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Bless them...Just for my attention you know. Battered and bloody, each seems to win a battle but the war still rages. Lets have a quick look at the passion and the pain then shall we?
You know - it drives me nuts sometimes. I can't help it - I loooove PC games, I love their depth, their presentation and the maturity of the genres I choose to play eg. FPS, RPG, RTS and errm...FPSneaker (Thief III and Splinter Cell). Any of you who remember my posts (I don't blame you if you don't) know I really worship the control mechanics of a good FPS. There is nothing like bouncing halfway across a level, steering your flight, zooming and...
Yes hehe
*ZAP* your opponents head pops like a grape on the FAR side of the level. All in mid air with a voice confirming how cool it was to pull a move like that. Yes. The fact that your mate is a snivelling mess behind his monitor means nothing. You are king of this virtual world HAHAAA!
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Breath ragged in his chest he peers around the dirty pock marked wall. Squinting through the smoke his eyes dart back and forth for any….*Sizzzmmm*an upgrade! Picked up nearby. Ears straining he listens for the direction of the footsteps – that have broken into a run… nearer and nearer. It’s too dark dammit!
CRACK the plasma rifle lights the corridor up, shadows sear across the walls twisting like live creatures. Now the visions tunnels – sucked in, hypnotised I become him. I jump and roll to the left, the Carbine jumping in my fists – gleaming shells scattering on the floor like sparks. A thump, two thumps – body armour splitting and burning across my chest I spin into the shadow behind a girder, the murderous Plasma tracking me until the last second. “This is crazy – outgunned and outsmarted. Sh*t. Think think think!” No time. Choose – left or right. Right – trigger pulled, a quick burst and gone running running running for the Rocket Launcher.
Hup! One jump, two jumps, the chasm below like a beast’s maw waiting for an unfortunate victim. Grav boots scrabbling for purchase I land sprawled on the launcher spawn pad….Come on Come on *Sizzzmmm* YES! He has heard me – but let him come! Hold the left trigger, the mechanics like oiled snakes load one, two three, four packs of “Iiiinstant death - just add human for Squelchy Fun”. I can hear the cheeky salesman now. I’m loving it. A manic grin spreads across my face, the blood lust rises. Charging down the ramp I see him, every moment crystallised every detail stark. I am bleeding, my armour ruined but his back is to me and its too late too late…mwuahahahahaa…*WHHHHOOOSH*
So what do I do for this? I spend inordinate amounts of money on things like video cards and 20" tft monitors and optical mice (mouses?) and wireless keyboards, tweak the hell out of the PC settings for maximum frame rate. I bleed (literally – scrape your knuckles down a PCB and you will know all about it) and sweat performing upgrades and moving things about. I setup the surround sound
hmmm..no that speaker is not quite in the right place
for maximum accuracy in the audioscape, heheee…*ZAP* HaHAAAA! Gotcha! I shoot fools for a livin’!!
sorry
:o)
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Then I wander upstairs, lay on the bed. Switch the telly on and push that magical grey button on the Cube and….
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I miss home. Grandma and the green grass. The small inlet where the sea water was clear enough for you to see the urchins and shells from the round warm rocks. Diving for those was fun. Perhaps running up and down the beach after the pigs that had escaped our neighbour’s pen was a bit of chore, but it was all so simple then. Then home for soup, bread and warm bed.
Now. Thrust into this adventure reluctantly. Desperate to rescue my sister, fearing for her safety, frightened and wide eyed I ventured away clothed in green. Grandma says this is important, but I don’t know why. I have a sword and shield and now everyone expects so much of me. I sail the seas, wind whipping through my hair looking for clues to her whereabouts and meeting many weird and wonderful creatures and people. Hehe - some are very strange. Others try to hurt or… kill me.
