Who's fed up with it?

Competitive FPS don't work, end of story. Sports games like racing or football I don't see why its not been done already.

The vid really highlights everything that is **** about CoD. The guy practically had prone bound to fire and jumped everywhere.
 
Moothead2 said:
Except it's a lot more fun to annoy little kiddies on console than it is to ride a motorbike in a marathon :D.
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Well... if it makes you feel big and clever... O_o

Evilsod said:
Competitive FPS don't work, end of story. Sports games like racing or football I don't see why its not been done already.

The vid really highlights everything that is **** about CoD. The guy practically had prone bound to fire and jumped everywhere.
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Pretty much my mirrors my thoughts on it.
 
I have one game thats cross platform - Shadowrun.

TBH the game is pretty pants and being cross platform doesnt improve how I feel about it.
 
orderoftheflame said:
Well... if it makes you feel big and clever... O_o
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Well I just accidentally deleted a whole paragraph but this is the short and skinny of it.

- Not big and clever. Just fun pwning people who call hax0rz like in the video.
- Allows me to play with friends - none play on PC.
- I play most fps on PC other than console exclusives and most likely MW3.
- I'm crippled by gamepad, can't get used to it.
 
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I've seen videos of console gamers playing FPS games, some of them are amazing with a controller, i bet they could give you a good game.
 
'Wes said:
I've seen videos of console gamers playing FPS games, some of them are amazing with a controller, i bet they could give you a good game.
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Are they playing with other console players?

Also yeah maybe the best could give you a game but thats like 1/10 of people.
 
I'm fed up with IT, but tbh I'm too lazy to train for anything else.

+1 for the CoD crossover, would be good to play with some console friends

:)
 
I think a large part of the problem is a technical and resourcing one, developing a cross-platform game means a lot more work has to go into getting it working, plus QA etc. Then when the game gets patched you have to make sure all platforms get patched the same, and test everything again. It's a bit of a minefield.

Take Quake 3 Arena for example, that's a crossplatform game (PC and Dreamcast), but the PC version kinda left the DC version behind when it came to patches, so you'd have to be running a really old version to be able to play on cross-platform servers.

FPS games don't really seem like a good genre anyway, I'd say driving, beat'em up or sports games could work but maintaining synchronisation could be tricky, probably end up with a situation where you had to really cripple the PC version and make it run at 30fps or some nonsense.

As nice as the idea is my gut feeling is that I'd rather developers focussing on making good PC games than crossplatform ones, the extra effort would be largely wasted.

In terms of console gamers being amazing with a controller, I'm sure some are extremely good with a controller but I still reckon they'd get annihilated by top PC players, they could no doubt beat your average PC player who isn't playing optimal strategies, making dumb moves etc, but ultimately against a player of equal 'nous' they won't be able to compete with the quicker aim from a mouse.
 
Moothead2 said:
Well I just accidentally deleted a whole paragraph but this is the short and skinny of it.

- Not big and clever. Just fun pwning people who call hax0rz like in the video.
- Allows me to play with friends - none play on PC.
- I play most fps on PC other than console exclusives and most likely MW3.
- I'm crippled by gamepad, can't get used to it.
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You just don't get it do you.

If anything that video highlights exactly why it shouldn't be possible. Having to hack the mouse into the console is no different from cheating. Its giving you an unfair advantage. So either you'll be going back to your paid-up multi-hack or you are one hell of a hypocrite.
 
Evilsod said:
You just don't get it do you.

If anything that video highlights exactly why it shouldn't be possible. Having to hack the mouse into the console is no different from cheating. Its giving you an unfair advantage. So either you'll be going back to your paid-up multi-hack or you are one hell of a hypocrite.
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Guess I'm a cheat then :D.
 
Moothead2 said:
Guess I'm a cheat then :D.
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You probably are. I only hope you've added your name to the steam names list so we know who to avoid.

There was a thread on this before. It was generally agreed that its practically cheating and should be bannable, except of course by those prepared to use it who treated it as a 'feature' :rolleyes:
 
Evilsod said:
You probably are. I only hope you've added your name to the steam names list so we know who to avoid.

There was a thread on this before. It was generally agreed that its practically cheating and should be bannable, except of course by those prepared to use it who treated it as a 'feature' :rolleyes:
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Why would avoid me on PC? Makes no sense since I won't be "Cheating" on PC. I'll be able to sleep at night anyway.
 
HangTime said:
maintaining synchronisation could be tricky, probably end up with a situation where you had to really cripple the PC version and make it run at 30fps or some nonsense.
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I don't see how fps would make any difference, FPS is just the amount of frames, you can run the same thing at 30fps and 300fps and they would still be sinced. Lag would play a part in it yes but that is already true for all online games on console and PC.
 
I owned Shadowrun on both PC and Xbox 360 and it's true, The game was easier on the PC but not a lot as Shadowrun contained lots of other elements like magic, which was actually faster to use with a controller, but ultimately, shooting was a ton easier on the PC.

Another cross platform game was FFXI (MMORPG) also played this on the Pc and 360 but not the PS2. I played the PC version if ever i was going to play a white mage (healer) as it was so much faster to click spells.

I wish there were more cross platform games but in some games the advantages would be too steep.
 
The nice thing about games not being cross platform is you don't have to integrate with a community of whining teens and pre-teens. Then again, it would be nice to occasionally pummel them and laugh as they do whine - but only occasionally :p
 
Moothead2 said:
Why would avoid me on PC? Makes no sense since I won't be "Cheating" on PC. I'll be able to sleep at night anyway.
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Well you don't seem too bothered about cheating on the console so why would you be all that bothered about cheating on the pc too? Hell you've given 1 of the prime reasons for it, you want to **** people off.
 
Evilsod said:
Well you don't seem too bothered about cheating on the console so why would you be all that bothered about cheating on the pc too? Hell you've given 1 of the prime reasons for it, you want to **** people off.
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Actually the main reason is so I can play with my friends but ****ing people off is fun too if they're annoying :p
 
Deific said:
The nice thing about games not being cross platform is you don't have to integrate with a community of whining teens and pre-teens. Then again, it would be nice to occasionally pummel them and laugh as they do whine - but only occasionally :p
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Spot on.
 
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