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**Ahtman**

nintendoeats wrote:Yeah, but if trophies aren't a requirement of the game, or the only goal. They are there if you want them, but theya re defenitely sideshow material.

So are points. Not everyone played games to get the high score. Trying to survive as long as you could in Donkey Kong wouldn't get you the highest score, nor would it in Centipede. Just like those that want to brag and boast about their high score, there are people who want to do so about how many challenges they've comp-leted that the average gamer has not. It also keeps track of those in points in the form of a gamer score which is the second thing shown after a players name.

**IG_urban**

I am not a fan of consoles...PC all the way.

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/03/rip_beloved_console_friend_xbo.php

**Slarg232**

colonnello wrote:Everybody always talks about ps3s and Xbox 360s thinking that they are the best in the world when to be honest they are not, I have several reasons for this
1. They are expensive and are not rewarding or give you skills
2. They are and break down due to some stupid software malfunction or over-heating
2.It is usually very anti-social
3.The games are waaay to hard (I have not completed a single proper game so far in my life)
I am not trolling, I am just getting my point accross and see if there are any people that agree with me.

1. As others have said, saying this on a wargaming site is not a very valid arguement.
2. so does everything else, my car just broke down the other day.....
2. comes with the territory
3. They are not, you just suck.

hey guys, where the Megaman X games as hard as the originals? I beat X8 when I was like 10 years old.

**Corvus**

Notice that OP has not appeared to provide any rebuttal to everyone's blistering counterarguments (which I agree with 100%)

Thus, I think I speak for us all when I say: SUCCESSFUL TROLL IS SUCCESSFUL

**Soladrin**

colonnello wrote:Everybody always talks about ps3s and Xbox 360s thinking that they are the best in the world when to be honest they are not, I have several reasons for this
1. They are expensive and are not rewarding or give you skills
2. They are and break down due to some stupid software malfunction or over-heating
2.It is usually very anti-social
3.The games are waaay to hard (I have not completed a single proper game so far in my life)
I am not trolling, I am just getting my point accross and see if there are any people that agree with me.

1. People still spend money on them because they think it's worth it (like me!

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2. Ever heard of unbreakable hardware?.
3. And..?
4. Your a noob? Cause I start every game I get on hardest difficulty and usually finish them in a few days, maybe a week.

And yes, yes you are trolling.

**Terje-Tubby**

Dragonchef wrote: Just a few points, Some are saying that War-games are expensive too. Yes i agree but lets look at the Cost vs hour.

1. XBOX360 200Dollars ( set cost to get it ) i know it was higher back in the day to get it. Games Roughly 60$ a pop for how long? How long do some of the games take to beat now? 6 to 10 hours of play so that averages out to roughly 6 dollars an hour for some games (i know others that are way longer take Morrowind for example ive put in over 400 hours on that game. and how many new games come out that you get so you don't get bored of the same one. Hell there are numerous games released monthly.

I usually play the game much longer than it takes to beat(even beating it takes me maybe a week). Heard of co-op?

1a. To get into Warhammer 40k roughly takes 200 dollars too. get AoBR at 60 ish dollars (be web savvy and get it from a good site with a discount) 25 for your codex, grab a box or 2 of squads to set up about a 1000 pt army at 35 dollars each. Paints, brushes, extra dice so that is roughly 180 dollars to get into the game. With that look at how long you can enjoy that same army that you started with, hell i know a few guys that still play the same army after 5 years because they enjoy it so much after a while you totally overcome the cost to get in the game with the hourly price of the game. so to me in the long run War-gaming is cheaper then console games.

5 years for one army is a very extreme case, unless you play 5-6 times a year. You also forgot about terrain. And then it`s the people who wants to play something different than orks or marines

2. That's life, not everything is perfect or will ever be perfect deal with it.
2a its only anti social if you make it that way. I have friends who have all the systems and we go over to each others houses all the time to have some fun on different games.. take a case of beer and do a drunk smash Brothers night... you get better the drunker you get =)

True

3. You sound like someone who plays WoW, OMG this is too hard i cant do this * * that is what ruined that game, im glad that most companies do not listen to people like you, i enjoy the challenge of beating some of the games... but you want to watch something funny... grab a kid that is use to 360 games or PS3 games and put him in-front of the Original Megaman and watch him go ballistic because of how hard that game was. and i totally agree on the Ninja Gaiden comment. ...... i still want to throw my controller into the wall with that one.

Also true

Just suck it up and drive on there are many different opinions on this topic but these are mine and i know alot of people that agree and some who don't.