colony wars

Play station game? Play stations and all the rest of those type of things i hate... their an excuse, a back door for companies to offload primative computers to everyone!

Heh, you obviously have very little knowledge about console games. For example, at this point in time, you just cant build a PC with the capabilities the PS3 has. The PS3 is truly an amazing piece of work. And to top it off, it only costs $500. Even if you could manage to build a PC similiar to the PC3, it would cost you literally thousands of dollars.

my above reply was meant for the very naive Mystikmind.

Play stations and all the rest of those type of things i hate... their an excuse, a back door for companies to offload primative computers to everyone!

Go and stick something in your back door pal... and don't ever slam my PS2. EVER. Now have a nice day.

Heh, you obviously have very little knowledge about console games. For example, at this point in time, you just cant build a PC with the capabilities the PS3 has. The PS3 is truly an amazing piece of work. And to top it off, it only costs $500. Even if you could manage to build a PC similiar to the PC3, it would cost you literally thousands of dollars.

Really? Last I checked the PS3 was using a Geforce 7800 derivative core castrated with half the memory bandwidth of the PC version. Right now we have the 8800GTX which is over twice as powerful as the PS3's RSX.

I suppose if you were talking about Cell you would be half right. It is better at some things than today's best all purpose x86 cores, like some highly parallelizable floating point stuff. Of course, a Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad is quite a bit better than cell at a lot of (as in most) workloads!

In any case, you can build PC's far faster than the PS3 with todays tech.

. For example, at this point in time, you just cant build a PC with the capabilities the PS3 has. The PS3 is truly an amazing piece of work. And to top it off, it only costs $500. Even if you could manage to build a PC similiar to the PC3, it would cost you literally thousands of dollars.

*cough cough* bs. The blu-ray or however that crap is spelled would cost that amount of money. The rest of the parts are cheap, yes, including that Intel manure they put in there. AMD FOR LIFE!

The PS3 is *not* and *never* will be an amazing piece of work. Go ahead, put your stock in it. Put every penny you have behind it. I'm going to laugh when you get poor cuz the system will bust. Don't ever, ever, ever back the third console from a company.

And backing SONY??? SONY???? ugh... excuse me while I vomit and market it as a PSP.

The rest of the parts are cheap, yes, including that Intel manure they put in there.

The PS3 uses an IBM-derived chip.

This thread is NOT about the console wars, its about a PSOne game called Colony Wars. Got it?

Now, would everyone please stay on topic.

Sorry friend, never even heard of it.

The PS3 uses an IBM-derived chip.

AMD FOR LIFE ANYWAY!

OK OK, I stand corrected, but seriously, the PS3 is far from primitive

i rented colony wars when i still had a PS1. it was pretty good. but i'm not about to mod some hull designs just for the sake of it (or due to however nicely you might ask).

chiming in on the tagent (sorry StormWeaver), as i understand it, the hardware on console games is almost always behind the cutting edge. their main advantage comes from the fact that every console is the same. programmers can search for bugs on their PS3 and rest well-enough assured that your PS3 won't work differently because of a hardware conflict. moreover, they don't need as bulky an operating system to manage the potential differences of hardware, multitask, etc. finally, they're much more affordable for what you can do on them. sure, i could build a PC that'd easily out-gun a PS3, but it'd probably cost over $5,000. what could you do on a $500 PC (besides learn to hate Dell)? i think it's really apples and oranges. PC games tend to attract users who want to know what's going on under the hood, as it were. console games attract people who... play sports games.

to be sure, i have no intention of buying any of the next-gen consoles out right now. i've been enjoying FFXII greatly, but the PS2 is my roommate's. games on the Wii look rather... childish; i refuse to buy a console from MicroSoft; and though i'm not quite as vehement as n0v4k4n3, i don't have much confidence in how well the PS3 will do or how long it'll last. in the end, i'd rather spend the money on upgrading my system.

console games attract people who... play sports games.

I don't think so. Many people I know who play the PS2 have it solely for such titles as Backyard Wrestling, the Need for Speed Series, the SSX Tricky series, the holy of holies, the Grand Theft Auto series, a true gift to us thirty somethings who grew up with our first systems being pong and atari. Early sports games weren't bad on the console, and even Madden has some merit to it even though I think the whole sports genre has gotten way out of hand.
Bottom line, they can have my PS2 when they pry it from my cold dead hands. XBox 360 and PS3, piss on them. There's nothing like relaxing after a long day at work with some serious sniper action with a couple of car jackings thrown into the mix.

yes, I like GoldenEye for PS2 and BF2 (Battle Front) all are shooting game

"Games on the Wii look rather...childish" Not quite. I was reding a magazine the other day, and saw a list of upcoming games, 2 of wich were MORTAL KOMBAT: ARMAGEDDON and SPLINTER CELL. Oh, and let's not forget Red Steel.

I've played Colony Wars before, that was a fun game. Granted about a week into playing it(it was my freinds game and system) his ps1 ended up exploding or something.

In regards to the console hating, consoles aren't that bad. I have my first gen x-box and I still love it. I use it mainly for sports games(mostly because EA shuts down the internet playing on the computer games after 2 years) and for rpg games. Either way, I still love my computer more but I won't up and abandon my x-box. As for the PS3? OVerpriced hunk o' crap that will have all the same games as the PS2 because games on the PlayStation systems tend to all be the same thing(i.e. GTA). I kinda' want to get a Wii because it's gonna' let you download any nintendo game from the NES to the N64....ok....and I also wanna' play the new Zelda, it looks pretty cool.

My two cents are spent.

-Spencer

his ps1 ended up exploding or something.
iv had that happen once or twice i fliped out

Yes, I've played both, although only ever owned Vengeance (which I would really like to have back).

I'd desperately love to see a sequel made, and a ship pack would be great, but it'd be extremely hard to do, considering how difficult it is to even get a good long look at the ships.

Fantastic game though.

thier was going to e a sequal but from what i heard thay stoped or something like that

To vengeance? There was a sequel; it was called Red Sun.

my above reply was meant for the very naive Mystikmind.

Go and stick something in your back door pal... and don't ever slam my PS2. EVER. Now have a nice day

Appologies for wishing to continue an off topic conversation, but i cannot let those comments go unanswered!

Of course people love their PS2's, they have the advantage of being a piece of hardware supported by seriously big game developers. The product would not be succesful otherwise now would it? without the games it would be the stupidest waste of money going around.

It is a fantastic marketing ploy to marry games and hardware together like that, none the less still being a trick or method of selling primative pc's.

I will credit PS2's with one serious advantage... they dont have to be shakled under the mighty weight of Windows XP, which is a seriously MASSIVE advantage for game machines.

I hate it when topics go off topic. I loved the old colony wars, especially the original. If memory serves me correctly the original had a ship and station encyclopedia, so it would be relitivly easy to get decent pics of each ship. Unfortunatly i'm not a modder, but I think i've still got a copy somewhere and might be able to get some pics, if anyone is interested. Damn good idea my friend

no a fouth colony war or something like that