Hi Shaun, PC Games and emulators are one thing, but working with the actual game consoles is another. If you want to get into commercial games getting a PSP or PS2 actually is better than the PC version or running them via an emulator. I am the biggest blind Tomb Raider fan around,and I don't like the PC versions as well as the Play Station ports. it doesn't make it much easier to play, but there is a lot nicer feel in using the PS2 controllers to move Lara Croft around. The keyboard controls for the Tomb Raider games get to be complicated as there is so many different moves and stunts she can do in the games that there isn't enough keys out there to support them easily. For example, if you want to have Lara do a jump and a flip so she can land facing the opposite direction you first have to do an alt+up arrow to get her to jump, and then hold down the end key so she will flip in mid air. If you do it correctly she will come down facing the opposite direction. However, as a keyboard combonation it is tricky to get the hang of. On the PS2 controller the buttons are arranged in such a way that doing the same thing is much more simplified. You can easily press forward with one hand and use the other to hold down one or more buttons at a time with ease.
shaun everiss wrote: > sounds interesting. > For me I have a friend that buys games, downloads games and gets games by > other means. > I mostly get them for sounds, I sometimes play. > My main issue is I don't have an adaquit system to play these games well > sertainly not a desktop to play these on without mangling the entire things. > I suppose I do now with my old half dead laptop. > If I took all the software and data off it, maybe, just maybe I could play > games, but there is not much space on there, and i have no 3d card. > I may have a 733 desktop at some point that with a bit of deleting and > formatting could be used although I have to change oses from the systems and > only have win98 well I have xp but I have to transfer keys and such to the > new box my dad has and well I have no idea. > The box crashes every so often and I'm not sure about stability. > But if someone gave me something that I didn't have to manage, ie if I wreck > the system it doesn't matter, then I probably would test. > In theory I could use this one but its my main box pluss the recovery disk is > hard to use. > Unlike my old system I can't just reformat with a few keys. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
