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Posted by Crono on Wed May 3rd at 9:54pm 2006

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Its a freaking driving game. image
Worse, its a freaking driving game for a console. image
/runs with eyeroll smiley tucked under one arm. image


You know, I get really annoyed sometimes when you 'bash' consoles, but then I realize ... you're like the general television audience, you don't want anything new just the same old crap over and over again. image

New and different things scare and confuse you, don't they?

Note: Road Rash is fun because you beat the other cyclists up ... with lead pipes. The actual racing aspect is very poorly done and isn't even close to being the focus of that series of games.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 3rd at 10:06pm 2006

? quoting Crono

You know, I get really annoyed sometimes when you 'bash' consoles, but then I realize ... you're like the general television audience, you don't want anything new just the same old crap over and over again.

I laugh, a deep belly buster type laugh. Consoles are at least, if not older than PC games so your point is invalid sir. Secondly, new doesn't always mean better. Check out your quote of me, its full of that gobbledygook from fire fox. Now, who's head is harder? You know that Snarkpit isn't set up to run well on that browser, yet you stubbornly keep using it...

/me continues laughing.

To answer your question: As you know, I own nearly every console machine and I hate driving games, even on PC. I am not completely discriminating against the console.

Then again, when have I ever concerned myself whether you are annoyed are not? That would be a 24/7 job as fickle as you are. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed May 3rd at 10:22pm 2006

Road Rash was one of the games I just had to have on my Sega Genesis.

It was an awesome awesome game. Getting the superbikes in the end was just awesome <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Crono on Wed May 3rd at 10:26pm 2006

Actually, that "gobbledygook" is from snarkpit editing a post. (By the way, sp has always done this to me since I've been a member. It's from the dot character, it doesn't know how to handle it. In fact it's probably SQL that's having the issue. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif">)

In addition I'm not using firefox (or IE)

By new, I mean innovation. PC games have almost none (anymore). It's "make it prettier" and that's about it.

Every game is "kill the things" type gameplay. Or level up X character.

It's the same old, run around, kill this, collect that, save them type gameplay. It's getting way too old.

The nice thing in the console realm is that specific hardware can be developed, cheaply, since the hardware the game will be running on is absolute. This allows for games like Odama and Katamari. They're incredibly bizarre games, but fun. (While, yes, you could have microphone functionality in a game, it's not really implemented in anything past basic obvious usage between players) As for Katamari, computers don't have any type of analog control. Sure, there's a mouse, but that's too free moving for the types of gameplay I'm talking about (intuitive gameplay, that is)

There are other nicely innovative games coming out (check out Lost Magic, anybody. It looks sweet) that use tablet control as well. Now, my point is basically that it's not that you can't do these things on a bloated PC machine ... it's just not done. For what reason, I'm not sure, maybe because the games that sell well for computers are the ones that they continue to dabble in: FPS, RTS, MMO. Those are really the only categories when it comes to this medium. Which is sad.

On another note, if anyone gets a chance, try a FPS or RTS on your computer using your tablet, yes it works, and it's very ... interesting.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 3rd at 10:26pm 2006

Three awesomes in but two sentences AtM? Well if that isn't evidence of the game's awesomeness, I don't know what is <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Orph - I think Crono was meaning that you are familiar with PC gaming, and so consoles are something new to you.



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Posted by Crono on Wed May 3rd at 10:27pm 2006

I should have really clarified that I meant innovation in control. Something that is completley lacking in the PC realm of gaming.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 3rd at 10:37pm 2006

? quoting ReNo


Orph - I think Crono was meaning that you are familiar with PC gaming, and so consoles are something new to you.

Guys, I just like ragging on you. I don't really want to get into consoles. Its not their content, its my day. I have 24 hours to do everything I want and I already use 26 of them.

Consoles are not new to me. Not by a long shot. I have owned them since I shot my first duck in Nintendo land. In fact, I owned a couple before that, but they only played pong. I have an old intellivision machine someplace in storage.

I also like ragging on the firefox thing. Only because everyone cries incessantly about it, but keeps using it. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">





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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 3rd at 10:48pm 2006

That just goes to show how friggin' great it really must be then, doesn't it :P



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed May 3rd at 11:21pm 2006

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That just goes to show how friggin' great it really must be then, doesn't it


We have a winner

The main reason for firefox use (atleast me) is the nice "tabs" function it has, so I don't have to have 52 billion windows open just to flip between sites, and it's also pretty darn safe and blocks more pop ups than most pop up blockers.



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu May 4th at 12:34am 2006

Internet Explorer 7 has the ability to use tabs. I have the beta running on my mums laptop as she preffers Microsoft stuff.

Firefox is still better though. I'm not to fond of the new look to IE either it seems to crushed together and they hide the thingy bar with file, edit and the like on it then when you enable it, it appears below the address bar. It make the window look messy to me, like my 3 year old niece has had a fun few minuites messing with the mouce.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu May 4th at 2:19am 2006

Haha, I reread my post and realized just how dumb it sounded. But I was too lazy to edit out the third awesome (two is fine).

:P





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