Maybe you did not notice that there are lots of games out there that work only on consoles. PC gaming is already a smaller part of the gaming scene. Sure you can use high power gfx cards but most games beside a few special ones which use all effects possible are console conversations which run with 3-5y old hardware (geforce 8 series is enough and was introduced 2006/7) as well - even the latest ones like Rage - so do the steam engine games. So best choice: get a console, some games types like beat em ups are very rare on pcs.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostAn avid gamer walks up to you and asks " I really want to play a lot of kick ass games on the PC. What OS do I get to do so?" what would your reply be?
Originally posted by deanjo View PostMy old nokia feature phone has a couple games on it but that does not really make it a gaming console.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostMaybe you did not notice that there are lots of games out there that work only on consoles. PC gaming is already a smaller part of the gaming scene. Sure you can use high power gfx cards but most games beside a few special ones which use all effects possible are console conversations which run with 3-5y old hardware (geforce 8 series is enough and was introduced 2006/7) as well - even the latest ones like Rage - so do the steam engine games. So best choice: get a console, some games types like beat em ups are very rare on pcs.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostSo best choice: get a console, some games types like beat em ups are very rare on pcs.
That is why Lugaru/Overgrowth are so interesting, as those titles are one of the few fighting games optimized for PC controls.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostThat all is dependent on the game genre Kano. FPS's suck on a console when compared to a PC, RPG's are joke as a general rule on consoles and consoles can't do any type of simulation other then driving games worthwhile either.
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostDoes not really matter - my point is not that Linux is the best gaming platform, but whether or not games are available for it. Again, stop changing the focus of the original statement.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostI'm not changing the original statement. You are just reading more into it then how it was intended. It was meant more as a comment like "Those Maple Leafs don't know how to play hockey".Last edited by Hamish Wilson; 29 October 2012, 06:57 PM.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostYea, that. It gets even rather ludicrous: if you are trying to use the MS Office 2010 To Go feature, you must be logged in as an administrator. It never asks you to enter Administrator credentials, either, just fails with a completely unrelated "the server return an unknown response" error. Makes you wonder how many MS devs themselves use their own security features...
And yes, redirection of files and directories. Their "Virtualisation" of the Program Files folder is one of the worst things possible, as it simply eats files. The files programs put there are moved to another folder and made invisible to the user. In what way that helps security I have no clue. It's pretty much worse than silent IO failure. Thankfully, with a bit of fiddling around in the registry or the Management Console, that can be disabled.
That's on Windows 7, though. Not sure how they changed it in Win8, but I'm definitely not going to find out any time soon.
At least they now have ReFS... ...except it's only on servers. What else is on servers? Metro UI. Yeah...
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@deanjo
Not fully correct. I even played Rage with my Xbox 360 pad (even on Linux possible) as that game is a mixture of racing and fps. Usually you can enable assisted aiming on consoles if not default already, so maybe not for hardcore fps fans (you could add usb keyboard/mouse in theory as well, but who does that) but those who play every game using a pad those do not worry. What do you think is Halo, it was even a launch title for Xbox and came later to PC.
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Originally posted by 0xBADCODE View PostThey promised they will have it. Sometimes. Maybe. They also promised the same for WinFS. And after all they dropped this feature since it never made it in time and reasonable quality. The only problem is: 9 womans will not give you a child in one month. Same goes here. It takes years to create such filesystems designs. And it takes a bunch of highly skilled guys. MS seems to be boring and outdated corpotation. Such persons will hit administrative walls soon. Then they will leave for better places as they need to have some fun from their work and it's clearly not about MS. So I guess MS would have some troubles to actually deliver ReFS and make it anyhow competetive. They did almost nothing for ~20 years. Other developed better designs. So they want to catch up and outperform these in a instant? No way, they could only compete in marketing bullshit at the moment. After all they were greedy and IFS SDK has been always problematic to get and use since MS wanted to control everything themselves. Including which FS goes where. This haves some price: there are almost no devs familiar with IFS and creating filesystems for windows. So this part of windows now become their competetive disadvantage. That's what I call shooting own legs...
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