Ya you tell him Calum!!!!
hehe
BTW, Atari released their games for free a while back. The illegal rom thing does not apply to them. Before they closed thir doors "they said do what you want we dont care."
I think SEGA did the same for Genesis ROMs. They officially "don't care". It was on
www.classicgaming,com a while back.
anyway....
Game Cube does not have baby games! They just have good games that don't relly on flash and 3d animated gore to sell!!!
The new Metroid looks awsome, and if your gonna tell me Zelda is not worth playing then you are way outta line!!! Anyway, if you want a game system with "hard core" games (I hate that term), the PS2 is damn good too.
Being totaly objective (i.e. forgeting my loathing for microsoft), I don't think the XBox is that great. I have played it and the controll feels like a football. The games are all garbage right now (save for Halo which will come out on other systems (BTW Halo was made by Bungi a company STOLEN by microsoft) <-yikes, it's hard to be objective
Don't even mention Dead or Alive III, again falling under 3d flash category. ANy game that wastes time creating variables to produce 3d animated breast gigle is bullshit fan-service mind-job material. Plus the game play is just a re-hash.
PS2 and Gamecube, are going to have, and DO have, excelent titles allready. The great thing about consoles is that they really do floor PC gaming. Wereas PC game racks are filld to the brim with Doom/Quake clones and nameles RTS's, Consoles actually break new ground. Jeez, take a look at GTAIII, ever seen that on a comp? Resident Evil? Devil may Cry? Shit, I don't know about you but a game system is nothing without Zelda
FInally on to the ideological/moral aspects. Why own a game system from an evil company?
Did you know that the Xbox is a response to the PlayStation 2 suposedly threatening M$ dominance?
It's true, M$ bought the Xbox design from another company and put the project into gear after the Sony CEO talked about how he wanted to get the PS2 online and sort of make it into an internete applience type thing. M$ said me first! And made that POS. It's not just a game system, it's a way for M$ to gain market dominance in a virgin arena.
When no developers came to the Xbox project M$ whent around and sucked up companyes, like Bungi mentioned above. Halo was a project for the mac in development since 97. It was actually scheduald for release on PC and Mac soon until M$ baught them out.
Esentially they Stole their launch title from the very Mac's you think don't have enugh games. How is that for funny
Not to mention that M$ totaly destroyed the Myth comunity after cobbling together that crappy Myth III and shutting down Bungi.net. I hear they axed the Myth Dev. team. If that's true there goes most of the origional bungi staff.
I hope the Xbox turns into a money pit for M$. They blew a ton on promoting it since they new it was gonna be tough to squeez it into the already established console market. M$ has yet to actually recoop the expense on the thing. Bill Gates himself estimates that it will take a few years, he assured his audience that the XBox will one day be the top player.
God I hope not.
Note: YARG!! After re-reading my post I noticed I pud game cube were I should have put X box
HAHA... that made this post sound a bit off, I think. Anyway. I changed it.
[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
