Xbox how i loved you so….

Throughout the years from around 2005 till present i have been actively playing my xbox like it was going out of style. from Ghost Recon tournaments to late night splintercell matches screaming in fear as i hid in the attic as a spy. Me and my xbox are finally getting to the point where i have to bid adue. I know alot of my friends are just as shocked as i as when i finally found no more interest in xbox and im going to explain exactly why i decided to leave the good ole’ faithful behind.

I can remember all those years when xbox360 first came out and the lines of people at compusa in midtown Manhattan lining up to play the latest game on the console which at that time was king kong. It was never before seen individual hairs for the ape swaying the 3d space it was revolutionary ..for it’s time. Now however  5 years later it’s far from the greatest gaming experience your can get and xbox has no plans on renewing there xbox for what is said to be another 5 years. The only thing that seems to keep me somewhat tied to this console is the curiosity of what natal might be about and what it could offer. But natal alone wont keep me from enjoying what seems to be a better gaming environment. The reason im leaving are all the reasons that xbox seems to fail in  and here are just a few. Before going off in a rant let me just state that everyone is different everyone has there own genre of gameplay that they love some people enjoy flight sims so they tend to buy games like tom clancy’s hawk some people are into first person shooters ect.

What i seem to enjoy the most out of everything is Open world Sandbox games one good example is grand theft auto you could find me waisting countless hours roaming the free mode on that game talking as much trash to as many people as i could before calling my day a success and retreating to my bed for slumber of epic proportions. It was open world which means you had a huge map to explore with friends  using vehicles ect there was no linear aspect to the game you could do what ever you wanted and that alone grabbed me. But here  lays the issue theres only 16 players max that could be in the room and a 4 person cap on vehicles. This always made me a little irritated but i got use to it and accepted it …..key word here accept i no longer want to accept these types of limitations now that i know that xbox could do much more.

Due to a close friend my eyes where opened up to the fullest when my friend asked me to try out a game called arma 2 this massive open world game combined two things i loved the most sand box and first person shooters.

It sent me into a fit of rage all these years faithful to the xbox name and there where games out there with over a 200+ player cap with massive maps far greater then anything on xbox or ps3 to date  with dynamic ranges,vehicles,weapons and AI  and it wasn’t just one game that had these types of specs on the computer it seemed that if you had a decent gaming rig you were privileged to better looking and cheaper games new games like battlefield badcompany 2 is currently 46.99$ it was released yesterday not only that the player cap is 32 as apposed to 16. which means you get to see more action, even ps3 has a game that has 256 playing in one match! what is going on xbox!?!?!?!?

I feel in my eyes the xbox360 console is dead and i probably wont return to the console world knowing that i could get better games on the pc and i know what everyone is thinking what about the community. Its the one thing everyone falls on when i start to tear the foundation of the xbox apart  the community is just as good on the pc  as on the xbox everyone talks there are chat systems and if your moving into the pc gaming world from xbox all those peripherals you spent on your xbox works with the pc. the controller plugs in so that you can  play  games on the pc as if you where on xbox  even the wireless products like the wireless mic and controller will work with your pc via a dongle you buy

price,quality, environment everything i would want to pay 50$ a year for is on the pc for free. and All the games are community driven, what does that mean? That means you will always have free dlc from the developers,you will have new vehicles and weapons that improve the game made by the community and over all you get more bang for the cheaper buck on the computer as oppose to the xbox. This is a wake up call to everyone  why are you paying 50$ for a premium service just to see  geico commercials on the dashboard!! why!!  why are you paying 50$ just to not be able to play battlefield 1943,badcompany,ect because the servers are down.. i have yet to be lagged out a pc server .. and contrary to popular belief there are not alot of modders on the pc versions of the game seeing as its easier to torrent and play games on the pc the companies are more diligent with keeping up on updates and thwarting our fellow brethren.

Pc gaming is something new to me and already im taken over with joy i will be sure to update this rant and let everyone see how moving to the pc is beneficial with video and hi rez pictures