I would like a commercial where I pull up in a van, get out and shoot all of them in the face with akimbo 1911's, then go "Play PC games instead, loser!" Then the commercial ends and you're just left with a really bad feeling, knowing that those people actually died during the filming of the commercial because they thought they would get free Xbox 360's for being in it.

My girlfriend loves TF2 and Specialists, and can bring the pain in either game. Well, she mostly alleviates the pain as a medic in TF2, but she's is known to rock the double barrel shotgun as the scout. She's also getting painfully good with the mossberg in Specailists, sometimes she'll just instantly snap shot me without me even knowing what the fuck just happened.

Regarding Crysis, I think that the Crytek guys make horrible single player games, but good engines. Far Cry was dull as shit, but it had technical capabilities that were nice. I think that Crysis will probably be the next go-to for the mod scene that people expected HL2 to be, but that never really took off. The in-game map editor, for one, is amazingly streamlined and looks fun to use. That's a nice change of pace from editing in a map making program, compiling to test one stupid thing, alt tabbing into a game, loading a bunch of shit up, seeing where you made one mistake, then going back into the editor ad nauseum.

Here's a snippet about a 360 port of Crysis that happens to be somewhat relevant to the thread now that both of these things have been previously mentioned:

"We hope we aren't disappointing anyone, but contrary to any rumours that may be in circulation, neither Crytek nor any third parties are currently engaged in developing Crysis for console platforms. Our company's sole focus at this time is to complete Crysis for PC as well and as quickly as possible, so we can release it in a timely fashion to all who have shown such a strong interest in playing our game, while insuring we meet the high quality of game play they have come to expect."

Fuck yes. "We hope" my ass. Personally, I hope people wept openly.

I can't stand playing roms or fighting games on my PC without my playstation to USB adapter. Playing them on the keyboard fucking blows. When it comes to games like that, if I'm using a keyboard, I feel like I'm playing "on the computer" instead of playing a video game.

It's totally different with an FPS though. I could never imagine an FPS that's designed as a console FPS and to be played on a gamepad ever having as much depth of play as a PC FPS. Slower, more inarticulate controls with less possible inputs as opposed to an entire keyboard full of buttons and a pinpoint accurate mouse just means dumbed down and boring gameplay mechanics. It's that simple.

You'd probably like Doom 3. It keeps things relatively simple. I don't think that having accurate aiming is over-complicating things though. Having accurate aim is adequate and required. Over simplifying things is what's ruining gaming, not over complicating.

Mechwarrior 2 is pretty easy once you learn the keystrokes. Same with Tie Fighter. I fucking love Tie Fighter because of all the keystrokes and shit you have to do, you feel like you're actually having to manage the cockpit of a spacecraft, not just point and click like a dumb baby.

The playstation D-pad rapes my thumb horrifically after a good session of street fighter. It's the only D-pad that actually fucking HURTS to use. I hate the X-Box D-pad because it's way too far out of the way to be useful for games I like to play. The only D-pad I really like is the Sega Genesis one, or a Saturn pad. Other than that I just use a PS2 pad because I have no other adapter.

The only reason I value mouse and keyboard over simplistic controls and auto aim is because I like competitive FPS gaming. Anything other than mouse+keyboard is, simply put, scrub shit.