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When PS 2 gets here it will give people what they really want: brilliant games and graphics and no hassle. PC's are just too awkward for the uninitiated. Their only selling point before was their power. The next generation consoles will make this difference tiny. No wonder Bill Gates wants to make a console!
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I would like to know why Konami are bringing out Metal Gear: Ghost Babel on Gameboy Color when they could bring it out on PC! I think they should start making Metal Gear games that will play on the PC because more people have got PC's than they have Gameboy Colors!They could get more people from all over the world to play Metal Gear.
Also, anyone know anything about Metal Gear Solid 2????
I MUST KNOW!!
Also, anyone know anything about Metal Gear Solid 2????
I MUST KNOW!!
Bonobo Jim wrote:
Consoles. Love them or hate them, they are coming. Consoles, made
by big companies world wide. Consoles, in their pretty little
boxes, with almost everything a PC has save one thing.
Flexibility.
If you want flexibility, date a gymnast! If you just want to buy a game and play it straight away, get a console. If you want long boot-up times, installation times, hard disk wastage, incompatibiliy, slow frame rates after a few months of buying your latest graphics card, and considerably less money in your bank account, buy a PC!
'What console do you have?'
'A Playstation an N64 (he he he)and an illeagally imported PS2
which will never run Uk games and has all the instruction booklets
in Japanese.'
Eto, Nihongo wa totemo omoshiroi desu yo!
'What PC do you have?'
' Hope you're comfertable...'
My Pc has no brand. It is over three years old, but is still
cutting edge. It's been systematically dissected, transplanted and
upgraded to such an extent that it is unrecognisable from the
original product. It has EVOLVED.
Darwins theory of evolution states (and I quote) ' Survival of the
most fitted.' and in the new enviroment of consumers wanting ever
more customisation and with mass production a thing of the past
they are going to want something that they can take apart, analyse
and reconfigure (or better still pay some else to) and improve its
performance. They want the hardware equivilant of a rubics cube
(with almost infinite combinations). They want a PC
And what do manufacturers of PCs and peripherals want? People who are happy to give them their money every time something slightly better comes along.
Bonobo Jim (what about him?)
ps. By taking apart your Dreamcast you are invalidating the
warranty and there's almost nothing you can do to upgrade it
anyway! (bwahahahahahahahaha!)
Games should be about gameplay. To concentrate on aesthetics (which essentially is all that upgrades improve) is to be missing the point. For a fair comparison, try running the same game on a DC and a sub £200 PC, and I think you'll find that the DC will win.
Consoles. Love them or hate them, they are coming. Consoles, made
by big companies world wide. Consoles, in their pretty little
boxes, with almost everything a PC has save one thing.
Flexibility.
If you want flexibility, date a gymnast! If you just want to buy a game and play it straight away, get a console. If you want long boot-up times, installation times, hard disk wastage, incompatibiliy, slow frame rates after a few months of buying your latest graphics card, and considerably less money in your bank account, buy a PC!
'What console do you have?'
'A Playstation an N64 (he he he)and an illeagally imported PS2
which will never run Uk games and has all the instruction booklets
in Japanese.'
Eto, Nihongo wa totemo omoshiroi desu yo!
'What PC do you have?'
' Hope you're comfertable...'
My Pc has no brand. It is over three years old, but is still
cutting edge. It's been systematically dissected, transplanted and
upgraded to such an extent that it is unrecognisable from the
original product. It has EVOLVED.
Darwins theory of evolution states (and I quote) ' Survival of the
most fitted.' and in the new enviroment of consumers wanting ever
more customisation and with mass production a thing of the past
they are going to want something that they can take apart, analyse
and reconfigure (or better still pay some else to) and improve its
performance. They want the hardware equivilant of a rubics cube
(with almost infinite combinations). They want a PC
And what do manufacturers of PCs and peripherals want? People who are happy to give them their money every time something slightly better comes along.
Bonobo Jim (what about him?)
ps. By taking apart your Dreamcast you are invalidating the
warranty and there's almost nothing you can do to upgrade it
anyway! (bwahahahahahahahaha!)
Games should be about gameplay. To concentrate on aesthetics (which essentially is all that upgrades improve) is to be missing the point. For a fair comparison, try running the same game on a DC and a sub £200 PC, and I think you'll find that the DC will win.
Consoles. Love them or hate them, they are coming. Consoles, made by big companies world wide. Consoles, in their pretty little boxes, with almost everything a PC has save one thing.
Flexibility.
'What console do you have?'
'A Playstation an N64 (he he he)and an illeagally imported PS2 which will never run Uk games and has all the instruction booklets in Japanese.'
'What PC do you have?'
' Hope you're comfertable...'
My Pc has no brand. It is over three years old, but is still cutting edge. It's been systematically dissected, transplanted and upgraded to such an extent that it is unrecognisable from the original product. It has EVOLVED.
Darwins theory of evolution states (and I quote) ' Survival of the most fitted.' and in the new enviroment of consumers wanting ever more customisation and with mass production a thing of the past they are going to want something that they can take apart, analyse and reconfigure (or better still pay some else to) and improve its performance. They want the hardware equivilant of a rubics cube (with almost infinite combinations). They want a PC
Bonobo Jim (what about him?)
ps. By taking apart your Dreamcast you are invalidating the warranty and there's almost nothing you can do to upgrade it anyway! (bwahahahahahahahaha!)
Flexibility.
'What console do you have?'
'A Playstation an N64 (he he he)and an illeagally imported PS2 which will never run Uk games and has all the instruction booklets in Japanese.'
'What PC do you have?'
' Hope you're comfertable...'
