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GougedEye

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For PC or 360?

What I really want it TF2. (and Portal). So I'm thinking maybe it's better to go for the PC version?
1) Keyboard and Mouse.
2) Dedicated Servers.
3) More Players (Due to 2).

Is there a local TF2 Server (Saix?) EDIT: Ok I stopped being such a lazy git and went to look. Yep seems that SAIX have a TF2 server.
 
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mmm.. I think I'm going to go for the PC version. The local servers makes it much more attractive, and I think my pc will run it just fine. It beats all the recommended specs, so I should be fine, and it should be cheaper :D

Now assissin's creed on the other hand, that I will need to get for 360 :D
 
I own a 360, have played and enjoyed many FPS's on it, but still bought the Orange Box for PC...just something about Half-Life, for me, that needs to played on PC :)
 
TF2 on the X360 has been my choice. The cell shaded fun is simply too good on a 32" LCD & 5.1 sound. I played a couple of PC demos on the 19" PC screen and it just doesnt look right! :p
 
Portal FTW! Thumbs up to whoever put the humour in that game!

wow

I'm eating the Cake now! Quite a nice ending awaits those of you that is still playing it.

Enjoy the Cake! :D
 
Thanks for the advice guys,

Ended up getting the PC version. Main driver was the fact that SAIX have a local server for TF2.

There are two (three) issues I have observed with going PC instead of 360 (I'm sure there are issues in going with 360 instead of PC as well).:

1) Oh man, I forgot how I hate Steam so very much. It does very much the same thing as X-Box Live, but does it very, very badly. No I mean extremely, very, very badly. Admittedly it's better than when it launched, but holy cow, I have been spoiled by Live and the bar of my expectatrions is so much higher now. Anyhow, it took like 3 hours to install the damn game. I just don't get it. I mean It comes on two damn DVDs so what on earth is going on? And I have a 4mb line. I was worried that it was downloading the whole thong again, but it used relatively little bandwidth in those 3 hours. Once I got it all working it seems to be stable and usable enough though.

2) The local server is that. One local server supporting 24 players. Now they have sold quite a lot more than 24 copies. I did get to play a whole bunch, but I forsee a problem. But I guess that using Live's P2P system you will lag to death long before you get 24 players going. I miss the Holo3 party / friends system. Whish that was an option in the PC version (and that MS made it possible to have dedicated servers for XBox games).

3) (Not really an Issue ....) I battled with the mouse / keyboard at first. That was a shock and totally unexpected. But after doing all my FPSing on the 360 since gears came out I am actually getting used to it and to really like it. But it came back to me quite quickly.

Other than that TF2 is a nice fun game. Not nearly (IMO) as good multiplayer as H3, but it's different enough to a nice change etc. They even gave achievement points built into it, but what for I don't really know.
 
Enjoyed that vid. Just bought the box - haven;t played any of the HL2 series yet. Looking forward to waisting the next few weekends on it :)
 
Portal FTW! Thumbs up to whoever put the humour in that game!

wow

I'm eating the Cake now! Quite a nice ending awaits those of you that is still playing it.

Enjoy the Cake! :D

finished it today, what a game hey :D

the computer was so eerie in the way it was suprised at how you doged the 4000 degrees kelvin:eek:

PS HL2EP2, jeez, i never seen the Source Engine looking so good.

It's been 3 years since the Source Engine release and STILL most new game engines cant beat it's facial expressions and physics (mind you graphics have been vastly improved! looks real modern, even the the original HL2 was ahead of it's time)

And TF2, never seen such a fun multiplayer in my life ^^
 
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