Console fanboys.

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I own a PS2, a Sega Saturn, and a Dreamcast, and emulators for the following consoles:
-Genesis
-Sega CD
-NES
-SNES
-N64
-the original Gameboy & Gameboy Advance
-Neo-Geo
-Neo-Geo Pocket
-CPS1, CPS2, & CPS3 (CPS = Capcom Play System. It's the name of Capcom's arcade hardware)
...and I'm considering maybe saving up for a consolized Atomiswave motherboard.



I don't own a current-gen console because I HATE the current console generation - there is far too much focus on everything but the actual gameplay.
Furthermore, the PS3/360/Wii each have far too many things wrong with them to be worth my money.

-PS3: in a nutshell, is still all talk and no action. It's basically a glorified Blu-Ray player, and when it comes to the games it still doesn't have much of anything decent on it.

-360: sh***y games, badly constructed/glitchy hardware, the Red Ring of Death, and more sh***y games. And I don't really give a damn about online service, either.

-Wii: has the most potential out of the three, but it too has far too many sh***y games, weird controls (the WiiMote either works really well, or it works poorly) as well as a serious lack of third-party support.

If the only thing you like is 2D, Mario/Sonic platform games, I guess you could say both PS3 and Xbox have sh***y games . . .

I guess I'm a Sony/Nintendo fanboy.

I love the RPGs for the PS1, and the PS2 is my all time favorite video game console (most of my favorite games are for the PS2). I do currently own a PS3, but I haven't owned it long enough to determine whether I love or hate it. I also have a PSP, but am not satisfied with it because there aren't that many good games for it (IMO).

As for Nintendo, I been a fan since the day I was born, and I still am (I LOVE the Mario series). The newer consoles (Gamecube and Wii) weren't as fantastic as their predecessors, but I was (and still am) satisfied with them. Plus the DS is my favorite handheld, with great games such as Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, The World Ends With You, Meteos, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, and many others.

I hate to say this, but neither the Xbox nor the Xbox 360 appeal to me at all. The games for these two consoles just never tickled my fancy. I've played Halo and Gears of War, and was not impressed with either of them. Also, just as it was stated here before, most of the top notch titles for these two consoles were also released for the PC and other consoles. I don't think that their bad consoles, they're just not the consoles for me.

Fix'd.

Sounds like the great debate between Intel and AMD...

Well people now days want games that are more then just doing stuff. We want an experience, this includes, graphics, story, controls and audio. If you are saying that games on the 360 and PS3 are not well designed and entertaining I think you may not have a good eye. Firstly I will state that if you don't care much for story, or great graphics maybe Viva Pinata or and maybe Overlord that tends to have some fun gameplay, good humour and

Serously games are no longer formats of go that direction just because a princess was kidnapped or, just do this because it is kind of fun. It is becoming ever more popular for some good story line, even hireing scifi writers. And you get to enjoy these stories in a beutiful enviroment, with beutiful music and complex gameplay. For instance Mass Effect has a complex story, with an immersive background information, the cinamatics look wonderful enough for a movie and further character development that mixed with the fluid enjoyable gameplay is much better then just knowing a character profession and a single goal. Or Fable 2, where the gameplay can be a bit slow at the begining, but builds for a learning curve and even without the humourus characters would be an enjoable playing experience. Or Assasins Creed, though this game does take a little while to get into game due to storyline, it blends well with the gameplay and is enjoyable enough just to explore a fun enviroment and a smart AI where if you manage to pull off things like looking totaly bad@ss you can scare the off. And its sequel will aparently even build on it.

I find it hard to belive that games there are no well designed fun games, as more research, programing, development and working for a full enjoyment then ever.

What's the point of having "an experience" if the gameplay is terrible? In my book, good gameplay comes before EVERYTHING ELSE, and I am just not seeing enough of that this gen.


Oh, I do have a very good eye - I've been gaming since the early days of the 16-bit era. I know what I like, and I know what I don't like - it's as simple as that.
And part of what I don't like is the majority of games from the current console generation. Like I said before, there is just too much focus on everything but the gameplay, and I'm tired of seeing all these games with overly shiny graphics & tons of extra s**t but with poorly-designed gameplay & short/crappy single-player modes. More attention needs to be paid to the core experience.


Pfft. If that was even remotely true then I would've already said so. Don't put words in my mouth.


