Everyone loves the battle of PC gaming vs Console Gaming... why not have the best of both worlds? I wish game developers would expand their horizons and allow some cross gameplay between PC and console - both have their own ecosystem, why not share it and gain the benefit of the volume?
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I'd love to see online gaming GET REAL...
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zerocool84
Lifer
They have done it many times before but was never popular. Too much effort.
Mike Gayner
Diamond Member
Agree with the OP, I can think of heaps of games that I would love to play cross platform. Racing games, sports games, some shooters eg OpFlash 2, GTA IV etc.
Really? Name some.
Really? Name some.
videogames101
Diamond Member
More like consoles guys would cry at the ownage, call cheats, even though it's just how much better the mouse is than a gamepad.
BenSkywalker
Diamond Member
Not true in the least. PC gamers obsess over it, console gamers don't give a shit. Don't need to go far, just step into the console gaming forum and see how many threads there are involving PC games. They tend to focus either on how the consoles do versus each other and most frequently, shocker- games. The whole PC vs Console mindset only exists in the minds of PC gamers, console gamers are far more interested in 360 vs PS3 🙂
nitromullet
Diamond Member
More recently, Shadowrun was PC and Xbox 360 cross platform.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/shadowrun.aspx
LOL! From http://www.gametrailers.com/vi...iew-hd-shadowrun/20329 in regards to the cross platform MP for PC gamers, "we can sum it up in three words: not worth it."
Granted, I imagine an already successful franchise, such as Halo or CoD would have more luck implementing cross platform play. Maybe GoW, or another third person shooter that didn't give an advantage to KB/M over the controller. As has already been mentioned, sports games wouldn't be a bad idea either. I'm pretty sure that people would race against each other in NFS:Shift on multiple platforms.
This is very much true.
Zenoth
Diamond Member
I remember the days of Quake 3 Arena cross platform matches between Dreamcast and PC owners, it was fun actually, I was part of the DC owners, but we got owned most of the time, that was until the DC keyboard and mouse came out, that changed things a little bit hehe, but then it wasn't purely "console Vs PC" anymore, for what made it "console" on the DC side was certainly its limited precision in the controls thanks to the controller, but it was playable certainly, I was decent at it, I usually ended up in the top 5 or so after most matches, and almost each time the first two or three players on the score board were "accused" of being PC players and that it wasn't "fair"... ah yes, good ol' days... good ol' days.
DangerAardvark
Diamond Member
That's cause they have aim-assist on consoles.
zerocool84
Lifer
Yea Quake 3 Arena wasn't big.......................it was a crappy game that no one played.
Umm Q3A was huge.
If you're talking about recent then no. No reason to. More than enough people to play with on their own respective systems.
bunnyfubbles
Lifer
You kind of took it out of context there, as the reason they were able to so easily come to that conclusion was based on several reasons:
1. they didn't seem to be too pleased with the game itself
2. you needed to have Vista (which was still relatively new and still suffering a bad rep at the time of the review)
3. you needed to pay a fee for cross platform playe
Upgrading to a new and unpopular OS and then paying service fees specifically for a game they weren't too crazy about is an easy recommendation to avoid it.
Chriscross3234
Senior member
As others have said, it's simply too much for developers to do. There are lots of problems and complications with making multiplayer compatible for all the platforms, especially with hosting servers. I mean come on, developers aren't even putting that much effort into porting games to the PC, what makes you think that they are gonna put the effort into making a smooth, streamlined, cross platform, multiplayer? It's a great idea and it would be awesome to merge the gaming communities, but I just don't think any of the game developers financially care about that.
Mike Gayner
Diamond Member
What total nonsense - the only time it ever comes up here is when some console fanboy troll makes a point of it.
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