eLoup
11-08-2001, 04:08 AM
Halo X-Box-ians,
I have come to let you guys convert me to the world of gaping green “X”. Here’s my position, my opinions. Flame away, I’m wearing my Teflon undies. So have at, convince me all that is X will be neXt.
I’m a PC gamer. Looking at the X-box, and yes, I have to admit I’m impressed! However, like anything, flashy graphics and cracking sound doesn’t make a game. However, this is why I’m attracted to the X-box, over, say, PS2 or GameCube. It seems that the X-Box will have many games released on the PC platform. I am a die-hard believer that the PC is /the/ ultimate platform for gaming. No matter how good a console system can get, it can never be what a PC is. I’d extend this comment even to the mighty X-Box, however, maybe to a slightly less degree.
What I play? Well, one of the things PC games do, and do very well is online gaming. And I admit, I’m an online gamer. Not a gamer, and Online Gamer ;-) *As in I haven’t ever played the single player game of games I buy, only online play, if they even have single-player at all* The two genres I’m attracted to most are MMOLG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) / MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), and FPSes. I started online playing with Mud/Mux/Mush/Moo and it really hooked me. But when Asheron’s Call came out I was definantly an MMORPG nutcase. I played for a year before I got too frustrated with the game. It was an amazing game to break into the genre, but unfortunately, so flawed it pained to play after awhile. I then Beta tested (2,3, and 4) Dark Age of Camelot for Mythic Entertainment which as far as first gen MMORPGs, it takes the cake, easily. However, being that it’s a second gen MMORPG, it’s really rather lacking in the innovation department. The game I deem the ultimate MMORPG is “Dawn”, now vaporware by Glitchless Entertainment. As for FPSes, I play Half-Life Mods online. Depending on the mood there’s TFC, CS, DoD, BO… let put it this way : HL Mods is online FPS at best. Variety, precision, and fun. Of course, I also followed World War II Online since January and played for nearly 3 months. It’s breaking so many boundaries it might as well make a new genre category.
Okay, so what the hell does this have /anything/ to do with X-Box?
I’m looking to get a new game rig! A respective PC game rig (AMD 1900+, 512 ddr ram, 30gb 7200 hd, GF3 ti 500, SB Audigy Xgamer, Win XP Pro) will run me in the realms of $900-1300 USD. Now, for hardcore gaming, the kind where you get monitor tan, that’s nearly the price to pay for serious gaming. But I’m also starting my own business and as such, the budget is more than a bit thin (hell, it’s on the range of “non existent”). That’s why I decided (against my hard-core PC instincts) to look at X-Box.
My single and largest beef with the X-box is that I have not read anywhere that there is, or is planned a mouse as an I/O device. I mean common! X-Box has some classifiably “|337” FPS titles going for it, but FPS’s are truly mouse games. I mean, there is no way I could ever play Counter-Strike or Team Fortress Classic and get my scores with a game-pad! Hello! It’s all about being able to rotate on by-instance acceleration over a plainer surface. With a game-pad design you’ll more than likely be forced to turn at a fixed rate. What the hell…. Please tell me there will be a mouse/keyboard set-up available… For the love of god! And what about RTS games (such as Starcraft, a popular PC title) where you need Drag-and-Drop operations… You expected to drag-and-drop with a cursor maneuvered by a game-pad? Ahg! Please! X-Box has EVERYTHING in it’s favor, now lets take console games to a further new high by making them compete ALL the way with PCs: that means the flexibility of communication / complexity of a keyboard, and the lightning fast and accurate responsiveness of mice and even trackball devices!
If they added mice/keyboards: then X-Box could also become the first CONSOLE system to develop a *serious* massive, successful, mind-blowing MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game). So far, only PCs have the development, player mass, funding, and flexibility to make successful MMORPGs. Lets face it, it’ll be a while before any console MMORPG will ever come within eye-brow rising distance to MMORPG gargantuan titles and innovations found on PC platform, games like Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron’s Call: Dark Majesty, Ever Quest, Star Wars Galaxies, Shadow Bane, etc.. etc.. etc..
…. But if there is news of X-Box keyboard, mouse and trackballs for serious FPSers and Online players where communication and super-glue like adhesive community interaction co-exist, then the Gods are smiling down upon me. The X-box might show up in my stinky stocking for X-mass along with the customary hand-full of coal.
So, console vs. PC grudge matches aside : tell me, is the "X" neXt? For me, the hardcore online PCer looking to upgrade on a budget?
I recognize that “the box” is a powerhouse for console crowds, but if this doesn’t stand a chance to meet my gaming needs I’ll want to know.
All right then, have at… I’m listening!
