That's true, it's probably more the speed. The rotation speed you can get with a mouse is almost silly to be honest. I think even a SWAT guy would have difficulty doing a figure-skating style spin while holding a weapon. (It's been a while since I've played CS, but I remember practically throwing the mouse to the side sometimes to spin quickly.)
My point was I'm already aiming at the door and don't have to turn and thus faster;)
I think you might be equating "aim" with "skill" which in many shooters simply isn't as true as it seems. In most of the shooters I find enjoyable, it's more about tactics than pure aiming and the map design reinforces this. Most of the maps are more enclosed and/or have strategically important choke-points and quite a bit of USEFUL cover. You may be able to run around out in the open, "twitch-killing" noobs and people with less than 60fps on the PC, but that likely won't work in these games. Your aim may be tremendously accurate and fast, but you're going to eventually have to walk through that door/corridor/whatever and I've got a better position and usually some decent backup.
What you may see though is less console snipers, with PC players assuming that role more often, and generally snipers fight mostly with other snipers (everyone else steers clear after the first few fall).
I'd wager that you won't see much console only clan vs. pc only clan matches (at least not ranked) because you generally try to keep it as even as possible in those and the pc guys will probably have better snipers.
Yea there is, I wish I could remember the name of the law now.
Basically it was to protect aftermarket parts makers and people who customize their cars. If I lower the car, only the warranty on the suspension is affected. If I change the mufflers on the car, only the warranty on the exhaust is affected.
Here's a link to some info about it from SEMA.
http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?ID=50096
Did these people not know that, in order to use the Opera browser on the Wii, you first have to download it from the Wii Shopping Channel... In order to get to the Will Shopping Channel, you must input a PIN number. To use Opera once it's downloaded... you must input your PIN.
That was put there so PARENTS COULD HAVE CONTROL OVER WHAT THEIR KIDS DO WITH THE MACHINE! (Sorry for the yelling...) "Wii == Porn Portal" makes a much better headline than "Parents too busy to take responsibility for thier kids."
I mean seriouly, it takes all of 2 minutes to setup a PIN number on the Wii. It takes even less time to not tell your kids what the PIN # is. If you can't trouble parents with that level of responsibility, what are they there for?
I call shenanigans. Show me your Sony Employee Badge this instant!
A) Quieter - How will the new spec PS2 chip used in the PS2 Slim without a fan be louder than increasing the load on the main processor(s)?
B) Better spec machine - Granted there will be less manufacturing induced hardware errors, after the initial run of these new spec machines and the bugs potentially introduced at the time of changeover are worked out. Not to mention that Sony is essentially swapping 6 year old, battle proven and time tested H/W for new software. That won't introduce any bugs
C) Less prone to breaking - Redundant with B) but would be more accurately stated "1 less thing to break." Has any statistically significant number of people had a processor failure with the PS2 in any of its forms? I always thought it was the DVD Drives that crapped out. (Plus there's the manufacturing changeover to remove the chips... very likely that this will introduce errors and just as likely to introduce new "weak spots" in the hardware, at least in the initial few runs.)
It's called KICK. I play online games with my brother and 3-4 of our best friends growing up. Now that we're all in our mid-20s and living in different parts of the country, it's as close as we can get to a pickup basketball game.
We make sure that one of us is ALWAYS host. That's how we ensure that any overly annoying/racist/squeaky/teamkiller/spawncamper/wha tever people leave the room quickly and don't ruin it for everybody.
Since we always keep out those types of players, we generally have full rooms and people are always messaging us to try and get in just because they don't want to deal with the jerks. By us forcibly removing these people, it's improving the gaming expereince for everyone in the room.
We don't want to have to kick anyone, and generally we give fair warning. I would almost bet that these "kids" we end up kicking somehow think its cool in their Ritalin soaked brains. I imagine their inner monologue goes something like...
