Having been without a computer capable of playing all the latest and greatest games for a little bit, I’ve been forced to get my PC playtime in on the machines of overly-understanding friends who don’t mind my using their computers that I’m guessing would really just spend their free time thinking about what they’d finally do to Sarah Connor if they ever got their dongles on her. But as with successive console generations, each new PC evolution invariably harkens a new set of games that demands not only the best technology, but the hard earned money of the gaming community to acquire said hardware. Looking at everything that goes into a machine since I’m setting out to build one of my own, there is a staggering amount of equipment you need if you hope to get your PC game on. Unsurprisingly, this got me thinking what PC games that are available right now would be just as good, if not better on my 360. While most games these days release on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 – there are still some that are yet to make the leap – so, here’s hoping these find their way to a console near you.
10. Civilization V: Now, this isn’t me knocking Civilization: Revolution in any way at all, but having played both Civ V as well as Revolution several years prior, it seems to me that this is the kind of strategy game that would not only be accessible to the Xbox 360 crowd, but wouldn’t be the type of Real-Time Strategy that possess pitifully poor controls or a painfully bad overall experience similar to every other RTS on the console short of Halo Wars and EndWar. Where RTS games are designed for the 360 to be paced with a relative speed that caters to a specific type of player, so too does Civilization V, playing in a way that is exceptionally welcoming to anyone, regardless of skill-type. On top of it, the game is ridiculously addictive in a way that will have you perpetually muttering something about ‘one more turn’ to just about anyone foolish enough to try to coax a controller out of your hand before several hundred levels have passed or the sun starts rising, whichever happens first. After all, if Microsoft really wanted to bring in the hardcore RTS / Strategy crowd, they’d just push an update allowing for USB keyboard and mouse support before calling it a day.
9. World of Warcraft: Being an absolute and utter pipe dream, there is really no reason for Blizzard to expand their operation of supplying digital crack to the masses outside of the PC platform. Not because they have 12 million players paying $15 bucks a month to wander about Azeroth, Outlands and Northrend or because the game is a social experience on par with Second Life, but because there really isn’t a major demand for it on a console and the thought of the decorum regularly seen on Xbox Live bleeding over into World of Warcraft is f-cking terrifying to me in ways that’s pretty much on par with giant spiders or zombies that will require me to have a slower friend with me at all times. As cool as a console MMO would be, the ultimate downfall here is again the call for mouse and keyboard support along with a cohesive fan base that would actually be excited to play the game on something that isn’t a PC. After all, all the elements for voice chat, solid gameplay and actually pulling off a decent quest or raid are all there, embedded within Xbox Live. But somehow, I have a feeling the vocal douchebag minority of Xbox Live would figure out someway to mess it up. Thus, I digress.
8. EVE: The cool thing about EVE is that CCP, the guys who design and run the servers that allow people to get their space MMO on, are actually working on a game that would permit console owners to get their fair slice into the universe of EVE via an FPS title called Dust 514. While EVE primarily takes place in space – there are planets in the universe that are capable of being fought over as well – this is where console players come in. Ferried through battlezones by PC EVE players and their ships, they would drop console players, filling the role of ground troops, into combat zones that could ultimately be battled for and have some supposedly massive underlying effects in the EVE universe as a whole. Conceptually, it sounds pretty interesting since the possibility to play the space-faring MMO is on-par with WoW as far as being effected on my beloved console, but the idea of merging a world where PC players assist their console counterparts as they battle across planets – unlike Shadowrun, which completely blew this concept out of the water – it could very well be a potentially awesome experience. That is, if they ever pull it off.
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