On Wednesday 11 June 2003 19:32, Matthew Johnson wrote:
Serious game machines equals Playstation or Xbox...PC game sales fell by 2% and quite a few computer stores that I have been to have reduced the amount of PC titles.
Ya, riiiiiiggggghhhhhhtttt !!!! Ok, you go online in Tribes2, UT/UT2k3, counterstrike, Q3A, RTCW, or any other shooter. You pick any character, load out, tactic you like. I'll pick sniper and we'll see how close and often you can get to me before I pick you off with repeated headshots. Console games definitely have there place. And yes many gaming stores have indeed cut down the list of PC games. BUT! serious gamers use PCs. It is more configurabel and controllable. I spend 75% of my time on a computer playing games of every sort. I have played consoles. Those of us in competition teams in online gaming rarely ever find a console gamer that is capable of competing on the same level. They simply get the ever loving tripe beat out of them. I do it in Linux and most people are always of the opinion that I must be an admin or some sort of guru. Fact of the matter is that Linux in networking is better and PC gaming on this level is all about connection and control - I get both to a vastly higher degree on my Penguin PC. As far as the rest of your comments I think they're spot on. Cheers, Curtis (aka Crusher-1) :-P