I have learned something wondrous. I can command the wind and it will bear me and my trusty boat to any of the far corners of this world. I sail across the open seas, duelling with pirates and seeking hidden treasure. I land on strange islands, frozen or blasted. The gods have some sort of message for me, I can feel it but I am unsure where or how it will manifest itself. The skies are darkened and some evil is in the world. For now I trust my instincts. Ayup! Here is my next destination!
Splash (note to self – grow a little more or get boat closer to the shore). Clamber up the beach, sword drawn – feeling a little nervous. What is this place? It feels familiar…the trees and earth feel alive here. The place throbs with an organic power. I’ll follow that stream into the island. The night sky lights my path, the stars twinkling like shards of diamonds. Yikes! Hop left to avoid that blob that…Thing just shot at me. Aha now is my chance! Just as master taught me –wait for the weak moment and strike! It coveted a rupee – poor worthless thing. Oh well – waste not want not. I press on up stream and enter a cavern with…whoa a huge tree with a frikkin grandma said not to swear FACE on it! Arrrgh! *passes out*
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Well no not really. Good console games have something, an injection of love and care, attention to detail. They are simple to get to grips with, challenging to master. The worlds are beautifully put together and the sense of wonder you feel every time you progress take you all the way back to the first time you played a video game. And what do I do for this? I buy every good game, put myself through months of torture waiting for the release of the next (which to be fair are few and far between compared to the PC) and maintain a fierce loyalty to the platform, jousting with those who criticise wrongly, debating with those with a good point to raise. Sometimes it’s worth it. The developers have used all their devious tricks to extract the last vestiges of power from the console and produce smooth visuals throughout it’s lifespan that blow you away. They come up with REALLY new and innovative ways of playing games to keep you hooked. All this with a spend perhaps one tenth of what you would on a decent gaming PC.
Godsdammit.
So the power shifts constantly and I guess I am doomed to love and loathe both of them. This is my story (well – it’s not really that dramatic…hehe) and I am sure there are those of you out there with a similar problem.
Slaves to our passions eh?
You know - it drives me nuts sometimes. I can't help it - I loooove PC games, I love their depth, their presentation and the maturity of the genres I choose to play eg. FPS, RPG, RTS and errm...FPSneaker (Thief III and Splinter Cell). Any of you who remember my posts (I don't blame you if you don't) know I really worship the control mechanics of a good FPS. There is nothing like bouncing halfway across a level, steering your flight, zooming and...
Yes hehe
*ZAP* your opponents head pops like a grape on the FAR side of the level. All in mid air with a voice confirming how cool it was to pull a move like that. Yes. The fact that your mate is a snivelling mess behind his monitor means nothing. You are king of this virtual world HAHAAA!
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Breath ragged in his chest he peers around the dirty pock marked wall. Squinting through the smoke his eyes dart back and forth for any….*Sizzzmmm*an upgrade! Picked up nearby. Ears straining he listens for the direction of the footsteps – that have broken into a run… nearer and nearer. It’s too dark dammit!
CRACK the plasma rifle lights the corridor up, shadows sear across the walls twisting like live creatures. Now the visions tunnels – sucked in, hypnotised I become him. I jump and roll to the left, the Carbine jumping in my fists – gleaming shells scattering on the floor like sparks. A thump, two thumps – body armour splitting and burning across my chest I spin into the shadow behind a girder, the murderous Plasma tracking me until the last second. “This is crazy – outgunned and outsmarted. Sh*t. Think think think!” No time. Choose – left or right. Right – trigger pulled, a quick burst and gone running running running for the Rocket Launcher.
