[quote name='Roufuss']Yea, if by superior you mean "It comes months later and is full of DRM". By the time Burnout Paradise comes out for the PC, there will be another 3 or 4 console games that PC people will be wanting and hoping it gets ported. And the game will only have mod's if people buy it and spend time making mod's.
And believe me, once they find out how to charge people for maps on the PC, they will do it, or they simply just won't bring them to the PC, like CoD 4.
I remember a time when the PC was good because it had awesome games that could only be done on a PC, not awesome because "It does these console games marginally better". The 90's were the best for PC gaming, when shit like Half Life was king, and the consoles got it much later but it wasn't ever the same. When you had stuff like Warcraft, Baldur's Gate, Civilization, Deus Ex, just tons and tons of great stuff that trickled down to the consoles in due time.
I never thought getting a superior version of Burnout Paradise would be this great victory for the PC as a platform, and it's a little saddening... imo, people should concentrate more on the games that only the PC does best (like Sins of a Solar Empire) instead of hoping for marginally optimized console ports. Getting a superior version of Burnout Paradise isn't really this huge strike against the consoles.
But I doubt PC will ever be what it once was.[/quote]
A. DRM is only something that people who want to pirate shit worry about.
I can install my game and play it when I want, and if the activation servers are pulled down then fine, ill sell the damn game no problem.
B.I honestly dont give a shit about many console games now aside from Fighting Games, and the big couple of Japanese Exclusives.
C. No one is quoting it as a big victory, and its nothing sad. PC Still makes more money then you think.
D. PC Gaming Never Changed. Consoles have become more like PCs if anything, except they close it off so they can charge you for everything, including shitty online services where you can't have a private chat with more then one person. Its just console versions come out earlier, and such. People say pc gaming sales are down, but they aren't. Yes its hurt by piracy, but PC games never sold as many as consoles. Its in this era of NPD, and stupid Sales Figures, that people think PC gaming is dead, and idiots like Cevat Yearli(CEO of Crytek) that bitch when their game sells a million copies.
[quote name='Rei no Otaku']Superior like the PC version of Mass Effect which requires a DRM check like every 5 seconds?[/quote]
A. Mass Effect Sucks.
B. Game Can Be Beaten in 10 Days.
C. If you buy the real game what is the problem?
D. Mass Effect Sucks Again.
E. ???
F. PROFIT!
[quote name='Roufuss']Man, I played on some of those maps... shitty doesn't even begin to describe it for the user created maps. The quality of user created maps has really gone downhill, imo. I don't like most of the user created ones for TF 2 either.[/quote]
Yeah like some of the TF2 maps that are straight recreations of other maps from other games.

Learn your shit before you talk smack on it.
[quote name='tiredfornow']Burnout Paradise is already 60 fps on consoles, so the free content is the big sell?

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120fps>60FPS.
[quote name='Chacrana']User created anything is almost always bad... hence why I have no hope for Little Big Planet. An entire game centered around other people's "creativity"? There's no way for that to turn out well.
Also, Burnout Paradise heading to the PC would be freakin' awesome if they were bringing over a different game.[/quote]
LBP might turn out, who knows.
[quote name='Roufuss']In the 90's though, the mods and maps for games like Quake and UT were the bomb.
I'm not quite sure what changed in the 2000's, but all that shit went downhill fast, unless it is stuff for Oblivion or Stalker (single player stuff). But for TF 2? I have played some horrible, horrible maps. I'd rather just stick to the Valve stuff.[/quote]
There still are a shitton of awesome mods for UT and such.
Its just UT3 sucks no matter where you play it.