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There are a lot of PC co-op games. And lets not pretend that the consoles are especially great at supporting that at this point.

There are single player console games, multiplayer over the internet console games, and co-op split screen games. And not all console games fall into the final category.

There are PC games that do that... either because they ported the console concept or because they do have split screen or screen sharing ability.

Trine is such a game. There are a lot more of them than you'd realize. The single player or online multiplayer PC games don't let you do that but then neither do the console versions of the same games so it is more of a wash than you'd realize.

As to people getting by without a PC but having a console... I've never seen that and I frankly suspect you're talking about unicorns.

As to a member of the family hogging the PC... get them a tablet. That will cost you 100 dollars and lets be honest they were probably just looking at webpages on the PC anyway.

As to your point about waiting 5 years etc... this would make any sense if the consoles were not replaced with subsequent generations at around that interval. Lets look at the console replacement intervals:
Playstation 1994
Playstation 2 2000
Playstation 3 2006
Playstation 4 2013

Basically every 6 years you get another console.

So... can a 6 year old PC compete with a 6 year old console? Easily.

Your argument there is at best a wash and at worst you lose because I can upgrade the PC with a new graphics card, ram, etc without having to wait for the console companies to move the bar. You're not going to match PCs on graphics dollar for dollar or at time of sale or over the time of the unit. The PCs win all of that and pretty much have since the first graphics cards started coming out.

As to your comment about malware... I don't know what you're talking about. Clarify your position.

As to are there games like this on the PC?... yes.

Your first link was funny because the PC had a game almost exactly like that way before that called Audio Surf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Next we have "Katamari Damacy" which is a puzzle action game... and there are tons of those on the PC. Wouldn't portal 1/2 count? I mean... I can probably cite a dozen puzzle action games. Is it literally the exact same IP as Katamari Damacy? No. I didn't claim it would be though. I claimed it would be the same sort of game and that there would be more of them. And there are.

As to super mario brothers, you're talking about 2d platformers... do we have those? Of fucking course we do. We have shovel knight, braid, Fez... the whole 2d platformer thing is really popular with the indy developers because its easier to make them.

As to third person RPGs... f'ing trillions and zillions of them:
http://www.metacritic.com/brow...

As to cockfighting RPGs... there are literally pokemon games... same IP on the PC:
http://www.gameyum.com/pokemon...

As to other games like that... it's basically a digital pet game crossed with an RPG... with maybe some puzzle mechanics in it.
Arguably most of these would fit the bill:
http://www.listal.com/list/bes...

Animal crossing appears to be an open world RPG... we have zillions of those. Are they as cute as that game? There are a few that are... let see...
Trove and cubeworld appear to be more open world than anything before them, pretty cutesy... same basic thing from what I can tell. Does mr squirrel give you his nuts? That's more a Sims thing. I think your animal crossing game is sort a cuter version of the sims... with fewer options and less depth.

If you want to play who is weirder... I me

...you're just not going to see a classic return to original, cheesy, fun Star Trek. It has to have an edge to appeal to the mainstream. Maybe some tits or a fistfight or someone lying or cheating or bullshit drama.

I just recently watched the three Star Trek Continues episodes and It made me want to re-watch the episodes of TOS that related to them and then I started watching TOS from the beginning. It's been a while since I watched those and I was actually surprised by the outfits the women wore. They showed a lot more skin than any of the modern series. He's a peek if you don't believe me.

Hell, even the women's uniforms on the enterprise were shorter skirts than I remembered. While they occasionally failed, it's amazing how well they did with the camera angles to avoid shots of the female crew's asses.

As far as fistfights, I'm surprised that Kirk never decided to travel back in time just to punch the guy who came up with the Prime Directive. He certainly has to have the record for the most fistfights of any captain in the franchise. And probably more than any major character.

http://i2.listal.com/image/4300557/600full-jenny-mccarthy.jpg

Oh yeah, found it: http://ilarge.listal.com/image/92722/936full-star-blazers-photo.jpg

Cinnamon Is...http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

Sigh! Humor much?

Besides, Barbara Bain was way hot back in the day.

Hey, look. If getting progressively zombified will get me closer to a young Ashley Judd, I'm all for it, pal.

The porn industry already beat you ...

Gone in 60 Seconds --> Cum in 60 Seconds

http://www.listal.com/list/porn-versions-famous-movies

Sub Command by Sonalysts was probably the best I've ever seen. It simulated the Los Angeles, the Seawolf, and the Russian Akula.

I'm far from an expert, but from my impression it was pretty damn technically competent. Yes, the dev company, Sonalysts? Just have a look at their site.

There was a car?
I was too busy watching Jenny Agutter: http://i2.listal.com/image/343660/600full-jenny-agutter.jpg I ought to download and read the Logan's Run book sometime.

I'm surpised the one featured in the movie Get Carter isn't mentioned.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/hannahmacklin/GetCarterDrinkitall.jpg

http://img.listal.com/image/1349290/936full-get-carter-screenshot.jpg

You don't have to tell me ;)

Pic 1
She is not really a police officer or a nun nor a nurse. ;)

I'd tell her then I'm bidding on Dr. Lam (Michael Shanks' wife Lexa Doig).

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines - the poster's wife would have to be pretty hot to have any chance at all against Lexa...

I'd tell her then I'm bidding on Dr. Lam (Michael Shanks' wife Lexa Doig).

The end scene where Ralphy Boy triumphs over evil (and Steve Vai) - That's one I want!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090888/

http://www.listal.com/video/166888

Amazon pretty much has every book which has ever contained an ISBN number in their database. Via the Amazon API it pretty much becomes the IMDB of books. Combine it with http://www.listal.com/ and you can really start to kick ass.

Appearently this is a problem a lot of people have been thinking about of late.

Checkout:
Library Thing - Catalog your books online
Listal - Social media cataloging

Both have tags, social aspects, cool entry, etc, etc.