Halo is overrated. FPS do not belong on a console, its blasphemy. If you play a FPS with a controller you should be smacked. Now Halo 1 and 2 are pretty nice on a PC I must admit.

http://ps3.ign.com/objects/761/761161.html

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/821/821911p1.html

OUCH!!

I suppose theres always Warhawk, LOL

Going to pick up my copy today after work... If I can find it.

Well, so far the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive, as expected.

I beat that game several months ago. What's with all the hype? The only memorable part was that it had Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba making out. I blew a few circuits below the utility belt from that scene, but otherwise, it was kind of boring.

And they called pitdingo a troll?

Pitdingo has a love affair with hating anything that has Micorsofts name on it. He makes stupid statements like that when ever he can. None of the Xbox fans here deny that the Wii is a fun system but he posts on. He is like the PS3 fanboys that believe that if a game is not made for his loved system then it totally sucks. Not even accepting that other platforms have games worth playing is just stupidity.

** yawn **

Boring game. Been there done that. If you want something innovative, play the Wii.

The Wii is not the only system to have games worth playing troll.

Exactly.

The minute I see the Wii come even CLOSE to the graphics of a 360, I'll shoot myself in the foot.

Too bad most people compare the Wii graphics to the original XBox.

Yeah. Innovative. Sweet.

Go away troll.

We always appreciate your input Dave.

Jagoff.

The minute I see the wii, 360 or the PS3 graphics even come close to what a pc can do...I will shoot myself in the balls.

It's even on the front page of msn.com ....

coming soon to ps3

Wow, you wish. Sorry. Not going to happen.

swish

Very good.

:)

You had us going there for a second.

Wacky you...

sony is dead.

accept it.

even my girlfriend who is in love with tekken has.

Am I counted in the article title even though I'm waiting for the PC port?

Well your date might be 3 years down the road.

Possibly, if the recent release of Halo 2 is any indication, and the delayed release of CE as well (which wasn't all that great on the PC, unfortunately).

They want to capitalize of the sales of the console version as much as possible, which is understandable (but still sucks).

I didn't really care about this launch, but all day everyone's been talking about it. The radio's buzzing, even my father emailed me from his work about some new "halo dealy".

Now I want it godammit. What the hell has my PS3 done for me :(. I'm sure this will be a great game like the last 2.

That's the spirit! :)

I think that was one of the reasons I finally purchased an iPod, and will probably get an iPhone as soon as more work is done to its capabilities. I'm getting sick of everyone wondering when I'm getting one. "Shut up already!" LOL

I'll wait until the craze subsides before I pick up my copy of Halo 3. I've got the new Guild Wars expansion on the PC still keeping me occupied... and Guitar Hero, of course.

halo3 ? never heard of it ...

lol

I have a fever, that can only be cured with ...... more cowbell.

From what I have read, HALO 3 may be a PS3 killer. Well played.

I guess Lair was going to be the breakout game for the PS3, but it has been touted as a "beautiful disaster". Great graphics, but the control and gameplay is awful.

you ****ed up a classic quote. thats like saying "all your bases belong to us"

(Hangs head in shame and slinks away like the filthy weakling I am....)

Let me redeem myself

http://www.zombiesushi.c...iption_more_cowbell.wav

Oh no... it's back! LOL

i think it's "all your base are belong to us"

I feel ashamed. I have succumbed to the hype. Reserved my copy on my lunch break.. and will be waiting in line at midnight :)

As I've been saying in the office, kudos to MS PR for successfully moving this story outside of the tech media and into the mainstream.

even CNN and MSNBC are covering reviews of the game... ;)

Don't feel ashamed, get some energy drinks and stay up all night.

They have certainly done an excellent job at marketing the game, I think. I dig the commercials.

Yah, Microsoft certainly has done a swell job advertising.

...now you're just making fun of me. :)

any word on h3 for vista outside of playing games on the wii with my kids i can't stand consoles

Yes, consoles are so inconvenient .... ?

