Comments on: 6 Months of XBOX http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325 Rants and raves about gadgets and games. Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The Digital Cowboys » Blog Archive » Digital Cowboys: Episode 109 http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325&cpage=1#comment-1847 The Digital Cowboys » Blog Archive » Digital Cowboys: Episode 109 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:39:50 +0000 http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325#comment-1847 [...] blog and read his summation of six months of 360 ownership after a mostly PC-based gaming life. http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325 Steven is one of our regular letter writers and gives a particularly provocative submission this [...] [...] blog and read his summation of six months of 360 ownership after a mostly PC-based gaming life. http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325 Steven is one of our regular letter writers and gives a particularly provocative submission this [...]

]]> By: Count Stex http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325&cpage=1#comment-1814 Count Stex Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:32:51 +0000 http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325#comment-1814 I feel the PC has benefited from the XBOX is several ways. For a start you can now use the gamepads as control devices, which is great for certain games, where keyboard control isn't anolgue enough. Secondly it would seem porting, though often done without finesse, from XBOX to PC is a relativly easy process. And now that Games for Windows Live is getting to what it always should have been, with acheivements and gamerpoints I can see the two becoming closer. Also the moves made in Vista, and now Windows 7 to better intergrate games into the OS with given save folders and so on all helps to make things less of a grind against all the drivers and settings of yesteryear. I still maintain my PC to a high standard, a post about which is on the way, so I can still marvel at the cutting edge high res, my monitor runs at 1920x1200 native, graphics, and I still love seeing that, but the XBOX, as would the PS3 probably, has proven to me that HD level graphics are basically good enough for anything you would want. My hope is that the resolution race is now over and people will concentrate more on clever graphics rather than technical graphics, as we are starting to see with some of the more stylistic choices being made in games these days. I feel the PC has benefited from the XBOX is several ways. For a start you can now use the gamepads as control devices, which is great for certain games, where keyboard control isn’t anolgue enough. Secondly it would seem porting, though often done without finesse, from XBOX to PC is a relativly easy process. And now that Games for Windows Live is getting to what it always should have been, with acheivements and gamerpoints I can see the two becoming closer. Also the moves made in Vista, and now Windows 7 to better intergrate games into the OS with given save folders and so on all helps to make things less of a grind against all the drivers and settings of yesteryear. I still maintain my PC to a high standard, a post about which is on the way, so I can still marvel at the cutting edge high res, my monitor runs at 1920×1200 native, graphics, and I still love seeing that, but the XBOX, as would the PS3 probably, has proven to me that HD level graphics are basically good enough for anything you would want. My hope is that the resolution race is now over and people will concentrate more on clever graphics rather than technical graphics, as we are starting to see with some of the more stylistic choices being made in games these days.

]]> By: QuizzicalDemon http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325&cpage=1#comment-1811 QuizzicalDemon Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:11:27 +0000 http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325#comment-1811 I'm glad you're enjoying your Xbox Experience. Xbox Live has certainly impressed me over the last few years. I'm sure PSN could offer me a similar experience, but as most of my friends are on Live, my bed, as they say, has been made for me. I'm a console gamer now, but it wasn't always that way. I decided to make the transition quite a few years preferring the ease of use of a console (although I'm sure PC's are easier to manage for gaming these days?). There are of course the obvious downsides, but not having the graphical grunt isn't really an issue for me. The mouse and keyboard is sorely missed tho! I’m glad you’re enjoying your Xbox Experience. Xbox Live has certainly impressed me over the last few years. I’m sure PSN could offer me a similar experience, but as most of my friends are on Live, my bed, as they say, has been made for me.

I’m a console gamer now, but it wasn’t always that way. I decided to make the transition quite a few years preferring the ease of use of a console (although I’m sure PC’s are easier to manage for gaming these days?). There are of course the obvious downsides, but not having the graphical grunt isn’t really an issue for me.

The mouse and keyboard is sorely missed tho!

]]> By: Stex Toys » 6 Months of XBOX | Console Gaming http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325&cpage=1#comment-1807 Stex Toys » 6 Months of XBOX | Console Gaming Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:29:10 +0000 http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325#comment-1807 [...] post by Count Stex [...] [...] post by Count Stex [...]

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