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A gamer's life (s)

I'm not a gamer, but I lived with one as a roommate for fourteen years. Dear Lord, if they're all as worthless and disconnected as he was, the entire group could be thrown away with and no useful part of society would be lost. This knuclehead whined on September 11th that his cartoons had been pre-empted by the news coverage. He was 26 at the time.


I was working at the time the planes crashed. I remember being angry because I needed fuel to continue working and every idiot in the world was "OMG we have to get gas! The world is ending!" and every filling station had massive lines. Really Im not sure what these people think they are going to achieve by having a full tank in the case of a world melt down anyway.

Perhaps Im simply more detached then some but I had no more emotional reaction to 911 then with any other catastrophe. Sure it was in America but hundreds of thousands of people in the world die each year to horrific situations brought on by others. Yes it is a shame and I wish no one had to experience these events but why I should be expected to feel more for a human because they reside in the same county as I had over anyone else leaves me baffled. Some Americans became very emotional for these people who they had no attachment to other then being citizens of the same country. I do not understand them.

Back on topic - Video gaming is just like most other activity, moderation is the key. People over indulge in gaming sure but these same people would probably find something else to bury themselves into if video games were not available. Would drinking beer and watching a football game with your pals be any more productive?
 
Auto aim is for noobs. I don't use it. I like the controls of the console much better for FPS than keyboard/mouse. It feels more like actual aiming on the console than it does on the computer.

You're nuts then. A mouse is far better than a control stick, because it translates the movement of your hand 1:1 (or close to it), just like moving the barrel of an actual gun around to aim would. With a control stick, you aren't changing position, you're changing velocity. It's much more difficult to do.
 
You're nuts then. A mouse is far better than a control stick, because it translates the movement of your hand 1:1 (or close to it), just like moving the barrel of an actual gun around to aim would. With a control stick, you aren't changing position, you're changing velocity. It's much more difficult to do.

I think it depends what your used to. I personally think its easier to use a control stick then a mouse.
 
You're nuts then. A mouse is far better than a control stick, because it translates the movement of your hand 1:1 (or close to it), just like moving the barrel of an actual gun around to aim would. With a control stick, you aren't changing position, you're changing velocity. It's much more difficult to do.

A mouse if just point and click, no swivel, no turning around. Ramp the sensitivity up and run like gang busters. I like the feel of the stick (though I do also understand that you may use gamepads with PC), feel more natural and real to me.
 
Yeah I quit playing Duck Hunt in '89. If I'm doing the FPS thing, I want accuracy over authenticity.

Do you know how many people my buddies and I mocked in CounterStrike for playing like ass?
 
I'm mostly a PC snob myself, and I do believe that PC is inherently the superior platform. Like I said above, I think that for some games consoles SEEM better because developers seem to dedicate more time and focus to console versions of games nowadays. For instance, I can't get over the fact that they made Halo Wars (an RTS game) an Xbox360 exclusive title!

A possible exception would be action-adventure and some hack and slash games which are inherently more suited to gamepad controllers than keyboards.

PC is better for four reasons.
1. It plays PC games
2. Dolphin - Gamecube and Wii Emulator
3. PlayStation 3 Emulator ePS3e - SONY PS3 Emulator Download
4. The Emulator Zone - XBox Emulators
 
Yeah I quit playing Duck Hunt in '89. If I'm doing the FPS thing, I want accuracy over authenticity.

Do you know how many people my buddies and I mocked in CounterStrike for playing like ass?

Do you know how much I care? You can mock people all you want, but lame ass point and click is still lame ass. Anyone can point a mouse, doesn't take skill. The last series of FPS I played on PC was Unreal Tournament. Fast twitch shooters were better on PC, but the goal isn't necessarily "shooter" as much as it is "run as fast as you can, shoot in the general direction of those jerks over there, kill as many as you can before you die".

You may be alright with your little point and click gaming, but you'd likely not last long in Console gaming where it revolves more around skill.
 
Do you know how much I care? You can mock people all you want, but lame ass point and click is still lame ass. Anyone can point a mouse, doesn't take skill. The last series of FPS I played on PC was Unreal Tournament. Fast twitch shooters were better on PC, but the goal isn't necessarily "shooter" as much as it is "run as fast as you can, shoot in the general direction of those jerks over there, kill as many as you can before you die".

You may be alright with your little point and click gaming, but you'd likely not last long in Console gaming where it revolves more around skill.



You should have played all Rail CTF quake it would change your mind about how easy it is to aim with your mouse...you actually have to be right on target to get a kill...and its one kill at a time...
 
You should have played all Rail CTF quake it would change your mind about how easy it is to aim with your mouse...you actually have to be right on target to get a kill...and its one kill at a time...

That sounds pretty cool actually. I do miss a bit of the ol' twitch shooters genre as well. It's something that I think it harder to port over to console as well just do to the frantic nature of the twitch game.
 
That sounds pretty cool actually. I do miss a bit of the ol' twitch shooters genre as well. It's something that I think it harder to port over to console as well just do to the frantic nature of the twitch game.

There some games that are better on console im sure...and theres game that are just better on pc....Ive played on consoles and it never flipped my switch....The stick thing lacks control to me...it maybe I just needed to get more used to it.
Quake on PC from the first one took skill...with all weap quake you had to switch back and forth and you had to move fast to be a flag runner...all weap accuracy wasnt as exact as All rail...you had some peripheral dmg...with all rail it was one shot one kill and you had to be dead on target...
Guys spent a fortune on Gaming Mice back then and Superior Kbs...keytronic KBS that touted faster response cost 160.00 yrs ago...and the razer boomslang cost a fortune back then...
 
