System Wars: Full Steam Backwards!

[ilnadmy]

So this is an idea I've had for a while which I thought might be fun and might break the monotony we have going around here lately. Basically, the gist of it is this: look back at the past generation of consoles. Remember the console you supported? The console you defended to the death against a flood of rabid fanboys?

Yeah. You now hate that console. So basically, if you were a PS2 milkdrinker, you're now an Xbot or a Nintendo fanboy. If you were an Xbot, you now support PS2 or GC. Get the picture? Alright, let's go.


So I camped outside Best Buy for the past 24 hours, and I finally got an Xbox! It's a little heavy, but damn do you feel like all that cash went to buy something really powerful! It's amazing really, and the games are also awesome. I got freakin' Halo man! Compare that to the PS2's pathetic launch titles like TimeSplitters. LOL! Shooting retarded aliens that steal some time crystals. Pathetic. Talk about a storyline man, I just played the first level and it's ridiculous! You actually feel like you're on the Pillar of Autumn! It's frackin' insane!

Now I know a lot of you don't like the big Xbox controller, but I think it's really quite comfortable! Yeah it takes some getting used to, but it's much better than that stupid PS2 Dual Shock that's just a copy/paste job from the PSOne. Hah! And you people say Sony has imagination. I played Dead or Alive 3 on this thing and it was ridiculously fun. If you can prove that the PS2 can do these graphics and I'll eat my own shirt, and I'll film it and upload it to this site. And don't get me started on the GameCube man. Looks like my little brother's lunchbox LOL! And that controller is so screwed up, it's like they got a half-blind dyslexic Danish guy to write out the design in English LOL!

:D This is fun.

[T.Tashi]

To go way back in the day, before the internet, I really loved the 3DO. Tappy can attest. Yeah it had lots of crappy live video games (like Corpse Killer and Sewer Shark) but it had some great stuff too.

Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger
Shock Wave series
Hell: A Cyberpunk Adventure
Killing Time

Um... there are others! Psychic Detective was a live action game with 14 endings and I played through every one. It was staggering how much better the graphics were. It was really ahead of its time.

Then came the PS1 with it's underpowered, gray boring, stupid looking self. I refused to buy it and I held my ground for 3 years, though I played it a few times over my sister's house. ( nephew had one.) But in 1998 my gf at that time bought me a PS1 and Resident Evil 2. I was hooked. I immediately went out and got FFVII. I've been a Sony fanboy ever since. I wasn't like I had much choice tho... the 3DO died a painful overpriced, undersupported death. But RE2 and FFVII were the poo, so that took some sting out of it.

[PapaSmurf]

To go way back in the day, before the internet, I really loved the 3DO. Tappy can attest. Yeah it had lots of crappy live video games (like Corpse Killer and Sewer Shark) but it had some great stuff too.

Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger
Shock Wave series
Hell: A Cyberpunk Adventure
Killing Time

Um... there are others! Psychic Detective was a live action game with 14 endings and I played through every one. It was staggering how much better the graphics were. It was really ahead of its time.

Then came the PS1 with it's underpowered, gray boring, stupid looking self. I refused to buy it and I held my ground for 3 years, though I played it a few times over my sister's house. ( nephew had one.) But in 1998 my gf at that time bought me a PS1 and Resident Evil 2. I was hooked. I immediately went out and got FFVII. I've been a Sony fanboy ever since. I wasn't like I had much choice tho... the 3DO died a painful overpriced, undersupported death. But RE2 and FFVII were the poo, so that took some sting out of it.

Tashi, I had Sega CD and Sewer Shark was where it was at. That game so fun. Tomcat Alley....ooh so many great games back in the day.

[GameLegend]

Back in the day before consumers went ranpid over the interent, during the era of SNES, i was into PC, SNES was good, but PC just kicked anyhting walking.

Day of the Tentacle, Doom, Scortch, Noid anyone?

[ilnadmy]

Not exactly the direction I was going with for the thread, but OK I'll bite.

I remember the Atari. Oh man, the Atari. That thing had games PRE-INSTALLED! It was like the coolest thing ever. You buy the system and there are games you can already play. It was ridiculous.

At least I think it was the Atari... I know I played that tank game where you have to destroy all the other tanks in the maze, and a really weird game where you race downhill in a shopping cart avoiding bumps on the ground and birds in the air...

Yeah I'm not too good at this. I was probably still halfway in the womb when those things came out.

