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Computer Gaming PCs Try To Stack Up To Consoles
bippy writes "RedAssedBaboon has what I think is the first review of a computer to feature the much lauded DISCover technology. DISCover basically turns a computer into a gaming console, allowing you to drop a PC game into a system and play it immediately on your television. The site reviews a new DHS (Digital Home System) by Alienware which will feature the technology and is due out next month. The article ends with this interesting comment: 'It's high time that the computer stop lurking in the shadows of dusty computer desks in forgotten rarely-used bedrooms. If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox -- and this looks like a great way to start.'" We previously discussed the DISCover 'Drop And Play' PC gaming system over on Slashdot Games.
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...To play multiplayer and not have to actually pause and text chat. I always get killed doing that.
I are winner
Yes, I much prefer playing a computer game on a 30Hz 525x525 blurry display than on a 72Hz 1024x768 display. Anything that can make my $1500 screaming game PC behave more like a $200 console is a welcome change. (that was all sarcasm, by the way)
I guess I'm no longer a geek since our bedroom gets *plenty* of use... tho, not for gaming (at least not for computer gaming [grin]).
Mind the gap...
"If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox"
Not sure how one figures that -- it seems to have done quite well for itself hiding away in all of the nerds' bedrooms...
Don't you like seeing the anticipating look on the face of your girlfriend when you are about to fertilize her eager lips with ... well, probably you don't know what I am talking about.
I have a couch in front of my computer desk, but that's just b/c ever since I broke 450 lbs I keep snapping the base off normal task or executive chairs.
It's high time that the computer stop lurking in the shadows of dusty computer desks in forgotten rarely-used bedrooms.
Really now? that sounds like the perfect place to play doom 3 =)
A well lit room will just not do for such a game...takes all the scare right out of it!
Yes. Anything to get my game on.
You seriously underestimate the will of a console gamer. Go look in a dorm hall - you'll see people like us willing to find a couple TVs and take over a lounge for game time.
It's all fun and games til goatse.cx comes up...
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
You girlfriend translates games? :)
She didn't by any chance translate a game called Zero Wing, did she?
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It's all fun and games til goatse.cx comes up...
Big screen goatse... thanks for the mental image. Now I gotta make a call and cancel that pizza.
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Seriously. When I play Doom 3, I want the room entire pitch black and silent. I'm even going to unplug my USB cords (they are LED lit) and turn off my mouse pad so all of the blue glow of my room will not exist. Playing a horror game in the bright light is for pansies. Hah.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
So, so true. Best gaming experience of my life was my one-sitting playthrough of System Shock 2 in a room lit only by the computer monitor and wearing a high-quality pair of headphones.
I'm told that I whimpered in my sleep for about two weeks.
We are the Many...
enough with these new fangled gaming systems my commodore 64 does it all... but i should have got the rust proofing...
All the torrents you could want.
Agreed. I can only enjoy a game fully from my underground bunker in the south Pacific, complete with hydraulic platforms, arrays of huge screens, walls full of blinking lights, and all kinds of useless machinery that looks really freaking cool. You should've been there when we were playing Goldeneye in that baby. With real guns.