i don't know anything about cracking. Don't have the patience anymore. I work in computer retail, so everything is available for me to take home and 'trial'. I'm currently looking into an xbox but the lack of good games has still got me on the 'don't get one' side.
I completely disagree with your comment on ps2 games not being half as good as pc. Final Fantasy X, GTA3, GT3, MOH:F, Conflict Desert Storm. Two prime examples are GTA3, brillant on PS2 but when done for pc it was buggy as hell, and on some systems it wouldn't run. The Thing, personally i've found that it was developed for the consoles and a pc version was an afterthought.
PC gaming is anti-social. You need a space to accomodate everybody and their pc equipment. You need the time to spend on configuring. Then there's the hassle of game discs to use. Someone might have original, another may have it cracked so they don't require the cd, another might have the latest patch install, and then there's those that just don't have the game.
Console gaming u don't have any of the problems above, people just bring themselves and in under 5 minutes your up and running. Which leaves more time for the playing and the bragging.
I love lan gaming (MOHAA, UT), but i hate taking all my pc equipment over to somebody's house, only then to spend hours playing with pc settings cause one person can't get onto the network. Play for a couple of hours then take it all back home and reset it all back up again.
So what does all this mean? Is console gaming half as good as pc gaming?
No - they are on par with each other. At the end of the day, I game for fun, and aim to spend as little money as possible. At least i don't have to keep upgrading my PS2.