Hup! One jump, two jumps, the chasm below like a beast’s maw waiting for an unfortunate victim. Grav boots scrabbling for purchase I land sprawled on the launcher spawn pad….Come on Come on *Sizzzmmm* YES! He has heard me – but let him come! Hold the left trigger, the mechanics like oiled snakes load one, two three, four packs of “Iiiinstant death - just add human for Squelchy Fun”. I can hear the cheeky salesman now. I’m loving it. A manic grin spreads across my face, the blood lust rises. Charging down the ramp I see him, every moment crystallised every detail stark. I am bleeding, my armour ruined but his back is to me and its too late too late…mwuahahahahaa…*WHHHHOOOSH*
So what do I do for this? I spend inordinate amounts of money on things like video cards and 20" tft monitors and optical mice (mouses?) and wireless keyboards, tweak the hell out of the PC settings for maximum frame rate. I bleed (literally – scrape your knuckles down a PCB and you will know all about it) and sweat performing upgrades and moving things about. I setup the surround sound
hmmm..no that speaker is not quite in the right place
for maximum accuracy in the audioscape, heheee…*ZAP* HaHAAAA! Gotcha! I shoot fools for a livin’!!
sorry
:o)
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Then I wander upstairs, lay on the bed. Switch the telly on and push that magical grey button on the Cube and….
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I miss home. Grandma and the green grass. The small inlet where the sea water was clear enough for you to see the urchins and shells from the round warm rocks. Diving for those was fun. Perhaps running up and down the beach after the pigs that had escaped our neighbour’s pen was a bit of chore, but it was all so simple then. Then home for soup, bread and warm bed.
Now. Thrust into this adventure reluctantly. Desperate to rescue my sister, fearing for her safety, frightened and wide eyed I ventured away clothed in green. Grandma says this is important, but I don’t know why. I have a sword and shield and now everyone expects so much of me. I sail the seas, wind whipping through my hair looking for clues to her whereabouts and meeting many weird and wonderful creatures and people. Hehe - some are very strange. Others try to hurt or… kill me.
I have learned something wondrous. I can command the wind and it will bear me and my trusty boat to any of the far corners of this world. I sail across the open seas, duelling with pirates and seeking hidden treasure. I land on strange islands, frozen or blasted. The gods have some sort of message for me, I can feel it but I am unsure where or how it will manifest itself. The skies are darkened and some evil is in the world. For now I trust my instincts. Ayup! Here is my next destination!
Splash (note to self – grow a little more or get boat closer to the shore). Clamber up the beach, sword drawn – feeling a little nervous. What is this place? It feels familiar…the trees and earth feel alive here. The place throbs with an organic power. I’ll follow that stream into the island. The night sky lights my path, the stars twinkling like shards of diamonds. Yikes! Hop left to avoid that blob that…Thing just shot at me. Aha now is my chance! Just as master taught me –wait for the weak moment and strike! It coveted a rupee – poor worthless thing. Oh well – waste not want not. I press on up stream and enter a cavern with…whoa a huge tree with a frikkin grandma said not to swear FACE on it! Arrrgh! *passes out*
---------------
Well no not really. Good console games have something, an injection of love and care, attention to detail. They are simple to get to grips with, challenging to master. The worlds are beautifully put together and the sense of wonder you feel every time you progress take you all the way back to the first time you played a video game. And what do I do for this? I buy every good game, put myself through months of torture waiting for the release of the next (which to be fair are few and far between compared to the PC) and maintain a fierce loyalty to the platform, jousting with those who criticise wrongly, debating with those with a good point to raise. Sometimes it’s worth it. The developers have used all their devious tricks to extract the last vestiges of power from the console and produce smooth visuals throughout it’s lifespan that blow you away. They come up with REALLY new and innovative ways of playing games to keep you hooked. All this with a spend perhaps one tenth of what you would on a decent gaming PC.
Godsdammit.
So the power shifts constantly and I guess I am doomed to love and loathe both of them. This is my story (well – it’s not really that dramatic…hehe) and I am sure there are those of you out there with a similar problem.
Slaves to our passions eh?
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I started using PC's about, say, 5/6 years ago, and only the past 3 have I become quite fluent in them.
On the other hand, I've been consoling gaming for about 12, and basically grew up with a pad in my hand, and a SNES in my heart.
On the other hand, I've been consoling gaming for about 12, and basically grew up with a pad in my hand, and a SNES in my heart.
GameCube for me.
