platform is what it is and your software doesn't have to scale from an ancient GF4 to the newest and greatest. The biggest drawbacks are the cluttered console (and API) landscape and the costs and limitations imposed by the console makers.
P.S. My PS3 runs all Sony games starting at 1996, how many PC games from that era can you play out of the box?
Starting with monkey Island and nintendo emulator games, and other old classic games of other genre. ALOT!
PC always beats console. Sure there can be consoles with better graphic but 2 yrs from the release of the consoles PC surpass it. For me consoles are better when it involves a different type of gameplay like using a control and Wii motion. Keyboards always complicate things.
BTW, I said "out of the box", not with additional tools. I can play SNES and Scumm on my PS3 as well via Linux.
Yup you can, you just need a little help...
I was playing The Dig a couple of months ago using SCUMMVM, and also I recently downloaded Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis via Steam and it seems to run fine on Vista (obviously that's a recently released update though. The others are all original running off their original CDs from the 90s.)
And older DOS games can run in DOSBox emulator.