Gamespy's 'Top 10 Ways to Know You're a PC Snob'

[A Black Falcon]

ABF I really don't get the whole "PC games are going all consoley" stuff. You may need to repeat that because I was playing Commander Keen at the time.

Oh come on. Of course console-style games have existed on the PC forever, but in recent years more and more major PC games have launched simultaneously on the PC and consoles. In most cases, this means the PC version is cut back in order to meet the demands of a console audience.

My best example of that is the one I mentioned -- Bioware. Baldur's Gate or BGII versus KotOR? I really hope I don't have to go over that one again, I've complained about the console-related problems of that game here before, that's for sure. The article mentions Rainbow Six as well. I haven't played the more recent Rainbow Six games, but I did play the demos of the first two in the late '90s. They were PC games with a heavy tactical bent; you had to set up a route on a map before entering the mission, etc. The newer ones... from what I know, console-style FPS with maybe a few hints of what made the first game so successful.

Even RTSes are getting console ports... maybe Battle for Middle Earth II and Command & Conquer III weren't affected by their X360 ports, but if this continues on, who's to say that next time the console version won't be the main version and the RTS genre will be compromised too like the RPG genre is almost completely and the FPS genre is partially?

List of major, PC-only, non-MMO PC RPGs I can think of:
Bioware - Dragon Age? If it doesn't end up ported... their other games are for consoles or console and PC (or MMO).
Obsidian - NWN 2 expansion. Their other game is for consoles and PC.
Bethesda? Console and PC.
Troika? Dead, maybe because they didn't compromise and make console ports of their games.
Interplay? Pretending that they will actually be able to get enough fools to give them money so that they can make a Fallout MMO when I don't know if they even have more than one or two staff members...
Sir-Tech? Dead. Origin? Dead.
Heuristic Park? I have no idea what they're doing, nothing has been heard of them since Dungeon Lords came out in 2005 as far as I know...
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Whatever little companies like http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/ are making
And that's about it

Yeah, the PC RPG genre is in awful shape, and it's sad. And no, MMORPGs don't count. They're really a separate genre.

I think I need to point out something about interlacing. It only shows half the vertical lines, yes, but it shows them at TWO DIFFERENT PLACES back and forth repeatedly. It, for all intents and purposes, really IS the full resolution showed at half the frame rate. Your brain can't tell the difference.

It's not, though. Just look at any "640x480" (480i) N64 game or something, and then a 640x480 PC game. The PC game is sharper looking... no, interlacing is a graphical negative. Otherwise, people wouldn't have cared about going from 480i to 480p... but they did, and it's because the graphical difference is noticable.

There is a way to improve on keyboard and mouse though. That improvement is to make a keyboard with, basically, some of a game pad built in. Namely, an analog stick for more finess in movement.

No, because of how you hold your hands on a keyboard, that wouldn't work. An analog stick would only really be usable if it were a joystick or something or if the keyboard were handheld like a gamepad so you could grip it and get a good thumb position for a stick, and neither of those ideas would work at all for keyboards. Maybe pressure-sensitive buttons or something though... ... nah, that wouldn't work either, if it affected button resistance for typing...