Can I dip a toe in the water please?

I would very much like to apply for part time (Ally) membership of the seniors (or SNoRes as I like to think of them) so that in times of trouble when the chips are down and your backs are to the wall, I can hold your coats. KInda like Switzerland in world war II, but with less Toblerone and lilac cows.

Anyway, my name is Stephen, I am 40, I live in the MIdlands and my wife is a fan of all kinds of crap movies which no doubt you will hear at times coming over my comms, so for that I apologise now. I have recently rescued a kitten so karmically deserve ally status just for that.

I have been a gamer ever since they invented it, from the rubber keys and attribute clash days of the zx spectrum where I played such classics as Academy ( the sequel to Tau Ceti), manic miner and Jetpac (the 16k version of Lunar Jetman). I later moved onto the Commodore Amiga where I loved such games as Hired Guns, Powermonger and Bubble Bobble (which I very nearly completed). I consider this in some ways the golden age of gaming, everyone was trying out new ideas and although their reach often exceeded their grasp there was some truly awesome gaming to be had. Lemmings, worms, M1 Tank platoon, there was real variety To be had.

So then it was onto the original playstation which was good fun with classics like Doom and tombe raider. I then had a PS2 and later because of the option of LAN gaming (I coudn`t get broadband at the time) I had an Xbox which I must say was much better than the PS2, although not as well built. But then I moved onto the pS3 and the rest as they say is history.

My preferred gaming choice is something where I have to blow stuff up, cars, office blocks, myself, it doesnt really matter what as long as it goes bang. Games I currently enjoy on PS3 are Killzone 3, Uncharted 3, Littlebigplanet2, Battlefield etc. I am currently looking forward to Counterstrike although I suck at reaction shooters, Borderlands II and maybe the Last of us.

Anyway I await your reply.

 

M1 tank platoon was one of my favourites, considering the limitations of the platform it did a great job of simulating tank warfare and I really wish we had an updated version, Battlefield doesnt really capture the feel of tank warfare, it feels somewhat arcadey, I want something a little more simulationalist (is that a word). I used to love hopping from hill to hill trying to spot the soviet formations and outflank them, classic gaming.


You probably cant hear me because , I tend to keep the mic sensitivity down so You cant hear the tv, or at least hear it as much. It is one of the perils of having two tvs in the same room, otherwise though we would have to share 1 tv and so i would never get to be online. It has been suggested that I should move the TV elsewhere in the house, but that would be impractical not mention antisocial towards my homelife, so its two tvs, uninterrupted gaming and somewhat muffled comms, about as fair a compormise as I can make.

 

I did have a read on the site, I can see the surround headphones being great for listening to my tv, but thats not the issue, I am not sure they would solve the chat problem where they could still possibly pick up the other tv in the room via the mike and it seems like a lot of money to spend to find out.

 

what is wrong with calling the Kitten Pibby? it started out as Pain In Butt, and ended up as Pibby

yeah may see you online later

 

Just to be clear, would the headset solve my main problem which is sound from the other tv being picked up on my mic and transferred to everyone else in the game, or is the recommendation of a surround sound headset based only on the quality of the sound they deliver to you ears, because I do not have a problem with hearing the sounds from the game or hearing other people on the headset, what bothers me is that the tv at the other end of the room is disturbing my fellow players by bleeding onto their comms.