Chris

I've actually never played either of the Sims games, but I can understand where the appeal lies. I kind of like Will Wright, so I'm not big on completely hating on his game--it's not really his fault he was hijacked by an infuriating demographic. Have you ever played Spider Solitaire though? Comes with Windows XP, is totally awesome.

Rodi: I completely agree. My point was directed at the surprising notion that Halo's controls are more awkward than Prime's (hint: they're both fine).

I can understand people saying "Halo's controls are not for me" but what I can't understand is people calling them atrocious; there are clearly innumerable people who adjusted to them almost instantly and reached a very high level of skill. Prime's controls are good too once you get past the bulk of the learning curve, but it's very difficult for me to believe that a player playing Generic FPS with Prime's controls could in any way outmaneuver someone using Halo's controls.

Any time. (What did I say wrong exactly?) If women sent us second opinions or reviews and they are worth publishing I'm sure we would publish them.

How was it on PS2? Did it look good? I've never seen shots of it since it didn't come out here.

Not to mention, it gave heterosexual Gabe an excuse to make them have sex. Plus it would have been kind of odd to consciously bring a girl into the equation just to have her be the "wrong" one.

Who are they trying to protect it from?

No, you don't. The console for which the game is made is prominently featured on the front of the box (since you seem to want to play semantics), and once you see that you know instantly whether you can play it or not. It's utterly different from checking system specs and wondering how much worse "minimum" will play than "recommended". And tell me why you'd even be in the section for a different system than the one you own? Unless you're in some kind of crazy bargain bin, games are always separated by system, and even bargain bins are too in almost all cases. And you're not in "as bad a situation as if you own an old PC" if you don't have the correct console--Xbox and PS2 both cost $150 (or a comparable amount of some other currency), which is less than you'd expect to pay for even a sub-standard graphics card alone, and GameCube costs a measly $99, which is only 2/3 the price of the other systems.

Sounds like a harrowing/hilarious/possibly wacky situation. Glad you're safe, though.

Yeah, but you need the rest of a computer for that video card to work. My problem right now is that the amount of money I can actually afford to spend on a machine is enough for a video card, but not for the other stuff that surrounds it. Not to mention, the PS2 will almost always work as advertised and certain games won't need special drivers or any silly lameness like that.

Yeah, demos are one of the very few things that consoles have over the PC in terms of accessibility. In terms of just accessibility, I'd say that and online multiplayer are the two big ones, although Xbox Live is surprisingly painless and affordable.

Done, and done!

True, but you don't need a powerful computer (that is, a gaming computer) to do all those things. My PC is perfectly capable of doing all those tasks, but it is not capable of playing current games. I'm going to have to buy a new PC if I want to play games (even most one- or two-year-old games) but that money will be spent purely for the purposes of games, not for any practical purposes.

Ok great, sorry I made any implications about you and Yufster wildly taking threads off course. That actually never happens.

I hate computers.

Yes, but it's old enough that there's no point in trying to upgrade it. I'd just have to rebuy everything except possibly the case, and knowing this industry there's probably been some new Extreme Case Technology introduced since that one was made. EDIT: I can keep the mouse and keyboard!

These days, all I can play is consoles because my computer is woefully out of date and I don't have the money right now to get a new one. Plus it's a laptop so I can't upgrade.

You're right, it's not just you, it's mainly you and Trep. I wouldn't claim otherwise. Twilo seems like a more recent helper.

It'll also teach you to try and fucking discuss games or gaming hardware on a gaming site in the GENERAL GAMING FORUM. cough.

Yeah, here we just beat in-jokes and ridiculous sexual innuendos to death.

Welcome to the AG/Thumbs community.

Do they still have that stupid laptop screen characteristic of only being properly viewable from one specific angle?

publish your review

There are many older games with which I associate certain music very strongly. They tend to be RTS games as well as stuff like Diablo 2, because genres like adventure sort of deserve to have their own soundtracks. But almost any Blizzard game has very strong musical associations for me, as do most of the pre-Half Life FPS games I played.

I was on fire! The fire of lameness!