[Snail]

Great post. 

Why are you on this forum?

[Admiral_Stones]

Aight. Go play with your fellow Halo console 'tards.

[TrashMan]

You can do that to almost any game.

Watch, I'll do it to Freespace: Okay so in FS2, you got these crazy rebels rambling about how they want Polaris to be Earth instead of Earth, and you got these crazy zods with weird space ships. The space ships somehow only go like 200mph, but can go through subspace to anywhere almost instantly (plot device, anyone?). THen the fighters have enough energy to generate a shield that can withstand several gigatons of explosives, yet the fighter can't generate enough power to melt through a ship's hull. Then there are these beam canons that shoot plasma or something at people, which can magically pass through shields unchanged. And then there are these crazy Shivans that have like 5 legs and can destroy a fighter by kicking it, but they never do that, instead they fly relatively weak ass fighters. And they decide to destroy humanity for absolutely no reason at all. Then there's this alpha one guys who for some reason is super ultra best pilot ever for no reason, while his wingmen are absolute morons. Come on, how isn't FS2 stupid?

Maybe you can, but you sure as hell aren't doing it right. Most of your points have no sense whatsoever and are there just to be there or are plain wrong.

"crazy zods with strange ships" - how?..one should explain
Some form of FTL is mandatory for a good Sci-Fi and it's not a plot device by any streach of immagination.
Fighters CAN punch trough capship hulls (maxim anyone), alltough probably not trough the most heavily armored sections.
 2+ km long warships with multiple reactors generating shield is weird? What's so weird about that?

Thing with shivans in fighters is - in a fighter they can control their movement and are faster. A shivan floating in space is no real danger to someone in a fighter - it can't catch you, and you certanly have far more firepower and shielding than him at your disposal.

not all wingmen are morons. Snipes is cool

[Polpolion]

Most of your points have no sense whatsoever and are there just to be there or are plain wrong.

That's the point. 

[Snail]

Aight. Go play with your fellow Halo console 'tards.

Who, me?

I said nuffin about Halo!

[CP5670]

Some of you guys need to get new sarcasm meters.

[Snail]

Some of you guys need to get new sarcasm meters.

No sarcasm there?

[aurora_energy]

At least be glad that this convo is in off topic. least it fill boards with crap

[Polpolion]

At least be glad that this convo is in off topic. least it fill boards with crap

Which leads me to these questions: 1) Are you one of those "halo fanboys" and 2) Have you played Deus Ex.

[CP5670]

Some of you guys need to get new sarcasm meters.

No sarcasm there?

I was referring to Trashman and Stones.

[NGTM-1R]

Great post. 

Why are you on this forum?

One may recognize an excellent point that does not support one's argument, in case you didn't know that.

[General Battuta]

Uhm.... riiiiigght.
In Halo it's all about Aliens who out of fun decide to slaughter humanity, after that they've got these flashy supercool green-suited marine (deus ex machina anyone?) who horribly murders hundreds of enemys without dying. In addition to that, they have personal shields and armor who can resist alien capital ship mounted weaponry but no energy weapons, hell, they even have some hyperspace drive designed by some crazy japanese moron, but 500 years into the future, NO ENERGY WEAPONS.
We've already got lasers in a semi-combat ready state now.
Furthermore, the Master Moron is abled to singlehandedly flip Tanks, but takes multiple hits to even kill these little, mentally retarded running douchebags whilst their heads should be compresses to molecular sizes.

Aight. Go play with your fellow Halo console 'tards.

Wow, dude, that's a lot of bile. What happened?

[Akalabeth Angel]

          Halo's the best FPS multiplayer I've played in years. And I'm speaking of this as playing with 3 friends on a small TV, splitscreen.
          All the PC FPS I've played multiplayer have been pretty damn boring . . . FEAR, Half Life, Team Fortress (both versions), Unreal 3 and especially Counterstrike. . . why do people play this game??? It sucks balls. I buy them for the single player, and that's fun . .. but multiplayer? I played Unreal 3 on a friend's computer (since mine's not good enough), and man, the players are just bouncing around like pinballs. Halo physics are a lot better. Even if perhaps they're designed for a console, that's okay. I used to play the original UT all the time, and it was fun, but since then . . . nothing I've played has been all that fun.
          But yeah, Halo 2 gave me many wonderful hours playing with 2 or 3 friends for that's for sure. As for Halo 2's story, it's nothing exciting . . it takes itself far too seriously. But it's entertaining enough. I mean, most FPS end up with: fight the aliens (Half Life, Prey, Duke Nukem), fight the demons (Doom, Painkiller), or fight the inhuman bad guys (FEAR, Half-Life) or sometimes just fight the bad guys (Wolfenstein3d, Sin). So really, they're all the same.

