Hint: Mouse sensitivity.Cargin said:
If you're not faster and more accurate with a mouse and keyboard, something's wrong. Turn the in-game setting up.
Console Vs. P.C. (no, not like that...)
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If you're not faster and more accurate with a mouse and keyboard, something's wrong. Turn the in-game setting up.
This. The xbox community is pretty varied. If you play Left 4 Dead 2, chances are if you wait for people who actually have a mic plugged in, they're really nice, helpful people. I'd say it depends entirely on the game. L4D2 caters to nice, co-operative people, MW2 has pretty decent people, as long as they're not using dual-shotguns, and Halo.. take a guess. Online isn't really that expensive, either. 4-5$ a month really isn't that bad, and of all three consoles it has the best service. You get what you pay for.Tiny116 said:
It's mainly a preference choice. Try out both. PC should be pretty fine to get started, and most Xbox games come with a 48-hour, or even month-long trial cards, not to mention creating a new gamertag gives you a free month of live.
Ever since the latest wave of screaming 12 years olds arrived on Xbox live I havn't touched any multiplayer with forced voice chat, so naturally my game time-level on MW2 has suffered because of that, effectivly being forced to play game types with lower point hauls per game and unable to play any other gamemode comfortably without having to go to the bother of muting EVERYONE in the game.
So In short, get it for PC, console only gamers on the whole are loud mouthed idiots who have no sense of good sportsmanship, and have no form of social skills to get along with people in games unable to accept the fact that someone beat them.
Plus the only trash talking on the PC is all in good fun and if anyone's serious about it they usually have a semi-reasonable argument.. Oh and most importantly their balls have dropped...
So In short, get it for PC, console only gamers on the whole are loud mouthed idiots who have no sense of good sportsmanship, and have no form of social skills to get along with people in games unable to accept the fact that someone beat them.
Plus the only trash talking on the PC is all in good fun and if anyone's serious about it they usually have a semi-reasonable argument.. Oh and most importantly their balls have dropped...
XBL is full of jerk offs and it's really not even worth the £40 you pay. If your PC can handle the games then go with PC. Dedicated servers + no 7 year olds trash talking because you beat them = Better online experience.
ninja'd, but wait for Battlefield Bad Company 2, or until Mw2 gets some serious patching. that MP is as balanced as a drunk on a see-saw.
What boils my goat is the fact that in a lot of current gen. console releases online multiplayer replaces local multiplayer. That just makes no sense to me! That's where consoles began, playing with mates!!
Turn up your mouse sensitivity thenCargin said:
A lot of people rag on MW2 on the PC. This is because IW did drop the ball, and while they capitalized on the strengths of other platforms, they left PC users hanging by excluding some very basic, simple features that would have increased sales for next to zero effort. Because of this, PC multiplayer has some annoying hiccups. Annoying host switching, unmoderated games, that sort of thing. However, none of this will ruin the experience. Just an occasional grumble. By this same token, a lot of gameplay problems ive heard about on consoles doesn't seem to exist on the PC. Glitches, balance issues, and exploits that are a little odd or annoying on PC seem to be absolutely game destroying on the console. More can go wrong on PC, but again, this is fairly rare, especially if you have the absolute basic of tech savvy.
The long and the short of it is that IW had consoles in mind for MW2. It was clearly where their mind was. However, they didn't completely neglect PC, and you will enjoy the game on any platform. If setting up live and paying the monthly fee is a task you dread, then PC would be a great idea. But if you realize that you want to set up Live anyways, and you naturally prefer consoles, go and set up live and get the console. Don't let the cynics get to you; all the components in this equation, MW2, Live, Consoles, and PCs, are excellent investments of time and energy.
Having played shooters on a PC for years and specifically COD4:MW for a year I was given the opportunity to witness a PS3 multiplayer match at a friends house. My friend had been playing console shooters for quite a while, and from his place on the server I would say he was pretty good. Any way through out the entire session I kept wondering:
"Why aren't you dead? If this were a PC server that sniper would have killed you and the two guys next to you in the time it took for you to level your aim on him."
It turns out the time it takes to draw bead on an opponent's head with a mouse for the average PC player is shorter than the time it takes to draw bead with a game pad for the average Console player: See http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/101/gaming.asp
The moral of this story is that don't play shooters with a game pad against people using a mouse, unless you are so good you need the handicap.
"Why aren't you dead? If this were a PC server that sniper would have killed you and the two guys next to you in the time it took for you to level your aim on him."
It turns out the time it takes to draw bead on an opponent's head with a mouse for the average PC player is shorter than the time it takes to draw bead with a game pad for the average Console player: See http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/101/gaming.asp
The moral of this story is that don't play shooters with a game pad against people using a mouse, unless you are so good you need the handicap.
I say the free online play of a PC definitely outweighs the issues PC has.
If your PC can handle it, go for it. I'm not that huge a fan of XBL because with that $50 a year, I could buy another game (or 2-5 depending on how much they cost and how old they are but still)....
If your PC can handle it, go for it. I'm not that huge a fan of XBL because with that $50 a year, I could buy another game (or 2-5 depending on how much they cost and how old they are but still)....
That may have not been the best source to quote...I love my mouse and keyboard, and was secretly hoping that the mouse would win...then I read this.hamster mk 4 said:
"No significant performance differences were found between input devices although subjectively participants believed they peformed (sic) the worst with the joystick."
Doesn't mean the hypothesis is wrong, just that this study doesn't support your hypothesis.
Man, I miss my research project in performance in fighting games...
Yeah I posed this after I read the reference to the Isokoski and Martin (2007) study, but before I finished reading the entire article. I should note this study does not take into consideration target aquisition times, only accuracy. It would be interesting to do a study on just target aquisition time.Xanadu84 said:
