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Many people look at the Console Wars and think that this is the be all and end all of gaming. They believe that all games can be checked against the ones on other consoles to decide which is the best game in the world. They are quite mistaken. There is another option as far as gaming goes and you could well be looking at it right now. Do you see it? No? Well you must be looking at an internet capable Console. It's the PC.
It's a common occurence that someone happily states "when have you ever seen the likes of (Game Z) before?". Little do they realise that Game Z is a type of game that has been done before on the PC. Crazy Taxi, for example, obviously totally original when have you ever seen a game in which you drive a Taxi in a totally reckless manner in order to get your passenger to your destination before? Add in some guns and mines, throw in a load of equally crazy drivers, replace some passengers with "packages" (ie, bombs) and go back a fair few years. What have you got now? Quarantine on the PC. Not only was it done before but there was more to it. The improvement that Crazy Taxi has is graphics, but that's down to age really. Just recently there has been talk of Resident Evil being a totally original style of game and hey wow, many years ago there was the original Alone in the Dark and then two sequels. Both games involve fighting Zombies, fixed cameras and puzzle solving, the two differences being that Resident Evil has too much running around shooting the same few creatures while Alone in the Dark had more carefully paced movement with more creatures and more complex puzzles and in Resident Evil the Zombies are people infected with a virus rather than the more traditional walking dead. Original on Consoles alone and original in general are very different things.
Let's look now to the future of games on the PC. Out soon on the FPS front we have Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's looking to be a great game with good graphics, a flamethrower, what could be a good story and what should be excellent gameplay (we wont know till it gets here). It also has the advantage of being based on Wolfenstein 3D which essentially created the FPS genre. Another FPS out soon will be Red Faction, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will it be a rubbish made for console transfer?" Well, we'll have to see but if not then we can hope for wall blasting fun, interesting styles of multiplayer (blowing the enemy base up so badly that the flag is outside for example) and a good storyline. Also in the field of FPSs we will see Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault, which promises excellent cinematic gameplay based in world war two. Expect to see scenes like that of the D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan and Conker's Bad Fur day. This is in addition to several missions based around stealth and infiltration. It will also provide quite realistic WW2 gameplay, including true to life weapons though gore is a touchy subject in it's development. On the RPG scene we have Neverwinter Nights, which will allow you to create quests of your own and play them with friends or strangers on-line. It will also include a premade quest which should be good, or you could download quests other people have created or just play them on-line. Since it is being made by the people who brought you Fallout and Baldur's Gate, Black Isle, you can expect Neverwinter Nights to be an excellent game. There are many other games coming out soon on the PC that are well worthy of discussion, though there is not room to cover them all here.
The PC is still a power in the gaming world, bringing much innovation, originality and general good gameplay. So while it is easy to be distracted by the Console Wars let us not forget the PC is a big part of the future of gaming.
It's a common occurence that someone happily states "when have you ever seen the likes of (Game Z) before?". Little do they realise that Game Z is a type of game that has been done before on the PC. Crazy Taxi, for example, obviously totally original when have you ever seen a game in which you drive a Taxi in a totally reckless manner in order to get your passenger to your destination before? Add in some guns and mines, throw in a load of equally crazy drivers, replace some passengers with "packages" (ie, bombs) and go back a fair few years. What have you got now? Quarantine on the PC. Not only was it done before but there was more to it. The improvement that Crazy Taxi has is graphics, but that's down to age really. Just recently there has been talk of Resident Evil being a totally original style of game and hey wow, many years ago there was the original Alone in the Dark and then two sequels. Both games involve fighting Zombies, fixed cameras and puzzle solving, the two differences being that Resident Evil has too much running around shooting the same few creatures while Alone in the Dark had more carefully paced movement with more creatures and more complex puzzles and in Resident Evil the Zombies are people infected with a virus rather than the more traditional walking dead. Original on Consoles alone and original in general are very different things.
