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Jesus dude! Don't let them hear you say that! Repeat after me: PC Gaming is the only real form of gaming and anyone who doesn't think so is a lazy developmentally disabled troglodyte.
That should hold them off until you can gather the stakes and garlic."
Maturity also helps in dealing with the criticism, nothing irks someone who tells you your taste is stupid more than ignoring them or laughing it off. Geeks are a funny breed though. Even a couple of the commenters here had to toss in their opinion on Avatar regardless of whether it had anything to do with your central argument. Geeks are by and large a self-conscious breed, and for some of us that self-consciousness manifests itself in feeling our taste and intellect are superior to the point that it is demonstrably provable. Which, any way you cut it, is pretty silly.
Oh, and Mortal Kombat sucks. If you like it you are stupid."
One other thing. (Not at you Frank) A good way to figure out if you are losing your mind is if you make statements that use the pronoun "We" referring to yourself and the faceless corporation that manufactures your console. As in "We have X and Y, while you guys have Z!" I assure you "they" don't know you."
1. I clearly state that the Xbox was more powerful than the PS2 in terms of hardware as it was released later. Any other facets of console gaming are your own affair.
2. As far as PS3 power goes, the PS3 is a more powerful system simply by virtue of being released later. I'm not sure, but I don't think the Air Force has built a Supercomputer out of 1700 Xbox 360 processors.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/PS3-Roadrunner-supercomputer,5688.html
This increased capability is what leads me to believe that the PS3 has more potential to expand in the coming years, much like the original Xbox had more capability to expand than the PS2. However in this instance it is more important as this console generation is going to last longer than previous iterations.
3. As far as Gears of War is concerned, maybe you played a different version than me. The one I played had me going down corridors and through buildings and would occasionally stop the action to launch into a scripted sequence. I'm not sure exactly how that differs from Uncharted 2, you'll have to enlighten me. If you're talking about the one or two short branching pathways per level I'd have to say you're reaching quite a bit.
4. I stated that nothing in the past *year* had dazzled me short of Forza 3. Notice that Halo 3, Fable 2, Mass Effect, Left 4 Dead, Crackdown, and Halo Wars were not released in the last year. ODST just felt like more Halo. Which is fine and good, I enjoyed it. But it didn't accomplish anything groundbreaking in my opinion.
5. I state very clearly that I enjoy both systems immensely. I preferred my 360 for most of the time that I have owned both of the systems. I just feel that Sony may be starting to pull ahead in terms of games and hardware capability. I also state my points very clearly. If you are having a hard time understanding what on earth I'm talking about you might want to go back and actually read it instead of skipping down to the comments to rant."
You do make a good point about the German example (even though it had nothing to do with realism), as I am not advocating glitching or cheating. I would think it would be obvious when I call base raping and spawn camping cheap--but I can see how it could be misconstrued. But I just get sick of all the constant bellyaching when the vast majority of people out there are playing it as it was designed. It's not like I'm even that great of a player---I'm mediocre at best. But I don't sit around and try and blame my failings on something that's not even out of bounds gameplay-wise. "