[T-LoW]

It's a question of taste - as are most things people argue about.

Why's nobody listening to me

Is it because of my low post-rating? It will increase - I swear!

[General Battuta]

Battuta I bet you also try and argue that there is no difference between a supercar and an average car

if you think i'm arguing in favor of consoles you have the IQ of my breakfast cereal, I build my own PCs

of course if you had the IQ of at least my latest bowel movement you would have noticed that our PCs ten years ago were ****tier than consoles today but we still loved them, so clearly raw performance is not what matters

It's a question of taste - as are most things people argue about.

Why's nobody listening to me

Is it because of my low post-rating? It will increase - I swear!

because people are raving loons on this topic

[Davros]

no I dont think your favoring consoles
but i dont agree with your all systems are equal argument

[General Battuta]

the platform the game is being played on matters far less than the quality of the game itself

[T-LoW]

the platform the game is being played on matters far less than the quality of the game itself

Super Mario Land 2!!!!!!!!!11111111(theoriginal)one

For the gameboy of course!

dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum

[Davros]

agreed,
but if the game is available on all systems, it will in most cases be superior on the pc

[Wobble73]

 

I haven't seen any game like "Just Dance" for the PC, nor have I seen a controller like a Wii Fitness Board or Xbox Kinnect or PS3 Move.

Maybe there are but I just haven't seen them!

[headdie]

I haven't seen any game like "Just Dance" for the PC, nor have I seen a controller like a Wii Fitness Board or Xbox Kinnect or PS3 Move.

Maybe there are but I just haven't seen them!

There are systems like trackIR but they are so low key (HLP is the first and only place i have come across ppl using it) it will take a major break for them to see mainstream attention

[Dilmah G]

It's a question of taste - as are most things people argue about.

Why's nobody listening to me

Is it because of my low post-rating? It will increase - I swear!

+1

[Ghostavo]

A five minute search yielded:
TrackIR
MX Air

Also, this one.

[Mongoose]

PC has Freespace, Half-Life, and Total Annihilation.

'Nough said.

Consoles have Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time, and Metroid Prime.  'Nough said.

(o hay i can has pick three random good games and make a point too lulz)

agreed,
but if the game is available on all systems, it will in most cases be superior on the pc

But THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AGHBLABHGHBL

* Mongoose breaks

[BloodEagle]

PC has Freespace, Half-Life, and Total Annihilation.

'Nough said.

Consoles have Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time, and Metroid Prime.  'Nough said.

(o hay i can has pick three random good games and make a point too lulz)

I'll never understand why people think Half-Life is such a great game.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it was bad, but it didn't have a story (seriously, it didn't have one until HL2 (it had a very basic plot)), its combat was generic, the "puzzles" were atrocious, etc.  The only thing it did that was truly innovative was the level-handling.

agreed,
but if the game is available on all systems, it will in most cases be superior on the pc

But THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AGHBLABHGHBL

* Mongoose breaks

To be fair, none of us have been on topic for quite some time.

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OT:
I just found out that you can increase the view-size of the message box.  Holy Hell. 

[General Battuta]

Half-Life was the first game to really do a good job of telling its story through events in the gameplay (using heavy scripting) rather than delivering expositional lumps like Doom level screens or Marathon's (excellent) terminals.

[StarSlayer]

Plus Force Recon Marines where scary mofo AI.   

[General Battuta]

They seriously were, I don't know if it was smoke or mirrors or what but those guys were WAY better than the HL2 soldiers.

And the black ops assassins were awesome too, they'd run away and plant satchel charges at corners. So cool.

[Mongoose]

Oddly enough, I just finished playing the original Half-Life for the first time right now. (Yeah, those black ops ninjas were ridiculously annoying to kill.) It was a great game, and I can definitely see how revolutionary it was when it was first released, but the one thing that tempered my enjoyment somewhat were the overabundance of what I call "cheap moments."  I can't even count how many times I poked my head out of a doorway and got wrecked by something I had no way of seeing beforehand, or had a Vortigaunt spawn behind me and zap me to death, or was 'sploded by a grenade I only saw after it was too late, or something along those lines.  I think that sort of gameplay element is something that better games have largely grown out of; I know it wasn't nearly as prevalent in Half-Life 2.

[General Battuta]

You died a lot more in HL1, a looooot more, but I think that is in part because HL1 was more of this crazy action comedy adventure thing where scientists died in huge explosions and Gordon was some hapless nerd in a suit caught in the middle of the end of the world. If you had that kinda stuff happening in HL2 you'd get sad piano music on those dead scientists and someone would tell Gordon he was teleporter Jesus.

[headdie]

They seriously were, I don't know if it was smoke or mirrors or what but those guys were WAY better than the HL2 soldiers.

And the black ops assassins were awesome too, they'd run away and plant satchel charges at corners. So cool.

I hated the assassin women, took a couple of goes to figure out the best practice against them, at least you could have an old fashioned gun match with the grunts, which as you say could actually fight and first time often gave you a good pasting, HL2 even the white elite types often cowered before you

edit

HL1 was a hell of a lot longer than hl2 (not including add-ons which I count the episodes as)

[Davros]

so clearly raw performance is not what matters

performance doesnt matter eh,
so for example playing a game on a pc that can only run it at low res, low detail and low framerate
will be every bit as enjoyable as playing it on a system that can run it at high res, high detail and high fps
interesting theory...

have you got in touch with the people making the mediavp's
theyve been wasting their time making fs2 better looking

[General Battuta]

are you seriously going to argue that we were unable to enjoy games ten years ago (remember half life and alpha centauri and ****, those games?) because our computers couldn't run crysis

is that your contention