Let's look now to the future of games on the PC. Out soon on the FPS front we have Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's looking to be a great game with good graphics, a flamethrower, what could be a good story and what should be excellent gameplay (we wont know till it gets here). It also has the advantage of being based on Wolfenstein 3D which essentially created the FPS genre. Another FPS out soon will be Red Faction, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will it be a rubbish made for console transfer?" Well, we'll have to see but if not then we can hope for wall blasting fun, interesting styles of multiplayer (blowing the enemy base up so badly that the flag is outside for example) and a good storyline. Also in the field of FPSs we will see Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault, which promises excellent cinematic gameplay based in world war two. Expect to see scenes like that of the D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan and Conker's Bad Fur day. This is in addition to several missions based around stealth and infiltration. It will also provide quite realistic WW2 gameplay, including true to life weapons though gore is a touchy subject in it's development. On the RPG scene we have Neverwinter Nights, which will allow you to create quests of your own and play them with friends or strangers on-line. It will also include a premade quest which should be good, or you could download quests other people have created or just play them on-line. Since it is being made by the people who brought you Fallout and Baldur's Gate, Black Isle, you can expect Neverwinter Nights to be an excellent game. There are many other games coming out soon on the PC that are well worthy of discussion, though there is not room to cover them all here.
The PC is still a power in the gaming world, bringing much innovation, originality and general good gameplay. So while it is easy to be distracted by the Console Wars let us not forget the PC is a big part of the future of gaming.
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I heard that the next version of windows will travel the net as a virus, and install itself on unsuspecting users..
Mystique wrote:
> damn you windows! damn you bill gates!
"windows cannot open
> this file windows is using it"
"explorer has experianced
> and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
*blue screen* press any key to continue...*presses a
> key*
the damn cd drawer opens!
so like i said damn you windows!
You're a funny girl nic, a funny girl.
> damn you windows! damn you bill gates!
"windows cannot open
> this file windows is using it"
"explorer has experianced
> and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and
> error"
*blue screen* press any key to continue...*presses a
> key*
the damn cd drawer opens!
so like i said damn you windows!
You're a funny girl nic, a funny girl.
damn you windows! damn you bill gates!
"windows cannot open this file windows is using it"
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
*blue screen* press any key to continue...*presses a key*
the damn cd drawer opens!
so like i said damn you windows!
"windows cannot open this file windows is using it"
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
ok
"explorer has experianced and error"
*blue screen* press any key to continue...*presses a key*
the damn cd drawer opens!
so like i said damn you windows!
I don't know. PC's are good, but I don't think they've quite made their mark with regards to the 'Future of Gaming'. I mean 'MhZ' and 'MMX' are all well and good to the know-a-bits of the gaming world, but to Joe Bloggs, who incidentaly only knows of hard drives and market penetration from French Blue movies and 'Warez' sites, the PC market is too complex.
I'd much rather have a console with decent graphics, simple games that you can just stick in and play.
And, Gordon Bennet! What is this? PSO: Gamecube? And the owners of this title may even be able to play on-line against the Dreamcast owners. I suppose PC owners could join in, only they don't have the game on PC format, there is no PC server, and Sega or Nintendo probably don't want them to!
So the PC Gaming market might be strong and mighty right now, but once gamers see that they'll be able to start playing games against people with other consoles (PSO and maybe FFX) a lot of Gaming Only PC owners might jump ship, whether it be the 'HMS Gamecube' or the 'USS PS2' or even the 'SX-XBOX', and when the dust has cleared and the exclusive titles fade away there maybe a stronger link between the three console companies compared to the whole internet PC setup altogether!
PC gaming is all well and good, but really, is there any point spending half an hour chatting to Fred, Alex and Oscar whilst trying to set-up a game of Q3A on-line when you could nip round to yer mates and get going in a matter of seconds?!
I think not!
I'd much rather have a console with decent graphics, simple games that you can just stick in and play.
And, Gordon Bennet! What is this? PSO: Gamecube? And the owners of this title may even be able to play on-line against the Dreamcast owners. I suppose PC owners could join in, only they don't have the game on PC format, there is no PC server, and Sega or Nintendo probably don't want them to!