Graphics don't make the game - gameplay makes the game. And as long as it plays well, I don't give a s**t how good it looks.


lol, don't act like I don't already know that.


...And yet, all of that means very little if the gameplay sucks. Priorities, dude.


Sorry, but I don't care much for any of those games. I much prefer a stylistic art direction over a realistic one. Also, I prefer JRPGs over WRPGs (Western RPGs) and I really don't like sandbox games, either.
I'm just not interested enough in Mass Effect to really try it. Sure, it's storyline is decently written, but its gameplay looks incredibly boring - it's sluggish, and it's basically FPS with RPG elements (I hate first-person shooters). Also, I've seen the Mass Effect artbook, and the character designs looked great, until they were rendered in 3D - the aliens looked okay but the humans looked absolutely terrible. Developers seriously need to stop trying to leap across the uncanny valley.
Also, I didn't care about Fable 2 or the first Fable.
And IMO, Assassin's Creed just looks 'meh' - if a game is lagging because it's still loading up the graphics even though you're playing the game, then that's not a good sign in my book.


If I actually believed that, then I would've already said so. Don't put words in my mouth.
I said that there is a severe lack of those games in the current console generation. I did not say that they don't exist.

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If you don't like action games, western RPGs, first person shooters, or sand box games, it sounds like you just have a slim niche that would fit your tastes. You mentioned you liked JRPGs. If that's the only genre of game you like, I can understand why you wouldn't like this generation of consoles much. Even JRPGs are evolving to include actual game elements rather than a "choose your own adventure" book setting.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't like sports games, racing games or fighting games either so correct me if I'm wrong. If you're going to just write off entire genres of games and say they're sh***y, no one will take you seriously. Call of Duty 4 is not a sh***y game. You can say it is as many times as you want, but you're flat out wrong.

I don't know, I played the PC CoD demos and they were probably the most linear games I have ever played (at least Final Fantasy doesn't script-kill you if you try to leave the path). Not to mention, the whole "Halo rip-off, hide behind a box and wait for your health to recharge" thing in the later games was rather lame and unrealistic.

If I want to play an on-rails shooter, I think I'll stick with the classics.

But that's just my opinion

Pfft. More like I have my own personal taste in games.


Then allow me to correct you.
I like action/platformers, JRPGs (but I avoid Kingdom Hearts & 3D FF games), 2D fighting games, and some 3D fighting games. I also play a few racing/driving games and puzzle games every now and again.


And I don't care whether or not they do. I am entitled to my opinion.


I can honestly say that I have enjoyed reading about wars in history books far more than I have ever enjoyed playing war-based shooters.
...And on a side note, I have zero interest in CoD4. I looked it up a while back, and I was not impressed.

Ever since I first played Super Mario Bros 3 on Super Nintendo, I have been into the Mario franchise ever since. I always buy new games on the franchise if I have the money. So I'm mainly a Nintendo gamer. I buy other games, but not much.

Super mario bros 3 was also the first mario game and FIRST GAME i ever played, and i was STUCK in his world, i played it 16+ hours per day, the only levels i couldn't beat was the one in the ice world where you haver to carry the koopa shell.......... and the castle before bowser's castle in world 8, now i know that i only have to walk to the right

I have a gameboy color, advance & nintendo DS. <3 handheld game consoles.

In my bedroom on the SD set I have a Dreamcast and a Saturn hooked up. In the living room, the modern day Saturn, the PS3. The only loyalty I had was towards SEGA, prior to the cancellation of Shenmue 2 in North America.

What's a fan boy heard the term used before but never know what it means.

I've always been a Nintendo fan, although as of late I've been branching out a bit. My first system was a gameboy color, and from there I've had every nintendo made handheld since(minus the GBA micro and DS lite, but those were just redesigns). My first console was a gamecube, and not long after I got a secondhand (and heavily abused but dirt cheap) n64. When the Wii came out, I got one of those, and earlier this year I got both a PSX and a 360.

Generally, I prefer Nintendo because of the great 1st party support, although that's been a little lacking this generation on the wii when you consider half the good games are just ports of gamecube games. I have a 360 because at the time, it was much cheaper than the PS3 and it has the 3rd party support that Nintendo lacks. As for why I choose Nintendo portables over Sony's, it has to do with both price and battery life more than the games.