who's to blame, a 9600 card could play any game out there maybe not at max settings, but not every 360 is running ins hd either, a 9600 card floats around 100-150 dollars us(exchange rates not withstanding), and a sli setup would beat out a 8800 gt or gtx for sure. plus the lower operating temps of the 9600 allow for very stable over clocking. every three years the pc makes a super leap in graphics and every three years people say the platform is dead, traditionally the pc is the native platform for the most broke and enthusiast gamers like all those kids that wanted to make games when they grew up they played pc games, and moded them and what not. i guess you could say that the simples stayed with the consoles. i don't think i ever owned a pc for over 800(counting monitor and periferals, that's less than your average HD TV) dollars till i got into college and school demanded it this last year, i've been playing on budget pc's my whole life and they really get it done, problem is now that most computer assembly jockies like dell and sony don't like to put gpu's in there system even though a simple 60-150 card is good for two years. oh and every pc is backwards compatible, I'm looking at you sony, and microsoft, and nintendo. i laugh everyone says hey get a ps3 it's 500 dollars about the price of a budget pc, and plays games with great high fidelity graphics, well that is if you have a 1200 dollar 1920X1080 tv, oh wait i can get 1080 i and 720p graphics on a 400 dollar computer with a 100 dollar monitor. or wait you could also downgrade to stardard definition with a sd cable and use a real tv tube style and not get any jaggies, pc games of four years ago look like halo 3 in standard definition, i tried it. people say alot of games don't run well on pc's cause they by 300 dollar pc's and try to pump 1080p graphics out of them, well they just can't like a 360 just can't don't hold it agianst the 360 do ya. wait you can also upgrade a system for far less money than a whole new console. new cpu here, mother board there, gpu. people then tell me that it isn't that easy, well i tell them it's easier than managing all the friends codes for freaking wii online games.

i guess that my whole problem is that everyone thinks that the consoles are perfect, but how many console games have launched in a mared state in the last year, well let me think, assisins creed, mass effect, halo 3(and halo2 previously) smash brother brawl, gears of war bioshock ghost recon advanced war fighter. want to know what was wrong with almost all of them(except bioshock it was missing proper wide screen suport for the first four months it was out), Three things, LAG, Popins, Framerate drops dips and dives. sounds like previous pc problems, but you want to know the irony, you can't lower the AA to stabalize you are subjected to every developer short fall. there are a number of other glitches and what not withstanding are not as relevant as the point that pc gaming is no more dead than the ps 3 is supposed to be. games like world in conflict look so fantastic and it played at a perfectly exceptable clip of 30 fps at mostly high settings on my 4 year old game rig from my freshmen year of college(the one i built for less than 800 dollars).

actually world in conflict is a perfect example of what i'm trying to get at. it is a game that has one outstanding feature the streamlined interface that doesn't clutter, the fact that it is so intuitive, and yet the game offers tons of features not often found in such idiot proof games, you can click on the icon and the game will load up the go to quick launch into a server and be playin in under 60 seconds, or you can go to the server browser, or make a clan in game or adjust a friends list, text or vioce chat are both supported and wonderfully so. its a game that offers everything for the veteran and doesn't over whelm for the new player, it's the one rts i had no problem getting my anti rts friends to play cause they figured out how to play so quickly. the didn't feel overwhelmed the structure of the game allowed them to grow into it perfectly. that is the perfect gamers platform, it may not be pc, it may not even exist yet, but i do believe the pc is closer to ataining something like that with the advent of steam and it's universal functionality, if it takes over where games for window live was supposed to then we may have a chance. if the feature set of xbox live and user friendly ness of the ipod are combined with the possibility of the pc what will happen steam is growing faster than xbox live currently has the largest install base of any such software and keeps going. i don't worry about valve as much as i do about a hopefull eventual conformity among pc manufacturers dell gateway and sony etc... but one thing that we can't bet on is consumer competence. lets hope.

