What is your preferred gaming platform?
Wow, ask me to pick a favorite child, why don't you? Right now I am playing stuff almost exclusively on the PS3, though I do a bit of Minecraft on my PC from time to time. But there is a soft spot in my heart for older consoles; if I had to pick a favorite I'd have to say the Dreamcast. It was a great little system and deserved to do better than it did. Unfortunately I don't know where mine is anymore, or where the games are.
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Be it Dreamcast or Wii or PS3, I am a console girl through and through. There are certainly PC games I play and like (the aforementioned Minecraft; I played Diablo 2 on PC all throughout high school; Battle for Wesnoth took over my life during university), but I like keeping a minimum of things installed on my computer at any given time. I use my computer for so much, including work, that loading it up with games seems like unnecessary stress on the system. Do I have a poor understanding of how computers work? Probably.
Currently Playing
SO MUCH DIABLO 3. With Anlouise, my level 60 lady barbarian.
The gaming community seems wicked pressed about how D3 isn't like D2 and...I don't know. No, it isn't. But Blizzard managed to capture D2's button-smashing hack 'n' slash clickfest quite well in D3, and that's what's most important. Plus they axed a lot of bullshit that annoyed me back in the D2 days, like your limited inventory or not being able to unsocket an item. There were lots of great things about D2, but that was not one of them. There was at least that hack for PC that let you have an infinite inventory (infinitory?) and redistribute your skill points (I think it was called Golden something? I want to say Golden Sun but that's something totally different), but an annoying design is still an annoying design.
I do miss the skill tree, though, It was a fun bit of strategizing. And the Horadric Cube. What, you mean now I have to pay in-game gold to an almost-racist caricature* to upgrade my gems? Weaksauce.
*Recognize that voice? It's David Lo Pan!
I do miss the skill tree, though, It was a fun bit of strategizing. And the Horadric Cube. What, you mean now I have to pay in-game gold to an almost-racist caricature* to upgrade my gems? Weaksauce.
Hahahah I have never played Diablo 3! Though I'm pretty sure they released it for PS3, right?
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I agree with you that games on the PC take up a lot of space, and sometimes slows it down as well. I have a mac now, so I can't play PC games, which is why I LOVE MY PS3. It really is a great console :D
They did! I've been playing it on the PS3, myself. It's a bit weird for me, because I'm so used to thinking of Diablo as a series of games best played on PC, because that's where I played the first two. But D3 seems to be designed in a way that favors consoles instead of mouse + hotkeys. Or maybe it just seems that way because I'm playing it on a console...
DeleteI played D3 when it first came out but like a lot of gamers, I ended up abandoning it after completing the story mode. i guess I just don't have the patience for a hack and slash game anymore! Interesting seeing the people who prefer PC vs console this month hehe :) Thanks for joining!
ReplyDeleteBut there's all of the difficulties to complete!!
DeleteI've been playing a bit of adventure mode with my boyfriend and it's holding my interest so far. But I will admit that what's holding my interest more is playing story mode on my own account (I started with Anlouise as a co-op character on my boyfriend's account, with the monk Anselma).
I love that you went old school with your favorite gaming platform! Maybe I should have written about my giant brick Gameboy instead, hahah.
ReplyDeleteOMG those GameBoys. I had one but I always wanted a GameGear, too. That color screen!!!
DeleteHehe, happy to read the little mention of Minecraft! ;)
ReplyDeleteI have to get around to playing the Diablo games. :O I remember playing some hack-and-slash games a while back, but not being very invested in them. I might decide to pick up Diable sometime soon. It seems rather good for relieving stress. :P
Thanks for participating, Katherine!
Sometimes you have a day and the only thing that makes it better is slaughtering rabid goatmen with fireballs. Truth.
DeleteThanks for hosting!!
Yay! Someone else who loved the Dreamcast! It was one of my favorite systems too, and everyone I've told thinks that's weird. Sure the system was really loud when it read disks, but they were so many fun games and those cool memory cards with the screens.
ReplyDeleteI really love the Diablo games, but I haven't played D3 in a couple of months. I'm thinking of buying it on Xbox One because I know I'll make time to play it then. PC's tempt me with the internet way too often and forget about games.
Was there any other game that used the memory cards as a mini gaming unit? I remember Sonic Adventure had little "Chao Pets" you could collect, and you could basically load one up on the memory card and treat it like a (crappy) electronic pet. I think you could, anyway; I could never get the hang of it, quite.
DeleteI think if you polled most gamers, the DreamCast would win the "most underrated" award. It's definitely picked up a cult following over time.
Whenever I PC game, it's always fullscreen mode. No Internet temptress then for me! But I'd interested to hear about the differences between D3 on console and D3 on PC.