OmGZ0RZ teh n00b2 h@d 2 kiks me bkuz ima 2 much pwnZ0r2 4 d3m f@g0t7z!
One thing that really bothers me about the "why is the West so hung up on the I.C.E." train of though is that it generally implies some very flawed logic. Namely that if the West stopped burning all the oil it can get its hands on, nobody would start to burn all this suddenly VERY cheap oil.
If the West stopped burning oil in it's cars, the price of oil would fall dramatically. A gallon of gas would likely be WELL under $1 (without any taxes). That means a much larger proportion of the overall world population can suddenly afford gasoline. I'm sure all those people still riding bicycles/camels/goats/whatever or walking would LOVE to be able to get somewhere a lot more quickly and easily. This new found mobility would come in the form of very crude and simple cars and trucks that would cost a fraction of what a western automobile costs. And here's the kicker, I can guarantee you they won't have EFI, or Catalytic Converters, or Exhaust Gas Recirculation sytems or Positive Crankcase Ventilation valves or even clean gas (hell it would probably be leaded).
End Result? In 10 years we're burning nearly as much oil as we were before we kicked the habit, but now we're getting less for it. Where our cars might get 25-30 mpg, these simple cars would get 10. Our cars have nearly 0 emissions in most cases (other than C02), but these simple ones will spew all those noxious gasses we go to so much effort, and more importantly expense, to contain.
That argument always reminds me of one of the most ironic moments in my life. During college, while leaving the bookstore I'm hopping in my Mustang. It's in very good condition, all the smog stuff in place and it runs like a top. I get about 29mpg highway with it (a V6). As I'm putting my books in the trunk and preparing to leave, a "hippie" parked next to me in his late 80's Honda hatch-back starts lecturing me about how harmful my "wastful muscle-car" (a V6 lol) is to the environment and how everyone should drive a "Earth friendly" car like his. He hops in his rusting 2,00lb piece of "Earth friendly" econo-crap and proceeds to fire it's 0.5L weed-whacker motor... after some clanking, coughing and spitting it comes to life. The plume of blue smoke coming out of the 1/2" tail pipe really added a lot of emphasis to his "Save the _____" bumper stickers from GreenPeace(tm). I sure felt sorry for polluting so much in my "wasteful muscle-car."
Moral of the story? The entire world is a market. Though you may be opposed to US burning oil, but SOMEBODY is going to. And if somebody is going to do it, thank goodness it's US greedy Westerners who will at least make a very concerted effort to cause as little harm as possible.
I really liked the game in CO-OP mode on the harder difficulty levels. By yourself it really wasn't all that special.
Like many games, it revolves around the multiplayer experience. Your multiplayer expereince is pretty well determined by the people you're playing with. So if you're a "lone wolf" always searching for random games, I imagine it's not that great because most of the time you'll be paired with 12-17 year olds screaming/singing/incessantly talking into the mic.
Myself, I've got a close group of friends that I play games with. We generally all buy the same game at about the same time so we never have to worry about running into the random brats that you find online.
That's why I really LOVE GoW multiplayer. Me and my 3 friends will start a room and stay on the same team. If more of our friends are online we'll play where we're on both teams and if there's someone particularly annoying, the boot button is a cell phone call away:) So we ALWAYS have a great online expereince, because we only surround ourselves with like-minded individuals.
I guess it's very YMMV in that regard.
Whats not to like about Detroit? It's got the climate of Canada, the economy of early 90's Russia and the feeling of saftey and security found only in downtown Baghdad!
This is the only city I've ever lived in where I found myself watching my back in the GOOD part of town!
I didn't get a copy yet. Been too busy with Gears of War to get really engrossed in another great game.
One thing that's interesting about the numbers you posted. Nintendo sold 2 million + hardware units... at a profit. I bet thier balance sheet is looking rather rosy right now.
