Counter-Strike: are you joking? You freeze up for half a second (like 9000 seconds in CS <= 1.6) every time you're shot- you're not going to be strafing anywhere. Realistic shooters like Insurgency obviously have nothing like circle strafing.
How is the fluidity of circle strafing an advantage in close quarters? If you can breathe and eat your baby food at the same time, you can WASD your way around an enemy with no problems. If you're facing him you just use A and D to circle strafe and W and S to move closer/away.. if you need to look at something else while circle strafing then tap keys to compensate. Anyway wtf does circle strafing have to do with anything? You've been playing way too much halo.. in real shooters there's no such thing. Counter-Strike: are you joking? You freeze up for half a second (like 9000 seconds in Insurgency obviously have nothing like circle strafing.
I think you'd be surprised if you went back and played it (try Goldeneye Source if you broke your N64). It introduced a ton of new gamers to the FPS genre, but it's really a very, very poor FPS. Aiming anywhere 30 degrees around an enemy will score you a hit, no questions asked. Enemies take about a second to raise their weapons and start firing single, ineffective shots at a time, and can't see over waist-high railings. Manual aiming is frustrating and broken. The cheat-unlocks in the game were really fantastic and deep, and the ending levels amazingly imaginative, but the actual gameplay was sour. Don't get me wrong, I love the game like everyone else- but it's for the nostalgia, I'm not fooled into thinking it's a good game.
Snicker, trackballs? You have got to be kidding me. That nonsense is only marginally less suck than an analog stick.. and putting them together into one monument to bad ideas would not help PC gamers keep a straight face
I think you might have been cheated in your PC gaming experience.. you buy a graphics card to play existing games. You should never expect to be able to play games very far into the future.. buying an expensive card will generally get you farther on, but it's really just for the bragging rights. Just buy a mid-upper range card and play existing games on high settings, instead of trying to buy new games and just scrape buy with bad graphics and poor framerates.
It's not about which controller makes you better, it's about which controller provides the best control. That's the point of the controller-- nothing else. "Best" obviously has different aspects.. like you said the mouse is a more efficient aiming device than a joystick. A controller is certainly more comfortable, but FPS on PCs are way too competitive (not to mention difficult because of the high skill of the players and the efficiency of mouse aiming) to be slouched on the couch while you play.
And who said PC hardware isn't on par with consoles? Have you seen those new NVIDIA cards? From wikipedia:
Two 65nm process GPUs, with 256 total Stream Processors (128 per PCB)
Supports Quad SLI.
1 GiB memory framebuffer, possibly up to 2 GiB [this is insane 2ghz GDDR3 memory]
128 GB/s memory bandwidth
Oh please. I don't understand you console jockeys at all- FPS can. not. be played on a controller. None of them can. Halo came somewhat close to playability, but anyone who ever seriously played the terrible PC port of one of the first two Haloes can attest that without the added challenge of dealing with a joystick input, the game is ridiculously easy, and multiplayer is a joke- anyone with moderate railgun skill can just crank up their resolution, grab a sniper rifle, and score nonstop headshots from a mile away. Sorry Wii, the input should be seamless and not the only thing that makes a game challenging. The mouse is obviously the easier input device for FPS, so it alone should be used. Ever wonder why the console versions of multipleyer FPS can never play with the PC versions of the same game? The first time they tried that was with Quake 3 on the dreamcast and on the PC. Even if you've never played the game yourself, you know the reputation- ridiculously fast amphetamine-twitch gameplay. The PC players absolutely curb stomped the dreamcast players until they were drowning in the blood pouring out their eyes.. it was a huge joke at the time because the dreamcast players just couldn't even score a kill- you'd look at the scoreboard and it would be like naturally the top half of the scoreboard is reserved for PC players, the bottom half for dreamcast players.. the controller just sucks that much.
Not many good pc games coming out? Who cares about new games when you have such a massive library of games available? Just have to have your madden 09? Then go away. Like a good game despite Windows 95 graphics? Break out Chip's Challenge and see if you still remember how to beat it. Craving something new? How about Steam's library, which is massive and is actually priced reasonably unlike any console game at all. And has free mods for the more popular games that are good for more play hours than the game itself-- how many people have bought Half-Life 2 Deathmatch just so they they can play SourceForts, and never even launched HL2DM? How about Insurgency? PC gaming is dead? Does netcraft confirm it?
