Video Game Console Poll

[cyronman]

I have an Atari 800 with plotter, disk drive (5 1/4) and some of the games. I also have a 2600 (I think that is the gaming console), and an old Com 64 I picked up off some friends that were going to trash it. Anyone want 'em, I need to gewt rid of them and thinking about ebay later.

DarkWing

Darkwing,

If I'm the first to reply, let me know about that 2600!

[kodiak]

I know this is a really old thread but I just had to post this YouTube vid.

I didn’t realize that putting a mouse and keyboard on a PS3 would be so controversial.

Watch and then read the commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjCxwMsE7I

[nfpgasmask]

Oh, I will have to watch this when I get home. I don't get it either. There are all these people who think that the ability to use a mouse and keyboard on a console would give other people some sort of "disadvantage" and that it would take away the "console" in console gaming. Too me, its just stupid that I can't use a mouse and keyboard with the PS3. I would actually play A TON more games if I could. FPS and joysticks DO NOT MIX. I would love to play COD4 but not with a joystick. No thanks.

Bart

[kodiak]

It gets pretty heated there’s comments like “Halo is for fat stupid Americans.” And “ Mouse and keyboard users should be band” it’s pretty bad.

Oh, I will have to watch this when I get home. I don't get it either. There are all these people who think that the ability to use a mouse and keyboard on a console would give other people some sort of "disadvantage" and that it would take away the "console" in console gaming. Too me, its just stupid that I can't use a mouse and keyboard with the PS3. I would actually play A TON more games if I could. FPS and joysticks DO NOT MIX. I would love to play COD4 but not with a joystick. No thanks.

Bart

[nocturnalVX]

I could not care less about which is "better"... I have always been a console gamer. The few PC games I have played were Diablo, and old games like Space Quest. I hate keyboards, and have never been able to use a mouse and keyboard at the same time very well.
My favorite thing about the argument is when they spell "own" like "pwn". I wonder if they know how stupid they look misspelling it like that (they are not even saving letters or anything). It is like the nutjob people wearing the blinking headsets and talking to themselves like homeless escapees from the psyche ward.
You might think you are cool... but, if you had any friends, they would tell you how stupid it looks.

[kodiak]

I use an Xbox 360 controller on my computer for Flight sims like X-Plane and racing games like GRID. No one freaks out about that, but when you put a keyboard and mouse on a console people start losing there minds.

[nfpgasmask]

My favorite thing about the argument is when they spell "own" like "pwn". I wonder if they know how stupid they look misspelling it like that (they are not even saving letters or anything).

Come on Gill, don't you know that "pwn" is "733tsp34k"? It's how true PC gamer nerds define their coolness, man!

"That was such über pwnage" - Eric Cartman in the "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode.

Its soo funny and sooo true...except for the fact that I often times feel like this guy:


Bart

[kodiak]

Maa, more hot pockets!

[Ldub]

Saw a lurker on this thread & thought I'd ask...has anyone in the PS3 circle upgraded their memory with a hard drive from a laptop?
I'm about to click on "add to cart" on a 500GB HD from newegg..http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136314

Any thoughts?...

[don moore]

this makes me want a ps3 now ..hmm..

[Ldub]

this makes me want a ps3 now ..hmm..

If you have any PS1 or PS2 games that you still wanna play, look for a used first gen 60GB PS3, the newer ones aren't backward compatible, & won't play the older games...

[don moore]

im a big pc person...... but i want would look for a ps3 if it will use a keyboard and mouse.. hmm some thing to get myself for christmas ..now to get the money together.

[JHarris1385]

Wow I did not know the new ones are not backwards compat.....I almost bought one last week. Do you know if they are an upconverting dvd player?

[Ldub]

Wow I did not know the new ones are not backwards compat.....I almost bought one last week. Do you know if they are an upconverting dvd player?

Not sure, but here's the scoop on the backward compatibility...

http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-...hp?p_faqid=232

Google "ps3 video upscaling"...you'll find your answer.

[spaceCADETzoom]

Don't have time to read through...I gotta get to work. But I'll chime in...I own both a PS3, XBOX360. I'm also a crazy PC gamer. I think, objectively, most will understand the 360 is a better gaming console, and most multplatform games the 360 outsells because of, among other things, the multiplayer support is better. Way back when Idisliked the "for pay" online model. But comparing it to PSN, it's really no contest. XBox live >>>> PSN. Games plaing right now include the immeasurably awesome Uncharted3 (PS3), Brutal Legend (multiplatform--but bought for 360), and I picked up Red Faction Guerilla for the PC for cheap (and it connects and gives me XBox Live achievement points!).

But this entire argument as of right now ends with one title:

FORZA3

I have played it more than slept in the last two days. If you even have an inkling of like for cars at all...it's gaming nirvana. It'll accomodate sim racers (yes, I have a cockpit and working clutch pedal at home) all the way to arcade racers and twitch gamers. It scales.