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camwynOkay. Lately I've been seeing a lot of stuff about video games that look like they'd be absolutely fascinating. Portal, for one, and the upcoming Ghostbusters first-person shooter, for another. The thing is that while my computer is pretty kickin', I'm aware that it'd probably need some upgrades to make it happy with the graphics demands placed on it by various video games both past and present. It's fine with running Sims 2 and Civilization IV, which are really my only major games at this point... I don't especially feel like messing with its guts. It's got personality at the moment and I don't want to disrupt that.
Oh hush.
Anyway, this sort of points in the direction of getting a video game console instead and just hooking it up to my TV. I'm led to understand that this would also solve my problem with the DVD player I used to have no longer being active. This is fine by me, except that I know doodly about consoles, their merits, or their flaws. I have never owned one. I never planned to own one, so I never read about them. I've played some games on other people's in the past, but I scarcely remember which games were on which. I'm told that Portal exists for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. I've read that the Ghostbusters video game will be made for both of those platforms (also for the PC, but like I said, I don't really wanna fool with my existing system if I can avoid it). I realize it's foolish to make a purchase like that for just one or two games, but I'll also be using the thing as a DVD player, so that means it's not nearly as much in the way of overkill for limited function.
Those of you who're friends of mine and more familiar with the consoles out there, what can you recommend for me? Bear in mind that early first-person shooters made me motion sick, but graphics lately have been getting better. I'm fond of strategy games like Civilization and Dune 2000, and I don't own a high definition TV.
Oh hush.
Anyway, this sort of points in the direction of getting a video game console instead and just hooking it up to my TV. I'm led to understand that this would also solve my problem with the DVD player I used to have no longer being active. This is fine by me, except that I know doodly about consoles, their merits, or their flaws. I have never owned one. I never planned to own one, so I never read about them. I've played some games on other people's in the past, but I scarcely remember which games were on which. I'm told that Portal exists for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. I've read that the Ghostbusters video game will be made for both of those platforms (also for the PC, but like I said, I don't really wanna fool with my existing system if I can avoid it). I realize it's foolish to make a purchase like that for just one or two games, but I'll also be using the thing as a DVD player, so that means it's not nearly as much in the way of overkill for limited function.
Those of you who're friends of mine and more familiar with the consoles out there, what can you recommend for me? Bear in mind that early first-person shooters made me motion sick, but graphics lately have been getting better. I'm fond of strategy games like Civilization and Dune 2000, and I don't own a high definition TV.
