I am an avid starcraft, diablo, war 2 bne, and diablo 2 player. I also like half life, tfc, unreal tourney.. etc etc.
i think that the new controller for RTS games wouldn't be very good. I think all the avid gamers are already used to key combinations, such as B->F for building a farm, or pressing F1, F2 for group command forces. So I don't think a controller would be necessary for these types of things
But I could see some of its use for Diablo II, and like Unreal Tournament. Instead of switching spells in Diablo 2 with the F1-F8 keys or pressing S, you could easily program a button to do what you feel like, because in diablo II, theres a whole mess of spells that are useful, but we have to reorder them in only 8 keys. In first person shoot em up, you could use them to do specific things, like switching weapons, reloading, opening doors. That would save a lot of time.
But if it does come out, how much?! Thats the only factor that will keep us from buying it.
640 Gigs of hard drive space. Now, I could see it would be handy for giant corporations like for servers, web hosts, and giant people (cough microsoft, government).
but whats the point for having it at home for use. sure we could store a whole bunch of things, like videos, mp3s, movies, etc. etc. but we really aren't going to fill 640 gigs, (unless you just want to, junk filler).
anyways, it would be nice to have all that free room around. You'll never have to worry about buying another hard drive again, until that 1 Terabyte drive comes out;)
or maybe it has something to do with so many people connected to the same exact satellite, bouncing signals to and from the server. or maybe there is some interference with todays broadcast signals have something to do with it.
or better yet, lets just skip it and get dialup.
Wow.. thats a lot of ping there. I do suppose satellite access is better than none, and it is better than dialup at least. I could see a whole bunch of advantages using satellites, but what about if the satellite goes down?
See if you use dial up, usually there are backup servers for you to dial on, (a lot here in California). But if a satellite goes down, what happens next? I don't think all satellite ISPs can launch 20 satellites like the GPS did.
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i think that the new controller for RTS games wouldn't be very good. I think all the avid gamers are already used to key combinations, such as B->F for building a farm, or pressing F1, F2 for group command forces. So I don't think a controller would be necessary for these types of things
But I could see some of its use for Diablo II, and like Unreal Tournament. Instead of switching spells in Diablo 2 with the F1-F8 keys or pressing S, you could easily program a button to do what you feel like, because in diablo II, theres a whole mess of spells that are useful, but we have to reorder them in only 8 keys. In first person shoot em up, you could use them to do specific things, like switching weapons, reloading, opening doors. That would save a lot of time.
But if it does come out, how much?! Thats the only factor that will keep us from buying it.
640 Gigs of hard drive space. Now, I could see it would be handy for giant corporations like for servers, web hosts, and giant people (cough microsoft, government). but whats the point for having it at home for use. sure we could store a whole bunch of things, like videos, mp3s, movies, etc. etc. but we really aren't going to fill 640 gigs, (unless you just want to, junk filler). anyways, it would be nice to have all that free room around. You'll never have to worry about buying another hard drive again, until that 1 Terabyte drive comes out ;)
or maybe it has something to do with so many people connected to the same exact satellite, bouncing signals to and from the server. or maybe there is some interference with todays broadcast signals have something to do with it. or better yet, lets just skip it and get dialup.
Wow.. thats a lot of ping there. I do suppose satellite access is better than none, and it is better than dialup at least. I could see a whole bunch of advantages using satellites, but what about if the satellite goes down? See if you use dial up, usually there are backup servers for you to dial on, (a lot here in California). But if a satellite goes down, what happens next? I don't think all satellite ISPs can launch 20 satellites like the GPS did. calvin