Ok, so it's been 8 days, whatever. My blog, I can do it how I want. :P
So last weekend I take a trip to Phoenix with my family and I catch a cold, making my trip incredibly miserable. So I get home and recover, and I'm back on my feet, but I don't feel like doing anything productive, so I decide to play Day of Defeat: Source. While playing that I encountered a troll who was spouting heresy about console games being better than PC games. He then proceeded to say something interesting that really made me think. He said that console gamers had more skill than PC gamers (specifically First Person Shooters) due to the use of thumbsticks rather than a mouse and keyboard. Of course, he hadn't much room to talk as his KDR was 3-19.
But he had a point (kind of). So I dusted off my old xbox and fired up Halo 2...and failed miserably. So I started studying (as in playing all of my console FPS games) thumbsticks and FPS games. After a few hours of frustration I came to a conclusion: Console gamers have no more FPS skills than PC gamers. They have a different kind of skill that is based around the thumbstick layout. Trying to compare PC games to console games is about as sensible as comparing driving a car and driving an airplane. Pilots have a totally different skill set than race car drivers, but that's not to say either one is superior than the other.
Although I'm too busy (lazy) to further test or develop this "theory", I believe it's at least fairly acceptable. The best way I can see this theory being tested is to have a player with an xbox controller and a gamer with a keyboard and mouse setup fight on a PC game (xbox 360s use USB ports, right?) and see who is better. If I'm correct, depending on the skill of each gamer, the outcome will be about even scores. Maybe. Or I'm just rambling about something that I don't know anything about. :P
Anyway, back to what's been going on recently. I've been obsessed with The Guild II...outstanding piece of workmanship. Unfortunately yesterday I had a weird bug (in real life) that made me sick for a day. This morning I feel as healthy as an ox (a very hungry ox), though, so no need to worry. :P
And that's all that has happened this last week.
Kody out.
