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[Smoke39]

Because Timesplitters has personality?

[Kairon]

Timesplitters has a good personality???

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Smash_Brother]

Maybe it was just me, but Timesplitters felt like I was being left out of something while I tried to play the story mode. I mean, the level starts in the frozen Russian wastelands and this...guy I'm playing as turns into what looks like a guard and then I run around and start killing people.

Huh?

I do remember the multiplayer being pretty decent, but I still loathe analogue stick-controlled FPSs.

[TrueNerd]

Timesplitters is fun and arcadey and different enough that it didn't make me say, "Why aren't we just playing Halo" like I do with just about every other multiplayer FPS.  

[Nephilim]

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Why is everyone always talking about Halo?  I'm a huge PC FPS fan, and Halo on PC was mediocre at best, and even worst on Xbox. When I played Halo on Xbox it just seemed very slow/sluggish; running seemed like walking, and turning was even worst. Gamepads, even analogue ones do not have the percision of the keyboard/mouse. Maybe I'm just too used to the keyboard/mouse, but I find it hard to use a gamepad for FPS games.    I guess ppl who never played any real FPS's like Halo.

But there are different eite FPS groups, there are those whole bash anything that isnt made by valve, then the quake/ut crowd, war simulator groups, ect.
Halo fps fans just have there own style  

[Bloodworth]

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Why is everyone always talking about Halo?
I'm a huge PC FPS fan, and Halo on PC was mediocre at best, and even worst on Xbox.  When I played Halo on Xbox it just seemed very slow/sluggish; running seemed like walking, and turning was even worst.   Gamepads, even analogue ones do not have the percision of the keyboard/mouse.  Maybe I'm just too used to the keyboard/mouse, but I find it hard to use a gamepad for FPS games.

I guess ppl who never played any real FPS's like Halo.

Everyone is talking about Halo because over 3 million people have bought it.  Whether the PC FPS crowd likes it or not, does not stop it from being one of the stand out multiplayer FPS games.  

I don't think that an analog stick is technically less precise, but because there's a smaller range of motion, it takes more skill to hit a precise point. You have to make very small movements with your thumb.  The surface area that you move a mouse across is probably at least three times as large as a thumbstick, allowing you to be more accurate even though you're moving your wrist over a greater distance.  Also, because thumbsticks are spring-loaded to return to center you have to push against resistance to hold a specific point on the screen.

[Smash_Brother]

It's so much easier to do with a mouse (or Wiimote) that doing it with an analogue stick is just tedious for me.

Red Steel, despite being raked across the coals by many critics, made good on one of its promises: you were able to shoot enemies in rapid succession in such a way that it would have been impossible on an analogue stick.  

[Kairon]

I'd rather aim at people with my wrise than with my thumb.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[wandering]

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Now Timesplitters... why in the world are people gaga over THAT?!?!?

Training ground. Capture the flag. You + 3 friends vs. 12 monkeys.

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Everyone is talking about Halo because over 3 million people have bought it.

Okay. Why did over 3 million buy it?

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Now Timesplitters... why in the world are people gaga over THAT?!?!?

Training ground. Capture the flag. You + 3 friends vs. 12 monkeys.

Okay. You convinced me. Timesplitters is god's gift to FPS gamers... especially ones who like co-op.

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Everyone is talking about Halo because over 3 million people have bought it.

Okay. Why did over 3 million buy it?

Bald Space Marines... in helmets!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Slab]

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Okay. Why did over 3 million buy it?

My guess is that they don't know any better or don't know anything about PC's.  In other words, they are ignorant and fall into the MS hype of tricking the public into thinking that Halo is a good FPS.  The Majority of people who played any FPS on their PC stay away from this game.  And I don't think that's a coincidence.

Bungie should have stick to their Myth games, those were fun on PC.
 

[BigJim]

Halo had years of hype, well before Xbox existed. Bungie even demo'ed the game at an Apple conference with Steve Jobs. But then MS bought them out and it was delayed until Xbox.

That, and it wasn't a BAD game either. It moved many PC gamers into the console space when the two markets were mutually exclusive.

[Kairon]

Yeah, Halo wasn't GREAT, but it also wasn't bad. All the unwashed masses of hype-led mainstream and casual players need is a decent game and lots of hype to be convinced to come out in droves... This is the lethality of mediocrity.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[TrueNerd]

Halo + Other People = Fun!

Halo - Everyone but you = Not so much