          As for Xbox live, well . . I played Halo 3 for a few hours with a friend of mine on there a few months ago, it was okay. Though for some reason all the maps are new (the Halo2 DM maps were so much better), and all the weapons are kinda wierd . . . but it's still fun throwing a sticky bomb on someone's ass. Or better yet, on someone's face. I love doing that. Some big glowing blob on their screen, and they know they're gonna die. Hell those sticky bombs are my favourite weapon.


         All this being said, I don't own a console, and don't plan to get one any time soon. I did think about picking up Halo for the PC, but when Halo 2 came out as being Vista only, it was pretty clear what Microsoft was selling and I can tell you that it wasn't Halo 2 so I thought screw that.



        If ya'll want to be haters, go no further than Steam. Man I hate that fricken thing. If I buy a copy of the Half Life Anthology in a store, it should be the Half Life Anthology, period. I should not need Steam and an internet connection, to download the last 5% of the fricken game. Talk about over-bearing copyright protection. And how they get off, selling INCOMPLETE games in a store, is beyond me. Would people buy a car without a ****ing steering wheel? I don't think so. But that's what they're selling basically. Last Valve product I'm going to buy that's for damn sure.

[Admiral_Stones]

Uhm.... riiiiigght.
In Halo it's all about Aliens who out of fun decide to slaughter humanity, after that they've got these flashy supercool green-suited marine (deus ex machina anyone?) who horribly murders hundreds of enemys without dying. In addition to that, they have personal shields and armor who can resist alien capital ship mounted weaponry but no energy weapons, hell, they even have some hyperspace drive designed by some crazy japanese moron, but 500 years into the future, NO ENERGY WEAPONS.
We've already got lasers in a semi-combat ready state now.
Furthermore, the Master Moron is abled to singlehandedly flip Tanks, but takes multiple hits to even kill these little, mentally retarded running douchebags whilst their heads should be compresses to molecular sizes.

Aight. Go play with your fellow Halo console 'tards.

Wow, dude, that's a lot of bile. What happened?

Generally I view console FPSes as 'tarded, as they are even more extremely simplified as normal FPSes. Besides, if your into any gaming, you don't get a console, you get a PC (Well, sorry Mac, but I can't defend you on this territory ).

[Colonol Dekker]

Thing with shivans in fighters is - in a fighter they can control their movement and are faster. A shivan floating in space is no real danger to someone in a fighter - it can't catch you, and you certanly have far more firepower and shielding than him at your disposal.

Watch the bonus movies on the Silent Threat CD, Someone here has them hosted. I forget who though.......

Shivan Vs Thoth, Thoth loses

[General Battuta]

Generally I view console FPSes as 'tarded, as they are even more extremely simplified as normal FPSes. Besides, if your into any gaming, you don't get a console, you get a PC (Well, sorry Mac, but I can't defend you on this territory ).

Hmm, I think I have to disagree with you there. I was a PC gamer for ten years and then switched, and I've never looked back.

However, it's personal opinion and I am not much interested in a debate.

[redsniper]

Well, I played Deus Ex... ON THE PLAYSTATION 2!

What a tweest!

[Flipside]

I like my PC, not that I have any problem with consoles, but I grew up on Consoles like the Atari 2600, the Binatone and the NES, so it's kind of hard for me to get my head out of the idea that consoles are anything other than game-playing systems, whereas now you can watch movies, listen to music etc on them.

I suppose the thing I always liked about the PC is that I don't just game, I do rendering, modelling, coding, printing documents, Web-Page creation etc, etc and for that, you really need a PC.

[Polpolion]

Personally, I feel PCs are actually worth the money you spend on them, because in addition to being able to play pretty much every good game available, you can do other stuff too. I'm not gonna bother listing off examples because I'm lazy and everyone here should know what you can do on a computer.

However, on a console, sure it's a bit cheaper, but you can't do 90% of the things you can do on a PC. Plus all of the input devices (gamepads, etc) piss me off.

[TopAce]

There are some, mostly kids, who only want to play.