On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:35:43AM +0100, Ten wrote:
Trouble is, there's lots you can't do on a console at the moment, including but not limited to PC-quality FPS titles (console games use weighted crosshairs, proximity deceleration and suchlike to compensate for the 10-thumbs nature of controllers, and this tends to spoil the game even when you do use a keyboard and mouse), RPG games (mustn't....mention....recent console RPG guis.), and the most important thing, the only way to make and run custom content, or to make and run Free games on a console is to try and run it as a PC itself.
The only thing is, you say there's lots you can't do on a console, but examples seem limited to FPS type games and RPG games. Since I started playing more console games I've discovered such delights as "we love katamari" & "destroy all humans" not to mention my old faves such as "wipeout fusion" & "dancing stage megamix" I just honestly can't see many of these kinds of genres ever existing for the PC which seems to be limited to flight sims, strategy/god game, RPG and FPS type games.
Although, in the Linux world there does seem to be a fair few more quirky and original games, mainly because many of them are not commercial so there is no demand to make money. Also, the only PC games on my shelf I can't play under Linux are civilization (III & IV) (but the Linux world is graced with the excellent FreeCiv) & Half Life 2 (annoyingly they make a server that runs on Linux for multiplayer games. Quite a few publishers still make versions of their games to play under Linux and given how few hours
Also, about FreeCIV, I think Brett was talking about having a multiplayer game today, co-ordinated via the irc channel. (Usually when we've played multiplayer FreeCiv before we all hang out in irc while playing the game). So if anyone is interested perhaps they should stop by and find out if anything is happening.
( http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv )
Thanks Adam