My Pc has no brand. It is over three years old, but is still cutting edge. It's been systematically dissected, transplanted and upgraded to such an extent that it is unrecognisable from the original product. It has EVOLVED.
Darwins theory of evolution states (and I quote) ' Survival of the most fitted.' and in the new enviroment of consumers wanting ever more customisation and with mass production a thing of the past they are going to want something that they can take apart, analyse and reconfigure (or better still pay some else to) and improve its performance. They want the hardware equivilant of a rubics cube (with almost infinite combinations). They want a PC
Bonobo Jim (what about him?)
ps. By taking apart your Dreamcast you are invalidating the warranty and there's almost nothing you can do to upgrade it anyway! (bwahahahahahahahaha!)
you can do SO much more! That's what makes them FUN! :)
Go try Paint Shop Pro, you can try the trial version for a month free, see what ye can make :) There's tons of tutorial sites for ost PC applicatiosn, so half an hour online, siave the site to your hard drive and learn. If you can figure out the best way to get experience in an RPG or juggle CM3's teams, making stuff is a doddle.
Hunt up sound software at download.com, there's game programming stuff out there too.
I build web sites and do all kinds of graphics. Try THAT on a console!
Then when I want I can listen to all kinds of music, watch TV, listen to the radio, catch the news, then nukes cities in Syndicate Wars when I want to relax! :
Consoles are for beginners. With a PROPERLY setup PC: voodoo3, Soundblaster for sound, PII or PIII CPU, 64+ RAM and an EXTERNAL modem, Windows98 version 2, your laughing! I've had very little bother with that setup, and I do a WHALE of a lot of stuff.
From a dude thoroughly peeved off hearing about "console this, console that, yatta yatta yatta!" :
Silverblade, who played Space Invaders the first week it was released in Britain
Go try Paint Shop Pro, you can try the trial version for a month free, see what ye can make :) There's tons of tutorial sites for ost PC applicatiosn, so half an hour online, siave the site to your hard drive and learn. If you can figure out the best way to get experience in an RPG or juggle CM3's teams, making stuff is a doddle.
Hunt up sound software at download.com, there's game programming stuff out there too.
I build web sites and do all kinds of graphics. Try THAT on a console!
Then when I want I can listen to all kinds of music, watch TV, listen to the radio, catch the news, then nukes cities in Syndicate Wars when I want to relax! :
Consoles are for beginners. With a PROPERLY setup PC: voodoo3, Soundblaster for sound, PII or PIII CPU, 64+ RAM and an EXTERNAL modem, Windows98 version 2, your laughing! I've had very little bother with that setup, and I do a WHALE of a lot of stuff.
From a dude thoroughly peeved off hearing about "console this, console that, yatta yatta yatta!" :
Silverblade, who played Space Invaders the first week it was released in Britain
Consoles are for those who want to BE entertained.
PCs are for those who want to DO something.
I love games, but I paint, write, build websites, educate myself you name it, all thanks to the PC.
And PCs are used by millions of offices and are in millions of homes, consoles come and go but computers, be the Amstrads, Spectrums or PIII IBM-clones wil be here MAKING the games you play.
Try some good applications on the PC mate, MUCH more fun than just sitting there thumb twiddling :)
PCs are for those who want to DO something.
I love games, but I paint, write, build websites, educate myself you name it, all thanks to the PC.
And PCs are used by millions of offices and are in millions of homes, consoles come and go but computers, be the Amstrads, Spectrums or PIII IBM-clones wil be here MAKING the games you play.
Try some good applications on the PC mate, MUCH more fun than just sitting there thumb twiddling :)
Anyone interested in getting together in a weekend LAN Party. - It's a bring your own PC-with network card of course afair - at a location in Herts/Essex.
There will possibly be an entrance fee, but there will be Comps with prizes(if enough people) and evening out with food before all nighter!!!!
If interested post reply or email [email protected]
There will possibly be an entrance fee, but there will be Comps with prizes(if enough people) and evening out with food before all nighter!!!!
If interested post reply or email [email protected]
Sounds like you could do with some updated drivers for the graphics card.
Have you tried Guillemot's web site?
http://www.guillemot.com/uk/index.html
Downloading and installing the latest version drivers might help. Also, it might just (possibly) be an issue with those games. See if there are any update patches available for them.
Tatterdemalion wrote:
: I have a Guillemot Prophet nVidea GeForce graphics processing unit and am experiencing problems with both EA's "World Cup Cricket 99" and the demo of Microsoft's "Midtown Madness".
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: In the sports sim' players or parts of players will actually disappear and the sky is badly affected. In the driving simulation much of the horizon can be totally obscured.
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: I have Direct X Version 7 installed and am running an Athlon rather than a Pentium PC - does anyone know how I can go about solving this so that I can actually enjoy the games - I'm wary of buying more if they're not going to function properly.
Have you tried Guillemot's web site?
http://www.guillemot.com/uk/index.html
Downloading and installing the latest version drivers might help. Also, it might just (possibly) be an issue with those games. See if there are any update patches available for them.
Tatterdemalion wrote:
: I have a Guillemot Prophet nVidea GeForce graphics processing unit and am experiencing problems with both EA's "World Cup Cricket 99" and the demo of Microsoft's "Midtown Madness".
:
: In the sports sim' players or parts of players will actually disappear and the sky is badly affected. In the driving simulation much of the horizon can be totally obscured.
:
: I have Direct X Version 7 installed and am running an Athlon rather than a Pentium PC - does anyone know how I can go about solving this so that I can actually enjoy the games - I'm wary of buying more if they're not going to function properly.
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