So the PC Gaming market might be strong and mighty right now, but once gamers see that they'll be able to start playing games against people with other consoles (PSO and maybe FFX) a lot of Gaming Only PC owners might jump ship, whether it be the 'HMS Gamecube' or the 'USS PS2' or even the 'SX-XBOX', and when the dust has cleared and the exclusive titles fade away there maybe a stronger link between the three console companies compared to the whole internet PC setup altogether!
PC gaming is all well and good, but really, is there any point spending half an hour chatting to Fred, Alex and Oscar whilst trying to set-up a game of Q3A on-line when you could nip round to yer mates and get going in a matter of seconds?!
I think not!
I don't know. PC's are good, but I don't think they've quite made their mark with regards to the 'Future of Gaming'. I mean 'MhZ' and 'MMX' are all well and good to the know-a-bits of the gaming world, but to Joe Bloggs, who incidentaly only knows of hard drives and market penetration from French Blue movies and 'Warez' sites, the PC market is too complex.
I'd much rather have a console with decent graphics, simple games that you can just stick in and play.
And, Gordon Bennet! What is this? PSO: Gamecube? And the owners of this title may even be able to play on-line against the Dreamcast owners. I suppose PC owners could join in, only they don't have the game on PC format, there is no PC server, and Sega or Nintendo probably don't want them to!
So the PC Gaming market might be strong and mighty right now, but once gamers see that they'll be able to start playing games against people with other consoles (PSO and maybe FFX) a lot of Gaming Only PC owners might jump ship, whether it be the 'HMS Gamecube' or the 'USS PS2' or even the 'SX-XBOX', and when the dust has cleared and the exclusive titles fade away there maybe a stronger link between the three console companies compared to the whole internet PC setup altogether!
PC gaming is all well and good, but really, is there any point spending half an hour chatting to Fred, Alex and Oscar whilst trying to set-up a game of Q3A on-line when you could nip round to yer mates and get going in a matter of seconds?!
I think not!
I'd much rather have a console with decent graphics, simple games that you can just stick in and play.
And, Gordon Bennet! What is this? PSO: Gamecube? And the owners of this title may even be able to play on-line against the Dreamcast owners. I suppose PC owners could join in, only they don't have the game on PC format, there is no PC server, and Sega or Nintendo probably don't want them to!
So the PC Gaming market might be strong and mighty right now, but once gamers see that they'll be able to start playing games against people with other consoles (PSO and maybe FFX) a lot of Gaming Only PC owners might jump ship, whether it be the 'HMS Gamecube' or the 'USS PS2' or even the 'SX-XBOX', and when the dust has cleared and the exclusive titles fade away there maybe a stronger link between the three console companies compared to the whole internet PC setup altogether!
PC gaming is all well and good, but really, is there any point spending half an hour chatting to Fred, Alex and Oscar whilst trying to set-up a game of Q3A on-line when you could nip round to yer mates and get going in a matter of seconds?!
I think not!
Many people look at the Console Wars and think that this is the be all and end all of gaming. They believe that all games can be checked against the ones on other consoles to decide which is the best game in the world. They are quite mistaken. There is another option as far as gaming goes and you could well be looking at it right now. Do you see it? No? Well you must be looking at an internet capable Console. It's the PC.
It's a common occurence that someone happily states "when have you ever seen the likes of (Game Z) before?". Little do they realise that Game Z is a type of game that has been done before on the PC. Crazy Taxi, for example, obviously totally original when have you ever seen a game in which you drive a Taxi in a totally reckless manner in order to get your passenger to your destination before? Add in some guns and mines, throw in a load of equally crazy drivers, replace some passengers with "packages" (ie, bombs) and go back a fair few years. What have you got now? Quarantine on the PC. Not only was it done before but there was more to it. The improvement that Crazy Taxi has is graphics, but that's down to age really. Just recently there has been talk of Resident Evil being a totally original style of game and hey wow, many years ago there was the original Alone in the Dark and then two sequels. Both games involve fighting Zombies, fixed cameras and puzzle solving, the two differences being that Resident Evil has too much running around shooting the same few creatures while Alone in the Dark had more carefully paced movement with more creatures and more complex puzzles and in Resident Evil the Zombies are people infected with a virus rather than the more traditional walking dead. Original on Consoles alone and original in general are very different things.
