So with my heavy doses of Halo 3 lately, I've been thinking why I, and I'm sure others have sort of moved away from PC gaming. I'm trying to come up with reasons, because I used to have a lot of fun gaming with friends or even alone on various computer games including Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2, Neverwinter Nights, Half Life, and many others. And this was when I did have consoles to play on as well. Yet for maybe the last two years, I have not been playing much on the PC save for World of Warcraft. Most of my gaming has been on the consoles. I think the primary reason for my leaning towards playing on my consoles, most notably the XBOX 360, is probably XBOX Live. I have a fair amount of friends that I'm often playing with. XBOX Live features voice chat capabilities and is a lot easier to set up. In fact there actually is no real setup, just plug in and go. I mean you can always set up Ventrillo or TeamSpeak to talk with other players on PC, and some games are even building it into the game, so it's not completely impossible or even hard to do, but can at some points be harder to do than it is on the XBOX. PlayStation is pretty much the same way as the 360, plug in and go. I mean another reason some people do with consoles is the whole issue with hardware. With hardware, system requirements are always going up and the price to maintain hardware able to play the big games keeps adding onto the price of gaming. Versus with the consoles, you just pay a couple hundred and it lasts about 4 years give or take. No need for new hardware save for controllers breaking etc. All you need is to pay for are the games. Thats not so much the case for me. While I may not have a top-of-the-line desktop computer, the requirements are for most games met with some leeway for wiggle room. So why don't I play more PC games? I think I'm still trying to figure that one out. Maybe I should get back into it more, play some of the games I've neglected for a while.
Tags: thoughts, pc, console | 
