Quote Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy View Post
But you can make the sensitivity as high or low as you would like for a mouse. Also, if we're being technical, you can plug a controller into a PC and play like that, you can't plug a mouse into a console.
I'm pretty sure you can plug a mouse into a console. It's just that few people have a need to because the controller is a superior input system for the incredibly large number of games that are designed to be played using a controller.

But it's irrelevant for me - PC games are designed to be played with keyboard and mouse first and foremost, and when people go on about how PC is the better platform and then point to "you can use a controller" I just feel it's kind of stupid. If a developer wants a game to be played with a controller then they would ship out controllers with the games, or high end PCs would be sold with controllers, or graphics cards would be sold with controllers. Fact is, everyone and their uncle knows that PC games (and we're being forced to generalise here) use keyboard and mouse, consoles use controllers. Arguing that either can use the other is basically on par with saying the PC is a console and that the console is a PC.

I admit you need to have the right computer to be able to enjoy those high level graphics, but my point is that those games look their best on a PC. Unless it is a terrible port the games graphics peak on a PC, not a console, so that's why PC wins out in that regard. And yeah, graphics aren't everything of course, but on certain games they are quite important to the atmosphere and immersion, and personally I love to see a game that looks as beautiful as it can.
I love to see a game look as beautiful as it can, too, and I did buy Crysis for the PC. I'm just saying this is not something that makes PC games better as far as I'm concerned. Of course, I had a lot of trouble with my graphics card not being optimised properly for the game and so forth. It was a struggle to get those graphics to work (it did happen in the end, thankfully, after a bit of updating of this and that, patching of this and that, tweaking of various graphic settings, etc) but essentially arguing that PC graphics are better is pointless as far as I'm concerned because for every positive that you get out of it, there are a large number of potential negatives.

Also, when PS4 comes out and has, what, 8GB of GDDR5 RAM... do PC gamers still argue that PC games will look better because technically a PC can have that too? I mean, how many people out there own PCs with 8GB of GDDR5? Arguing graphics is silly because PCs vary too much. I wonder if half of the desktops/laptops in the world actually compete with the graphical output of a PS3?

It all goes back to my "I don't like to get into these arguments because it's the game, not the platform, that are either good or bad." Platform debates are stupid.

EDIT: Well, they can be fun and a good way to waste time, but in the end they won't change anyone's opinion and most arguments are subjective at best or inaccurate/misleading at worst.