The "General Games Chat" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
You know, I look out over the Future of Gaming today, and what do I see?
I see the Sony camp, a group who pride themselves over their technological achievements and the vast amount of choice for their console. This camp reaches out to gamers of all ages, and reels them in with talk of Metal Gear Solid 2, Gran Turismo 3, broadband, hard drives and countless other future assets. They are proud of their choice and will not be swayed, and they thoroughly believe that Sony is the only true way forward. They will defend the black behemoth day and night from the heavy barrage fire emanating from the Nintendo camp, but their defences are impregnable.
I see the Nintendo camp, a group whose main strong point is the games. They worship a man known as Shigeru Miamoto and the software house Rare. They will defend the honour of these men to the death with talk of the fantastic games, unending depth and constant originality. The Nintendo hardware is no great achievement, having about the same power as Sony’s offering despite being two years its senior. The one thing you can count on with Nintendo is that each game will reach new heights in gameplay and graphics don’t count for nothing.
I see the Sega camp, a group who recently pulled out of the hardware market and has focused on software. They are the neutral body, who develop for each and every other group. They are purely in it for the games, yet they have still amassed quite a following of die-hard Dreamcast supporters who will argue that this failing machine has everything anyone could ever want and more. Despite their enthusiasm, they can only be described as shortsighted, and must one day move on. Every Sega game guarantees great playability and a huge lifespan fused together with arcade thrills. Every offering from its many software houses is something to be looked forward to.
And then I see the Microsoft camp, the new group in town. Most people look upon them as evil newcomers who are just in it for the money. They use their amazing wealth to buy their way around. They make neither their own hardware nor software, and employ or purchase companies to do it for them. Arguably the most powerful of the four, their offering is more akin to a PC than a console, and it brings many of the PC problems with it. Sightings have been reported of blue screens and unstable workmanship, the question on everybody’s lips is will people ignore Microsoft’s previous failures and give them a second chance? The evidence is bleak, with only a few inhabitants of the Future of Gaming willing to give a second look to them. This group is a force to be reckoned with, utilising their superior hardware and big name developers to their advantage. Whatever the future holds for Microsoft, rest assured they will be back.
And as I look out over the Future of Gaming, what else to I see? I see war, conflict, battle and skirmish. I see rival groups fighting with and within each other over polygon counts, unit size and storage. I see friendships built and destroyed over games consoles, things that were created to bring enjoyment into the world. Palestinians and Israelis in the Gaza Strip are warring over our mistakes, Pakistanis in Afghanistan are being brutally ethnically cleansed by Muslim extremists. Babies and capitalists are executed every day in China yet we ignore all this cruelty and wage war amongst ourselves of consoles? Games were created and nurtured to bring happiness and enjoyment into our lives. We should be ashamed of ourselves that we are creating all this conflict when people are dieing for their beliefs in other parts of the world.
We should stop all this and be grateful as to what we’ve got, which is a form of enjoyment and a damn fine one at that, whichever you choose.
I see the Sony camp, a group who pride themselves over their technological achievements and the vast amount of choice for their console. This camp reaches out to gamers of all ages, and reels them in with talk of Metal Gear Solid 2, Gran Turismo 3, broadband, hard drives and countless other future assets. They are proud of their choice and will not be swayed, and they thoroughly believe that Sony is the only true way forward. They will defend the black behemoth day and night from the heavy barrage fire emanating from the Nintendo camp, but their defences are impregnable.
I see the Nintendo camp, a group whose main strong point is the games. They worship a man known as Shigeru Miamoto and the software house Rare. They will defend the honour of these men to the death with talk of the fantastic games, unending depth and constant originality. The Nintendo hardware is no great achievement, having about the same power as Sony’s offering despite being two years its senior. The one thing you can count on with Nintendo is that each game will reach new heights in gameplay and graphics don’t count for nothing.
I see the Sega camp, a group who recently pulled out of the hardware market and has focused on software. They are the neutral body, who develop for each and every other group. They are purely in it for the games, yet they have still amassed quite a following of die-hard Dreamcast supporters who will argue that this failing machine has everything anyone could ever want and more. Despite their enthusiasm, they can only be described as shortsighted, and must one day move on. Every Sega game guarantees great playability and a huge lifespan fused together with arcade thrills. Every offering from its many software houses is something to be looked forward to.
And then I see the Microsoft camp, the new group in town. Most people look upon them as evil newcomers who are just in it for the money. They use their amazing wealth to buy their way around. They make neither their own hardware nor software, and employ or purchase companies to do it for them. Arguably the most powerful of the four, their offering is more akin to a PC than a console, and it brings many of the PC problems with it. Sightings have been reported of blue screens and unstable workmanship, the question on everybody’s lips is will people ignore Microsoft’s previous failures and give them a second chance? The evidence is bleak, with only a few inhabitants of the Future of Gaming willing to give a second look to them. This group is a force to be reckoned with, utilising their superior hardware and big name developers to their advantage. Whatever the future holds for Microsoft, rest assured they will be back.
And as I look out over the Future of Gaming, what else to I see? I see war, conflict, battle and skirmish. I see rival groups fighting with and within each other over polygon counts, unit size and storage. I see friendships built and destroyed over games consoles, things that were created to bring enjoyment into the world. Palestinians and Israelis in the Gaza Strip are warring over our mistakes, Pakistanis in Afghanistan are being brutally ethnically cleansed by Muslim extremists. Babies and capitalists are executed every day in China yet we ignore all this cruelty and wage war amongst ourselves of consoles? Games were created and nurtured to bring happiness and enjoyment into our lives. We should be ashamed of ourselves that we are creating all this conflict when people are dieing for their beliefs in other parts of the world.
We should stop all this and be grateful as to what we’ve got, which is a form of enjoyment and a damn fine one at that, whichever you choose.
Page:
Beat all the ninty's and MS fans to a pulp, and then there will be no more fighting.
Alright Sam, wassup?
I just realised. We're fighting in a topic written to stop fighting!
I just realised. We're fighting in a topic written to stop fighting!
Name them then.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> the Fourth World Console War!!!
Sixth...
> the Fourth World Console War!!!
Sixth...
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Yeah, but then, why is the problem there in the first place? If Sony
> hadn't been so lazy as to leave out the ability to do so easily,
> then it wouldn't have become a problem, would it?
If they make it easy it reduces performance. Simply put.
> Yeah, but then, why is the problem there in the first place? If Sony
> hadn't been so lazy as to leave out the ability to do so easily,
> then it wouldn't have become a problem, would it?
If they make it easy it reduces performance. Simply put.
How can you easily make programmers change from using physical memory to bandwidth for storing textures??? They all want to be stuck in the mindset of 20 year old PC technology, and that is what they are getting with the Gamecube and Xbox.
Yeah, but then, why is the problem there in the first place? If Sony hadn't been so lazy as to leave out the ability to do so easily, then it wouldn't have become a problem, would it?
JJaggies yes, it does suffer from jaggies, but because developers are to lazy to program the console properly. A testiment to the unbelievable design of the PS2 and the ability of developers to complain if they need to spend a little more time programming to see a marked improvement in performance.
Page: