You've got half a point I suppose. FPS players may well be male PC folk who like to brag about their 3d Mark scores and NEED the latest stupidly fast nvidia/ATI card just so they can run the latest game at a stupidly high resolution that their monitors can't even handle BUT... controlling an FPS game on console *IS* horrible if you are used to playing this sort of game with a mouse and a keyboard. You need 5 keys (WASD, space) + the mouse and that's about it. Not really any worse than the 8 actions of the D-Pad, the two analogue joysticks, the four buttons and the four shoulder pads that you might need to master on say a PS2 controller. The main difference being that using the mouse is much more fluid than some stiff joystick.
The Vncserver on linux defaults to multi-user, multi-session rather than displaying the console. I don't know if you can get the windows version to behave this way though.
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Good point dotcher. But I thought that OSA.EXE (MS Office Startup Assitant) did exactly the same thing for MS Office?
You've got half a point I suppose. FPS players may well be male PC folk who like to brag about their 3d Mark scores and NEED the latest stupidly fast nvidia/ATI card just so they can run the latest game at a stupidly high resolution that their monitors can't even handle BUT ... controlling an FPS game on console *IS* horrible if you are used to playing this sort of game with a mouse and a keyboard. You need 5 keys (WASD, space) + the mouse and that's about it. Not really any worse than the 8 actions of the D-Pad, the two analogue joysticks, the four buttons and the four shoulder pads that you might need to master on say a PS2 controller. The main difference being that using the mouse is much more fluid than some stiff joystick.
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C'mon guys!!! How can an FP be ANYTHING BUT redundant?!
The Vncserver on linux defaults to multi-user, multi-session rather than displaying the console. I don't know if you can get the windows version to behave this way though.