[Evildave]

I tend to play more 'cooperative' mode games on the console, like the Halo series, Destroy all Humans, Stubbs the Zombie, etc. You each have a controller and just share the wide screen TV split down the middle and do the slaughter of many innocents together. Some XBOX/360 games also support LAN play. When I had the video projector pointed at the wall (12 foot TV), it was pretty sweet.

Actually a year old (or several year old) console doesn't match PC specs at all. The games match the console specs. Since the console isn't a moving target, your experience as a developer becomes the variable factor. You get better at making the same hardware do more stuff instead of making the end-user keep buying more PC hardware (and hence be less able to afford your game). Console developers don't make lazy (and stupid) assumptions like "Oh, I gots Virtual Memory, so I can have INFINITE RAM!" They have to spend that extra sleepless night or ten making it fit into the memory that's available, get the graphics pipeline to keep up with the frame rate on the GPU they have, and figure out how to map all the fiddly button controls onto a standard controller that doesn't have 101 keys.

Halo 3 will eventually come out on the PC, but I predict it will be VERY needy in the hardware department to match the common PC perception that you need to ship it for (as Yahtzee puts it) a 'hypothetical future PC from space', even though the XBOX 360 hasn't really changed since 2005. I have no idea what 'Grand Theft Auto IV' will eventually need to run on a PC, but it will definitely run on the console.

BTW, bookmark that 'zeropunctuation' site. Another new one comes out every Wednesday morning, and it's always silly.
http://www.escapistm...ctuation-Crysis

[piyushsingh]

By saying that a year old game console will match a pc current specs, i meant it only in relation to run games (job that the consoles are meant to do). PS2 emulators are a thing of the past , you cant even think of having a PS3 emulator for PC for atleast 5 years from now .Although its a different topic as the requirements rise when you are trying to emulate another device.The developers are getting a bit biased towards the gamning consoles - ubisoft's haze will be released for only PS3 , they have even left the X-box users in the open .
Thanx for that link. Its really good. It will take me some time to get through all the vids there. :-)
thanx

[lilxkid24]

i have like 18 fps games installed lol and like 15 of them being from steam. Mostly i play counter strike source or 1.6, rarely crysis since i got bored of it but now bioshock started playing it yesterday seems pretty cool. As for ps3 emulators your pc must be good to even support it.

[piyushsingh]

lilxkid24 said:

i have like 18 fps games installed lol and like 15 of them being from steam. Mostly i play counter strike source or 1.6, rarely crysis since i got bored of it .

cs is considered one of the best fps multiplayer till date.

VladTheImpaler1990 said:

What you mean core level, i have just got out of the machines base, and now i am helping these guys out side, where are you having a problem?

>Vlad

the game is getting a bit boring since the alien encounters.Those alien scouts are always running all over the place and its difficult to get them while floating in the air. I m currently at the place where you first encounter the generator and lots of aliens all around it. Got past it and now i m stuck with some sort of timed mechanism to get out .

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Hey there,

Ya that is a mission and hard to explain but there is a little hatch some where when you stand next to it it ring you up to the surface you know those hatches that are circulating the air its like those, ya i finished the game the other day the last battle is quite a jol.

Sorry i can't explain it very well as i was lost when i found this hatch, i think you must just follow the current and it will lead you to this point thats what i did.

Good Luck.

Vlad

[piyushsingh]

no probs vlad. I ll get this thing done. Just took a break from crysis and went back to condition zero. :-)

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Ya i guess but have you tried playing unreal tournament. That games got better graphics than crysis.



Vlad

[lilxkid24]

cs cz? eww worst series out of all lol its either 1.6 or source lol

[piyushsingh]

oh common , cz runs on nearly all pcs , requirements are so low. I have spend so many nights without sleeping whenever me and ma friends get on to it on multiplayer, its addictive. :-)

[lilxkid24]

add me on steam blist then rival220@collegeclub.com

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Have you guys tried counter strike i think you guys have, i think thats a great lanning game, same as the new game team fortress its great multiplayer.

Vlad

[lilxkid24]

can you not see the 2 post above arre about counter strike lol, ye its great for lan parties, and ut

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Ha ha my bad, i never knew what condition zero ha ha.

[piyushsingh]

Something for the crysis fans to cheer about - Crysis Warhead . Read the story here
I hope that would be as good as crysis and a bit better optimized as far as requirements are concerned.

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