Childish? I am the one who looked at the xbox with an open mind originally (and it didnt impress me one iota), as you OBVIOUSLY did with the gamecube with your above posts, but anyway. im big enough at 6 foot 3 .
Look Jon i dont want to fall out with you, as you are safe geez, but if you can give me one good reason (not its hardware, its software) to buy an xbox i will. My mate tried ramming splinter cell down my throat (not literally) when it was xbox only, i have got it for the PC and find it utterly boring.
Not one game on the box i find fun, sorry but thats just my opinion, and all these yuppies at uni that say you must get an x-box becuase you can hack it and make it like a PC!, i tell them "What the hell for? ive got a PC with at least double the power (ie the xbox's lame p3 733 Mhz processor) if i want to use a pc!".
PS the gamecube has 500 mhz processor but has much better architecture (and a ATi graphics card who are THE best imho ) than old P3 stuff (133 mhz!! fsb bus!), and professor's of PC architecture reckon the GC might have the same power (if not more) thean the xbox.
In a decent computing magazine (not one for yuppies, that tell them what they want to hear) the xbox and PS2 went through extremely unfair bench marking, they ran them with no textures, half the res of the gc and no lighting/FSAA. No wonder it can do many polygons, if the bechmark is at 320x240!!! and no effects.
To prove the point of the bull excrement put in most magazines, My pc can do about 6 - 8 million polygons smoothly with lighting effects etc at 1024x768 (1.4 gig athlon real speed, 512 ddr, 128 mb radeon 9000 pro), the xbox can do 25 million (the figure qouted at currys when it came out) with a slower bus and older a architecture processor at 733 Mhz.
Me thinks the becnhmarkings a bit iffy, the GC's 6 mill sounds reasonable.
What do i smell? Bull exrement. (if you dont belive me run some bechmarking software on your own pc!, there is NO way the xbox can do that)
i bet most of you dont know that nintendo invented pretty much everything that is assosiated with consoles. they invented;
Carts, D-Pads, shoulder buttons, analogue, vibration... try playing a PS2 or Xbox without them. cant be done. also its because of Nintendo that Sony are making consoles, its all about the SnesCD system, ninty went to Phillips and Sony to produce a CD add on for the snes but Sony just said bye to Ninty and stole (well not steal, just took) the concept of a CD based console... after the AmigaCD that is.
Im not a 100% nintendo devotee, i love my Xbox too. simply for Halo which is so much better on the Xbox BTW (co-op is one of the most addictive features) and that you can have 16 player (local) deathmatches with 4 xboxs instead of 16 PC's. But the other main thing about xbox is the illegal side. I got mine chipped but not for copying games, but for putting on a new Dashboard and throwing in some emulators and ROMs.
anywho, Mario is classic there is absolutely no doubt of that, Zelda will continue to be unique (tho Windwaker should have been much better) and Metroid is just one of my fave series of all time. all my opinion mind you.
The PS2 simply isnt original. PS1 maybe, but the 2 is just a direct copy of 1 but with hardware upgrades, hell the controller is 90% identical to the PS1 version! Sony need to employ some fresh minded originality chief person and stop copying the crowd.
Mario Kart is overrated but still an excellent multiplayer. Metroid Prime is the best game of all time. Mario Sunshine was fun, as was Windwaker. F-Zero GX is the daddy of racers. Gamers are forgetting that games should be fun. whats the point in playing a boring game where you select moves through menus or spend all evening sneaking around some guards... but still, its just my opinion.
I have only a NES and three computers. Lol. But still, Nintendo will rule the gaming empire from 2004 perhaps to year 3000! And my NES doesn't work if i dont put a wireless NES controller to its "hole" where i must put my old Super Mario Bros. 3 too...
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anyways my fave console will probably always be GBA cuz ive grown up addicted to 2D and its never changed. Sony are releasing this PSP device but its not going anywhere. one of the best selling games of all time is Pokemon and what system is that on? the DS has a weird concept and only time will tell what happens to it, hopefully not another Virtual Boy HA!
oh and one last thing; what has been the longest running and most selling console of all time? the humble gameboy! which has destroyed everything which has stood in its way... its like some evil killing machine... or something.
