- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Beowul7
Dude, DusK, you just epically won. Wow, just wow. You don't see this type of ass ownage every day. Well, you used to in The Maw, but that is just a fading memory now...[/quote]
He didn't “win” entirely. Though I somewhat agree with most of his statements, his argument is not entirely accurate.
Posted by: DusK
Okay, Doug, usually I don't do this, but your post just pissed me off with its stupidity.
Posted by: Doug52392
Microsoft released Vista, the WORST OS to ever try to game on...
Vista + PC game == disaster, nothing much to say there...[/quote]
RIDICULOUS. If a game is developed or patched for the OS, it's more optimized for gaming that any other OS ever released. Learn how the OS works before you bash it.[/quote]
That is entirely wrong. In your words, you should “Learn how the OS works” before you support it. Vista is one of the most graphically demanding and inefficient operating systems of all time. If you look at games like Crysis that are “optimized” for the Windows Vista operating system, the game runs about 10% faster on Windows XP, than it would on Vista. This is NOT because of directx10, but because Vista hurts game performance. VistaSP1 doesn’t help this problem at all, for those who are running to it for help. However, XPSP3, coming out later this April, should help performance some for XP owners.
Posted by: Doug52392
Halo 3 was not a good game at all! ...
...generic games (like Gears of War, just a mediocre game dressed up with the uber Unreal Engine).
I'm sorry if you can't recognize good games when you see them, but just because you suck at them is no reason to bash them. BTW, that "mediocre game dressed up with the uber Unreal Engine" was created by the greatest UT mapper of all time; Cliffy B. Show some respect, scrub.
Gears of War is generally underappreciated by those who have not played it. If I wanted to, I could argue that a mediocre game dressed up in the “uber Unreal Engine” is America’s Army, but that is a bit of a stretch, as their technology has minimal bump-mapping, an aspect that has now shined with the next-gen UE games. Even with the Unreal Engine, AA still sucks some…Games are more about the engines that power them. Games are about the whole package.
Posted by: Doug52392
And then theres Halo 3... fail. Since they targeted 10 year olds, and the 10 year olds came, they destroyed the Halo community. Those kids just throw tempertantrum after tempertautrum... Then theres DLC. Even more of a scam! $10 for 3 stupid maps? WTF?
Once again, you obviously don't see a good game when it's slammed in your face. There are countermeasures to those whiny 10-year-olds; A handy mute feature and a player review system to ensure you don't play with those whiny 10-year-olds again. Not only that, but the DLC is priced as such because those aren't some 3rd party crap like you'd find with UT, CS, or similar games; The DLC maps are created by Bungie themselves, and nobody knows their game better than they do, so it's gonna be quality work that's worth forking over some cash for, if you want it early. They always go free eventually.
IMHO, the DLC pack should be free. Then again, I am a gamer, and bonus maps and updates are expected to be free. However, because the PC “console” has received so much attention as of late because of GFW and other programs that want to suck gamers of their money, expect for your entire online gameplay to be cut off, unless you have GFWL Gold, or a Mac…
Posted by: Doug52392
Plus, PC makers don't exactly help the situation. Most regular PCs have Intel graphics cards in them (which CAN NOT RUN ANYTHING), so you literally can't play games! Dell used to offer customization, but now they're taking that out (and I checked their "prebuilt" computers, 2 out of the 3, and even the so-called "performance computers" can not run ANY GAMES).
So you're blaming Microsoft for the fact that you can't find a PC powerful enough to run cutting-edge PC games, but the reality is that YOU'RE to blame for your obvious lack of the technical knowledge required to build or buy a gaming PC. You might look like less of a dumbass if you don't get pissed off at Microsoft and Bungie just because you suck at everything +1.
It’s not just that Gaming PCs are expensive, but also that people do not know how to make computers that can play games well. Should I get a Nvidia 8400 gt oc or an ATI x50millionthousand 512mb special noob edition. There is no clean cut system that says, if you get this graphics card, it will run these games. The console saves a lot more stress because you know that you will be able to play EVERY game. Assuming you don’t rrod.