- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: oobie10
If you are gonna start calling the Maw "the laughingstock of the rest of the gaming community," come up with some proof, like links. Also, don't start calling us ignorant when this is your first day here. I hate people who just come in here and start compaining about how we bash ideas. Many of the ideas we get here are either stupid, impossible, or useless. Also, unless you are positive, don't use generalizations such as "a lot of us PC gamers." Most, if not all, of the people in the Maw prefer PC games to consoles.
Agreed. Need I say more?
Posted by: TalkingElmo
Is that a joke? If everyone prefers it at a different setting, then obviously that's a good reason for making it an option.
*sigh* You didn't read my post. Re-read it, please, because either you didn't read the second part or you didn't understand what I was saying.
Posted by: TalkingElmo
That's because everyone who didn't like the game quit a long time ago, most of them back in late 2003. I personally know several people who won't play the game solely because of the FOV.
So you would call someone who picked up the game for perhaps a month, then tossed it aside because they were dissatisfied with it, you would call those the "true" fans of Halo? Not the people who fell in love with the game and stuck with it through thick and thin?
Posted by: TalkingElmo
And the forum for one game is hardly a "mini-world of the real PC base." I was a regular on Gearbox's forums when Halo PC first came out, and there were a lot people asking why the FOV wasn't adjustable. After a few weeks/months when they saw the game wasn't going to change, they went back to Quake/Unreal/CS/Half Life/Far cry/etc.
...what? Let's take the first possible scenario: following your argument, if most of the Gearbox forum went back to their games, then they obviously "weren't reflective of the true PC base," and that they don't represent the community at large. Hm.
Let's take the second possible scenario: they stopped playing and went back to their original game. So what. Are those the people a company wants to cater to? The people who pick their game up for a month, then toss it aside simply because of something minor like FOV? Probably not.
Besides, you said it yourself. The game wasn't going to change. And seeing this past record...well...my hopes aren't too high.
Posted by: TalkingElmo
Why are people so belligerent on this forum? If someone wants an option, why does everyone get their panties in a wad? If it's an option, then you can either choose to use it or not use it. Very simple concept.
And finally, like everyone else, you have no right to ridicule (see "is that a joke") those who provide the dissenting opinion because, like everyone else, they are merely stating their opinions or (as in this case) the hard cold facts. Simple concept. ^_~
And...well, asking "is that a joke" from someone's opinion, then wondering a few lines later "why is everyone so belligerent?"...well...doubt if I need to say any more on that.
While I can't speak for the more...erm...incoherent/fanboyish on the forum, I am speaking for people like Gumball who are simply stating the facts/truth/their opinion.
What hard cold facts? That the idea is pointless, and had you actually realized the true relation between real H1PC fans and Bungie/Gearbox, you'll know it's difficult if not downright impossible to get them to implement user suggestions.
Oh, and as for Raoul, I still don't see how the posts contradict each other...I'm pretty sure it was fairly coherent throughout. And he does have a point...larger FOV=advantage.
Posted by: scoville
This is a shame because when I'd like the chance to communicate with the developers on a forum, this is the place that it should happen.
And as for this...well...like I said, its damned hard, if not impossible to talk to Bungie. Not everyone who posts here is a fanboy.
[Edited on 8/25/2006]