I needs me a new challenge.....

[winneganfake]

Need some new game to play. Anyone got any suggestions/played anything good recently?

For the record, I've got the following available for playing on, so games advice that's compatible with my systems would be a bigger plus.

PC (Pentium 1.2 GHZ (I think) Celeron, 128MB RAM, 3d software support only- no 3d card)
Playstation 2
Gamecube

Comments

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Grrr.

No fair, I've been wanting to hit that game for a while now. Especially not fair since I'm stuck paying about the same exorbitant amount either way to get one of my systems up to spec to run that game.Well, maybe a little less to upgrade the PC, since I wouldn't have to deal with getting a seperate broadband connection for that. (When your house is using a wireless networrk, it sometimes sucks to be a mostly-console gamer.)

[izzbot.livejournal.com]

From what it looks like, your computer shoould be able to run FFXI easily, as long as you have a decent video card. If you're right about the stats listed above, your computer's faster than the one my roommate plays on.

I'll find the benchmark site for the game once I get home. You can see if your system is up to snuff there.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Like it says above though- No 3d card- just software rendering. Ergo, no FFXI for me.

[mikeytsi.livejournal.com]

If you actually want to talk and interact with people, I'd probably suggest the PC version. Hard to talk to people with any speed without a keyboard.

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

doesn't the PS2 version use voice-recognition software with the headset?

[mikeytsi.livejournal.com]

1. Not "compatible" with the Sony headset.
2. No voice chat.
3. I'm not sure about the voice-recognition, but there doesn't seem to be ANYONE talking about it, and it would be a huge selling point if it existed.
4. That's ANOTHER $40 added on to a game that you're already shelling $100 for the PS2 version ($140 if you don't have a broadband adapter)

All in all, I'd rather buy the PC version, as I already have a hard drive, network connection, keyboard, headset, and all the other stuff. Paying that much money to play ONE game is way too much, even if it is a Square title.

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

i agree... the fact that you have to buy a hard-drive for the stupid PS2 is dumb... (why not just call it the PS2-box and be done with it.

Like i said in a previous post... i'm largely unfamiliar with PS2/Gamecube stuff... and have only played various games using other people's consoles... (and a MOG on a consol, apart from disliking MOGs in a general way, seems... ridiculous). So i was going on the assumption that there had to be headset/voice-rec involved to play the thing... cause... how the hell do you type with a PS2 controller? this baffles me.

FF is cool... but i agree... it ain't that cool.

[mikeytsi.livejournal.com]

Well, they've got a menu-driven chat system, which also translates "common phrases" in to native languages, (which is probably what you mistook for the voice recognition), so it's not terrible. However, it's not ideal, especially for the price. If they wanted a hard drive, (and they had been planning for that expansion when they designed the damn thing), they should have just included it to begin with so all the developers would use it. Now you've got a niche add-on that probably only 1/100th of the developers will actually use, and that's not cost effective.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Not on FFXI- it's not builtto support it. They do however, have usb keyboard's that'll work with the PS2