Protoss/Zerg Hybrids............................................. goes into coma

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Well, I'm getting real sick of starcraft. Whenever I play my friends, they make a million photon cannons and a million carriers, and I do the same. I can always take out their carriers easily, but we both make our bases so huge and well protected that it is always a draw ending a very, very boring game. I can't beat anyone I meet on battlenet (not to mention the battle.net community is 10x worse than AOL as far as obnoxiousness in the members), and to play one game takes hours most of the time. Maybe I will resell it on ebay... I need the cash. Along with the copy of infini-d I bought but can't get a hang of...

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Originally posted by Insano:
I'll tell you something about how evil Microsoft is. The XBox. Just look at the pathetic thing and how much it resembles PCs.

How dare you insult the XBOX? I love my XBOX.

/me notes that Microsoft probably stole the design off of a small helpless company :mad:

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Originally posted by Insano:
1. Xbox is huge, so is a PC.

Pah. The XBOX's size, while not superior, is perfectly fine. It is much lighter than PC's, and is sleeker.

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Originally posted by Insano:
2. Xbox's controller ports are USB ports, so are a PCs.

What did you expect, firewire? USB ports are fine, so what if PC's use them?

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Originally posted by Insano:
3. Xbox is unreliable as there have been several instances of it freezing. So is a PC.

XBOX freezing? I have never had it freeze. Sure I had to get my unit repaired because the laser broke, but that was because of faulty hardware.

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Originally posted by Insano:
4. XBox is pretty much ripping off old video game companies by coming in late, so is the PC. Now you're saying, "Sony did that too!" They did to a certain degree, but not as much as XBox. Sony has some original ideas. They were the first successful system with CDs, the first with analog buttons, the first with built in rumble, and the first with DVDs.

So what? If the feature is good, why NOT include it?

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Originally posted by Insano:
5. XBox's controller is just a rip off of all the other features of other controllers. PS2's analog sticks and buttons, a very similair shape to Dreamcast's form and sholder button placement. I remember they did copy a Nintendo thing, but I can't remember what.

^...See above comment...^

Try Halo or PGR on XBOX and you will know why XBOX is so addictive. It has the most powerful graphics engine of the main consoles, it has the single best game in existance (Halo), and has a built in hard drive. You can download music to the XBOX and then play it in your game! Also the controller is pretty powerful, especially using Halo's default configuration.

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Argh, Starcraft is to irritating for me to play now. I got so incredibly burned out on that game when it came out, I can't even think about it now, which is unfortunately the same thing that happened to me with the two warcraft games.

Oh, and about the Mac's being faster then PCs, as far as I can tell this is true when comparing identically speced computers, which means Macs are faster on an equal playing ground. However, for the same amount of money, you can buy a top of the line Mac, and five top of the line PCs, which ARE faster then the top of the line Mac, simply because of their lead in megahurtz. Now, I of all people know megahurtz aren't everything, but they are something, and I will admit that the Mac processor is faster then it's PC counterparts, or at least was a year ago, but the computer I built for 600 bucks is a 1.4 Ghz Athlon XP with 256 MB od SDRAM, and a 60gig HD.. blah blah blah. It is much faster then any Mac you could put together for 600 bucks, which in my opinion, is really the only important thing.

Also, many of the games I enjoy are higly system intensive, Urban Terror (The Quake 3 Mod) and Myth 3 and (believe it or not) Civ 3. My poor old Mac can barely push OS X, but my PC easily pulls these feats off. Regardless of all I've said, I still use my Mac for all tasks not gaming, and will continue to do so, simply because I am more comfortable with the OS, though again, I must say that XP, rip-off as it may be, is as easy to use as I could ask for, I've had no problems with it so far.

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Pro-PC and Pr-Civ3...finally, someone on this board I understand!! Civ3 is a great game, but I personally like Civ2 better, Civ3 has TOO many rules and exceptions.

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Originally posted by ares1:
I can't beat anyone I meet on battlenet (not to mention the battle.net community is 10x worse than AOL as far as obnoxiousness in the members), and to play one game takes hours most of the time.

Just keep playing on battle.net, and you'll be able to beat people eventually. I admit many people are annoying, but I've learned to mostly ignore that. The people who play Blood Bath games tend to be a little nicer, most of the time. Also, most of the real jerks tend to suck, and get wiped out quickly in team games.