I was introduced to a lot of great artists that I had never heard through Guitar Hero and its sequals. How else do you expect a slashdot nerd to be introduced to that kind of music-- by my first birthday, the 80s were over. I've also been pleasantly surprised by SCGMD2.. you'd think that some indie music ripped off newgrounds would suck, but some of those are real pro-quality music (here's looking at Hollywise)..
Seems like the problem isn't with the bags, it's with the X-ray equipment.. how absurd is it that the TSA is asking the bag manufacturers to make more x-rayable bags instead of tweaking their X-rays to scan bags?
I wasn't talking about law- it's probably illegal. But while Verizon may have legally assigned rights related to profit from distribution, they do not have morally assigned rights related to profit from distribution.
Don't tell Doritos that it would be practically impossible for any aliens to reverse engineer a video codec, or that the aliens wouldn't even get the message for years, or that they wouldn't be interested in eating Doritos.
How is it wrong to just visit a completely public URL? If they're losing money it's their fault; you can't just say that verizon losing money is wrong. How is that wrong? We're gaining value. Nothing has been destroyed here. This situation is purely verizon's affiliate being lazy and insecure, and you're just stupid for thinking it's wrong to take advantage of that.
Also, this reminds me of this story where reuters was accused of hacking for posting a publically-available but secret URL. Everyone thought it was a complete joke and reuters lined up its battalion of lawyers and pumped the plaintiff full of hot lead. How is this any different?
Due to a decrease in the number of electrons detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on either side of the moon, scientists suggest that rings are the likeliest cause of these electrons being blocked before they reach Cassini.
It's amazing just how much fascinating data these deep solar system probes have gathered. Some are even out of the solar system testing interstellar space. And how many trillions have been spent uselessly collecting dust on Mars? More solar probes please!
Or not- many older platforms are just worth ditching in favor of easier or more efficient platforms. Yeah he'll get objective answers, but they won't be valuable.
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How is the fluidity of circle strafing an advantage in close quarters? If you can breathe and eat your baby food at the same time, you can WASD your way around an enemy with no problems. If you're facing him you just use A and D to circle strafe and W and S to move closer/away.. if you need to look at something else while circle strafing then tap keys to compensate. Anyway wtf does circle strafing have to do with anything? You've been playing way too much halo .. in real shooters there's no such thing. Counter-Strike: are you joking? You freeze up for half a second (like 9000 seconds in Insurgency obviously have nothing like circle strafing.
The point is that they advertise 256MB* Intel EXTREME accelerate ULTRA 3d GAMING FAST GRAPHICS
*shared
and the consumers go q_q
I think you'd be surprised if you went back and played it (try Goldeneye Source if you broke your N64). It introduced a ton of new gamers to the FPS genre, but it's really a very, very poor FPS. Aiming anywhere 30 degrees around an enemy will score you a hit, no questions asked. Enemies take about a second to raise their weapons and start firing single, ineffective shots at a time, and can't see over waist-high railings. Manual aiming is frustrating and broken. The cheat-unlocks in the game were really fantastic and deep, and the ending levels amazingly imaginative, but the actual gameplay was sour. Don't get me wrong, I love the game like everyone else- but it's for the nostalgia, I'm not fooled into thinking it's a good game.
Snicker, trackballs? You have got to be kidding me. That nonsense is only marginally less suck than an analog stick.. and putting them together into one monument to bad ideas would not help PC gamers keep a straight face
I think you might have been cheated in your PC gaming experience.. you buy a graphics card to play existing games. You should never expect to be able to play games very far into the future.. buying an expensive card will generally get you farther on, but it's really just for the bragging rights. Just buy a mid-upper range card and play existing games on high settings, instead of trying to buy new games and just scrape buy with bad graphics and poor framerates.
I'm thinking the suckers are the ones paying these guys to wildly speculate about things everyone suspects..
