Like when sophisticated movies give way to old-school pulp mayhem, I feel a hole in my heart where playground video game wars used to be. Bickering over which machine's the best has become such a perceived sign of ignorance and immaturity that no one dares do it anymore; people still bitch-fight over everything else under the sun, but which console pwnz the rest ... forget about it.
I remember when it was Amiga vs ST (that was shortlived), Megadrive vs SNES, Speccy vs C64. People are so afraid of being declared a platform 'fanboy' by their peers that everything's turned into stiff-upper-lip mutual respect, and everyone owns all three consoles and quietly accepts the difference between them.
Well, for this thread and this thread only, I say BALONEY! Here there'll be no guarded comments, no subtle swipes ... IT'S A WAAARZONE!
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Like many folks here, I have the three current consoles, a DC and a PC. In normal conversation I love them all equally, but not here. Here I love only one, and I'll MURDER anyone who says otherwise:
XBOX!
It's a modder's homebrew dream, and that makes it great no matter which side of the moral fence you sit on regarding emulation etc.
It's a powerhouse of a machine which could happily slap other formats silly in a head-to-head.
It looks like a big video recorder...? Well, I LIKE the fact that it looks the way it does. It's a big entertainment brick, and it tells people that there's big entertaining **** inside it. Now the PS2 has to clutch a separate HD to its side like some sheepish imbecile, hoping no one notices its ever increasing size - LOOK AT YOU NOW!
I happen to like the S controller. People said the Dreamcast controller was a brick when it first appeared - but everyone loves the Dreamcast now! It's like Attack of the Clones - it sounded crap the first time, but you kinda like it now, don't you? Yes ... yes you do.
Even if MS don't want it to be, the Xbox has become the machine which Sony once pretended the PS2 would be. Remember the promises of the PS2 being 'the all-round entertainment platform'? PAH! Didn't happen, did it?
Custom soundtracks - they RULE! (Especially when applied to a hacked MS dashboard with a custom skin and lots of animated whirly **** - BONG!).
Fulfilled promises. The Xbox was marketed as a very powerful machine which would feature addictive, functional online play without the need for a hardware upgrade. As advertised - HERE IT IS! Compare that to Sony with their fake Tekken Tag screenshots and their policy of cosmetically removing jaggies from screenshots - screw you, lying scumbuckets!
Now come on! FIGHT ME!
*shakes head, not sure what just came over him*
I remember when it was Amiga vs ST (that was shortlived), Megadrive vs SNES, Speccy vs C64. People are so afraid of being declared a platform 'fanboy' by their peers that everything's turned into stiff-upper-lip mutual respect, and everyone owns all three consoles and quietly accepts the difference between them.
Well, for this thread and this thread only, I say BALONEY! Here there'll be no guarded comments, no subtle swipes ... IT'S A WAAARZONE!
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Like many folks here, I have the three current consoles, a DC and a PC. In normal conversation I love them all equally, but not here. Here I love only one, and I'll MURDER anyone who says otherwise:
XBOX!
It's a modder's homebrew dream, and that makes it great no matter which side of the moral fence you sit on regarding emulation etc.
It's a powerhouse of a machine which could happily slap other formats silly in a head-to-head.
It looks like a big video recorder...? Well, I LIKE the fact that it looks the way it does. It's a big entertainment brick, and it tells people that there's big entertaining **** inside it. Now the PS2 has to clutch a separate HD to its side like some sheepish imbecile, hoping no one notices its ever increasing size - LOOK AT YOU NOW!
I happen to like the S controller. People said the Dreamcast controller was a brick when it first appeared - but everyone loves the Dreamcast now! It's like Attack of the Clones - it sounded crap the first time, but you kinda like it now, don't you? Yes ... yes you do.
Even if MS don't want it to be, the Xbox has become the machine which Sony once pretended the PS2 would be. Remember the promises of the PS2 being 'the all-round entertainment platform'? PAH! Didn't happen, did it?
Custom soundtracks - they RULE! (Especially when applied to a hacked MS dashboard with a custom skin and lots of animated whirly **** - BONG!).
Fulfilled promises. The Xbox was marketed as a very powerful machine which would feature addictive, functional online play without the need for a hardware upgrade. As advertised - HERE IT IS! Compare that to Sony with their fake Tekken Tag screenshots and their policy of cosmetically removing jaggies from screenshots - screw you, lying scumbuckets!
Now come on! FIGHT ME!
*shakes head, not sure what just came over him*
ck them up.
I really do hope they keep ignoring the PoS, something tells me Bill will never get the message and continually hammer his marketing on the poor, disinterested Japanese folk for his 'dead slug' of a console.
ft: basicly I summed it up by saying, if you have a chipped xbox then you will never look back, theres no limit on how you can upgrade it, maybe you just want to be able to play games from a different region or maybe you want to install a 300gb harddrive and put a few hundred divx movies on it, either way to dismiss the xbox is foolish.
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