[Dancer O_o]

To go way back in the day, before the internet, I really loved the 3DO. Tappy can attest. Yeah it had lots of crappy live video games (like Corpse Killer and Sewer Shark) but it had some great stuff too.

Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger
Shock Wave series
Hell: A Cyberpunk Adventure
Killing Time

Um... there are others! Psychic Detective was a live action game with 14 endings and I played through every one. It was staggering how much better the graphics were. It was really ahead of its time.

Then came the PS1 with it's underpowered, gray boring, stupid looking self. I refused to buy it and I held my ground for 3 years, though I played it a few times over my sister's house. ( nephew had one.) But in 1998 my gf at that time bought me a PS1 and Resident Evil 2. I was hooked. I immediately went out and got FFVII. I've been a Sony fanboy ever since. I wasn't like I had much choice tho... the 3DO died a painful overpriced, undersupported death. But RE2 and FFVII were the poo, so that took some sting out of it.

PO'ed
BLadeforce
Starfighter
Need for Speed
Return Fire
Wing Commander 3

Those are my favorite 3DO games that I still play from time to time.

Toshindin, Warhawk and Resident Evil were the first PSX games I ever played i think

[NEO-360]

PO'ed
BLadeforce
Starfighter
Need for Speed
Return Fire
Wing Commander 3

Those are my favorite 3DO games that I still play from time to time.

Toshindin, Warhawk and Resident Evil were the first PSX games I ever played i think

Samurai Showdown
Street Fighter Turbo
Doom
Madden
Foes Of Ali

Those were my favorite 3DO games.

For the PSX? Battle Arena Toshiden, Resident Evil, Warhawk, Wrestlemania:The Arcade Game were among the games I played in the beginning with the PSX.

[Mochan]

PS1? Pfft, don't make me laugh. The PS1 sucked balls. This non-sense about using CDs for its media was just an open invitation to pirates to copy their games and take pirating to unparalleled heights. What a stupid decision! Sony should have stuck to their CD Mans and their Walkmans, their presence in the video game industry is unwelcome and opened the door for pirates to turn gaming into a multi-billion dollar pirate undertaking. Moving from Flash ROM to CD-R made it so insultingly easy to pirate games, it was like the PC debacle of floppies. We're lucky games didn't force you to go to Page 34 Paragraph 13 of your manual to look up Word #4!

Not to mention this move increased loading times and made the system flimsier and more susceptible to hardware failure (as the optical lens for the CD drive is more prone to conking out than a Flash Drive interface). How many of us have heard horror stories of having to put your Playstation on its side just to play games?

How about the controller? Not content to rape the media, Sony even went so far as to copy the SNES controller. But hey let's give it a twist! They said. Copy the controller, but instead of 2 shoulder buttons let's double the number! So people will think our Playstation is twice the system the SNES was! What a brilliant idea, NOT! Then after seeing the N64's brilliant vibration function they go ahead and steal Immersion's vibration technology and slap it onto their already stolen from SNES controller. Lame, really lame.

I can't believe all the idiots who ate into Sony's desperation move to grab marketshare in the games market. Your lack of gaming taste disgusts me.

And what games could you play? Battle Arena Toshinden? Bleh.

[T.Tashi]

Not exactly the direction I was going with for the thread, but OK I'll bite.

I know.... sorry!

There might come a time I jump ship from the Playstations and become a Sony hater. I very seriously doubt it tho.

[T.Tashi]

Tashi, I had Sega CD and Sewer Shark was where it was at. That game so fun. Tomcat Alley....ooh so many great games back in the day.

Hehe yeah I know... I call them crappy now, but back in the day I logged a ton of hours playing them.. Corpse Killer wasn't even 3D. It was essentially a FPS with an arcade type 2D perspective. It really was a bad game but I played the hell out of it. I kick myself to this day for selling it. I had forgotten about Bladeforce and ahh... Need for Speed. That was when I actually liked EA. :p

[T.Tashi]

PS1? Pfft, don't make me laugh. The PS1 sucked balls. This non-sense about using CDs for its media was just an open invitation to pirates to copy their games and take pirating to unparalleled heights. What a stupid decision! Sony should have stuck to their CD Mans and their Walkmans, their presence in the video game industry is unwelcome and opened the door for pirates to turn gaming into a multi-billion dollar pirate undertaking. Moving from Flash ROM to CD-R made it so insultingly easy to pirate games, it was like the PC debacle of floppies. We're lucky games didn't force you to go to Page 34 Paragraph 13 of your manual to look up Word #4!