Mattributé wrote:
> The only reason I eveer got and play on my XBOX is XBOX Live.
the online play is quite genius.
Yes -a very valid reason to enjoy the Xbox and one of the biggest draws for PC gamers wanting somthing simpler to maintain, but offering a good level of performance. However, the arguement for single player games is still very strong and offers a very good reason to purchase a console like the Cube, where the experience has been tailored to maximise the enjoyment one person can derive.
>
> The reason that PC gamers get a steady slew of games is that it's a
> relatively hardcore set of people, and not people who buy 1 game a
> year, and the developers know that, even if they release 'Ogres and
> Orcs 3:Magic Kingdom' in June, it's fans will still flock to get it.
Well perhpas the PC does suffer from sequel mania, but methinks that has more to do with it's huge library of games that feasably could have a sequel. The opposite end of the spectrum is in console land where (and E3 proved this for me)sequels also seem to be in vogue. I think the important thing here is choice. If console owners have fewer titles and the same ratio of sequels - I think the PC gamer wins?
>with most of the marker being casual gamers, purchasing 1 or 2 games per >year, which means they're much more likely to aim for Christmas, to >maximise profits.
Yes. I admire those console owners who buy games over this period and keep them on their shelves until they have finished the one they first started. In this way they can enjoy the console all year long. Purchasing 1 or 2 games doesn't make sense though? How do the manufacturers make a profit if the games don't sell through rapidly? Nintendo are forever telling us that the profit is in the games not the machine, and it seems Microsft have learned this lesson with the projected specification of the Xbox Next/2. IGN have an article speculating as to its reasons for cutting back on the HDD. Nintendo are including one however. I wonder if the Big N have got the timing right and MS has been stung.
> The only reason I eveer got and play on my XBOX is XBOX Live.
the online play is quite genius.
Yes -a very valid reason to enjoy the Xbox and one of the biggest draws for PC gamers wanting somthing simpler to maintain, but offering a good level of performance. However, the arguement for single player games is still very strong and offers a very good reason to purchase a console like the Cube, where the experience has been tailored to maximise the enjoyment one person can derive.
>
> The reason that PC gamers get a steady slew of games is that it's a
> relatively hardcore set of people, and not people who buy 1 game a
> year, and the developers know that, even if they release 'Ogres and
> Orcs 3:Magic Kingdom' in June, it's fans will still flock to get it.
Well perhpas the PC does suffer from sequel mania, but methinks that has more to do with it's huge library of games that feasably could have a sequel. The opposite end of the spectrum is in console land where (and E3 proved this for me)sequels also seem to be in vogue. I think the important thing here is choice. If console owners have fewer titles and the same ratio of sequels - I think the PC gamer wins?
>with most of the marker being casual gamers, purchasing 1 or 2 games per >year, which means they're much more likely to aim for Christmas, to >maximise profits.
Yes. I admire those console owners who buy games over this period and keep them on their shelves until they have finished the one they first started. In this way they can enjoy the console all year long. Purchasing 1 or 2 games doesn't make sense though? How do the manufacturers make a profit if the games don't sell through rapidly? Nintendo are forever telling us that the profit is in the games not the machine, and it seems Microsft have learned this lesson with the projected specification of the Xbox Next/2. IGN have an article speculating as to its reasons for cutting back on the HDD. Nintendo are including one however. I wonder if the Big N have got the timing right and MS has been stung.
Hmm... I love my PC for two simple reasons.
1. The simulation games
2. The internet
I love my 'Cube for one simple reason
1. The games
I prefer the games on the cube better but for shorter periods of time than the PC but I go on the internet so much but I have to get up and move away from the tv to get to my PC. I'd say the better one is the Gamecube <- all hail.
1. The simulation games
2. The internet
I love my 'Cube for one simple reason
1. The games
I prefer the games on the cube better but for shorter periods of time than the PC but I go on the internet so much but I have to get up and move away from the tv to get to my PC. I'd say the better one is the Gamecube <- all hail.
