kether

Hats off to Bethesda for creating a masterpiece. It's great to see them branching out to multiple platforms for their excellent titles. Hopefully they don't forget that they started as a PC game company. I'm all for Xbox 360 and other consoles becoming as good as they can be. For me it's a more difficult issue than image quality. I'm an avid PC gamer, have been for almost twenty years. I think that for a lot of PC gamers there is an unspoken fear that PC games are becoming a thing of the past due to a strong push toward console gaming. While it is great that consoles are making a resurgence (remember atari, colecovision, & intellivision anyone?) there has always been a marked difference in the depth and feel between console and pc games. Over the past few years especially I have noticed this difference becoming more and more of a blur. While console games have become strikingly more beautiful to look at and more complex to play(a good thing) - PC games have become decidedly less involving to play and "consolesque" in their interfaces. One of the great advantages PC games have currently is their modibility and multiplayer. These apsects are getting better on the consoles but heres the rub. Will they ever really reach the level of the best a PC has to offer? Take for instance a good flight sim - with hundreds of options and dozens of flight controls. How will you ever replicate this on an Xbox? Take a keyboard and mouse FPS player vs. a console gamepad FPS player and guess who wins? No contest - not even close. Yes you can put a mouse and keyboard on an xbox but then it becomes more like a PC doesn't it? - and that's not what the designers will be considering if the PC is no longer a major part of the picture. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if we lose the PC as the cutting edge gaming platform we may be losing the best of what gaming has to offer. Maybe I'm wrong and maybe the console will evolve to the ultimate gaming platform on all levels but the trend I'm seeing is less choice, less freedom, and less ability to push the envelope. There won't be anymore Counterstrikes or Day of Defeats. Perhaps I'm just getting old... As far as image quality goes - I'm running Oblivion at 2048x1536 and it looks phenomenal. The low res interface / dialogue options suck though - (thanks xbox for that...)