i laugh at the pc gaming is dead, i don't know about the rest of you but did you see the games that hit our system last year, orange box on pc sold more than the 360 and ps3 combined at retail not counting steam sales. crysis, world in conflict standalone expansions(known as sequels to console tards) for supreme commander and company of heroes. every title worth owning last fall came to pc, and 9 times out of 10 was better on pc, the gears of war pc release was much better than console sure it didn't sell as well but maybe that was cause epic waited over a year to re release it, epic is just being sour faced cause ut3 tanked last fall and that is including the ps3 release that did worse than the pc release so they need to realized that it isn't any industry it's just them. ut 2004 was a commercial blockbuster on pc and yet uc 2 tanked why is pc gaming dieing, how about they don't program as well as they did 3 years ago. after last fall i as a gamer who plays all systems, felt that pc had the best, it had every major ap for 360 aside from mass effect, halo, assasins creed, and only mass effect was good enough to miss but don't worry a patched and more finished version will hit pc in a month and witcher is the same game in a fantasy world. so wait why is pc gaming dead, oh wait i forgot world of warcraft makes more money than all three halo game combined, and you can tee bag corpses too. think subscritpions are for chumps play guild wars, each expansion is 30 dollars right now. wait you thought BFME 2 on 360 and C&C3 were good strategy games how about you play the same game on pc, it is remarcably better, at that neither compares to company of heroes, or world in conflict, how about sup com. like racing, sim bin has put out one must play game after another, and the debut for 20 dollars at retail. why is pc gaming dead, it isn't. all we need is for dell and gateway to stop selling crap pc's that's what we need. or for mother boards to start being bundeled with GPU's instead of that intigrated crap.

i'm a pc gamer, i've owned consoles from every generation but i call my self a pc gamer, why? well pc gaming offers the most comprehensive gaming experience, i'm not just talking the high end crysis experience, but you got tons of independent games and modding projects for the poor gamer some titles like ut2004 offers as much playability as 20 console games, thanks to not only a great variety of included content but tons of free professional caliber mods and addons. titles like the simbin hits GTR, GT legends, GTR2, and Race 07, may not beat out project gotham for sexiest racer, but they make forza wish it could be that authentic, and each simbin title launches for 20 dollars and doesn't look ugly by any stretch of the imagination. another facinating fact is that the sim bin games are releasing anually, wow, and each anual release is so different from the previous that you ask your self, what is tony hauwk doing wrong? even measly EA games like the Battle field franchise have taken on lives of there own on the pc thanks to a huge community. epic might be angry with the pc as a platform(check on IGN) but they never challenge the fantastic nature of the community that is the pc gaming. the only problem with pc gaming, and there is one, is the lack of party games, split screen doesn't exist(it should) fighting games don't walk here, and platformers are a little scarse. now titles like the prince of persia games may play better with a gamepad(and there is game pads for pc) but the prince of persia games look worlds better on the pc than on the consoles. i bought the prince of persia games for my game cube after playing it on the pc, wow, then i saw the ps2 version i think i had a siesure. the visuals for the pc looked a good three years ahead of the console, textures were almost non existant, polly counts and resolutions in general made the beautiful art design of the game fade into nastiness, or should i say pixilate. i love my consoles, but my pc beast is my baby, and my pet, even if i swear at it and hit it from occasion to occasion for getting a virus or crashing after filling up the OS hard drive. currently the pc is the strongest experience, the only problem with the pc is that the hard ware manufacturers and retailers(dell, gateway, hp) don't make sure that every pc is game capable, and honestly any game capable machine is a better computer for media, music, video. about the only thing integrated graphics can do i email on a xp OS. even with everything that is wrong with a pc as a platform i won't forsake it, why, cause on the pc i don't pay for stupid as crap stuff like Downloadable content. it's all free and it comes regularly. i just downloaded two new maps for world in conflict, without paying for a thing. honestly no matter what you tell yourself a pc is a better deal than a ps3(even if i do want one). for 600 dollars you can build a gaming rig that will play most of todays games at 720p resolutions, and a few at 1080p, it will be near 100 percent backwards compatable with a little guidence, games for the system cost 50 dollars max, drop in price three times as fast, and have ten times the support of a console game, to patch a pc game costs a developer far less the process and cost for 360 and ps3 patches and updates takes longer and microsoft hates free content, they say it's bad for buisness(basically they don't want EA to have to compete with epic or valve for generosity) you can play online, "arcade" games for ten times cheaper, or just for free. you have access to the largest aspiring gamer pool, mods exist as do community content, like AI boots, AI tweaks, community patches, community map packs, try building a gaming rig pc and buying a game like orange box, and ut 2004 and then survive on that for a year, heck for three years the only thing i played was half life and half life mods, counter strike, day of defeat, fire arms, team fortress classic, natural selection, some zombie mods that made the original resident evil games look cudly. then i went to battle field 1942, played forgotten hope desert combat, the battle field vietnam for piont of existense. then ut 2004 for the dozens of mods i won't bother listing. you see what happens, i buy one game and literally play it for more than a year. i don't play the same level with shotty and snipers(halo). nope i get a ever changing experience. currently i've gotten to buissy to dip in the mod pool but this summer i'll be back at it. you probably think, gosh i need to have my xbox esk community, well we call that steam. sorry for seeming like i'm ranting i just was playing some pc games and reading some stuff online and wanted to put my thoughts into writing.

