May be there is a link with modern day kids and teenagers and schooling.

Its become an age of just goggle it.

when i was younger and had to find things out for school work ect, there was no Internet as such,

We had to actually get of out back sides and go looking for answers and research things, which in turn meant figuring things out.

now days you just switch on a pc and every thing is given to you much like modern games.

When you start to care what other gamers think about you,

Its time to put the controller down step away from the TV and take a long hard look at your life ;)

Reading a few of the above posts makes me reaslise some people dont like the thought of actualy using there brains for a while.

Many old school games were taxing and they made you actualy think about what you were doing.

May be the next generation should just be like a film where you dont even have to pick up a controller :roll:

Who knew back then in 2001 that Halo's gameplay elements would become de-facto standards for other First person shooters trying to compete.

Half Life 2 came out in 2004, and it had the same outdated gameplay of the first where you can carry 12 weapons, cannot melee with any of them, being forced to switch to grenade mode, no rechargable shields, and lots of exploding barrels to spice up the gameplay.

No first person shooter trying copying Half Life 2. Oh wow, gravity gun. That thing gets old fast!

Fast forward to 2008 when the next big FPS took over from Halo as the prime FPS. COD4 got with the times, and added rechargeable health. In fact, it was COD2's transition to consoles that first implemented this concept and the developers never looked back since. There's the fast grenade option as well as the quick melee move. Not only that, there's also the ranking system that Halo invented.

I'm not necessarily saying Halo started everything, but what I'm essentially saying is Halo was the first shooter to do all of the above PERFECTLY. Some say vehicles were a good experiment but I see Battlefield as the game that will take it to the next level. Even they stole the rechargeable health concept lol...

MaxPower15

I take it you never played " Starsiege: Tribes " in 1998

Sierra Online used to be the biggest thing going for online action games.

Players flew around in jetpacks, launching energy discs at each other in intense online matches. Long before Counter-Strike, Battlefield, and a host of other imitators, Tribes offered up more than 32 player support, a variety of weapon kits and a handful of multi-passenger vehicles. Loads of gameplay types, a wide variety of maps, and plenty of team-oriented features (and a lack of copy protection) made Tribes one of the most popular online shooters around.

The battles take place on one of 40 maps. Most of the standard maps are outdoors environments in a variety of climates, from sunshine to snow and hail. In general, bases are scattered throughout the map depending on the gametype. The outdoor environments can extend for several kilometers.

There are various items of equipment usable by the players, including vehicles, eight weapons, and "Packs" which alter the abilities of the player. On some maps, bases include various defense mechanisms and other tools to assist the team: Generators, turrets, stations and sensors. Players also have a rechargable energy cell which is drawn on for jetting, firing some kinds of weapons, healing and activating packs.

Weapons include the heavy mortar, sniper rifle, explosive disc launcher, short-range gatling gun, grenade launcher, blaster, plasma rifle and laser rifle.

mmm...

Introducing theCrapple Box.

It costs 1 million dollars.... will not accept blue ray as stevo says its a waste of time,

You can only add the games and APPS!!!! apple (jobs) deem appropriate.

You touch the game controllers at the side's and you loose wireless connection.

Then best of all Steve jobs will try patent the words "BOX" and "Steam".

What game's name would express that my sex life is really really good? I can't think of one.JuggaloRandall

How about

Lord of the rings

Backyard basketball

:shock:

One of the main reasons i suspect a stress test on a console is that they dont want to be dealing with hundreds of users complaining about compatability issues.

As long as they can get it stable on a unified system (xbox 360) it will be a straightforward stress test.

with out the need to try to explain to users with problems how to get it running.

Is that true about it being weaker because its a laptop? I mean this isn't what I bought for gaming its just all I have at the moment but I didn't know their would be a difference in performance just because it is a laptop.

wigan_gamer

Yes think of it like this many components in your laptop are smaller and confined so heat is an issue as well as component size,

with a laptop your scarificing a degree of performance, look at the HDD for intance , due to their smaller platter diameter,a 2.5" drive will not reach the same absolute media velocity as 3.5" hard drive , although the relative rotation speed may be the same (5,400 or 7,200 RPM). i have yet to see many laptop drives at (7,200 at RPM)

This is the main reason why laptop drive`a usual max out at less than 60mb/s. Compare to a 3.5" drive's 115 MB/s maximum faster if you have a raptor drive. The better the transfer rates, the faster you'll be able to start Windows / applications and play games, or copy files from/to the drive.

Theif 1, Theif 2 , Theif 3.

oh and i have picked one for each personality as i haveselective (DID) dissociative Identity Disorder, 3 personalities.

M$ in past ripped off IBM and Apple OS, Sun's Java as .Net and Adobe Flash as Silverlight. They are not bad company but they sure know how to screw others behind their back. fun-da-mental

Oh and apple are saints too!! :roll:

Apple "stole" the GUI from Xerox PARC (they actually licensed it) and then Microsoft "stole" it from Apple (though Microsoft licensed GUI tech from both Xerox and Apple). After the release of Windows 2.0, Apple sued Microsoft because they believed that the license agreement only covered Windows 1.0, but Microsoft prevailed in court.

The Finder Sidebar in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, two years after the Navigation pane appeared in Windows XP.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard added an optional Path bar at the bottom of folder windows to display the path of any selected file or folder. This feature first appeared as the Address bar in Windows Vista, which began appearing nearly a year before Leopard shipped.

Microsoft first put the Forward and Back buttons of Web browsers into its folder windows with Windows 2000. Oddly, Apple first included only a Back button in the original Mac OS X. It wasn't until version 10.2 Jaguar that a Forward button appeared.

In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple added the little-known but useful Screen Sharing program (found in /System/Library/CoreServices/), also usable through iChat. Screen sharing lets you view and control another networked Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later. Windows users have had this functionality in Remote Desktop Connection since Windows XP. In fact, Microsoft provided a free Mac version of Remote Desktop Connection before Apple added the functionality to Leopard.

Before Mac OS X, Mac system settings were found in a set of separate files called control panels. Microsoft took the name, but put all the settings in one convenient place. For Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, Apple stole Microsoft's idea and called it System Preferences.Unlike the Windows Control Panel, the Mac's System Preferences doesn't open additional windows, and it tends to have a simpler user interface

Since 1990's Windows 3, Alt-Tab has enabled users to easily switch between running applications. Apple added the feature using Command-Tab in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther in 2003.

:D