Not to mention this move increased loading times and made the system flimsier and more susceptible to hardware failure (as the optical lens for the CD drive is more prone to conking out than a Flash Drive interface). How many of us have heard horror stories of having to put your Playstation on its side just to play games?

How about the controller? Not content to rape the media, Sony even went so far as to copy the SNES controller. But hey let's give it a twist! They said. Copy the controller, but instead of 2 shoulder buttons let's double the number! So people will think our Playstation is twice the system the SNES was! What a brilliant idea, NOT! Then after seeing the N64's brilliant vibration function they go ahead and steal Immersion's vibration technology and slap it onto their already stolen from SNES controller. Lame, really lame.

I can't believe all the idiots who ate into Sony's desperation move to grab marketshare in the games market. Your lack of gaming taste disgusts me.

And what games could you play? Battle Arena Toshinden? Bleh.

Ironic no? Sony did almost everything wrong, and ended up with arguably the most popular console ever made. Popular enough to do almost everything wrong again with the PS2 and duplicate the same feat.

[Mochan]

Yeah, it just totally pisses me off. I mean, look at the Xbox. It offered so much power compared to the GC or the PS2, heck it had more power than the GC and PS2 combined! It brought PC-level power to the console arena! It had such awesome killer apps like Halo, hell killer app is an understatement. This game revolutionized the way console games are played, paving the way for a whole generation of shooters to invade console shores. What used to be a PC mainstay became far more than that and even dwarfed PC shooters with its popularity. That is Halo. Awesome graphics, awesome gameplay, immortal legacy.

But the system tanked and MS bled red for 4 years, while Sony went away with runaway winnings. There's no justice in this world, I tell you. Despite having the most advanced hardware, a solid online plan, the best selection of games giving you both PC and Console-style experiences, XBox lost easily to the Sony behemoth. Damn these sheeps who just buy the popular appliance, not able to discern the true gems.

[Cuddly Knife]

Mochan, you're creeping me out. Too bad you're not really a flip-flopper.

[GameLegend]

Yeah, it just totally pisses me off. I mean, look at the Xbox. It offered so much power compared to the GC or the PS2, heck it had more power than the GC and PS2 combined! It brought PC-level power to the console arena! It had such awesome killer apps like Halo, hell killer app is an understatement. This game revolutionized the way console games are played, paving the way for a whole generation of shooters to invade console shores. What used to be a PC mainstay became far more than that and even dwarfed PC shooters with its popularity. That is Halo. Awesome graphics, awesome gameplay, immortal legacy.

But the system tanked and MS bled red for 4 years, while Sony went away with runaway winnings. There's no justice in this world, I tell you. Despite having the most advanced hardware, a solid online plan, the best selection of games giving you both PC and Console-style experiences, XBox lost easily to the Sony behemoth. Damn these sheeps who just buy the popular appliance, not able to discern the true gems.


Oh crap, never have i heard this kind of rant from Mochan. I dont know about u, but Sony being dumb and all with their blunder decisions that made it easy for piraters to pirate, as a fellow pirater, isnt that a good thing?

And yes i think everyone in SW, will agree on your points about the moves Sony has made. Where is the justice? I'll tell u. When every other handheld out there went against the Gameboy franchise and beat them in every way on the graphics department (like how xbox beat PS2), yet gameboy franchise always still came out on top.

Check it out:

Game Boy Vs. Atari Lynx Vs. NEC TurboExpress Vs. Sega Game Gear
Winner: Game Boy

Game Boy Color Vs. Neo-Geo Pocket Color Vs. Wonderswan Color
Winner: Game Boy Colour

Justice? ha!

[Renzatic Gear]

Oh damn..the oldschool Gameboy was the best EVER! I used to play the hell out of:

Final Fantasy Adventure
Zelda: Links Awakening
Gargoyles Quest
Final Fantasy Legend 1 & 2
Sword of Hope

Gargoyles Quest in particular was really awesome. It was amazing what Capcom could do with 6 shades of grey. And Sword of Hope? Even though the actual view into the world was about the size of a postage stamp, that game somehow managed to ooze atmosphere.

It's enough to make me long the simpler halycon days of videogamedom.

[ilnadmy]

Haha I think Mochan is the only one to actually run with the premise of this thread.

PC SUCKS! XBOX ROOLZ! PS DROOLZ!!

[NEO-360]

Mochan, you're creeping me out. Too bad you're not really a flip-flopper.

Nope. Gamer From 78-aka AOE Enforcer holds the VGR record for being the biggest flip-flopper of all time.:thumbsup: