Another Halo, some shovelware and gimmicks. Yay E3?

[RA92]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

 

[omega_peaches]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

Eh, either way it boosts my post count (or e-peen on these forums.)

 

[Mr. Omega]

Nintendo hasn't even had their press conference yet. This thread was VERY clearly just you going "PC > EVERYTHING LOLOL PC GAMING 4 LIFE! NINTENDO R 4 FAGS!"

As for the whole PC is the only innovator 'argument', that's so fucking stupid I'm not even going to try to refute that.

I know this is a troll thread. I'm leaving my response at that.

 

[tirone231]

I am personally very excited to see the return of the Master Chief in Halo 4, after two games which expanded the Halo universe, but left much to be desired in the story department. Before the XBOX event, I heard references to there being no purple in the Halo trailer, which leads me to believe that the Covenant will have little effect on the story of Halo 4, since purple is one of their primary colors.

I was intrigued by the possibility of using voice commands during combat in Mass Effect 3, but I wonder why we have to have a Kinect for it, and not simply a headset. Ghost Recon showed an interesting integration of the Kinect technology, but it still looked like a controller would be easier to use, even in "gunsmith mode". I'll have to reserve full judgement until I see how the game works in normal gameplay.

I agree that there was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much focus on Kinect though, and seeing how the demo stage of the new Fable: The Journey was an on-rails shooter made me lose further faith that the Kinect can ever be used on its own for hardcore games. Long story short, yes, I was also annoyed that the meeting was so focused on the Kinect, but I was impressed by the games shown at the beginning, and the reveal for Halo 4.

 

[Tim_Buoy]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

 

[RA92]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

Eh, either way it boosts my post count (or e-peen on these forums.)

Oh trust me, I do my fair share of feeding trolls. It's just that, being a PC gamer myself, this kind of idiocy reflects poorly on my breed.

On topic, motion controllers aren't all bad, if games like Flower and Child of Eden have shown anything.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I see no one read my second post, go ahead, I'll wait.

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

This was more my intention. However I've now realised that people get defensive about consoles. For some reason.

 

[omega_peaches]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

Eh, either way it boosts my post count (or e-peen on these forums.)

Oh trust me, I do my fair share of feeding trolls. It's just that, being a PC gamer myself, this kind of idiocy reflects poorly on my breed.

On topic, motion controllers aren't all bad, if games like Flower and Child of Eden have shown anything.

It seems that you are the minority of PC gaming (or at least the vocal minority,) Steam is like a nightmare for us console bros, I think I have been called homosexual (or different variations of the word,) more than there is actual homosexuals (I kid, I kid.)
I agree, if anything, I think that motion controls make some games better, like you said, Flower, I haven't played Child of Eden, but I think that games like Epic Mickey, and Zelda benefit from it.

 

[RA92]

People fall for troll threads way too easily...

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

Trust me, when someone starts a topic with such broad generalizations, they're not looking for discussion. OP's post was simply an inflammatory statement with no discussion value.

 

[Mr. Omega]

people get defensive about consoles. For some reason.

I know I said I wouldn't respond or anything like that but the irony here is just to fucking funny. A PC gamer saying another group is overly defensive. Wow.... just wow...

 

[omega_peaches]

I see no one read my second post, go ahead, I'll wait.

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

This was more my intention. However I've now realised that people get defensive about consoles. For some reason.

The same reason that you defend your PC, I prefer my console, and I like defending my purchase, do you think that consoles shouldn't be defended?
And yes, I did read your second post, but that seems irrelevant when you are blindly saying that PC>Consoles because of Portal and Minecraft.
(Portal wasn't Valve's Idea, and Minecraft is a lot like Infiniminer)

 

[cookyy2k]

Seriously, what's happened to innovation in the gaming market?

Oh wait, it's on PC.

Come on consoles, step it up. No more endless Mario/Zelda titles please Nintendo.

i'd like to know what PC gaming is innovating that consoles aren't. seriously, make me a list.

if you mean graphically, with hardware melting games like crysis (which was universally panned as poor gameplay in pretty makeup) then you're in gaming for the wrong reasons. while i enjoy the graphics of our current generation, they are in no way needed for a good game, or should be considered "innovation"

in fact, as much as i hate it, the 3D and motion sensing gaming is as close to innovation in todays game market as we are seeing. and these things are almost exclusively console features. what other examples do you have? the only real gaming innovation that still mostly belongs to the PC crowd is MMO gaming. and that's on the way to the console market too. and not ff11, but i mean things like Class4 (the persistant online world zombie game coming to xbox, and the follow up to the smaller Class3, which if you read up on, is AGAIN a console exclusive gameplay innovation.)

and how about the xbox indie games? while a lot of the time,these games are crap, just the fact that we've been given the tools to create actual games, and not just half life mods.

i, in no way hate pc gamers or pc gaming. but to say it's more innovative than console gaming is just blind, blatent elitism.




and at least my performance in online shooters on consoles isn't effected by how good my hardware is. with consoles we know that everyone is playing on the same piece of hardware, and therefor are judged purely by their skills. or their ability to crabwalk.

In a word, Minecraft.


In some more words, the original Portal.

okay, so minecraft is a good call, but it should be pointed out that the fact that it's coming to console makes it entirely possible that the game couldve been made on a console, the fact that it's pc is incidental.

and, correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't portal hit all markets at the same time on the orange box? again, not a pc thing. in fact, the portal idea was done (on a much simpler scale) on the 360 launch title prey. there was a blue entrance and an orange one, that looking into it shows the other side, and takes you there as well. in fact, playing portal, prey was the first thing that came to mind.

(EDIT: to stop the innevitable "porting a game is not the same as actually making it on the hardware, an xbox indie game created a minecraft ripoff from the ground up thats almost identical to minecraft. the fact that mojang chose pc to make it on doesn't make the innovation a pc specific one)

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't minecraft heavily based on Infiniminer, i.e to the point it is cited on the website as a major influence. So again innovation isn't layered that thickly here.

 

[Tim_Buoy]

I see no one read my second post, go ahead, I'll wait.

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

This was more my intention. However I've now realised that people get defensive about consoles. For some reason.

The same reason that you defend your PC, I prefer my console, and I like defending my purchase, do you think that consoles shouldn't be defended?
And yes, I did read your second post, but that seems irrelevant when you are blindly saying that PC>Consoles because of Portal and Minecraft.
(Portal wasn't Valve's Idea, and Minecraft is a lot like Infiniminer)

i actually game across all platforms some i bought with my own money others through random luck i recieved my ps3 when one of my family members who already had one won a second one in a subway contest

 

[Space Spoons]

Innovation is overrated. Judge games based on how fun they are and you'll be much happier.

 

[Kevon Huggins]

Innovation is overrated. Judge games based on how fun they are and you'll be much happier.

A freakin men

 

[omega_peaches]

I see no one read my second post, go ahead, I'll wait.

i wouldnt exactly call it a troll thread but i do like me a good discussion / argument

This was more my intention. However I've now realised that people get defensive about consoles. For some reason.

The same reason that you defend your PC, I prefer my console, and I like defending my purchase, do you think that consoles shouldn't be defended?
And yes, I did read your second post, but that seems irrelevant when you are blindly saying that PC>Consoles because of Portal and Minecraft.
(Portal wasn't Valve's Idea, and Minecraft is a lot like Infiniminer)

i actually game across all platforms some i bought with my own money others through random luck i recieved my ps3 when one of my family members who already had one won a second one in a subway contest

Talk about lucky, I saved up for a year for my PS3 (Being a 14 year old male in a predominately rich neighborhood doesn't help.
And if you game across all platforms, more power to you.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

My /v/ senses are tingling....

I would be mad at E3 but Minecraft on Xbox and fucking Skyrim.

 

[jprf]

Okami (PS2), Littlebigplanet (PS3), Braid (originally XBLA), Bioshock (X360)?

Console gaming innovates as well.

 

[RA92]

It seems that you are the minority of PC gaming (or at least the vocal minority,) Steam is like a nightmare for us console bros, I think I have been called homosexual (or different variations of the word,) more than there is actual homosexuals (I kid, I kid.)

It's an online community - of course they're going to call you a homosexual! Doesn't matter whether it's Steam (especially 14-year-old foul-mouthed CS players), XBL, or <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.284376-PSN-vs-XBOX-fanboy-Facebook-war-so-so-funny#11197442>console wars being waged on FB.

Which is why it's a good idea to find a decent server and stick with it.

 

[omega_peaches]

It seems that you are the minority of PC gaming (or at least the vocal minority,) Steam is like a nightmare for us console bros, I think I have been called homosexual (or different variations of the word,) more than there is actual homosexuals (I kid, I kid.)

It's an online community - of course they're going to call you a homosexual! Doesn't matter whether it's Steam (especially 14-year-old foul-mouthed CS players), XBL, or <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.284376-PSN-vs-XBOX-fanboy-Facebook-war-so-so-funny#11197442>console wars being waged on FB.

Which is why it's a good idea to find a decent server and stick with it.

In the one PC game I do play (Insurgency,) I've found a good server, but now I'm more of an old-er PC games guy, as my computer is kinda meh.
Also, lol at the facebook link.