Nintendo has always had a place in my heart, I've owned pretty much every commerical console that they have released over here, the Nes, Snes, N64 and the Cube, and just about every type of GameBoy they've done too, but as I said, I have no typical favourite, reason being is because they all have their own good and bad sides, and anyway I play them just to chill out, not to prove which is better.
And Hagar, ignore what I said earlier, I was in a bad mood and felt like taking it out on someone (No suprise there)- lol.
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Edit: Oh and Hagar, I don't really give a damn about the specs of the machine, because to me that really does not matter.
Just read what i ranted about earlier and i have been a bugger lol, sorry about what ive said jon too, ive been 'annoyed' lately with more assignments than you can point a large number of assignments pointing device at, and a bloody exam tomorrow i dont have a bloody clue about! .
Ive got to admit, battle mode on the basic levels sucks in Mario Kart DD and many, and Sunshine is too short, but even though bllosy hard to get those shines . I cant help it, im too oldskool i want it too be just Sega And Nintendo .
You see the year was 1994 and i was local Mario Kart Champion, and currently im local Mario Kart champion again and very very drunk...zzz.zzz.ZZZ.zzz.ZzZ.zzz.
Funny that Rare left when they were going down the pan. Goldeneye was a true classic but Perfect Dark was overhyped. then came Jet Force Gemini which I loved at the time. since that they've just got further down hill.
i agree there Hagar that Mario Kart battle is pretty crappy. multiplayer on grandprix is so much better. HA a few months ago i hooked up a projector with my cube and had 4 players on Mario Kart an Smash Bros Melee... funny how a 10 foot screen makes games just that much better
I don't see what makes X-Box so great. I'm not interested in any of the games it has. I mean, military sim games? Who's idea was that?! I don't want to go through the confusion of ordering X troops to X place, and military sims usually have poor framerates, no matter what system they are on. RPGs I am no fan of, because it just doesn't interest me trying to train monsters or your party, and fight random battles (Which aren't all that random). It just gets boring too quick.
The only games that are true video games are the arcade/action games. So what if they say that GC games are kiddy games? They're not. They're just games that you can pick up and play easily without having to know what element type is effective to what type, and any of that other crap.
Not one game on the GC I have played has a bad framerate, except for Conflict: Desert Storm, but I don't give a shoe about those type of games.
Edit: I'd also like to include that although you guys may brag about X-Box's nVidia card, you have missed the icon on the GameCube that says "Powered by ATI". ATI is a great graphics card developing company, with many exclusive technologies you don't get with an nVidia card, like TruForm, which can take low-poly models, convert them into high-poly models, and then refresh the screen, reducing the amount of slow-downs in any game that uses this technology.
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This is getting sad really, This thread alone goes to show how much disrespect you guys have for the other consoles and their owners. Instead of badgering each console, and going on and on about the bad points, why not try and get along, and discuss the real importance of console gaming..
The people who mock other consoles should be shot ladies and gentlemen, because their own console has just about as many faults as any of the others, they just forget to bring them up in the so called "War"
ADMINISTRATORS!!! Plz close this topic! And by the way, ONLY good machine is a computer with Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community, 2.5 ghz prosessor and an ATI Radeon 9700 video card......test Vice City o it and see that its the best computer!
Projects in development:
SuperTomppa palaa takaisin
Info: Well, a little shooter...
When its done: Summer
Percentage complete: 98%
No, it isn't. The fastest computer would be one that has 3.0 GhZ and an ATI Radeon 9800 XT. Not that I know anyone with these specs, but at least I know about the 9800.
Project Progress:
1.: Droid Runner (5% Complete)
Finishing Up Game Engine
lol ive got a laptop with a 3.2ghz HT Pentium 4 and a Geforce Go6700 bundled with 1024mb DDR ram... ok its running XP but it flies through everything at crazily high framerates. but i dont like modern PC games; too many war FPS's and strategy stuff.
anywho, why are we arguing when we all like games?
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) than old P3 stuff (133 mhz!! fsb bus!), and professor's of PC architecture reckon the GC might have the same power (if not more) thean the xbox.
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. I cant help it, im too oldskool i want it too be just Sega And Nintendo 
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