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JoeRichmondVA
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Date Posted:
7/24/07 8:35am
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I'll probably be getting one of the systems in the near future, and definitely plan on getting TFU. I'd prefer it on PC, but what can you do. I'll most likely wait for a 360 price drop, and buy my games used.
I do have to say that I totally prefer the PS controller over the Xbox controller, but that's probably just because the other day was my first time ever playing an Xbox game. Give me a mouse and keyboard any day for a FPS.
Right now, I am totally addicted to Battlefield 2142...
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James3
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7/24/07 9:20am
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I always sucked at PC games. I was a doom freak but had to use the keyboard only and never did very well. That is why racing really worked for me, turn wheel push gas. 
I feel for y'all PC gamers though. The world has totally changed from PCs being the real gaming platform to the consoles ruling the roost. The crappiest thing about that is that now you have to set up an account with your console deal and xbox can only play xbox, PS to PS etc. That really breaks up the amount of people that you can play against, with, or whatever. And even more sting is that with xbox you have to pay for the online access. That is a whole other issue to complain about. 
So we all end up getting XBOX 360s by December, Paying the 50 bucks or whatever to be online, and all buy this Force Unleashed game thinking that we can all do a big Commonwealth Cantina Deathmatch deal and with our luck it won't support that.
Halo 3 anyone? 
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shabad
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Controllers have kept me out of the console loop. I've been PC gaming since 1884 and even though I have a Wii now it's more for the wife and kid, I almost never play it. I'd like to get an Xbox but I think I wouldn't play it either and I doubt I would get the value out of it. Of course playing PC games and upgrading the PC every couple years is crazy expensive too...
Joe we should really try to play some PC games together online, I've never been that into online play but it's always been fun with friends. I guess I should buy 2142.
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ItsThatGuy
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7/24/07 12:19pm
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PC Gaming since 1884 - that's awesome! 
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shabad
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Yes in the late Nineteenth century PC gaming rigs were powered by steam and required entire rooms of the house to be dedicated to cooling the massive pistons that powered the machines. The display was a simple valve system like a pipe organ only mounted horizontally and in rows of 20 by 20. The valve caps were painted black on one side and red on the other. Each valve cap was activated independently with only a few minutes delay from the manual typing that transfered the inputs to hundreds of sheets of copper cards that would be punched then fed to the steam powered processor, calculated, then transferred to the valves creating the display. Each "bit" that was punched would then be sent back through the cooling room and melted into new sheets making the process extremely efficient. One game would cost only 8,000 guineas to to play. Blazing fast 1 frame per minute action too (if you could type fast enough!)
I always enjoyed the Racing the Canals of Mars Series.
Alright that required way too much thinking...
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JoeRichmondVA
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You coulda finished Paul's armor by the time you wrote that! lol
I've been PC gaming since I got my Atari 400 way back in the day, loading my games from cassette (back when people had patience and didn't require instant gratification), and playing text based games, including flight sims. My favorite was B1 Bomber I think it was called, a real time text based fly over Russia and nuke the Kremlin. By real time, I mean it took hours (at least in my failing memory) to get from your airport to Moscow, just for that one shining moment of knowing you just annihilated a million people. Ah, the memories of downloading the latest game by sticking your phone receiver into that modem thingie with the two cups.
If anyone wants to blow up the world, download DefCon off of Steam, its fun.
Luke, and anyone else, if you got the rig, get BF2142, and join Eddie and I, we play a couple nights week. If we aren't playing that, we are playing Swat 4, which has a fantastic multiplayer mode that we are quite addicted to also. We do VoIP using Teamspeak, but will probably be switching to Xfire.
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ItsThatGuy
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LMAO - Luke...wow... I don't know what to say to that! 
PC gaming steam punk style!
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TGaines1
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7/25/07 5:29pm
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Intellivision guys. Intellivision blew Atarioutta the water man. The graphics for the time were far superior. I had mine about the time Tony was born!
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JoeRichmondVA
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The Colecovision I have in the basement is older than Tony. That Smurf game one that was great. Who knew that someday Tony would come into my life and I would have my own little Smurf.
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James3
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7/26/07 5:42am
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Can we paint him blue?
Joe, the sad thing is that we all have really cool "big kid" toys that are older then Tony.
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StrangeWings
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I still have my intellivision. Also 2 Ataris and an original nes. I always wanted a Colecovision but never got one. I always hated with the intellivision those little cards that you put in the controller...I always lost mine. My favorite game was Tron.
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James3
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7/28/07 10:01am
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So I guess the big question is this:
Who all is going to get a XBOX 360 or Playstation 3 here soon when this game comes out?
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TGaines1
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TRON? Man wwaaayyy back in the early 80's I used to ride my bike with a couple of buddies and pretend we were light cycles and try not to crash into each other! duh! Also reminds me how we used to pretend our bikes were Xwings or Tie fighters. Since I had a banana set on my bike, I was always a Xwing. You know I'm cashed out for the time being but I still may ask Santa Claus to bring me one for Xmas. I could just wait into next year to be honest as TFU is going to be around a long time. 5 friends with Xbox 360 and two of them have had to send them back. 3 friends with PS3, one of them has had to send it back. Not very good odds.
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JoeRichmondVA
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James3 posted:
So I guess the big question is this:
Who all is going to get a XBOX 360 or Playstation 3 here soon when this game comes out?
As soon as all of the new 360's that are being manufactured now without the red ring of death issue are in the channel, I will probably get one. Any stock in stores now is still a candidate for RRD and hence could need to be returned to MS to be fixed.
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one of the guys i work with told me about the new psp coming out in september... it will be white with vaders helmet on the back and it also comes with battlefront. im really excited about this one...but i think there is a limited run.
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