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That's true, it's probably more the speed. The rotation speed you can get with a mouse is almost silly to be honest. I think even a SWAT guy would have difficulty doing a figure-skating style spin while holding a weapon. (It's been a while since I've played CS, but I remember practically throwing the mouse to the side sometimes to spin quickly.) My point was I'm already aiming at the door and don't have to turn and thus faster ;)
I think you might be equating "aim" with "skill" which in many shooters simply isn't as true as it seems. In most of the shooters I find enjoyable, it's more about tactics than pure aiming and the map design reinforces this. Most of the maps are more enclosed and/or have strategically important choke-points and quite a bit of USEFUL cover. You may be able to run around out in the open, "twitch-killing" noobs and people with less than 60fps on the PC, but that likely won't work in these games. Your aim may be tremendously accurate and fast, but you're going to eventually have to walk through that door/corridor/whatever and I've got a better position and usually some decent backup.
What you may see though is less console snipers, with PC players assuming that role more often, and generally snipers fight mostly with other snipers (everyone else steers clear after the first few fall).
I'd wager that you won't see much console only clan vs. pc only clan matches (at least not ranked) because you generally try to keep it as even as possible in those and the pc guys will probably have better snipers.
That's just my guess, I could be way off though.
Yea there is, I wish I could remember the name of the law now. Basically it was to protect aftermarket parts makers and people who customize their cars. If I lower the car, only the warranty on the suspension is affected. If I change the mufflers on the car, only the warranty on the exhaust is affected. Here's a link to some info about it from SEMA. http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?ID=50096
Did these people not know that, in order to use the Opera browser on the Wii, you first have to download it from the Wii Shopping Channel ... In order to get to the Will Shopping Channel, you must input a PIN number. To use Opera once it's downloaded ... you must input your PIN.
That was put there so PARENTS COULD HAVE CONTROL OVER WHAT THEIR KIDS DO WITH THE MACHINE! (Sorry for the yelling...) "Wii == Porn Portal" makes a much better headline than "Parents too busy to take responsibility for thier kids."
I mean seriouly, it takes all of 2 minutes to setup a PIN number on the Wii. It takes even less time to not tell your kids what the PIN # is. If you can't trouble parents with that level of responsibility, what are they there for?
(really should have used tha tpreview button huh? ) lol
I call shenanigans. Show me your Sony Employee Badge this instant! A) Quieter - How will the new spec PS2 chip used in the PS2 Slim without a fan be louder than increasing the load on the main processor(s)? B) Better spec machine - Granted there will be less manufacturing induced hardware errors, after the initial run of these new spec machines and the bugs potentially introduced at the time of changeover are worked out. Not to mention that Sony is essentially swapping 6 year old, battle proven and time tested H/W for new software. That won't introduce any bugs C) Less prone to breaking - Redundant with B) but would be more accurately stated "1 less thing to break." Has any statistically significant number of people had a processor failure with the PS2 in any of its forms? I always thought it was the DVD Drives that crapped out. (Plus there's the manufacturing changeover to remove the chips ... very likely that this will introduce errors and just as likely to introduce new "weak spots" in the hardware, at least in the initial few runs.)
It's called KICK. I play online games with my brother and 3-4 of our best friends growing up. Now that we're all in our mid-20s and living in different parts of the country, it's as close as we can get to a pickup basketball game. We make sure that one of us is ALWAYS host. That's how we ensure that any overly annoying/racist/squeaky/teamkiller/spawncamper/wha tever people leave the room quickly and don't ruin it for everybody.
Since we always keep out those types of players, we generally have full rooms and people are always messaging us to try and get in just because they don't want to deal with the jerks. By us forcibly removing these people, it's improving the gaming expereince for everyone in the room.
We don't want to have to kick anyone, and generally we give fair warning. I would almost bet that these "kids" we end up kicking somehow think its cool in their Ritalin soaked brains. I imagine their inner monologue goes something like ...
OmGZ0RZ teh n00b2 h@d 2 kiks me bkuz ima 2 much pwnZ0r2 4 d3m f@g0t7z!