~
eLoup
Seattle, WA USA
I have come to let you guys convert me to the world of gaping green “X”. Here’s my position, my opinions. Flame away, I’m wearing my Teflon undies. So have at, convince me all that is X will be neXt.
I’m a PC gamer. Looking at the X-box, and yes, I have to admit I’m impressed! However, like anything, flashy graphics and cracking sound doesn’t make a game. However, this is why I’m attracted to the X-box, over, say, PS2 or GameCube. It seems that the X-Box will have many games released on the PC platform. I am a die-hard believer that the PC is /the/ ultimate platform for gaming. No matter how good a console system can get, it can never be what a PC is. I’d extend this comment even to the mighty X-Box, however, maybe to a slightly less degree.
What I play? Well, one of the things PC games do, and do very well is online gaming. And I admit, I’m an online gamer. Not a gamer, and Online Gamer ;-) *As in I haven’t ever played the single player game of games I buy, only online play, if they even have single-player at all* The two genres I’m attracted to most are MMOLG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) / MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), and FPSes. I started online playing with Mud/Mux/Mush/Moo and it really hooked me. But when Asheron’s Call came out I was definantly an MMORPG nutcase. I played for a year before I got too frustrated with the game. It was an amazing game to break into the genre, but unfortunately, so flawed it pained to play after awhile. I then Beta tested (2,3, and 4) Dark Age of Camelot for Mythic Entertainment which as far as first gen MMORPGs, it takes the cake, easily. However, being that it’s a second gen MMORPG, it’s really rather lacking in the innovation department. The game I deem the ultimate MMORPG is “Dawn”, now vaporware by Glitchless Entertainment. As for FPSes, I play Half-Life Mods online. Depending on the mood there’s TFC, CS, DoD, BO… let put it this way : HL Mods is online FPS at best. Variety, precision, and fun. Of course, I also followed World War II Online since January and played for nearly 3 months. It’s breaking so many boundaries it might as well make a new genre category.
Okay, so what the hell does this have /anything/ to do with X-Box?
I’m looking to get a new game rig! A respective PC game rig (AMD 1900+, 512 ddr ram, 30gb 7200 hd, GF3 ti 500, SB Audigy Xgamer, Win XP Pro) will run me in the realms of $900-1300 USD. Now, for hardcore gaming, the kind where you get monitor tan, that’s nearly the price to pay for serious gaming. But I’m also starting my own business and as such, the budget is more than a bit thin (hell, it’s on the range of “non existent”). That’s why I decided (against my hard-core PC instincts) to look at X-Box.
My single and largest beef with the X-box is that I have not read anywhere that there is, or is planned a mouse as an I/O device. I mean common! X-Box has some classifiably “|337” FPS titles going for it, but FPS’s are truly mouse games. I mean, there is no way I could ever play Counter-Strike or Team Fortress Classic and get my scores with a game-pad! Hello! It’s all about being able to rotate on by-instance acceleration over a plainer surface. With a game-pad design you’ll more than likely be forced to turn at a fixed rate. What the hell…. Please tell me there will be a mouse/keyboard set-up available… For the love of god! And what about RTS games (such as Starcraft, a popular PC title) where you need Drag-and-Drop operations… You expected to drag-and-drop with a cursor maneuvered by a game-pad? Ahg! Please! X-Box has EVERYTHING in it’s favor, now lets take console games to a further new high by making them compete ALL the way with PCs: that means the flexibility of communication / complexity of a keyboard, and the lightning fast and accurate responsiveness of mice and even trackball devices!
If they added mice/keyboards: then X-Box could also become the first CONSOLE system to develop a *serious* massive, successful, mind-blowing MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game). So far, only PCs have the development, player mass, funding, and flexibility to make successful MMORPGs. Lets face it, it’ll be a while before any console MMORPG will ever come within eye-brow rising distance to MMORPG gargantuan titles and innovations found on PC platform, games like Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron’s Call: Dark Majesty, Ever Quest, Star Wars Galaxies, Shadow Bane, etc.. etc.. etc..
…. But if there is news of X-Box keyboard, mouse and trackballs for serious FPSers and Online players where communication and super-glue like adhesive community interaction co-exist, then the Gods are smiling down upon me. The X-box might show up in my stinky stocking for X-mass along with the customary hand-full of coal.
So, console vs. PC grudge matches aside : tell me, is the "X" neXt? For me, the hardcore online PCer looking to upgrade on a budget?
I recognize that “the box” is a powerhouse for console crowds, but if this doesn’t stand a chance to meet my gaming needs I’ll want to know.
All right then, have at… I’m listening!
~
eLoup
Seattle, WA USA