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Remmember the giggles when MS announced the XBOX?
Remmember the huge controller jokes?
Remmember Bill saying "I personally cannot wait to get my hands on an XBOX" and then personally handing over the first one?
Remmember the UK launch conveinietly on a school strike with an Xmas theme?
Remmember the huge ad campaign...banned!
Remmember the trojan horse speculations? About getting a PC in every home?
Remmember the PC speculation's as the word harddrive was announced!
Remmember the great launch line-up,folled by months of crap?
Remmember when we all pretty much pronounced it dead? Even people who had one?
Remmember Christmas with JSRF & SEGA GT
Remmember Halo & Splinter Cell bundles...exclusively
Remmember March 14 - XBOX LIVE
Remmember E3? All of the best games.
So well done MS! I have to admit, I never saw it coming...but now at least one of your products is cool....XBOX! I laughed more than anyone else at the start, but now I look at it as a console....not a buggy PC!
So it needs to be said - allthough inlikely read...well...done...MS!
Remmember the huge controller jokes?
Remmember Bill saying "I personally cannot wait to get my hands on an XBOX" and then personally handing over the first one?
Remmember the UK launch conveinietly on a school strike with an Xmas theme?
Remmember the huge ad campaign...banned!
Remmember the trojan horse speculations? About getting a PC in every home?
Remmember the PC speculation's as the word harddrive was announced!
Remmember the great launch line-up,folled by months of crap?
Remmember when we all pretty much pronounced it dead? Even people who had one?
Remmember Christmas with JSRF & SEGA GT
Remmember Halo & Splinter Cell bundles...exclusively
Remmember March 14 - XBOX LIVE
Remmember E3? All of the best games.
So well done MS! I have to admit, I never saw it coming...but now at least one of your products is cool....XBOX! I laughed more than anyone else at the start, but now I look at it as a console....not a buggy PC!
So it needs to be said - allthough inlikely read...well...done...MS!
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I always thought the Xbox would come right at some point. And it did. I love it. The best gaming fun since the Dreamcast. Nothing more needs to be said really.
TGMbloke wrote:
> I may send this link to Microsoft - brighten up there day
Heh, lets flood them with emails until they look at the people praising them.
> I may send this link to Microsoft - brighten up there day
Heh, lets flood them with emails until they look at the people praising them.
Xbox online? excellent
Xbox offline? *yawns*
Xbox offline? *yawns*
Hedfix wrote:
>>
> Forcing through some things people have been after in a console for
> ages. Things like online gaming and a harddisk, customisable
> soundtracks.
I haven't been bothered with any of those. If XBox got some better single player stuff (in comparison to Nintendo, not Sony) then it would really rock. But as it is, its a tad inflexible and dull for me, and I'd only now get one if BB was in my area. But it isn't, and online gaming isn't the be all end all for me. Still MS have 'done well' but what did you expect? They can just chuck money at it constantly.
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> Forcing through some things people have been after in a console for
> ages. Things like online gaming and a harddisk, customisable
> soundtracks.
I haven't been bothered with any of those. If XBox got some better single player stuff (in comparison to Nintendo, not Sony) then it would really rock. But as it is, its a tad inflexible and dull for me, and I'd only now get one if BB was in my area. But it isn't, and online gaming isn't the be all end all for me. Still MS have 'done well' but what did you expect? They can just chuck money at it constantly.
Mantis wrote:
> Holy moly, a thread where people are pating MS's back! Who'd have
> thought it.
>
> I always knew xbox was gonna be great- it had the lions share of sega
> games comming to it which I wanted to play and some promicing ones
> too. The PS2 never bowlded me over, and I liked the sound of xbox
> and what it was doing so I went for it.
My thoughts exactly!
Also maybe we should rename the forum to "MS/x-box FIRST EVER Fanbase" hehehe
> Holy moly, a thread where people are pating MS's back! Who'd have
> thought it.
>
> I always knew xbox was gonna be great- it had the lions share of sega
> games comming to it which I wanted to play and some promicing ones
> too. The PS2 never bowlded me over, and I liked the sound of xbox
> and what it was doing so I went for it.
My thoughts exactly!
Also maybe we should rename the forum to "MS/x-box FIRST EVER Fanbase" hehehe
Holy moly, a thread where people are pating MS's back! Who'd have thought it.
I always knew xbox was gonna be great- it had the lions share of sega games comming to it which I wanted to play and some promicing ones too. The PS2 never bowlded me over, and I liked the sound of xbox and what it was doing so I went for it.
And this thread stands out as how opinion can change. Xbox was branded as "rubbish" by many before they knew much about it or had even played it, but slowly people seam to be accepting it. I remember expressing enthusiasm for the xbox a few months before its release and the amount of hostile comments was unbelievable- its "crap" "big" and "MS suck" were the replys comming from sniggering Ninties.
Ahh but look at things now, they are so much better especially after the rocky months after its launch. MS probably for the first time ever are developing a fanbase. Scary.
I always knew xbox was gonna be great- it had the lions share of sega games comming to it which I wanted to play and some promicing ones too. The PS2 never bowlded me over, and I liked the sound of xbox and what it was doing so I went for it.
And this thread stands out as how opinion can change. Xbox was branded as "rubbish" by many before they knew much about it or had even played it, but slowly people seam to be accepting it. I remember expressing enthusiasm for the xbox a few months before its release and the amount of hostile comments was unbelievable- its "crap" "big" and "MS suck" were the replys comming from sniggering Ninties.
Ahh but look at things now, they are so much better especially after the rocky months after its launch. MS probably for the first time ever are developing a fanbase. Scary.
Unbeliever wrote:
> Just reading the post again...well done?
>
> For what?
Forcing through some things people have been after in a console for ages. Things like online gaming and a harddisk, customisable soundtracks. Also for taking a good active role in helping games developers.
Also for throwing a whole heap of money into the market and raising the bar of quality titles so other companies can no longer afford to merely 'tread water' - yes Sony I am looking at you.
> Just reading the post again...well done?
>
> For what?
Forcing through some things people have been after in a console for ages. Things like online gaming and a harddisk, customisable soundtracks. Also for taking a good active role in helping games developers.
Also for throwing a whole heap of money into the market and raising the bar of quality titles so other companies can no longer afford to merely 'tread water' - yes Sony I am looking at you.
Just reading the post again...well done?
For what?
For what?
gamezfreak wrote:
> Every company just wants to make money Mav :P
Some pride themselves on the quality of their products. Whilst some live of a cultivated name and churn out the same old crap with little variation.
including the same old controllers ;)
> Every company just wants to make money Mav :P
Some pride themselves on the quality of their products. Whilst some live of a cultivated name and churn out the same old crap with little variation.
including the same old controllers ;)
And twice as big.
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