One thing that really bothers me about the "why is the West so hung up on the I.C.E." train of though is that it generally implies some very flawed logic. Namely that if the West stopped burning all the oil it can get its hands on, nobody would start to burn all this suddenly VERY cheap oil. If the West stopped burning oil in it's cars, the price of oil would fall dramatically. A gallon of gas would likely be WELL under $1 (without any taxes). That means a much larger proportion of the overall world population can suddenly afford gasoline. I'm sure all those people still riding bicycles/camels/goats/whatever or walking would LOVE to be able to get somewhere a lot more quickly and easily. This new found mobility would come in the form of very crude and simple cars and trucks that would cost a fraction of what a western automobile costs. And here's the kicker, I can guarantee you they won't have EFI, or Catalytic Converters, or Exhaust Gas Recirculation sytems or Positive Crankcase Ventilation valves or even clean gas (hell it would probably be leaded). End Result? In 10 years we're burning nearly as much oil as we were before we kicked the habit, but now we're getting less for it. Where our cars might get 25-30 mpg, these simple cars would get 10. Our cars have nearly 0 emissions in most cases (other than C02), but these simple ones will spew all those noxious gasses we go to so much effort, and more importantly expense, to contain. That argument always reminds me of one of the most ironic moments in my life. During college, while leaving the bookstore I'm hopping in my Mustang. It's in very good condition, all the smog stuff in place and it runs like a top. I get about 29mpg highway with it (a V6). As I'm putting my books in the trunk and preparing to leave, a "hippie" parked next to me in his late 80's Honda hatch-back starts lecturing me about how harmful my "wastful muscle-car" (a V6 lol) is to the environment and how everyone should drive a "Earth friendly" car like his. He hops in his rusting 2,00lb piece of "Earth friendly" econo-crap and proceeds to fire it's 0.5L weed-whacker motor ... after some clanking, coughing and spitting it comes to life. The plume of blue smoke coming out of the 1/2" tail pipe really added a lot of emphasis to his "Save the _____" bumper stickers from GreenPeace(tm). I sure felt sorry for polluting so much in my "wasteful muscle-car."
Moral of the story? The entire world is a market. Though you may be opposed to US burning oil, but SOMEBODY is going to. And if somebody is going to do it, thank goodness it's US greedy Westerners who will at least make a very concerted effort to cause as little harm as possible.
And after reading that, I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue :)
I really liked the game in CO-OP mode on the harder difficulty levels. By yourself it really wasn't all that special. Like many games, it revolves around the multiplayer experience. Your multiplayer expereince is pretty well determined by the people you're playing with. So if you're a "lone wolf" always searching for random games, I imagine it's not that great because most of the time you'll be paired with 12-17 year olds screaming/singing/incessantly talking into the mic. Myself, I've got a close group of friends that I play games with. We generally all buy the same game at about the same time so we never have to worry about running into the random brats that you find online. That's why I really LOVE GoW multiplayer. Me and my 3 friends will start a room and stay on the same team. If more of our friends are online we'll play where we're on both teams and if there's someone particularly annoying, the boot button is a cell phone call away :) So we ALWAYS have a great online expereince, because we only surround ourselves with like-minded individuals.
I guess it's very YMMV in that regard.
Imagine all the suffering a good "slashdotting" unleashes on those poor defenseless webservers! Won't somebody please think of the servers!
Whats not to like about Detroit? It's got the climate of Canada, the economy of early 90's Russia and the feeling of saftey and security found only in downtown Baghdad! This is the only city I've ever lived in where I found myself watching my back in the GOOD part of town!
I didn't get a copy yet. Been too busy with Gears of War to get really engrossed in another great game. One thing that's interesting about the numbers you posted. Nintendo sold 2 million + hardware units ... at a profit. I bet thier balance sheet is looking rather rosy right now.