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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hollywood" data-source="post: 521773" data-attributes="member: 7408">Well, give an explanation why thats the case.  I'm interested in knowing as it sounds like a really good 'mech game.  Yes, I suppose... but to me it'd only have been a flame if I'd said "CONSOLES SUCK AND ARE STUPID".  Course I didn't say that, just expressed me opinion concerning my thoughts on *my* PC compared to consoles. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Again, I was speaking of my system and my system only, not PCs in general.  Because of the nature of the Xbox and its vertical integration between components, even its one generation behind NVidia graphics processor and its P3 CPU can beat out most ~1Ghz to ~1.5Ghz P3s and P4 PCs.But nonetheless, I do think that the PC has the system superiority not only based on possible hardware specs, but in variety of games that can be made due to the variety of hardware available to the PC.  Especially in terms of control devices.  FPS, RTS, RPGs, etc. are better with the keyboard and mouse, flight sims are better with joysticks, HOTAS and pedals, racing sims are better with wheel and pedals... all which you can get higher quality controllers for the PC.  Sports and fighting games need gamepads, and while the PCs gamepads are very good these days, there maybe some slightly advantage of the console.  Not to mention, with most controllers coming as USB devices, I can take my controller from PC to PC, I don't have proprietary controllers that only work with one game system, or one version of that game system.Then there is always the saving issue... only the Xbox sorta rivals the PC in this area since it has a HD.  With a PC you can save games directly to the harddrive, no needing proprietary and expensive save cards.  And so forth.Anyways, we could go on and on about the differences and what they mean, but I'm in favor of the PC because of it limitlessness both in terms of hardware and software.  However, no matter what platform games appear on, today its almost a hit and miss that a game actually has good gameplay as opposed to just looking pretty.  And even rarer when it has inovatve gameplay.  Which is one reason the Steel Battalion caught my eye here, because it seems to have gameplay thats been lacking in 'mech titles [of any genre].Nonetheless, we've hijacked this thread and I'm still interested in why in the game and why it wouldn't be a good play for the PC... maybe it'll give me reason to buy an Xbox, rather than just playing on friend's.</blockquote>

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