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Personally, the PC has treated much better over the years, and here's why:

1. Free online gameplay, for the most part. I don't play MMO's.
2. Less kids; Everytime I get on Halo 2 I get teamed with some kid who just screams into his mic and can't play worth crap.
3. Mods; This has to be the best thing for me; Everytime you get bored with the game you're playing, mod it.
4. PC games tend to be better in the following ways:

A) Halo 2 had a physics engine, but it wasn't realistic in the least. Halo 2 doesn't even have ragdoll deaths, the characters have prescripted animations when they die.
B) Halo 2 has to delete EVERYTHING except the basic polygons that you aren't looking at, to keep its graphics looking like they do. Even then, Half-Life 2 completely owns its graphics.
C) Smarter AI; In my experience, at least.

5. Upgradable; your PC's out of date and can't run the latest greatest game? Upgrade it, simple as that.

Now the Consoles have their good sides, too:

1. When you buy a game, it's going to run. No need to worry about system requirments.
2. No Installation; Meaning you can't run out of space, like a PC can.
3. Internet-less Multiplayer; Sometimes it's better to play with friends in the same room than across the world.

Lastly, I added Mac, because, hey, it might get some votes. I don't have one, don't plan on getting one, so I don't know squat about it.

PCs are better because there is nothing better than keyboard+mouse.

Yea, FPS on consoles suck in comparison to FPS on computers

And in all other games PC's own, I mean come on, you have a keyboard! You can type messages! Writing > Talking with like say XBL.

FPS are a joke on consoles, but RTS are even worse.

Their should be both pc and console choice or mac and console or pc,mac, and console choice.

I say pc and console!

Console, its has high hardware stuff and cheaper. But can become outdated in 5 years.

PC cheap or expensive depending on the hardware and the cost. can be updated if outdated. Takes about 20 years or more for it to be outdated.

Then why are you playing starcraft?

RTS is another thing that makes PC great!
Starcraft: Broowar
Rome: Total War
Natural Selection
Close Combat: Invasion of Normandy

Any RTS attempt for the consoles sucks horribly...

EDIT: Right.... In my experience, PC's get outdated in 2 years, not 20. If you mean with upgrades, then only about 10, unfortunately.

And as for the consoles: 5? Try 3

EDIT2: Huh?

They may be "outdated" in 2 years, but they are still damn good!

True! There's always a wide selection of older, yet still excellent games out there that even an outdated PC can run.

I guess Playstation can argue that one, too...

Nah, I mean they aren't "really" outdated compared to new computers. I mean they still run the same OS and junk and can run the same games, if they meet the requirements and stuff.

Also I think a PC is a lot more friendly when you are doing other things on the computer. With PC's you can like surf the web while you game. You can also watch TV, unlike a console which you have to use a TV as the monitor

Halo was worse on PC than the Xbox. And some FPS, like Time Splitters are very fun. You can't say Goldeneye or PD was bad.

Also, wat is tt? Since your name is I hate tt.

Anyway, I think they are both good. I enjoy PC for my harder FPS and RTS games. The console games have better feeling controllers and should have bigger screens with the TV.

And when friends come over, you can't beat the console.

What consoles do REALLY well are fighting, racing, and party games. Soul Calibur, F-Zero and Donkey Konga would not feel right on the PC.

ERM, I just read the poll so...

PC games, I'm usually with SC, CS, but that's pretty much it.

On the consoles... Soul Calibur II, Metroid Prime, Zelda, F-Zero, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy... the list goes on.

Halo was made poorly for the PC, but that doesn't mean that the PC control scheme is in any way inferior to a gamepad. It's tons better.

Good FPS may have been made for consoles, but that doens't mean that they could have controlled better on PCs.




About my name: There is a pro player called Iloveoov; oov is a victory face (two eyes and the V), and TT is two crying eyes, so my name is the opposite of his.

PC owns consoles. With PC, you can make stuff that even consoles can't do because they become outdated compared to PCs quickly.

Example:
HL2 on PC looks incredible.
HL2 on Xbox loses colors and polygons.

Doom 3 on PC is farking incredible.
Doom 3 on Xbox had polygons cut, colors cut, nearly saps all of the Xbox's resources, plays worse, not as scary.

You guys seem to be missing the point here. What the poll is about is which has better GAMES.

I'd say consoles. You have so many games like Zelda, Mario, Metroid, F-Zero, Soul Calibur, Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good & Evil... PC games just don't have the soul that these games have. And yes, I'm a Nintendo gamer.

But RTS and FPS wise, or more specifically, games that REQUIRE precision in direction, mouses on the PC can't be beat.

Yeah PCs have better games!

Wizardry Series
StarCraft
Doom Series
Wolfenstein Series
Half-Life Series
F.E.A.R.
MUGEN (customizable fighting game engine)
Quake Series
Sacrifice
Zelda: The Lampshade of No Real Significance (no I'm not kidding)
MechWarrior Series
Worms 4
WarCraft Series
Freelancer
Earth and Beyond
Counter-Strike

I do agree with you, however, on those games you posted

why not just Mouse/Keyboard vs Gamepad? ...

PC ftw.

Less kids doesnt mean it has worse games, shapechanger.

Anyway, consoles are meant for games, they have special controllers for them, hundreds of games out for each console.
Console.


And by the way, dont be a tool. (Putting Mac up.)

not to mention you have emulators so PC has many console games =)

I used to like Mario/Zelda, but then I realized how boring single player games are.

Mouse and Keyboard are better for two reasons:
FPS
Chatting with no Mic.

That's pretty much it. They have good games but it's basically all FPS and RTS games. You can't get MGS, Zelda, God of War, Rachet and Clank, Super Smash Bros, Metroid and other games like that on a PC.
Also you have to buy a new Video card so offen to keep up. I have one that supposivly can play games for the next 3 years, what it ment by that is if you ONLY use your computer for games then it can play the highest demanding video game for PC right now perfectly. I have AIM, Internet, Music, other games, Word, Exel, Email SCXE and a bunch of stuff so when I try to play doom it crashes and just shows a black screen, you can move around and stuff but you can't see anything (I know you can move because the sound affects act like your moving with footsteps and stuff).

And if you get a new video card you might need a new processor, or a new moniter if yours breaks somehow, or a new motherboard because the kind of Video card you got won't work since it doesn't have a slot that manages the video card and a bunch of stuff that could go wrong.

So personally I like consles better.

Often if you have to upgrade one thing on a computer, you have to upgrade a lot of things. And then beware if you download a driver for a graphics card that the company stopped supporting! Having nVidia Vertex Shading 4.0 (random name) on a card that doesn't support it will really mess things up.

Consoles are becoming more and more like PCs. And Warhammer, Macs are going to switch to PC hardware in like 2007 or something.

You can also play RPG in PC

And consoles too. From my experience console FPSers seem to be noob sprayers, and PC FPSers are all about precision.

Aiming the crosshairs in FPS on consoles suck, mouse owns it I think.

In Quake 3 : CPMA it's all about aiming(of cource), movement(speed/tricks) and map control(items/armor)

So if you can't aim with 50% accuracy, but you have armor/health you can still win
Or if you have supperior movement skills you can run away really fast if health is getting low and gain your opponent when he's low on health.

CTF/NTF/TDM/FFA add somethings too.

The pc has the same abilities as a console games (assuming you have the right tools). However, console systems have alot better multiplayer not counting the internet.