11thSignal

I want photo’s of bridesmaids before I commit to anything!!!

Sorry Wild totally forgot about you wanting help, pretty much what the DOC says, get a cheapish 16/24 gigabit switch( although a 100meg will still be fine) probably best if i can call you or you me. Drop me a pm later.
As for cabling as long as both ends of the cable are wired exactly the same it will work. T

One thing that I’ve noticed since being “hooked” on EVE is that I’m now a miserable fecker and I am very dismissive of other games!! will try to be a little more upbeat in future..:-)

welcome back bm!!

4870×2 was a cracking card, still is mind.

Yep after reading this thread I reinstalled my copy of Civ 4, after playing for a couple of hours I remembered after watching my x10 assault infranty and x 2 artillery get wacked by 3 group of knights, some longbowman and a couple of hairy dudes carrying clubs how shit this game could be. Also in the space of 2 turns I had invented 4 religions. I love the series but there’s too many little annoyances to make me want to stick with it.

I don’t care that the emeny has 40 warrior units attacking me, when in any time/universe would 40000 club wielding dudes ever take on 10000 modern squaddies defending a city.

Promptly uninstalled! Was hoping they had patched that gheyness out of it but they haven’t!!!

@streff wrote:

PC all the way for me. Had a working 360 for over a year, and the only kind of games i preferred playing on it were Pro Evo and Need for Speed/Gran Turismo style games.. and I only fired it up maybe a dozen times – since it buggered up I’ve not replaced it.

As for the price, I had to replace my GFX card this year, but that was because it died (my fault, poor conditions I keep it in – for reference my xbox has also died, but not my fault, kept it in good nick. Not RRoD either, so no extended warranty for me) – got one for under £90 that does me fine, and have recently built new machines very capable of decent gaming (she uses it for warcraft, so i’m extrapolating with the “decent” qualifier) – built my rig 3 years ago, felt no need to upgrade since.

The biggest thing about the 2 choices for me is the style, and yes, quality of the games available. As stated previously on this thread the most in depth console game doesnt measure up to the engrossing qualities of most PC games. I also like flight sims, and the only one’s I’ve played on a console have felt more like late-90’s arcade-y flight sims (Strike Commander, anyone?) – hard to get a ‘feel’ for the environment at all. There are always exceptions, but by and large, console games do feel like they are aimed at the widest possible audience (obvious really, why cut yourself out of a massive market of people who 6 years ago wouldn’t have classed themselves as ‘gamers’?) – i’m not taking issue with that, I think it’s great to introduce a new generation and an older generation to an avenue of entertainment they would otherwise have missed out on, however, that level of ‘pick up and play’ simplicity just doesnt do it for me.

Biggest example of my bias towards PC games has to be Bioshock. Kinda bought into some of the hype around it before it came out, got it for my 360 and spent the next eight hours dissapointed. Much prefer halflife – million reasons why.
A mate of mine was dead excited, but he’s a console kid through and through..
Played it on the PC shortly afterwards, and it just felt like it was made for a console throughout, with no thought given to how tactile it would feel on a PC. Its my biggest gripe with games in general at the moment, too many console-ports…

anyway.. ’nuff said.

In summary, both have thier place, but for ‘serious’ gaming, PC all the way.

This, anybody saying anything else is just a nub!! 😀