Anywho, in order to sign up for a Zune Pass you have to log in with a Windows Live account. Well, for a myriad of reasons I didn't want my Zune account connected to my Xbox Live account. I have a new @live email address now that Microsoft allows hyphens anyway, so I decided to use that. Then when I went to sign up for my regular username I was shocked to see someone had already claimed it!
I promise I have a point that relates to the post title, bear with me.
Of course, the person who took my regular username was me. I didn't realize that when you sign up for one Microsoft service you are signing up for all of them. I ended up using an older handle with my new email address and just soldiered on. Now I'm debating if I want to keep my Eyeshuh one active.
Oh yes, the point! Well, here's the thing. Microsoft does not have me trained to want achievements. They have me trained to crave them. So, when I started playing some Bing Games and logged in with my shiny new handle and saw a big fat ZERO for gamer points, of course it saddened me greatly!
The easy solution to this problem was to pop in Borderlands and blast through some quick achievements. I practically have that game memorized by now. Also I thought it was broken but apparently it's my Xbox that was broken. It works fine in Beau's Xbox.
So I'm loading up Borderlands, getting familiar again with that long forgotten feeling of holding a controller in my hands, and as soon as it's possible to do so I open up the settings menu and do two things that I have always done with console games: (1) invert the Y axis (2) turn off auto-aim.
Then I start to play...if you can call it that. Holy crap you guys, how did I play First Person Shooters on console before this? I mean, seriously, was I always this bad on console? Is everyone this bad on console and you just don't realize it until you experience the precision that is playing an FPS on PC?
As I was stumbling through attempting to line up cross-hairs to heads with limited success and realizing I was going to have to build a melee Siren, it got me to thinking. FPS games are just better on PC. Do they even have auto-aim on PC? That would be weird since you don't need it. Mouse and keyboard just works for shooting things in the head.
BUT that lead me further in thought to how much I was craving popping on a puzzle game and relaxing on the couch with something like Chime and my Xbox. This is coming from someone who despises puzzle games. Now I'm starting to wonder if I just despise puzzle games with mouse and keyboard. I also tend to stay away from platformers on PC because I know that I should plug in my wired controller but am usually too lazy to do so.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share an epiphany from a former hardcore console gamer turned hardcore PC gamer turned I finally figured out that some games work better on console and some games work better on PC and will now purchase accordingly gamer.
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Yes, first person shooters are better on the PC. Though, switching between the two, which I have done over the years since Quake II, there is always an adjustment period whether you're going from PC to console or console to PC. I had a hell of a time adjusting to the dual joystick of modern console FPS, but when I went back to PC to play L4D I felt I was much better at it on the console. The nice thing about consoles is that you can kick back and relax.
ReplyDeleteThat's what drove me to miss my Xbox lately actually. I always get pretty bad back pain from sitting and playing at my computer for too long. We do have a computer hooked up to our TV in the living room that I could play on, but I'm guessing there would be lag from using a wireless mouse and keyboard. Plus that computer is pretty much only good for Netflix. I doubt it would play even last generation games.
DeleteThe ultimate solution is to get the Xbox wireless controller dongle for your PC. Then you have the best graphics ever with the best controls ever omg it is the bomb. I barely play my xbox anymore.
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