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Post by Jave on Aug 25, 2011 12:37:54 GMT -5
Wow, good game or no, that's one of the most snicker-inducingly awful TITLES for a golf game I've heard in quite some time. (: -Tom Oh sure. I mean, it was probably no better or worse than any other Sega Sports golf game of that era, but I remember, even at the time, thinking "that sounds like the name of a porn video. How did no one catch that?" |
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Post by kitten on Aug 25, 2011 13:20:42 GMT -5
I'd have to agree on that one. The original Xbox had a few decent exclusives, but not enough to warrant its existence. Halo was an excellent game! And Halo 2, by itself, had tremendous influence over the future of gaming and was wildly successful. While the Xbox was admittedly a bit of a clunky fumbling for Microsoft into the home console market, I'd say it was a very important console and definitely one that I and millions of other gamers spent a significant amount of time with. |
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Aug 25, 2011 13:35:58 GMT -5
I really liked my Xbox. The hardware was pretty cool, too, being the first major console to have a hard drive, allow for custom soundtracks, and limited HDTV support.
It was also a very nice alternative for playing a lot of PC games if you didn't have a good enough computer. At the very least, I had more games for it than the Gamecube.
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 25, 2011 13:43:02 GMT -5
Well it's more my personal feelings about the machine. At the time I had a PS2, Gamecube and a PC before I bought the Xbox to play panzer dragoon orta and ninja gaiden. The Xbox didn't offer much that these other 3 platforms were already offering me at the time. As for Halo, I never found it that great. It was good fun but nothing made it stand head and shoulders above what I was playing on the PC at the time. As for Halo 2, I felt the single player campaign was awful in that game.
I do recognise that Xbox and Halo 2 are instrumental to the development of online gaming on consoles and as microsofts foot in the door as a console developer. However as a system, other than a handful of games it offered me nothing that the PS2, GC and PC provided already.
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Post by Jave on Aug 25, 2011 13:46:22 GMT -5
I really like the Atari joysticks with the built-in games. Maybe the economics don't quite support this, but it'd be cool to see more dated, underpowered hardware sold at budget prices.
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 25, 2011 13:48:56 GMT -5
I know there's commodore 64 ones and a few people have taken to hacking them so they can run roms.
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Aug 25, 2011 13:59:47 GMT -5
Halo was the Goldeneye of 2001. It was nothing special compared to the PC FPS' at the time, but it was a major stepping stone for console FPS' actually being taken seriously.
I only had a PS2 and a PC that was by no means a gaming rig at the time I got my Xbox, so it did right by me.
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Post by derboo on Aug 25, 2011 14:06:31 GMT -5
I do recognise that Xbox and Halo 2 are instrumental to the development of online gaming on consoles and as microsofts foot in the door as a console developer. However as a system, other than a handful of games it offered me nothing that the PS2, GC and PC provided already. That were the GC and PC for me. I've bought more games for Xbox than any other console ever. |
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Post by X-pert74 on Aug 25, 2011 14:10:03 GMT -5
Sorry sir, we're all out. We only have snide sarcasm. Also the original NES was a terrible console. Great library, don't get me wrong, but the actual hardware... ugh. I have Vietnam-esque war trips remembering trying to get the fucking thing to work. Sometimes smacking it would actually do the trick. I wonder if the new, top-loading NES was any more reliable. I don't have much experience with the original NES (only vague memories of playing it once as a kid), but while my family has 3 different broken original NESs around the house, my top-loader NES still works fine to this day. That's usually the model I think of when i think of the NES as a result  |
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Post by kitten on Aug 25, 2011 14:13:23 GMT -5
Halo was the Goldeneye of 2001. It was nothing special compared to the PC FPS' at the time, but it was a major stepping stone for console FPS' actually being taken seriously. I only had a PS2 and a PC that was by no means a gaming rig at the time I got my Xbox, so it did right by me. The multiplayer, at least, was definitely something special, especially considering the tremendous tournament scene that has grown from Halo's beginnings (with the vast majority of professional players considering the original to have the best MP). Halo's "medium" pace really set it aside from slower games like Counter-Strike and the Tom Clancy games and faster fragfests like UT and Quake, too. |
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Post by KeeperBvK on Aug 25, 2011 14:20:37 GMT -5
The XBox never did anything for me personally and I always kept wondering how people could be that excited about it when you could play next to all of its games on other systems. The Cube had fewer games, but a great amount of exclusive blockbusters and the PS2, well, I guess I don't have to argue about the extensive PS2 library.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2011 14:24:13 GMT -5
I'll say this much for the first Xbox: Crossplatform titles usually looked a lot better on it in comparison to the PS2. That's basically all I used it for, aside from a handful of exclusives (KOTOR, Jade Empire, Shenmue II, etc).
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Post by Ike on Aug 25, 2011 14:31:47 GMT -5
Starring 12 of golf's greatest porn stars.
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Post by KeeperBvK on Aug 25, 2011 14:55:08 GMT -5
aside from a handful of exclusives (KOTOR, Jade Empire, Shenmue II, etc). And those aren't really exclusives if you count in the PC and, well, the DC wasn't even a different generation, so why would you count Shenmue II as an exclusive? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2011 15:10:29 GMT -5
aside from a handful of exclusives (KOTOR, Jade Empire, Shenmue II, etc). And those aren't really exclusives if you count in the PC and, well, the DC wasn't even a different generation, so why would you count Shenmue II as an exclusive? Not sure what country you live in, but Shenmue II wasn't released in America on the Dreamcast. To that end, it counts as an exclusive on the Xbox 1. You're right about the PC ports, but I'm the type of person who avoids PC gaming at all costs, and I'm sure many others feel the same. But it's a moot point, either way. Like I said earlier, the original Xbox was a wasteland, in my opinion. |
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