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...tempt me then staffies....
> Indeed. What you working as these days?
Plate washer.
Someone inspired me with their tales of glory.
You've both been arguing here for over an hour about who has a life and who doesn't.
Surely you can both learn something from that?
Isn't there something else you'd BOTH rather be doing?
No?
Oh well, carry on!
> I must interject here, at great risk of personal injury to myself,
> but...
>
> You've both been arguing here for over an hour about who has a life
> and who doesn't.
>
> Surely you can both learn something from that?
>
> Isn't there something else you'd BOTH rather be doing?
>
> No?
>
> Oh well, carry on!
Hedfix wrote:
>
> Anyway I'm off to watch some comedy now, a very similar thing to what
> I've been watching here.
If it didn't amuse me, I wouldn't bother believe me.
> Sounds like a 16 year olds job to me... Oh thats right it was. Still
> you have set your targets higher than I thought for a 23rd old still
> living at home.
Where do you live Ali ?
So I'm a fanboy am I because I'm fed up of your "I'm better than yow" attitude? that seems to forget that games are supposed to be fun and not a lesson in way point plotting and ultra realism.
Rainbow Six 3 is a breath of freshair from what tends to be a very stale and boring genre. If you can't see that it's fun then you really should stop playing computer games and join the army....that's obviously fun to you.
> Lets put it this way, you tell me a better game which includes so many
> different modes into one and then you can laugh.
Kid, modes a game do not make. I can list any number of games that incorporate superior GAMEPLAY, starting with PONG! and working upwards.
Are the GTA games better than the Final Fantasy series? No.
Are the GTA games better than the Warcraft or C&C games? No.
Are the GTA games better than Halo/MoH/Half-Life/Quake/Unreal FPS games? No.
Personally, I struggle to come up with a single game that I think is worse other than Doshin the Giant, which is the biggest load of balls ever conceived. I remember when everyone got all breathless playing the original GTA, staying up until the small hours of the morning finding inventive ways to avoid doing the missions and just mess about killing stuff. I thought then that the game was utter toss, and I think that now. GTA 2 was no different, and GTA3/Vice City merely took the same concept and added a 3D environment. It's still a vacuous and pointless exercise in running about killing things.
Jesus, you want proof? Look at the GTA3 forum that had to be created due to the sheer number of witless philistines that littered the boards with threads like "I LIEK BASSBALL BATT HIT U WIV IT LOL!!!1". Sure, these people aren't normal, but it takes a certain type of game to bring these people out from their basements, drooling and revelling in their squalid uncleanliness. That is, as i said, a completely mind-numbing run-about allowing angsty morons to flap and toss over causing violence and destruction. Ooohhwaahhwooo.
Innovative? Perhaps the first GTA game deserves some kudos for the innovation, regardles of the fact that it was crap and clearly cashed in on people's sick fixation with violating the law in every possible way, but GTA 3/Vice City deserve no such praise. They're just an evolution of a once innovative concept onto a modern platform.
And I'm quite serious when I say that I would rather sit headbutting a kitchen knife than be subjected to the sheer dull crappiness of such a game. For many it was the reason to own a PS2 (still is one of the only reasons some say), to me, it's the reason I've never come close to buying one. I do not want to be labelled as a part of the "PS2 generation", if being named such indicates any association with GTA morons.
But hey, I'm sure people like you will argue that x many people bought it, while running off to other threads arguing that PES3 is better than FIFA regardless of the fact that the latter sells more. I'll not bother pointing out that most popular things are usually the worst and all the arguments that go with that, and instead just leave you to "haw haw" your way through some mindless destruction inbetween reading your Penthouse magazines and squeezing spots in the mirror.
> He's 17, there's a bit of a age difference me thinks.
>
> So I'm a fanboy am I because I'm fed up of your "I'm better than
> yow" attitude? that seems to forget that games are supposed to
> be fun and not a lesson in way point plotting and ultra realism.
No because you're practically rabid and there is little logic to your arguments. You can't get past the fact that your opinion of a game is just that, an opinion. Not universal truth or law, but your opinion.
What you see as way point plotting is not that to everyone, indeed people's idea of fun is not always going to be yours.
You are the one with the "holier than thou" attitude.
> Rainbow Six 3 is a breath of freshair from what tends to be a very
> stale and boring genre. If you can't see that it's fun then you
> really should stop playing computer games and join the army....that's
> obviously fun to you.
So defend it. I've heard you say how great it is but with little reason. What makes it so absolutely amazing ? You just said you didn't want realism, but it's a very realistic game in many respects, more so than SOF2 and Wolfenstein. Which means you're lambasting people who like realistic games when you in fact prefer a realistic game !
Plus only an idiot would think that ANY game conveys a true sense of warfare because not a single one of them does, nor would gamers want them to, because true war is not 'fun' in any sense. You think Ghost Recon is 'realistic' because of the waypointing ? BEcause that is all that seperates it from Rainbow Six.
Heck, you can't even see why Rainbow Six 3 could never be the same as Ghost Recon - both games purport to show entirely different things altogether.
FFXI is console exclusive to PS2.
Pro Evo 3 isn't out on Xbox.
GTA 4 will be PS2 exclusive to begin with.
And the PS2 still outsells everything else put together. Hardly dying is it ?