[QUOTE="TMontana1004"][QUOTE="Pietrooper"]

[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]I prefer Resistance, but Halo has a better main character.Pietrooper

They both had the same length of dialogue personally :|

MC has much more backstory though. BTW, dialogue doesn't necessarily make a character. MC didn't have to speak to be awesome. The one-liners helped though.

Backstory which you didn't learn unless you read the Halo novels which were written by a 12 year old.

'And then masterchief went to kill the aliens, and then he did X and then he did Y and then he did B' :|

And who's great idea was it to hide the backstory to the game in hidden terminals which most people missed?

Plus master chief is overrated. halo is great, master chief isn't. He reminds me of someone out of Tron.

of the last two generations. It was undisputed console game of last generation, and nothing this console generation has come close.

Do you think any console game this generation can topple Metroid Prime:!? I doubt we are going to experience a game of its quality on consoles for a long long time (possibly years)

Halo, resistance, timesplitters, call of duty for starters......

Of course on PC games of that quality (and even greater) are a monthly occurance. But this is strictly consoles. So which console game this gen do you predict can topple Metroid Prime?

TheMysticHorse

i hope this is an april fools...

[QUOTE="oldvander"][QUOTE="_Pedro_"][QUOTE="oldvander"]

Um, sorry, but counter strike online isn't trendy in the real world. Its looked down upon as extremely nerdy by alot of people i know. I dont say anything bad about it, but its certainly not trendy to people.

_Pedro_

when you mention real world, don't you just mean the US or the UK?

Uh yeah i'm open to the possibility that counter strike is a trend setter in mongolia8). But yeah i was meaning the u.k. (just the average person).

I know alot of people can be shallow and ignorant towards gaming. But usually things that are trendy are fashion etc (or emos). I hate emos, but it is a trend.

Naturally, here in mainland europe just about everyone has heard about Counter Strike and if you've never played it. You're probably an outcast..

maybe i am an outcast. maybe i'll continue with games like final fantasy, age of empires, dawn of war, pro evo soccer, halo, forza, mass effect, gears of war, call of duty etc....

[QUOTE="oldvander"]

Um, sorry, but counter strike online isn't trendy in the real world. Its looked down upon as extremely nerdy by alot of people i know. I dont say anything bad about it, but its certainly not trendy to people.

_Pedro_

when you mention real world, don't you just mean the US or the UK?

Uh yeah i'm open to the possibility that counter strike is a trend setter in mongolia8). But yeah i was meaning the u.k. (just the average person).

I know alot of people can be shallow and ignorant towards gaming. But usually things that are trendy are fashion etc (or emos). I hate emos, but it is a trend.

[QUOTE="oldvander"][QUOTE="Zeliard9"]

I literally remember people saying that PC gaming was dying in the mid-90s, when the Playstation and N64 came about.I'm sure they probably said it earlier, too. If it hasn't died off in the past decade plus, then it's probably not going to.

Valve just needs to release Counterstrike 2 and it'll become uber-trendy to start PC gaming again, like it was around the start of this century with CS, and we don't have to hear anymore of this "PC gaming is dying" rubbish. Counterstrike on PC deserves just as much credit as Halo: CE for introducing so many newbies to so-called "hardcore" gaming and making gaming as popular as it is today. And probably more, since it precedes Halo by a couple years.

Zeliard9

Um, sorry, but counter strike online isn't trendy in the real world. Its looked down upon as extremely nerdy by alot of people i know. I dont say anything bad about it, but its certainly not trendy to people.

Not now, but back around 2000/2001, it was ridiculously trendy to play CS. They even had the game set up at various boutiques in malls just so random people could play.

It easily achieved Halo-level popularity and transcended "nerdiness"; anybody and everybody was playing it. And after 9/11 it became even more popular, since it had to do with terrorism and counter-terrorism.

I don't personally like CS, or Halo. I think both are tragically overrated and come nowhere even remotely close to a gem like Quake 1. But there's no question that both are enormously popular, CS moreso back in the day.

The problem is popular and trendy are surely 2 different things. Counter strike was definitely a popluar game, and still is to gamers. But if you went into a school and asked them what they thought of counter strike, they'd laugh at you for being a "geek". Which means its not trendy unfortunately.

I literally remember people saying that PC gaming was dying in the mid-90s, when the Playstation and N64 came about.I'm sure they probably said it earlier, too. If it hasn't died off in the past decade plus, then it's probably not going to.

Valve just needs to release Counterstrike 2 and it'll become uber-trendy to start PC gaming again, like it was around the start of this century with CS, and we don't have to hear anymore of this "PC gaming is dying" rubbish. Counterstrike on PC deserves just as much credit as Halo: CE for introducing so many newbies to so-called "hardcore" gaming and making gaming as popular as it is today. And probably more, since it precedes Halo by a couple years.

Zeliard9

Um, sorry, but counter strike online isn't trendy in the real world. Its looked down upon as extremely nerdy by alot of people i know. I dont say anything bad about it, but its certainly not trendy to people.

[QUOTE="oldvander"]can someone explain to me what all these terms mean- "manticore", "hermit" etc.mingo123

manticore = someone who owns all system
hermit = pc fanboy
lemming = xbox fanboy
cow = sony fanboy
sheep = nintendo fanboy
Hedgehig = sega fanboy (R.I.P)

Thanks, i'll have to remember that.