Do you have a console?

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by ShigeruMiyamoto:
On this Australian TV show (Good Morning Australia) they try sell this rip off of a NES. It looks like they have got the casing of old N64's and shoved a nes in them and tried to sell them for a ridiculously high amount.

$129.95 Australian dollars!!!! which is about $95.00 US dollars!!!!. For fuck sake....it sells for about teh same amount as a GameCube.

check it out here: http://www.globalshopdirect.tv/eMPro/prod80.htm

Oh my God what a rip-off, I certainly hope no one is stupid enough to buy that.

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher Linux Game Master:


Oh my God what a rip-off, I certainly hope no one is stupid enough to buy that.

They must do, else they wouldn't sell it at that price.
I thought you were an an economist    j/k

[Aaron Ni]

SNES compact & Green Gameboy Pocket.

[choasforages]

xbox - only peice of microsoft i own that actually worked, i can only imagine what kinda evil trial run for drm that bastard box is

gamecube
dreamcast
n64
segacd
supernintendo
nes
some ancient thing called an intellevision its commodore 64 ancient

[Aoshi]

i have 2 xboxes, one 1st gen, and a 3rd gen i think the new one is.  though i dislike microsoft, the xbox is the best console out there for a few reasons.

1. harddrive standard
2. you can put your own music onto it
3. 4 controller slots standard
4. possibility for best graphics though few games use it

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by Aoshi:
i have 2 xboxes, one 1st gen, and a 3rd gen i think the new one is.  though i dislike microsoft, the xbox is the best console out there for a few reasons.

1. harddrive standard
2. you can put your own music onto it
3. 4 controller slots standard
4. possibility for best graphics though few games use it

1. Why do I need a hard drive, can you take the hard drive over to a friends house and use it on his xbox?
2. Other game companies pride themselves on putting excellent music into the games so you don't have to use your own collection
3. 4 controller ports for crappy controllers
4. Good graphics aren't worth a penny if the games suck ass!!!!

[Paladin9]

quote:Originally posted by Aoshi:
1. harddrive standard

I still find it rediculus that consoles now have hard drives.

quote:2. you can put your own music onto it

???

quote:3. 4 controller slots standard

stardard to microsoft?

quote:4. possibility for best graphics though few games use it

Good graphics has NOTHING to do with a game being good.  I think Mario Brothers 3 is still the best game ever.  Do you think it is not good becuase it has now shitty graphics?  Anyway, if I want a game with good graphics, then I will get it for my pc.

[Fett101]

Too bad the one thing the Xbox is lacking is must have games    

[ May 12, 2004: Message edited by: Fett101 ]

[zao]

1. harddrive standard
First harddrive implementation was on japanese Famicom (Family Computer or NES) with Legend of Zelda. I will hardly quality harddrive as standard as Flash RAM will soon replace it. At the moment, having a HD for the console make the Xbox an easy target for either hackers and crackers.

I currently have a Sega Dreamcast though I will consider to get Nintendo Gamecube.

[Topdawg2050]

HALO RUELZ!!!!!      

[Stilly]

i actually like the xbox

i play halo at my friend's house all the time. we get em networked on ethernet and its badass.

[skyman8081]

how about I do a stinging point-by-point rebuttal. (I like all 3 systems, but I'm poor and I only have an xbox)
 

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:


1. Why do I need a hard drive, can you take the hard drive over to a friends house and use it on his xbox?

so you don't have to spend more money on a memory card that does not hold as much as the hard-drive.
and there ARE memory cards for xbox for that exact reason, although I beleive that there are experimenting with roaming saved games via vbov live.

 

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:

2. Other game companies pride themselves on putting excellent music into the games so you don't have to use your own collection

what if I think their music sucks? and support is up to the choice of the game dev. Halo has no support for that, but has a kickass soundtrack.

 

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:

3. 4 controller ports for crappy controllers

That is your opinion, i'm not going to bother.
I personally like the big controllers, which are oh-so-comfy, and I find the "S" controller to be awkward.

 

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:

4. Good graphics aren't worth a penny if the games suck ass!!!!

but good graphics can make a great game even better.

[preacher]

quote:so you don't have to spend more money on a memory card that does not hold as much as the hard-drive.
and there ARE memory cards for xbox for that exact reason, although I beleive that there are experimenting with roaming saved games via vbov live.

I have had a single ps2 8 mb memory card for 3 years and it has over 30 games saved on it and is still not full. Plus I can take just the memory card over to my friends house, and play my saved games on his PS2, tell me how you can do that with a hard drive?

   

quote:what if I think their music sucks? and support is up to the choice of the game dev. Halo has no support for that, but has a kickass soundtrack.

If their music sucks that is the developers fault. Look at games like Gran Turismo 3, and the excellent soundtrack it had. If nothing else I can easily play a CD on my home theater system, while playing a game.

   

quote:That is your opinion, i'm not going to bother.
I personally like the big controllers, which are oh-so-comfy, and I find the "S" controller to be awkward.

The big clunky old controllers, and even the smaller, yet still too big newer controllers are just plain shit. If you notice, the newer controllers are a blatant rip off of the shape of the ps2 controller.


   

quote:
but good graphics can make a great game even better.

I agree with this, but when will the Xbox have great games?

[ May 15, 2004: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

[Aoshi]

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:


1. Why do I need a hard drive, can you take the hard drive over to a friends house and use it on his xbox?
2. Other game companies pride themselves on putting excellent music into the games so you don't have to use your own collection
3. 4 controller ports for crappy controllers
4. Good graphics aren't worth a penny if the games suck ass!!!!

1. um, well first off you wouldnt really need to, because you could just bring yours and use yours.  or they can go out and be a little sissy bitch and get action reply and not actually deserve the fucking tvr speed 12 and get the good players like myself flamed....(sorry, personal thing...)

2. um lets see pgr2 had hundreds of tracks, about maybe 10 of which i liked...

3. i dont really see how you can call those crappy controllers, i personally love the large one and hate the controller S, but i dont know how you can call them crappy, almost every button is pressure sensative on them.

4. games cant "suck ass" thats completly opionion is is controllers and music preference.  i like lots of xbox games and think that they are alot better then any other system games.


to someone elses post that xbox doesnt have any "must have games"...lol no other system does either, the only must have game on ps2 is gran turismo 3, which is going to be utterly bested by a new xbox racing game which include basically everything you can thing of.  if youve played nfsu, it has that aspect of which you can make your car look how you want it to.  while having the same aspect of gt3 in which you can upgrade your car to how you like it and tune it how you want it to a greater extent ten both of the games mentioned above.

and xbox does have some must have games, if you like racing theres Toca racedriver 2 (a bit wierd but nice) pgr2, and rallisport challenge 2 (the godliest).  in the first person shooters class they have rainbow six 3, counterstrike (god knows why...).

[Fett101]

I never said any of the other systems did. Damned games these days.

Still. GTA3, Metal Gear Solid and then Cube has Metorid, Zelda...

Hell. All these games suck. Screw it. I'm gonna go play Grim Fandango.