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Guys spent a fortune on Gaming Mice back then and Superior Kbs...keytronic KBS that touted faster response cost 160.00 yrs ago...and the razer boomslang cost a fortune back then...

And that is one of the major drawbacks of PC gaming. It is awfully expensive to keep ahead of the curve in PC gaming. I think it used to be WAY more worth it back in the day when older PCs could out perform newer consoles. But this gen was on par at release, and the next gen is going to be even better. Consoles have quickly become equivalent to PC. Now you can still spend 1000's of dollars on dual vid card, 4 monitor, SD HD, blah blah blah rigs that will outperform the consoles. Or you can spend 500 bucks for something that will last 7 years and offer comparable performance. Winning becomes less of "who can spend the most money" and being able to play better. Or if you're a kid, spouting racist, offensive, obscene statements until everyone else leaves the game. ****ing kids.
 
And that is one of the major drawbacks of PC gaming. It is awfully expensive to keep ahead of the curve in PC gaming. I think it used to be WAY more worth it back in the day when older PCs could out perform newer consoles. But this gen was on par at release, and the next gen is going to be even better. Consoles have quickly become equivalent to PC. Now you can still spend 1000's of dollars on dual vid card, 4 monitor, SD HD, blah blah blah rigs that will outperform the consoles. Or you can spend 500 bucks for something that will last 7 years and offer comparable performance. Winning becomes less of "who can spend the most money" and being able to play better. Or if you're a kid, spouting racist, offensive, obscene statements until everyone else leaves the game. ****ing kids.


Im not arguing whats best console or pc...its a matter of opinion and like and dont like....I like pc and it is expensive no doubt, ive spent a fortune upgrading......but Im into the pc thing...Ive built quite a few.....I use my pc for other stuff too..
 
.I use my pc for other stuff too..

Indeed, PC has many uses. However, typically the other uses do not quite require the extensive hardware of gaming. So it's a moot point. I have a gaming rig, I have a gaming laptop, I have all the consoles. There is a lot of fun with PC games, but the same is true with console.
 
Indeed, PC has many uses. However, typically the other uses do not quite require the extensive hardware of gaming. So it's a moot point. I have a gaming rig, I have a gaming laptop, I have all the consoles. There is a lot of fun with PC games, but the same is true with console.

No they dont, meaning other PC uses other than gaming dont require upgrades......pc gaming costs...but it doesnt cost nearly as much as it used too...The technology has slowed down considerably, so you can play longer and new games coming out...the new games lately dont have any higher requirements that games already out. Unless your pc is older than 3 yrs you can play most of whats coming out today.
 
Do you know how much I care? You can mock people all you want, but lame ass point and click is still lame ass. Anyone can point a mouse, doesn't take skill. The last series of FPS I played on PC was Unreal Tournament. Fast twitch shooters were better on PC, but the goal isn't necessarily "shooter" as much as it is "run as fast as you can, shoot in the general direction of those jerks over there, kill as many as you can before you die".

You may be alright with your little point and click gaming, but you'd likely not last long in Console gaming where it revolves more around skill.

I'm sorry, but if you're relying on crappy controls to make your game challenging, you made a crappy game. Having to compensate for the same crappy controls does not make you skilled, it simply makes you handicapped.
 
Well said. I loved Skyrim, but, like Oblivion before it..the interface took some getting used to.

Yeah, loved Skyrim but eventually got tired of it. I think I topped out at level 47, was running around with full enchanted daedric armor and nobody could touch me. Beat all of the quests back in the mid-30s somewhere. There are only two quests that I can't finish because they're terminally glitched. Had so much fun, in fact, that I'm going back through Oblivion now and will probably jump into Morrowind when I'm done. Those are games worth replaying.
 
Indeed, PC has many uses. However, typically the other uses do not quite require the extensive hardware of gaming. So it's a moot point. I have a gaming rig, I have a gaming laptop, I have all the consoles. There is a lot of fun with PC games, but the same is true with console.
All are fun, but personally...

I don't have room in my budget for both consoles and PC. So, since PC has other uses, and I prefer it over consoles for most of my games, I stuck with that.
 
I liked PCs better in some part because the audio wasn't compressed. That wasn't as sexy for gamers though...listening through their "awesome" 5.1 headphones which don't do a damn thing. Noooo, instead it was about the mouse and the "leetness" of the textures, not whether or not Patrick Stewart's voice sounded like he was being waterboarded on an Xbox.
 
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I have spent well over $2K just in my Thrustmaster Cougar, the NXT mod, my pedals, Track IR..... I love combat flight simulators. I sure wish a Falcon 5.0 came out. I love the complexity. And then when I get frustrated with the complexity, I play mindless games like BF3.

But once I got married, once I had kids, I found more important things to do. I still find time to game. Its just not all nighters like it used to be.
 
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I have spent well over $2K just in my Thrustmaster Cougar, the NXT mod, my pedals, Track IR..... I love combat flight simulators. I sure wish a Falcon 5.0 came out. I love the complexity. And then when I get frustrated with the complexity, I play mindless games like BF3.

But once I got married, once I had kids, I found more important things to do. I still find time to game. Its just not all nighters like it used to be.

Yup, growing up sucks balls.
 
I've found I enjoy gaming more when I don't have liberty to do it whenever and for however long I want. If I have 1-hr to play I'll be sure it's a damned good hour of mass killing.

I use to really be into Myst type games - puzzle and logic related. There are a lot of good ones out there. Spend an hour hacking away at a bizarre puzzle of some nature can be outright challenging and exhausting.
 
This is why I have decided Im never going to grow up. ;)


Heh me either....Ill have plenty of time to grow up when in the ground...thats when ill start maturing.
 
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