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ares, you can't expect to beat everyone on battlenet when you've had the game less than a month. I've had the game for 2 years and there are still lots of people better than me. You are doing GREAT in proportion to how long you've had the game. Just keep playing.

Mac, if you see this within 20 minutes of its posting, get on battlenet!

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I know I could get better in time... My point is that I am just getting burnt out. It's a very tiring game to play, and after so many games it gets a bit old and repetitive. I am going to play less for a while, maybe practice on my own against computers, before I go back onto battlenet. Half of my problem is simply the people on battlenet.

Me: "Please don't rush"
Them: "K!!!!"
Fourteen and a half seconds later, a massive swarm of zerglings floods my base
Me: "Hey, I said no rush man! What's wrong with you?"
Them: **** u u ****ing ****er, go ***** your ******"!!!! HAHAHAH"

Yeah, they really do swear about that bad. If I compared that next to a log of many of my chats with people on Bnet, you could not tell the difference. It is like AOL, but with even less maturity (if that is possible) and much more swearing.

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Try Halo or PGR on XBOX and you will know why XBOX is so addictive. It has the most powerful graphics engine of the main consoles, it has the single best game in existance (Halo), and has a built in hard drive. You can download music to the XBOX and then play it in your game! Also the controller is pretty powerful, especially using Halo's default configuration.

Bah, Super Smash Bros. Melee is better. I really didn't mean to start a console argument, just feed to the urge to call Microsoft evil.

I'd like everyone in here to all of their b.net names if possible. If you have more than one, post them all. Mine's Insano3.

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B.net name: Insano3
STVEF name: Insano

ME: ~Belgarion~
ARES: dashriprock
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I say we all just start joining a private channel.

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I've got the Starcraft demo and log onto battle.net every now then, but I've been told by blizzard that the server won't support games using a cable connection...

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I have cable, several of my friends have cable, several games on bnet are often called things like "no lag cable", etc. and I have never heard of other people having problems with it.

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OK, you guys are all using the brood war disc, right? Because I'm logging in with that. If you guys are using the original disc, tell me.

Played my first b.net game last night, I won. Of course, it was me and 4 allies who knew what they were doing against 3 zerg comps. But still, good learning experience. I'm now trying to play as Protoss as I saw a new defensive tactic that I liked. Photon cannons for base defense. And I like the carriers more than battlecruisers. As for the people, most of them were nice except for one. They were calling me white because my units were white, but on the map I was green. So I didn't know at first. They were telling me to ally and I didn't get it until I saw a white marine. I did so, but that one guy couldn't forgive me for taking so long. I told him I was an newbie. So, he sent in some forces and killed most of my units, the other guys told him to stop and he eventually did. Then he lagged out and everyone was happy. Good first game.

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(quote)Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**Go play Rogue Squad II or Halo sometime, and you'll suddenly find personal computer games obsolete.;)

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Hahah. You always appear light green on your own map. They see you as white. The color of your units is the same as what everyone sees you as. The light green is just so you can quickly identify your own base, I suppose.

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Originally posted by Vice Admiral Ipvicus:
**I say we all just start joining a private channel.

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Once upon a time, all the ambrosia board people when on moderately often and used channel ambrosia. I still do, so I'd suggest that. Apparently no one else uses it, because I've never seen anyone there except friends I invited.

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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
MAC: Macavenger_ (almost never on anyway though)

I have finals next week, a big essay for AP Comp due tomorrow, Driver's Ed 3x a week, other projects to work on, etc... I suppose you're that busy and can still be on often? I've actually been on probably three times this week. I'd say that's pretty good considering how busy I've been lately.

Insano, I'll send you some replays of computer squashing sometime soon, but I have to generate them first, so it may be a few days.

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I only have one console, a PSX with no GameShark compatibility. However, if I really want to play a game on a different console, I'll just go to one of my friends' house, they alway let me use it. So, between me and my friends, I can play on a PSX, an N64, a PS1, a PS2, a Dreamcast, a Super Nintendo (blah), and soon one person is getting a GameCube and an XBox.

And would you all please stop babbling about StarCraft? I've never even seen it played and I have no intention of doing so.

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