Well, for the most part I agree with him... at least so far as certain genres are concerned. With FPS games, my platform of choice will always be the PC. :)

if they ever come out with a wireless mouse and keyboard for the 360 for playing fps's i'll get one but until then or vista kills pc gaming for good i'll stick with my pc

i'd venture a guess that most of the draw for fps games on consoles is that the hardware is balanced and not the limiting factor making it more "fair," unlike pc games. yes, fine, we get it. mouse + keyboard = super fast spin moves and better aiming. analog sticks have an annoying dead zone. aside from that, consoles are the shiz. on that note, i once saw a console controller concept with a trackball in place of one of the analog sticks. brilliant concept. wish they could have made it work. that would have been fragtastic.

Id have to disagree. Ive always had a better experience with FPS on consoles.

What are you disagreeing to? I didn't say "the" platform of choice... I said "my" platform of choice. It's just my opinion and personal preference. :)

(EDIT: If you weren't referring to me, I sincerely apologize. Appearing rude was not my intent.)

I guess there are a lot of factors to consider when trying to figure out people's preference of FPS games on consoles. Some were excellent, such as GoldenEye on the N64. Some, not so much... just poor ports of their PC counterparts most of the time.

Consoles are much more convenient when organizing an impromptu gaming session. No mucking about with tons of configuration options can be a boon if you don't necessarily care for any of that crap. Also, since the particular game was designed for a particular hardware configuration that is static, the game can (and should) be expected to run well every time.

The relatively low price of (some) consoles can be a large factor, too. Most households have at least one computer, a fair portion of which have upgradeable video card slots. For the price range that the Xbox 360 currently sells for, a very nice video card could be purchased to give the same level (or better) of graphics potential to already existing hardware. Mom and Dad's e-mail and finance PC just became something more. :)

I have to say though, I've been to a lot of LAN parties in the past decade... some I've organized myself, others more high-profile such as Lanwar / MML. I have to say that never have I seen anyone using consoles for anything other than something like DDR. With the exception of a few quick sessions of Warcraft III or C&C, it was mostly FPS. I'm not sure how much that has changed recently, though.

Not necessarily wanting to get into a p!ssing contest about PC vs Console (that's been done to death)... but nothing compares to the graphical horsepower and sheer flexibility and ultimate control of a properly configured high-end gaming PC for FPS games (a genre where speed and performance matters most).

I agree to the point, if there is a PC version the console version never lives up to it. UT was imho a very good example of this.
Otherwise FPS can be pretty inovative if its designed purely to play on the console :)

damn straight

i hope you are joking.....but then again you do have the word "ferret" in your name, which is the pet of choice for homosexuals.

The hype train continues. I for one won't be picking this up. I was very underwhelmed by the beta and apparently little has changed in the final code aside from the single player addition. There are apparently some serious frame rate issues at times :-(

Yet reviews (of the final product) say the frame rates are solid.

Well my friend managed to nab a copy last week from UK retailer who sold it early by mistake, and says it has some pretty bad slowdowns and screen tearing at times, even in single player mode.

I trust his comments more than biased reviews (all reviews are biased these days it seems).

You know, it could have been caused by his Xbox.

I'll see for myself tonight. :)

Employees working for minimum wage are not biased either?

The reviews have been stellar.

??? He's certainly not in a minimum wage job, far from it.

Are all the Xbox360 owners here so righteous?

Perhaps.

some people are just clueless, what part of beta did you not understand? beta is for testing and addressing the issues. plus it is like 20 reviews that say that you wrong at least for the released version

In single player, its called loading points and check points.

No the reviews say other wise so they must all be wrong and your friend is right.

Yah because its one sweet game.

best. game. ever.

wow, it's just a game folks not the cure for cancer

the need for gaming is my cancer,
and HALO 3 is the cure for it ...

There's only one cure...and that's more cowbell!

I need more Cowbell!!!

Well... my cure has to wait, ... like me :( I've waited 3 years for this night, and my 360 cratered 2 weeks ago, and its not back yet. But, I may pickup another 360 just for this night, as I wanted another anyhow, and it will sit perfectly next to my new Wii, which.. is rather nice. Except, I'm not sure if it will last, but it definitely adds a unique gaming experience.

