» Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:08 pm
This whole argument really makes you think about people's attitudes. One side calling the other a bunch of elitist idiots whilst the other are doing exactly the same.
Want to know something? Most of all of you are guilty of this. Shameful.
Here's the bottom line from someone truly objective:
I own a 360, ps3, and a PC that would blow most everyone's here out of the water (22.6ghz 2x quad xeons, 128gb ram, nvidia gtx460 overclocked to 470). Just so you know, I am not a massive gamer - but I'm a smart buyer and my PC is used for more professional endeavours, but doubles up as a sick gaming rig.
It's all about COMFORT. You are all spending SO much time talking and moaning about what's best and who gets owned by who but it's all irrelevant. More and more PC rigs aren't sitting in an office, or a study, or whatever - they're now hooked up DIRECTLY to massive monitors exceeding 46 inches PLUS in a lot of cases.
So tell me, how many people here play PC games on a full 50 inch HD TV in their living room? I bet a fair few. I wonder how many of those are gamepad users? I'd put money on a lot of them.
Put simply, using a k/m combo on your SOFA is ridiculous!!!! How does that work? Simply put, it doesn't.
Now I like to sit back, have a smoke and play some games on my machines when I get the time away from work - I don't want to sit bolt upright as though I'm in an office and see the return of my RSI because that's the way I sit all day at work!
This is why I like using the gamepad. I don't play Crysis online, so I don't care one bit about this stupid debate amongst stupid people - but there are LOGISTICAL and pratical reasons for many people to use gamepads that FAR EXCEEDS the need to be a petty little fanboy whilst complaining about being the best person who can point and click on a screen amongst a bunch of other people.
This is like cars vs bikes argument. It's moot. One has things the other doesn't. Trying to make a game that caters for both is very hard. But if you're like me and you don't sit bolt upright in some stupid office chair and have an intelligent rig that centres around a big TV screen, surround sound, etc then you can understand the need for a gamepad - or the MASSIVE gap in the market for a gamepad that has the sensitivity and accuracy of a mouse.