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Online gaming the pros and cons.
Pros-
Never lonly
I think this is a very good point think of all those multyplayer games just sitting by the machines when your mates arent around. There is usally someone always online on any game on the big hits there is usally a couple of thousand, so finding and picking someone to play has never been so easy.
Good fun
Course its fun you've playing on a computer game, thats the point. But i must admit the first time i put tiberian sun in to my pc loaded it and played it online i was never seen for a week. Why you ask, well it had a ranking system and tournaments. Never before have i been able to play in a 5 hour tournament with over 300 people all at once. The only time you would be able to do that is if you were one of those people who go to those gaming comps.
Easy to use
Not only have the gaming industry brought us this amazing thing, but they have also made it so simple. It took me no more than 5 minutes to load and be playing someone on line at tiberain sun.
Choice
If you walk in to one of your loacl gaming shops and look at the games you will find that quite a few pc games have online capabilities. Some, well most you can also download extras. Soon you will be able to play on the consoles, like you were on the dreamcast.Cant wait for the day truly an amzing experience playing someone from yourliving room who could be halfway around the world.
Cons-
Money
This depends as some people have deals and some dont. If you have a deal for your internet this aint really much of a con as you can play as much as you want for a fixed amount of money a month. But if you pay by the minute your phone bill might suddenly rush up quite a bit, take it from me best to find deals(i payed £89 in just one month once!!). My parents were a little annoyed.
Connection
If you live in a place like me you will be pulling your hair out every two minutes, this is because i live quite far from my local exchange so the connection speed is really slow and i get disconnected about once every 10 mins. :( If you are playing a game this can be so annoying think of playing a game for just under an hour, youve beating one of the best people at the game online in the ranking system and then the internet disconects you. Belive me if you get paranoid very easly and quickly and you have a crap internt speed, then i would be very careful of online gaming as you might have to see a phycatrist from the stress.
Consle
The big three consoles are still to get there online gaming sorted, so could be a while, depends they have not said any dates yet(i think unless any of you know differnt). Some you will have to buy extras for, for example the ps2 you will need a modem and if you want a hard drive to, these will come to about £150 or more. Where as the xbox has these built in saving you money and hassle.
Overall online gaming is enjoyable, reasonable cheap(depends on your phone bill) and you will never get bored.
Pros-
Never lonly
I think this is a very good point think of all those multyplayer games just sitting by the machines when your mates arent around. There is usally someone always online on any game on the big hits there is usally a couple of thousand, so finding and picking someone to play has never been so easy.
Good fun
Course its fun you've playing on a computer game, thats the point. But i must admit the first time i put tiberian sun in to my pc loaded it and played it online i was never seen for a week. Why you ask, well it had a ranking system and tournaments. Never before have i been able to play in a 5 hour tournament with over 300 people all at once. The only time you would be able to do that is if you were one of those people who go to those gaming comps.
Easy to use
Not only have the gaming industry brought us this amazing thing, but they have also made it so simple. It took me no more than 5 minutes to load and be playing someone on line at tiberain sun.
Choice
If you walk in to one of your loacl gaming shops and look at the games you will find that quite a few pc games have online capabilities. Some, well most you can also download extras. Soon you will be able to play on the consoles, like you were on the dreamcast.Cant wait for the day truly an amzing experience playing someone from yourliving room who could be halfway around the world.
Cons-
Money
This depends as some people have deals and some dont. If you have a deal for your internet this aint really much of a con as you can play as much as you want for a fixed amount of money a month. But if you pay by the minute your phone bill might suddenly rush up quite a bit, take it from me best to find deals(i payed £89 in just one month once!!). My parents were a little annoyed.
Connection
If you live in a place like me you will be pulling your hair out every two minutes, this is because i live quite far from my local exchange so the connection speed is really slow and i get disconnected about once every 10 mins. :( If you are playing a game this can be so annoying think of playing a game for just under an hour, youve beating one of the best people at the game online in the ranking system and then the internet disconects you. Belive me if you get paranoid very easly and quickly and you have a crap internt speed, then i would be very careful of online gaming as you might have to see a phycatrist from the stress.
Consle
The big three consoles are still to get there online gaming sorted, so could be a while, depends they have not said any dates yet(i think unless any of you know differnt). Some you will have to buy extras for, for example the ps2 you will need a modem and if you want a hard drive to, these will come to about £150 or more. Where as the xbox has these built in saving you money and hassle.
Overall online gaming is enjoyable, reasonable cheap(depends on your phone bill) and you will never get bored.
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Chrissy.P wrote:
> Good post there, because I never knew internet gaming could be so much
> fun and cheap, if you use it right.
Thanks.
> Good post there, because I never knew internet gaming could be so much
> fun and cheap, if you use it right.
Thanks.
Good post there, because I never knew internet gaming could be so much fun and cheap, if you use it right.
Ye sure I will do, I wil try it out tomorrow afternoon.
Go for it.
Let us know what happens
Let us know what happens
Ye, I am going to give it a try, I have a CD/RW in my cupboard and it is worth a shot at least.
garbe123 wrote:
> I know that it can't play CD/R's but I thought it could handle
> CD/RW's, am I wrong? I am yet to try a CD/RW on my Xbox but when I
> tried a CD/R it wouldn't read it.
Don't know either. Would it be able to read the file structure of a CD-RW since it's a more complex disc than a CD-R?
worth a try though...
> I know that it can't play CD/R's but I thought it could handle
> CD/RW's, am I wrong? I am yet to try a CD/RW on my Xbox but when I
> tried a CD/R it wouldn't read it.
Don't know either. Would it be able to read the file structure of a CD-RW since it's a more complex disc than a CD-R?
worth a try though...
I know that it can't play CD/R's but I thought it could handle CD/RW's, am I wrong? I am yet to try a CD/RW on my Xbox but when I tried a CD/R it wouldn't read it.
garbe123 wrote:
> I know that it can't play CD/R's but
but what?
> I know that it can't play CD/R's but
but what?
I know that it can't play CD/R's but
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