10 years of Xbox360
Posted: June 26th, 2019, 7:56 pm
posted by rtv190 on Nov 28, 2015:
guys plz stop deviating from the topic
Conker2012 said:
I suppose. I don't really agree that a delay in release makes it an exclusive, but it's a matter of opinion. But I think an important point is that the console release isn't inferior to the PC version in any important way (as far as I can remember), unlike, for example, Unreal Tournament on the PS2 (which was a great port, don't get me wrong, but it lacked many of the options of the PC version, plus of course it didn't support mods, whereas the PC version was host to countless fan-made mods, some of them superb), or a very bad console port of a PC FPS (I can't think of any offhand, but no doubt they do exist)/
But for that to be true, the console version of F.E.A.R. 1 would have to be inferior to the PC version in a way that the console version made necessary simply because it was on the XBox 360 or PS3. But from what I remember, there was no difference (I played the first game on both PC and 360, and I can't remember any differences, though granted it's been a long time since they played them, and I can't recall if I completed the PC version, as I did the 360 version).
It's true that a mouse is faster and more precise than a joypad (though the difference is nowhere near big enough to make console FPSs unplayable, though these do tend to be built around control by a joypad), and a PC version of the game potentially offers higher resolution/higher resolution/higher frame-rate (though that is all dependant on it being a good PC version, since PC ports can sometimes be terrible, though since modern consoles now allow full post-release game patching, the bug-tested standard of day one release games is getting lower on consoles too), but my point is that PC elitists act like that first person shooters can only truly be enjoyed on the PC, and that PC FPSs are somehow objectively vastly superior to console games. I'd cite Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters 2, and Timesplitters: Future Perfect as as good as any FPS on the PC, but as you say, that's subjective opinion.