Deadly Disks Wrote:Yeah, an UPGRADE. When's the last time you had to upgrade a console?

Speaking as a pro-console advocate... Every time a new console system comes out?

MutoidMan Wrote:Then, when I was about 10 years old, I discovered how much deeper Marvel characters were ergo how much cooler Marvel comics were, and I never looked back. Sure, I still enjoyed a DC comic once in a while - mostly their awesomely wicked science fiction and horror comics, e.g. Time Warp - but I never got back into their super hero comics. I had found something better.

A common argument, but always a strange argument to me, as most Marvel comics and DC comics were created by the same pool of creators.

I know when I really really need to upgrade it'll have to have at least 2 quad core cpu's in it a shoot load of ram and a really good video card. But for now my dual Xeon 1.5 and my AMD Seperon 64 3000+ are okay as they are right now. And maybe just maybe raid5 in there somewhere.



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Yeah that sounds right. Get rid of the old and hope that the old game works on the new. Look at the Xbox 260 I think only like 200 and some odd games were able to play on the 360 alone and how many games for the original xbox are out there? Play station did a good thing I think where if you had a original Playstation game it wouls still ork on a second or third generation I believe.

lurkinghorror Wrote: Deadly Disks Wrote:Yeah, an UPGRADE. When's the last time you had to upgrade a console? Speaking as a pro-console advocate... Every time a new console system comes out? MutoidMan Wrote:Then, when I was about 10 years old, I discovered how much deeper Marvel characters were ergo how much cooler Marvel comics were, and I never looked back. Sure, I still enjoyed a DC comic once in a while - mostly their awesomely wicked science fiction and horror comics, e.g. Time Warp - but I never got back into their super hero comics. I had found something better. A common argument, but always a strange argument to me, as most Marvel comics and DC comics were created by the same pool of creators.

lurkinghorror Wrote: Deadly Disks Wrote:Yeah, an UPGRADE. When's the last time you had to upgrade a console? Speaking as a pro-console advocate... Every time a new console system comes out??

Exactly.

lurkinghorror Wrote: MutoidMan Wrote:Then, when I was about 10 years old, I discovered how much deeper Marvel characters were ergo how much cooler Marvel comics were, and I never looked back. Sure, I still enjoyed a DC comic once in a while - mostly their awesomely wicked science fiction and horror comics, e.g. Time Warp - but I never got back into their super hero comics. I had found something better. A common argument, but always a strange argument to me, as most Marvel comics and DC comics were created by the same pool of creators.

I believe it's a common sentiment for good reason.

For a good long while DC stories were rather stale, repetitive, and just plain boring.

Superman stories had to be the worst offenders; I suppose that there are only so many ways to challenge a being possessed of god-like abilities with evil cosmic space blobs or with having to move planets before it gets monotonous. That's why they eventually depowered him.

Batman stories weren't far behind:
1) Psychopath escapes the sieve called Arkham.
2) Psychopath kills some citizens of Gotham via some overly complex scheme.
3) Batman figures out said scheme and beats up psychopath.
4) Batman sends psychopath to Arkham, knowing full well that the psychopath will just escape to kill even more citizens of Gotham. Again.
5) Wash, rinse, repeat.

Maybe the same pool of writers, more or less, did work on both companies' books; but if that's the case, then I can only surmise that DC put serious restrictions on what those writers could do with DC's characters, while Marvel allowed those same writers considerably more latitude with theirs.

lurkinghorror Wrote: Jademz Wrote: That would have been Todd McFarlane - who left them to found Image Comics. I know exactly what you mean, and to be more specific: Image Comics gave DC a challenge - Batman Vs. Spawn. The image version was very well done, where DC was crayola. The point made. There are no bad concepts. Just bad execution. Pound for pound, Batman outweighs Spawn in terms of quality. The best I can say about McFarlane is that his work is a matter of preference.

I think McFarlane's work is of the love it or hate it variety, and I'm of the latter opinion.

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I think consoles get a small bonus point for the following:

Whenever somebody does something on a console version of a game that could easily be done on the PC version of the same game, that person gets major coolness points.

Example: Custom songs on the console version of Guitar Hero 3 as opposed to custom songs on the PC version.

The reason is because it's much harder on the consoles than on the PC, so it's more of a sense of accomplishment.

TOTALLY UNFAIR ADVANTAGE LOL.

TronFAQ Wrote:As for OnLive, I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Permanent game rentals, with no way to mod your games any more. The old mainframe with dumb terminal paradigm. What is this, the 1950's? I thought technology was supposed to be moving forward. Power to the people, and all that. This is more like Orwell's 1984. Big Brother Content owning everything, and watching over you. No thanks.

An excellent point which makes me think of this idea of "cloud computing" in which all anyone will need is the equivalent of a dumb terminal because all of their information will be stored on servers somewhere out there in the ether, which is also where all of their apps will run.

I'm not a fan of that idea, either.

Compucore Wrote:Well for large companies mainframe and supercomputing are still the way to go for certain things even if you were to use a telnet application from your computer to the specific machine in question. To query what you needed from it. Or crunch a large amount of dataset for what ever is needed for a particular application. As for a personal use having such a system would be futile. Considering you would be wasting a lot of cycles for nothing on the amount of processor that are on a fully loaded mainframe or supercomputer.

I absolutely agree with you.