Has anyone else noticed this? Gears of war for the xbox 360, it looks a wee bit tron inspired, what with the glow of the imulsion as in the inside world, underground, in enemy territory, and the locust having the red glowing armor parts and the Cogs having the blue armor. Also the helmets of the unimportant Cogs, they look very Tronish. Any opinions? Also, 25 more posts away from 100, i feel so proud...

i know i know, the bloom and what not, however, i'm talking about the concept of the inside world. The evil people being red, good are blue, i dunno. It just seems to click for me.

I played/play UT for a long time and waiting for this title as well. I am just have my concerns about the fact that it is said you will have problems to play it w/o a DX10 compatible graphiccard.
And about your point around the pc vs. console thingy: i can just agree, but we should just buy all the stuff, we shouldn't think about it. Thinking is bad, so the companies do it for us, we should have our trust in them.
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I'm strictly a PC gamer and I understand about the frustration with ports all too well. It's like a double edge sword for PC gamers these days.

First, the bad:

Too many companies are trying to kill too many birds with one stone. The degrade the game by making it most compatible with the lowest system and then just port (without any improvement what-so-ever) to all platforms. The only good that PC gamers get out of it is the ability to run the game in higher resolutions and sometimes given tools to make their own maps or mods for the game. So if you invested in (say) a Geforce 8800 GTX which surpasses the GFX of the PS3, then the ports won't be much better than a PS3. But rarely is this not true.


Now, the Good:

Some titles that are console exclusive (like the GTA games) and is a huge success is later ported (and sometimes improved) for the PC. When San Andres was released for the PC, I was drooling due to the improvement of the engine and how the GFX was improved a bit compared to the PS2. Plus we are able to mod that game (not provided by RockStar) and we can play our mp3s on the radio stations in which many console gamers missed out on.



Conclusion:

I'm in no way against console gamers. Many games work on the console that usually wont do well on the PC. Just the same as most PC games don't do well on the consoles.

PC gamers are more demanding of quality and content because we invest a lot to get the best. We also love to dissect our games and retrieve music, sound, textures, etc even if it's on our own terms. We have a history of pride because most of innovative technology that have been and still being used was first invented for computers (GPU's for example) and we had first tibs.

The reason why there is an outrage from PC gamers is because developers are now after the $$$. The console market sells well because it's more affordable and there is little to no learning curve. We have crap companies like Dell and HP that sell cheap crap (nothing like back in the mid 90's) that have piss poor intel GFX chips, horrid on-board sound, and try to make it appealing for sell under $600.00 with the rebate scam. This hurts us.

These days, if you really want to get a really good PC experience, you pretty much have to build your own (like I do). I invest in to SoundBlaster X-Fi because I love the THX sound and SS 7.0+. I invest into N'Vidia and/or ATI because I like to be ahead of the tech and experience games way ahead of the console design. I also invest in these things so that I can do more than play games like Video editing, setting up a small recording studio (yes, I make music), Photo editing, testing out new tech, and even indulge in the dark side of the PC underground (no, not pirated stuff). But is costs money to do these amazing things. Like around $2,500 to $10,000 depending on what you're plan is.

PC's don't really become obsolete in one point of view. I've been running my home brew PC for over four years now and I'm just now at that point where I need to build another. I will not retire my computer by any means since it will always serve a purpose and good for using in a network.



WOW... did I write all of that? I'm not revising anything this time. If you read it all, I hope you understand where I'm coming from. This is no way an attack on consoles, just an insite of what Ultra PC users and computer enthuses are like.

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I've given up on PC gaming. Hours and hours wasted trying to figure out why a game won't run, ridiculous amounts of money and energy trying different video cards and the like, finally getting to a point where the system is operational for that particular game, and then the next one to come along doesn't play. I give up on that and just buy a brand new PC for well over a thousand. Next new game to come along won't play.

Forget it. Waste of time. I buy an XBox game, I put the disk in, 999 times out of a thousand that's the end of it. I actually get to play the game, rather than constantly delving into hardware and software issues on my own limited free time.on line abortion pill misoprostol dose abortion medical abortion pill online

Let's not turn this into THAT sort of discussion, please. Just like I'm not knocking your Xbox, don't go knocking my PC.

I'm not knocking YOUR PC. I'm discussing my own frustrating experiences with MY PC. If your PC works for you, that's great. If you never have compatibility issues and aren't having to constantly take apart your machine and spread the parts across the floor like an old Buick, you're a luckier man than I. If you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars in upgrades everytime a new game comes out that interests you, fantastic.

But for the record, feel free to say whatever you like about the XBox. I didn't make it and I don't own stock. Even if I did, why would I take offense? I've read negative reviews of things that actually impact my life and shrugged. Nothing is perfect and all things can bear criticism and scrutiny.

Qix77 Wrote:These days, if you really want to get a really good PC experience, you pretty much have to build your own (like I do). I invest in to SoundBlaster X-Fi because I love the THX sound and SS 7.0+. I invest into N'Vidia and/or ATI because I like to be ahead of the tech and experience games way ahead of the console design. I also invest in these things so that I can do more than play games like Video editing, setting up a small recording studio (yes, I make music), Photo editing, testing out new tech, and even indulge in the dark side of the PC underground (no, not pirated stuff). But is costs money to do these amazing things. Like around $2,500 to $10,000 depending on what you're plan is.

Bottom line: Computing speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?

MutoidMan Wrote:Personally, I don't think anyone who complains about the price of video games today is being fair.

The thing is, i worked for several software companies so far, and currently i'm in a game-developing company, so i know exactly about the cost in producing such stuff. And taking such prices as these days -is- way too much.
And i don't know if you also remember the fact that back in the 70's - 80's it was much harder to develop software and much more expensive to produce PCs at all.
But now the costs a extreme low but the customers still has to pay high prices, that is not fair in my opinion. For sure everyone has to decide for himself if he likes to do so or not.

So if you like to pay your hard earned money even if it is not comparable to the costs they had, you are surely welcomed by the companies to do so. I decided to have a close look on that what i buy and if it is worth it. No offence, it is just my meaning.

I used to be a console gamer only... then along came Lord Of The Rings Online and I don't know when I last turned on my consoles... or even had the desire to purchase the PS3

I did upgrade my memory to 1G from 512k but that was it... and the game runs pretty good. No high end graphics or whatever, but that's OK.. that's not as important to me as gameplay.

lurkinghorror Wrote:Nothing is perfect and all things can bear criticism and scrutiny.

True, but I don't want to go into that territory. Otherwise the discussion could end up turning into a huge fight about the merits of each platform.

Anyway, I think I made my point.

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