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Am I the only one who would rather play video games on portable systems rather than consoles? Especially longer games with more of a storyline.
It always bugs me when people whine about how a DS/PSP game isn't being made for the PS2/PS3/360/Wii/etc. instead. I can't figure out where this crap is coming from, either--the GBA and DS are easily the best systems for portable games ever (can't comment on the PSP as I've never had one), and yet people still go "waaaah! portable bad!" whenever a game they might want to buy is announced as a GBA/DS/PSP game instead of a console game.
I honestly can't think of any reason why I'd ever want to play a game on a home console instead of my DS now, other than the obvious "(insert game here) is only available on (insert console here)."
To play console games, I'd have to sit on the couch or on the floor in front of the TV. Sitting on the floor gets uncomfortable fast, and the couch is pretty far away from the screen (which isn't a problem with the Wii's wireless controllers, but would be a pain if I ever decided to get any other console.) It also means that if other people want to watch TV while you're playing, you'd better have multiple TVs... and even then you have the game and the TV going at the same time, which can be a bit distracting.
Another thing: pretty much all console games are 3D now, which annoys me--though the Wii/360/PS3's capabilities mean that they can finally make 3D that doesn't look like shit, I'd still rather have well-drawn 2D graphics any day. There's just something about the graphical style of most 3D games that just looks off somehow.
Pretty much the only system I know of that still gets a lot of 2D games these days is the DS (aside from the downloadable games on the consoles, but... I'm stuck with crappy dial-up. So I can't even download them in the first place.)
Also, if you need to get out of the game and do something else, trying to rush and find a place to save the game (especially in RPGs and stuff like that) is a problem with consoles. You can't just pick it up and take it with you like you can with a DS or any other portable system, so you end up having to choose between "try to find a save point and be late" or "turn the game off and lose your progress since the last save." Or "leave the game on but turn the TV off," but then there's no guarantee that someone else won't turn the system off while you're gone, mistakenly thinking that you left it on by accident.
The only thing I can think of that consoles actually do better than portables is music, and even when it comes to music there isn't really that big of a gap between them now (compared to the huge gap in sound quality between the original Gameboy and the SNES.)
Is there anyone else who actually likes portable games better than consoles? And why do people complain so much about portables? Is it just that people don't have the portable systems (which doesn't make much sense, since the portables cost less, have more games, and have been outselling the consoles in this generation), or do they have some kind of preconceived notion of "portable = bad," or what?
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It always bugs me when people whine about how a DS/PSP game isn't being made for the PS2/PS3/360/Wii/etc. instead. I can't figure out where this crap is coming from, either--the GBA and DS are easily the best systems for portable games ever (can't comment on the PSP as I've never had one), and yet people still go "waaaah! portable bad!" whenever a game they might want to buy is announced as a GBA/DS/PSP game instead of a console game.
I honestly can't think of any reason why I'd ever want to play a game on a home console instead of my DS now, other than the obvious "(insert game here) is only available on (insert console here)."
To play console games, I'd have to sit on the couch or on the floor in front of the TV. Sitting on the floor gets uncomfortable fast, and the couch is pretty far away from the screen (which isn't a problem with the Wii's wireless controllers, but would be a pain if I ever decided to get any other console.) It also means that if other people want to watch TV while you're playing, you'd better have multiple TVs... and even then you have the game and the TV going at the same time, which can be a bit distracting.
Another thing: pretty much all console games are 3D now, which annoys me--though the Wii/360/PS3's capabilities mean that they can finally make 3D that doesn't look like shit, I'd still rather have well-drawn 2D graphics any day. There's just something about the graphical style of most 3D games that just looks off somehow.
Pretty much the only system I know of that still gets a lot of 2D games these days is the DS (aside from the downloadable games on the consoles, but... I'm stuck with crappy dial-up. So I can't even download them in the first place.)
Also, if you need to get out of the game and do something else, trying to rush and find a place to save the game (especially in RPGs and stuff like that) is a problem with consoles. You can't just pick it up and take it with you like you can with a DS or any other portable system, so you end up having to choose between "try to find a save point and be late" or "turn the game off and lose your progress since the last save." Or "leave the game on but turn the TV off," but then there's no guarantee that someone else won't turn the system off while you're gone, mistakenly thinking that you left it on by accident.
The only thing I can think of that consoles actually do better than portables is music, and even when it comes to music there isn't really that big of a gap between them now (compared to the huge gap in sound quality between the original Gameboy and the SNES.)
Is there anyone else who actually likes portable games better than consoles? And why do people complain so much about portables? Is it just that people don't have the portable systems (which doesn't make much sense, since the portables cost less, have more games, and have been outselling the consoles in this generation), or do they have some kind of preconceived notion of "portable = bad," or what?
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