pretty shaky for a while there
so i spent all day yesterday really familiarising myself with the 360 and especially gears of war
it looks beautiful, coop is fun - but the game is dull
i played the first three hours of the campaign (coop), then about two hours worth of single player spread over several bits of the game, most notably the train level and the driving level
after less than three hours of play, i was totally sick of it, and i found little appeal in the online play
it looks beautiful, and it plays nice, but like most console games - it has a short lifespan, limited appeal and little or no replay value
i also spent a long time checking out cod3 - where the hell does gamespot get the idea that it plays like call of duty 2? did they even play it? cod3 played like a tedious generic straightforward shooter, and playing with a pad is awkward and frustrating - call of duty 2 was an amazing and intense experience with stunning firefight after bloody firefight... call of duty 3 is just bad
i also checked out a demo of superman, rainbow six: vegas and a few others and.. well, pretty much, i realise it was a total kneejerk reaction to this year's bad state of PC gaming - no matter how bad pc gaming may get with buggy, unfinished releases and massive amounts of games slipping to the post-dx10/vista era, and with expensive upgrades to stay on the knifepoint, pc gaming is still way better than anything consoles offer
first thing i did when i got home from the 360 session was do a quick sum:
360: £270 with gow bundled
cod3: £40
pzd: £20
graw: £20
32" 1080i hdtv: £400
total cost: £750
total lifespan: approx 75 hours
total of £10 per hour of okay gameplay
medieval 2: £24.99
total cost: £24.99
total lifespan: approx 200 hours
total of £0.12 per hour of awesome gameplay
the effective cost of owning a 360 would obviously drop over time as i play it more, but a quick sum shows that, even without factoring in the cost of addiotional games, i'd have to play 4 hours a day every day for three and a half years for the 360 to be as cost effective as just one top-end pc game - and people say consoles are cheap - wow!
sorry i doubted you, pc gaming!!
it looks beautiful, coop is fun - but the game is dull
i played the first three hours of the campaign (coop), then about two hours worth of single player spread over several bits of the game, most notably the train level and the driving level
after less than three hours of play, i was totally sick of it, and i found little appeal in the online play
it looks beautiful, and it plays nice, but like most console games - it has a short lifespan, limited appeal and little or no replay value
i also spent a long time checking out cod3 - where the hell does gamespot get the idea that it plays like call of duty 2? did they even play it? cod3 played like a tedious generic straightforward shooter, and playing with a pad is awkward and frustrating - call of duty 2 was an amazing and intense experience with stunning firefight after bloody firefight... call of duty 3 is just bad
i also checked out a demo of superman, rainbow six: vegas and a few others and.. well, pretty much, i realise it was a total kneejerk reaction to this year's bad state of PC gaming - no matter how bad pc gaming may get with buggy, unfinished releases and massive amounts of games slipping to the post-dx10/vista era, and with expensive upgrades to stay on the knifepoint, pc gaming is still way better than anything consoles offer
first thing i did when i got home from the 360 session was do a quick sum:
360: £270 with gow bundled
cod3: £40
pzd: £20
graw: £20
32" 1080i hdtv: £400
total cost: £750
total lifespan: approx 75 hours
total of £10 per hour of okay gameplay
medieval 2: £24.99
total cost: £24.99
total lifespan: approx 200 hours
total of £0.12 per hour of awesome gameplay
the effective cost of owning a 360 would obviously drop over time as i play it more, but a quick sum shows that, even without factoring in the cost of addiotional games, i'd have to play 4 hours a day every day for three and a half years for the 360 to be as cost effective as just one top-end pc game - and people say consoles are cheap - wow!
sorry i doubted you, pc gaming!!
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i'd be interested to see what the numbers work out to. either way, my money (and time) is on medieval 2.