I almost feel sorry for POS3 owners, as they have nothing to play on their boxes... except those BlueRay movies.. and they can play linux.. for whatever that's worth...

Gears
Halo series

The best reason to own a 360. :)

For once I am going to stick up for the PS3 and say Motor Storm is pretty nice. We will have to wait and see if the slowdown is true for HALO 3. I dont really care as I am all about driving / racing games.

Hey Dave, you seem to know everything about the PS3. When are they going to allow blacker than black to pass over HDMI on this thing?
I am getting tired of "dark grey" for black, the only movie I own on BD is Casino Royale and I swear the standard DVD looks better when it comes to black.

Forza 2 is very nice racing game for the 360

Any chance it's your tv? I just bought a 1080p Aquos 37" and the blacks seem great. What's your contrast ratio?

Ok I'll bite - what's this cowbell all about? More importantly, where could one find this "cowbell".....

No, apparently the PS3 has been hard at work trying to cure cancer.

Halo 3 was the answer for people who actually wanted to play good games on their game console.

I agree. It is pretty sweet.

It's a Saturday Night Live skit where Christopher Walken played the part of Iron Maiden's Bruce D ickinson. He was producing the next single for the Blue Oyster Cult... (Don't Fear) The Reaper. Every so often they would do another take, and 'Bruce' would stop the song and tell them that there was something missing... more cowbell! Will Ferrell was playing the cowbell.

It's a classic. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8bJdmUlSo

I just bought a 1080p Aquos 37"

How long have you had it, and what are your impressions of it so far? I've been thinking about going into debt over one recently (LC42D62U).

Its a well documented issue that blu-ray has had issues with blacks both on movies and video games, its especially noticeable on transformers.

i've been eyeballing a 360 for both forza and halo. i'm going to reward myself for xmas when they start offering promotional game bundles.

No professional magazines have pointed that problem out for a long time. No secret there.

Priceless bit....

Jordanr05,

I am ISF certified, it's not my projector or DLP rear projection. I do have seperate video adjustments for each input on both but even with the calibration disc, I cant get the black level right.

The HDTV Calibration Wizard disc has a special section just for calibrating black levels quickly. There is a guy in a black shirt with black buttons, what you do is turn the brightness all the way down, at which point there are no details at all, the shirt, buttons and shiny parts of the fabric are jet black, or grey in this case.

You then turn up the brightness until the details start to come out and you can see all the different parts of the shirt. It works better than anything else I have seen short of the ISF calibration built in to Runco TV's.

What happens with the PS3 / BD is, you have to crank the brightness so high before the black details emerge, it's already dark grey and not black.

My HD-A2 has the same problem until the last firmware update allowed it to pass blacker than black over HDMI. So far the PS3 is a very cheap BD player and it shows.

The problem with contrast ratio measurements are they test the monitor with the power off and no backlight, then at pure white 6500K to get their measurements.

Contrast ratios mean nothing in the real world. If they tested them with the backlight on and all pixels black, then all white, the ratio is cut by a factor of ten.

Now, you know he's not going to respond to that.

If it's not the 'soundbyte of the week' and is something that actually requires logical and rational thought and research backed up with facts, you'll get nothing from him. He'll simply post speculation as fact.

"Better" this, or "vastly superior" that...

I wish you luck, though. :)

Samsung LNT4061F 40

really good, get it from amazon(not their partners). You'll save a ton over like best buy.

if you want good info(though a bit overwhelming) goto http://www.avsforum.com/

Fools, everyone knows that the cure for cancer is Chuck Norris' tears.

Chuck Norris doesn't read... he stares the words down until they give him the information that he wants.

Hehe gold :)

LOVE it. Definitely worth the money. The Samsung mentioned below is also good. Those are the only 2 brands I'd ever consider.

Thanks a bunch. Those were actually the only 2 brands I was considering as well. I'll check into them more.

It'll take some time though, as I'm currently saving for a set of SVSound SCS-01(M) 5.1 speakers.

I need another job... :(