RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

[roaming@xxxxxxx]

Quoting Kenneth Watt <kwatt@xxxxxxx>:
> > don't
> > get some of the 'realism' you can get on a console.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "realism" on a console, to me
the ported
> over PC version or vice versa look pretty much the same, only
smoother
> and often more detailed on the PC IMO.

I mean using funky effects and characters looking more realistic and
shedloads 
of polygons etc.....

> And as for a gamer saying faster isn't better, shame on you Mr
Butler!
> :P

Well ordinarily I'd agree with you, I just meant that I'd rather have
something 
better looking and slightly slower than running like shit off a shovel and
using ASCII block character :-)
Of course "gameplay is all" etc etc, but it does help if it looks
nice.
You wouldn't bother buying DOA Xtreme Volleyball if it didn't look as good
as 
possible, now would you? :-))

> > Hopefully with the new GeForce-FX card, and the consolidation of
the
> > market
> 
> Well, it is going that way already really.

Yes, I know.  We just need to elbow out all but nvidia and then it
will be 
closed hardware as far as the graphics card is concerned :)

> > same here, though I am getting more and more used to the Xbox
> controller.
> > Couldn't use it for counterstrike though :-)
> 
> And that's one of the strongest selling points of the PC as a games
box
> for me as, for FPS games IMHO, the PC is king of the hill with
speed,
> controllability and customisation and you really can't replicate that
on
> a console.

I think the problems come when a game is written for the PC and ported to a
console, so you have to adapt a "naturally" kb/mouse driven game
to something 
completely different, and sometimes it just doesn't work.
the best example of an FPS I've played to date on a console was Goldeneye
on 
the N64.  The control system really seemed to work - though I know a
few other 
seasoned PC gamers who simply could not get to grips with it....

ummm, this is getting waaay OT now, perhaps we should zippit before we get
told 
to?
(You, wearing your moderator hat, should already have been limbering up to
verbally slap yourself and the rest of us :-P)

cheers,

T.

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