HereComesPete wrote:mine is herecomespete, or similar, not been on for a while, but pending my new credit card, i will possess once more live gold, where i'll give everyone a good halo 2 pasting if they wish, crackdown is my next purchase primarily for the halo 3 beta, handily its a good game too, so i buy it not just for the halo 3 splungeness that will visit me, but a gta a-like as well!
I don't think I'll be venturing into the online Halo realms too much myself, it's not as good as PC games of a similar type and more frustrating. I'll play coop online stuff though.
I don't think I'll be venturing into the online Halo realms too much myself, it's not as good as PC games of a similar type and more frustrating. I'll play coop online stuff though.
Heresy, I know, but I much prefer Halo to PC FPSs...
I only got Halo with my xbox originally because of the hype and cos I figured my friends back in the UK would want to play it (got a launch xbox in the US)... I was actually much more interested in PGR. Until I put Halo in and gave it a quick go.
eion wrote:Heresy, I know, but I much prefer Halo to PC FPSs...
Don't get me wrong, Halo was a superb game at the time (and was disappointed to read a review of Halo 2 in PC Gamer which described Halo on the Xbox as "pretty good", it was awesome back then you heathen!) but I can't cope with the online play. I'm not good enough at it so I get pwnt and then there's the voices, gargh!
Ace! In that case you must come play with us. Be a shame to miss out just because you're shy about your pwning skillz, and they won't improve if you don't practice!
Lateralus wrote:Ace! In that case you must come play with us. Be a shame to miss out just because you're shy about your pwning skillz, and they won't improve if you don't practice!
True, although I'd probably have to play over a VPN link thanks to the stupid University network, which typically means lag in the order of seconds... we'll see, when I finish my work for the semester.
ha, mute the voices, or tell them to shut the fuck up, but in a clever way, then they generally take a few minutes to pipe up about 'raping your mom' again. if you play enough you learn the chetz that autoaim gives, like true console autosniping, using the lines of the reticule to line up a head then sweeping wildly back and forth whilst the autoaim guides the bullet squarely through the noggin even if your screen shows their head way off to one side. got a quad kill with that technique, they all ran out of the same place and died, then i re-loaded. Another plus is KV cant stand the fact that the sniper rifle fires quickly, so whilst he's standing still taking his time, i'll jump around and then shoot him in the face, his halo rage is almost as bad as his beef rage.
It is inevitable that I will own one, particularly when Forza 2 is released, although I was kind of holding out until the sexy black ones came out, although the timescales don't quite marry.
Right now, I'd pick up Viva Pinata, Enchanted Arms and Burnout: Revenge, possibly NFS: Carbon and Gears of War, although Black, Red Faction 2 and Wii FarCry have turned me off console FPSs ever-so slightly more than Halo and Timesplitters showed me they could work well.
Sony's decision to remove the rumble function from the PS3 seems utterly foolhardy in my view, as I could not imagine GT5 without it - and it's a (Final Fantasy aside) system-buying title. Market research has failed them - in my straw poll of Turismo devotees, less than 10% opted for steering wheels for any incarnation, with 90% of GT1 owners upgrading their standard PS1 controllers to dual shocks.
NFS Carbon was a bit shit. the AI cheats so incredibly blatantly it's painful. That and the whole "oh yeah we're so badass don't fuck with us" attitude everyone has is just stupid.
FatherJack wrote:It is inevitable that I will own one, particularly when Forza 2 is released, although I was kind of holding out until the sexy black ones came out, although the timescales don't quite marry.
Right now, I'd pick up Viva Pinata, Enchanted Arms and Burnout: Revenge, possibly NFS: Carbon and Gears of War, although Black, Red Faction 2 and Wii FarCry have turned me off console FPSs ever-so slightly more than Halo and Timesplitters showed me they could work well.
Sony's decision to remove the rumble function from the PS3 seems utterly foolhardy in my view, as I could not imagine GT5 without it - and it's a (Final Fantasy aside) system-buying title. Market research has failed them - in my straw poll of Turismo devotees, less than 10% opted for steering wheels for any incarnation, with 90% of GT1 owners upgrading their standard PS1 controllers to dual shocks.
I think it was more a case of the controller ending up having to cost the purchaser something silly like £50 when they added on the licence fees for a rumple type controller. still, i see what you mean, hard to tell if you're loosing traction without the feedback
shot2bits wrote:does anyone know if its possible to play films of the floor from a pc without getting a 360 chipped if i hooked it up to the network
I've been looking into this and I think the answer is yes ... and no. So far I've learnt you need to run window media player 11, which has a built in media sharing thing and I suspect your files will have to be DRM'd to the hilt. I'll certainly be looking at this more when I get the thing.
It seems the newer things get, the less flexible things are.
I'm having a nightmare getting Fista/mce/xbox/server to talk to each other now without having a paddy of some sort where they used to be fine.
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