I can only imagine how ridiculously difficult Operation Flashpoint and Shogun/Medieval Total War (the 2 best PC games)would be to control on consoles. No way would you be able to shoot a moving target from 200m away with an AK on an Xbox pad, unless you were just shooting wildly.
But then again Zelda with a keyboardmouse would be awful.
But then again Zelda with a keyboardmouse would be awful.
gerrid wrote:
> I can only imagine how ridiculously difficult Operation Flashpoint and
> Shogun/Medieval Total War (the 2 best PC games)would be to control on
> consoles.
>
> But then again Zelda with a keyboardmouse would be awful.
Yes - each medium has "its own" games. However - you can attach a joypad (and logitech do some fabulous ones) to a PC. I have a SNES emulator on my pc and yoshi's island (great game) and the control is superb.
Same cannot be said for the consoles where people insist on porting FPS's and making them. But then again Time Splitters and Halo make up for that by slowing the game down a bit and including a "benefit of the doubt hit system" unless you switch it off of course. I have some some frikkin amazing videos of Quake 3 nutters doing insane things with the railgun you couldn't hope to do on a console.
> I can only imagine how ridiculously difficult Operation Flashpoint and
> Shogun/Medieval Total War (the 2 best PC games)would be to control on
> consoles.
>
> But then again Zelda with a keyboardmouse would be awful.
Yes - each medium has "its own" games. However - you can attach a joypad (and logitech do some fabulous ones) to a PC. I have a SNES emulator on my pc and yoshi's island (great game) and the control is superb.
Same cannot be said for the consoles where people insist on porting FPS's and making them. But then again Time Splitters and Halo make up for that by slowing the game down a bit and including a "benefit of the doubt hit system" unless you switch it off of course. I have some some frikkin amazing videos of Quake 3 nutters doing insane things with the railgun you couldn't hope to do on a console.
Delorentis wrote:
> chatterbox wrote:
> you do know no one can be bothered to read your stupidly long post
>
> You picked on the wrong person eedjit. Christ - this coming from the
> moron who actually makes a post to try and build his status on the
> board.
>
> Here's a reality check - status is earned. It is awarded to those
> worthy. I am may stll look like a noob - but have a look at my stats,
> over two years on this board. I have done a lot of reading and know a
> few of the guys and gals here. I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
>
i see where your coming from ive been on for 2 years but im still a noob
> chatterbox wrote:
> you do know no one can be bothered to read your stupidly long post
>
> You picked on the wrong person eedjit. Christ - this coming from the
> moron who actually makes a post to try and build his status on the
> board.
>
> Here's a reality check - status is earned. It is awarded to those
> worthy. I am may stll look like a noob - but have a look at my stats,
> over two years on this board. I have done a lot of reading and know a
> few of the guys and gals here. I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
>
i see where your coming from ive been on for 2 years but im still a noob
> Delorentis wrote:
> I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
What is your deal with WS? You're very pally with him.. he an offline friend or alter ego :P
> chatterbox wrote:
> i see where your coming from ive been on for 2 years but im still a
> noob
And you still act like one.
> I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
What is your deal with WS? You're very pally with him.. he an offline friend or alter ego :P
> chatterbox wrote:
> i see where your coming from ive been on for 2 years but im still a
> noob
And you still act like one.
talk 2 the mouse cos the screen dont even wanna no u
tphi wrote:
> Delorentis wrote:
> I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
>
> What is your deal with WS? You're very pally with him.. he an offline
> friend or alter ego :P
Hehe - may just be the next best thing - but not me darlin'.
Lets just say we got some....history.
This should get a reaction ;o)
> Delorentis wrote:
> I think I am respected and I respect
> those around me, even good ol' Whitestripes.
>
> What is your deal with WS? You're very pally with him.. he an offline
> friend or alter ego :P
Hehe - may just be the next best thing - but not me darlin'.
Lets just say we got some....history.
This should get a reaction ;o)
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