Let's look now to the future of games on the PC. Out soon on the FPS front we have Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's looking to be a great game with good graphics, a flamethrower, what could be a good story and what should be excellent gameplay (we wont know till it gets here). It also has the advantage of being based on Wolfenstein 3D which essentially created the FPS genre. Another FPS out soon will be Red Faction, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will it be a rubbish made for console transfer?" Well, we'll have to see but if not then we can hope for wall blasting fun, interesting styles of multiplayer (blowing the enemy base up so badly that the flag is outside for example) and a good storyline. Also in the field of FPSs we will see Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault, which promises excellent cinematic gameplay based in world war two. Expect to see scenes like that of the D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan and Conker's Bad Fur day. This is in addition to several missions based around stealth and infiltration. It will also provide quite realistic WW2 gameplay, including true to life weapons though gore is a touchy subject in it's development. On the RPG scene we have Neverwinter Nights, which will allow you to create quests of your own and play them with friends or strangers on-line. It will also include a premade quest which should be good, or you could download quests other people have created or just play them on-line. Since it is being made by the people who brought you Fallout and Baldur's Gate, Black Isle, you can expect Neverwinter Nights to be an excellent game. There are many other games coming out soon on the PC that are well worthy of discussion, though there is not room to cover them all here.
The PC is still a power in the gaming world, bringing much innovation, originality and general good gameplay. So while it is easy to be distracted by the Console Wars let us not forget the PC is a big part of the future of gaming.
It's a common occurence that someone happily states "when have you ever seen the likes of (Game Z) before?". Little do they realise that Game Z is a type of game that has been done before on the PC. Crazy Taxi, for example, obviously totally original when have you ever seen a game in which you drive a Taxi in a totally reckless manner in order to get your passenger to your destination before? Add in some guns and mines, throw in a load of equally crazy drivers, replace some passengers with "packages" (ie, bombs) and go back a fair few years. What have you got now? Quarantine on the PC. Not only was it done before but there was more to it. The improvement that Crazy Taxi has is graphics, but that's down to age really. Just recently there has been talk of Resident Evil being a totally original style of game and hey wow, many years ago there was the original Alone in the Dark and then two sequels. Both games involve fighting Zombies, fixed cameras and puzzle solving, the two differences being that Resident Evil has too much running around shooting the same few creatures while Alone in the Dark had more carefully paced movement with more creatures and more complex puzzles and in Resident Evil the Zombies are people infected with a virus rather than the more traditional walking dead. Original on Consoles alone and original in general are very different things.
Let's look now to the future of games on the PC. Out soon on the FPS front we have Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's looking to be a great game with good graphics, a flamethrower, what could be a good story and what should be excellent gameplay (we wont know till it gets here). It also has the advantage of being based on Wolfenstein 3D which essentially created the FPS genre. Another FPS out soon will be Red Faction, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will it be a rubbish made for console transfer?" Well, we'll have to see but if not then we can hope for wall blasting fun, interesting styles of multiplayer (blowing the enemy base up so badly that the flag is outside for example) and a good storyline. Also in the field of FPSs we will see Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault, which promises excellent cinematic gameplay based in world war two. Expect to see scenes like that of the D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan and Conker's Bad Fur day. This is in addition to several missions based around stealth and infiltration. It will also provide quite realistic WW2 gameplay, including true to life weapons though gore is a touchy subject in it's development. On the RPG scene we have Neverwinter Nights, which will allow you to create quests of your own and play them with friends or strangers on-line. It will also include a premade quest which should be good, or you could download quests other people have created or just play them on-line. Since it is being made by the people who brought you Fallout and Baldur's Gate, Black Isle, you can expect Neverwinter Nights to be an excellent game. There are many other games coming out soon on the PC that are well worthy of discussion, though there is not room to cover them all here.
The PC is still a power in the gaming world, bringing much innovation, originality and general good gameplay. So while it is easy to be distracted by the Console Wars let us not forget the PC is a big part of the future of gaming.
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