i'm 25 percent irish and 25 percent polish, that would indicate that i should have alot of dumb luck ironically i currently feel like the polish side of me just inverts my natural leprecon based bleasing because my wii is an hour away at a cabin were no one can will be for atleast a week so no one can mail it to me to play brawl. aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that being siad i'm kinda pumped i just found out about a game design class i can take for art credit to add to my art minor requirements. so i'm gonna take a game design class i'll learn how to make a game and make one in under a semester, i'm so pumped.

i'm still mad about forged alliance but i'm gonna try and mess around in the resource modifier and the blitz stalling, no attack for 10 minutes mod to see if i can find a good middle ground so i can play the game with all the awesome new units. i'm actually patching world in conflict as i type this so i want to get some of that in but i also have alot of homework for the next couple of days. oh and the company of heroes expansion opposing fronts is freaking awesome they didn't nerf the game into oblivion they instead made it more sweat with two new awesome playable factions, and i gotta tell you the brits are my kinda fellas, weak cheap armor, divers infantry and the best deffensive emplacements and artillery in the game. so freakin awesome, i can play the brits like i play in supreme commander turtle time baby.

games i love but never got into.

i love guild wars, it's beautiful original and just fun, but i never got into because i was scared that i'd be addicted to it. rpg's are the most addicting game type for me, sure my favorite is fps but i can't pull my self away from a good rpg. guild wars has the most fantastically original art design and i'm a real sucker for great art design, they have a original and fresh fantasy concept it isn't a tolking clone. they have a awesome skill system and pvp.

so i did buy and have been playin supreme commander forged alliance and i have to say they, in my opinion made some down right horrible decisions in regards to how they designed the game. the AI is significantly better, that being siad i can't even manage to beat the easy AI, wtf. i'm beyond pissed, the game has rebalanced everything it's as if i'm playing a totally different game the problem is that the tutorial sucks, for all i care it doesn't exist and i can't manage to learn how to play this F***ing game. i've lost over seven consecutive battles agianst the easy AI, i don't know what i'm doing wrong even when i'm beating the living crap out of them resource wise i still can't pump out units like it can. it won't have a single working mass extractor and can make a tech three naval unit to destroy my home base, i mean i will bomb the heck out of its base and blow up everything or kill the sup com and nuke the basse and still they make units i can't counter. this leads me to believe that the AI is beyond anything i've ever seen or that it cheats like no other. they changed to model so that you must control atleast half of the mass extractors on the map to manage to make basic units, that sucks, i can't ever get out of tech two cause the resources are so slow in comming, mass fabricators are now tech two, every single unit has been rebalanced, so that the game sucks. this unit has less range, costs less takes longer to build and has less hitpoints. staples like nukes and subs are impractical the cost to much and do to little. though i love every unit they added the messedup so many good things in the act of balancing that i don't know if i can tolerate the game long enough to learn it. not to mention i can't even beat teh F'ing Easy Ai. this is a hate blog since this game has been getting my goat for over two days now. i want to slap chris taylor across the face, two things Easy AI should be easy, and the new economy sucks, turtling isn't possible any more and i'm rather pissed the game plays more like star craft or warcraft or age of empires three, the stupid resource blitz in the begining determines the end of the game.

my reviews might soon be posted here

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i know this breaks protocal but i'm from york high school in chicago and it feels like everyone i know went to one of three colleges, College of Dupage, University of Illinios, or Northern Illinios. the shootings at northern feel so close to home, to where i grew up it's as if it happened at my highschool, i have so many good friends at northern and other schools that new Dan Parmenter, i personally didn't know him but i can tell you he is missed, by friends. what is happening?

well i played brawl this weekend and i gotta be honest it isn't the leap that melee was, it feels rather like a expansion pack, slightly better graphics some better balancing some better(and still occasionally bad) level design. everything that is added is great but it still feels like the game was built over melee. so if you didn't like melee you won't like brawl if you could manage even a minor tolerance for melee you should definately give this one a try. only melee glitche i couldn't see removed because i didn't play on a level that let me test it was combat on inclined surfaces.

well i've been considering alot of things and i started thinking i shoud outright blog about things aside from gaming on this website i'll start scanning in some of my photography and industrial design projects, and cover everything from polotics to ds titles on this website unless that is agianst the rules, anyone know what the rules for blogging are?