It's not about which controller makes you better, it's about which controller provides the best control. That's the point of the controller-- nothing else. "Best" obviously has different aspects.. like you said the mouse is a more efficient aiming device than a joystick. A controller is certainly more comfortable, but FPS on PCs are way too competitive (not to mention difficult because of the high skill of the players and the efficiency of mouse aiming) to be slouched on the couch while you play.
The red ring of death is bricking as many as one in three xbox 360s.....
Oh please. I don't understand you console jockeys at all- FPS can. not. be played on a controller. None of them can. Halo came somewhat close to playability, but anyone who ever seriously played the terrible PC port of one of the first two Haloes can attest that without the added challenge of dealing with a joystick input, the game is ridiculously easy, and multiplayer is a joke- anyone with moderate railgun skill can just crank up their resolution, grab a sniper rifle, and score nonstop headshots from a mile away. Sorry Wii, the input should be seamless and not the only thing that makes a game challenging. The mouse is obviously the easier input device for FPS, so it alone should be used. Ever wonder why the console versions of multipleyer FPS can never play with the PC versions of the same game? The first time they tried that was with Quake 3 on the dreamcast and on the PC. Even if you've never played the game yourself, you know the reputation- ridiculously fast amphetamine-twitch gameplay. The PC players absolutely curb stomped the dreamcast players until they were drowning in the blood pouring out their eyes.. it was a huge joke at the time because the dreamcast players just couldn't even score a kill- you'd look at the scoreboard and it would be like naturally the top half of the scoreboard is reserved for PC players, the bottom half for dreamcast players.. the controller just sucks that much.
Not many good pc games coming out? Who cares about new games when you have such a massive library of games available? Just have to have your madden 09? Then go away. Like a good game despite Windows 95 graphics? Break out Chip's Challenge and see if you still remember how to beat it. Craving something new? How about Steam's library, which is massive and is actually priced reasonably unlike any console game at all. And has free mods for the more popular games that are good for more play hours than the game itself-- how many people have bought Half-Life 2 Deathmatch just so they they can play SourceForts, and never even launched HL2DM? How about Insurgency? PC gaming is dead? Does netcraft confirm it?
They're like "so whatever";
I was introduced to a lot of great artists that I had never heard through Guitar Hero and its sequals. How else do you expect a slashdot nerd to be introduced to that kind of music-- by my first birthday, the 80s were over. I've also been pleasantly surprised by SCGMD2.. you'd think that some indie music ripped off newgrounds would suck, but some of those are real pro-quality music (here's looking at Hollywise)..
Seems like the problem isn't with the bags, it's with the X-ray equipment.. how absurd is it that the TSA is asking the bag manufacturers to make more x-rayable bags instead of tweaking their X-rays to scan bags?
I wasn't talking about law- it's probably illegal. But while Verizon may have legally assigned rights related to profit from distribution, they do not have morally assigned rights related to profit from distribution.
Yeah, but the universe has gotten 7.5 billion years older in the last 30 years, so you have to scale it too.
Don't tell Doritos that it would be practically impossible for any aliens to reverse engineer a video codec, or that the aliens wouldn't even get the message for years, or that they wouldn't be interested in eating Doritos.
How is it wrong to just visit a completely public URL? If they're losing money it's their fault; you can't just say that verizon losing money is wrong. How is that wrong? We're gaining value. Nothing has been destroyed here. This situation is purely verizon's affiliate being lazy and insecure, and you're just stupid for thinking it's wrong to take advantage of that.
Also, this reminds me of this story where reuters was accused of hacking for posting a publically-available but secret URL. Everyone thought it was a complete joke and reuters lined up its battalion of lawyers and pumped the plaintiff full of hot lead. How is this any different?
It's amazing just how much fascinating data these deep solar system probes have gathered. Some are even out of the solar system testing interstellar space. And how many trillions have been spent uselessly collecting dust on Mars? More solar probes please!
What about people who want to get their apps out for free? I for one would never dream of selling independently-developed software..
Or not- many older platforms are just worth ditching in favor of easier or more efficient platforms. Yeah he'll get objective answers, but they won't be valuable.
Why can't we know it anyway? That's just stupid, like for security reasons or something we can't know? Nobody answer this joker.
Uh, what? The data doesn't change after imaging..