Posted by MrG 207.231.75.197 using Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win98; I) on March 05, 2000 at 14:23:20:
In Reply to: OK...Computer games and Video games are the same exact thing, take (more) posted by Spyder on March 04, 2000 at 14:53:38:
: Final Fantasy VII, Half-Life*, Diablo, Diablo II*, Rouge Squadron, Pod Racer, Phantom Menace, Tomb Raider 1-4, StarCraft, WarCraft 1+2, Road Rash, and half of the other video games out there. They're on the computer and video game consoles so what would you call them! Basically 'computer games' are 'video games' and the computer is their platform. They're no different from one another, especially with platforms like Dreamcast, PS2, and Dolphin; which can go on the internet, just like computers, and with the PS2 you can hook up every kind of computer part imaginable with the use of its USB and PCMCIA ports. My point in all this is not to get anyone to argue with me (because there's nothing to argue about) but to say that games are games, not 'video games' and 'computer games'.
Heh, sorry.. These games were all written for the computer, then ported to
video game consoles.. I absolutely loathe it when they do that, because these
games never turn out as good or have the same special quality as the computer
games; trust me, I've played quite a few at friends' houses.. As for video game
ports.. Well, pick up practically every other issue of PC Gamer and see just
how poorly *these* ports work as well.. Games are games, yes, but computer games
and video games are different, seperate types of games. Would you call poker and Uno
the same thing? They're both card games, but they're both extremely different. Risk and
Candyland? Football and baseball? Hockey and soccer? Drastically different, in their
own ways.. Though the trend is increasing steadily towards a crude marriage of video
and computer games, that'll be the day Chicago dies for sure, because both types of games
will lose their seperate, distinct identities. Sorry Spyder, but I just don't buy the
"video games are the same as computer games" theory...
Mike