Re: Well I'm impressed!

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>> "Eddy" wrote:
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>>>
>>>I would not say I have ever been as impressed or will ever again as I
>>>was when I first turned on my dreamcast,
>>
>> Oh now that was an amazing console right out the door. The Dreamcast
>> still holds it's own
>> against the PS2 in my humble opinion.
>>
>
> Agreed , I actually hooked mine up last weekend for a blast in the past
> and was amazed again at how good the graphics and speed are compared to Xb
> and PS2. The downers for me with the DC were the drive seek noise
> (arghh...) and the "ergonomic" controller- haha.
>
>
>>> the 360 is a move in the right
>>>direction but I think it is just on par with PC games at the moment,
>>>hopefully we will get a game that will take on todays PC GFX but not at
>>>the moment,
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> I just got a Core with PGR yesterday and the graphics are a bit of an
> improvement on my plain jane 32" WS Crt, and the speed was blistering.
> Unfortunately I was not impressed with the noise again - the fans and the
> drive are worse than my 3.2ghz PC and Dreamcast combined ;-D
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>> I think it varies. Games like NBA Live and PR3 smack down the best there
>> is on the PC at a
>> fraction of the cost, but games like PD0, Kameo and CoD2 just simply
>> look better than
>> console graphics today.
>>
>> Also the old argument of whether one should spend £300 on a graphics
>> card or £300 on a
>> console that matches or possibly beats it is worth considering.
>>
>> My PC has a 3 year old graphics card that is still very capable, so I
>> cant see the point in
>> spending money on a brand new card, especially as I'll probbly need to
>> get a new
>> motherboard to get a good PCI Express one.
>>
>
> I'd go with the console every time, my 9800Pro was £250 a couple of years
> ago and it "just" played Halflife2 but struggled with Doom3. HL2 on Xbox
> is just as playable imho and you can pick an Xb up for <£100 now !
>

Hmmmmm. My Radeon 9800 Pro pretty much smoked those games (within reason, of
course) - Doom 3, at 800x600, High quality, rarely dropped below 40fps, and
was mostly hovering right around 60fps. Half life 2 at 1024x768 was also
excellent. The only problem I had was a steep drop in frames during the boat
section while 'Reflection detail' was set to All, so I just dropped it to
world. Other than that it was fantastic. I could even pump up to 6x
anti-aliasing and only drop about 8fps.

I guess it depends on the rest of your system (in Half-life 2's case,
anyway)?


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