18th October 2004, 9:36 AM
Quote:How many times have I done it? No idea, but quite a few. As I said, I've played a bunch of PC games splitscreen... and I don't mean like once or something. Not on a monthly basis or anything but certainly several times a year I play splitscreen PC games. As in, most any time that I am in a situation where I might be playing multiplayer games at home (these days, that means it's a vacation and I'm seeing my cousins, but in the past I played some with friends as well), we'll definitely play some PC games in addition to console ones.
Racing wheel? Um... those are all well and good for NASCAR games or sim racers, but for arcadish ones? I see absolutely no need. The minute difference it would make for most of the racing games I have is in no way worth the cost. For PC or for consoles.
Other racing games not released on PC... sure, that happens. And that's why I have a N64 and Cube... they don't exactly have bad selections of racing games! And not a small selection, either.
Racing wheels are best for just about all racing games. Obviously you are not a big racing fan and don't like good racers, so you don't care...
Quote:Then you can repeat to yourself your mistaken opinion that XG and Pod are bad games as much as you want... but it doesn't make it true.
How the hell was that a response to what I posted.
Quote:The point is that for games like that, once you get used to the game the complexity becomes less important and the fun becomes more important. Let's take TIE Fighter. Sure it's simple compared to those, but it's complex in its own right... at first it seems quite complex. As you play you get better and you get to memorizing a lot of the keyboard layout. I still have memorized most of the keys that I use frequently in that game... so no, you are quite mistaken. The un-fun part is only at the beginning; as you get used to how it works the importance of that aspect of the game fades away.
Oh please, TIE is daunting and realistic? Haha, come on now. Use MS Flight Simulator as an example, not an unrealistic Star Wars game.
Quote:I'd probably choose F-Zero X, but I'm sure it's a good game...
That is, unless it came out 2001 or later. In which case it wasn't released in the '90s.
Well, car arcade racer. And if I say "since" then that covers every year since the 90's.