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Right, my first self admitted blatant game a day attempt, I am aloud to do this, if I donít stick around to follow up my post, then you may slap fishes at me, should you be able to find me. Now thatís out of the way, I hope my topic will raise some decent discussions, will be read by at least one person, and with any luck wonít crash the Special Reserve servers. But no promisesÖ
I have suddenly found a new liking for gaming, I have sold my Dreamcast and now a rather nice PlayStation 2 sits happily beside my PC monitor on the desk at which I am currently writing at. Iíve decided that Moto GP is not as bad as it used to be, that GT3 is unbeatable by any game at the present time and that Le Mans 24 on the Dreamcast exceeds the PS2 version many times over in all departments. Gaming over the last few months has not really appealed to me as much as it once did. But now, I have a blue VMU sitting on a PS2, which err, has nothing to do with the post.
Oh wait. Excitement. When a games company is excited and confident about their product or range of products, then the consumer generally echoes that excitement, a level of hype and glamour surrounds whatever it is being produced and success could happen very easily. With the Dreamcast, I had already chosen a side ñ I had chosen not to buy a PlayStation, I chose to buy a Sega Saturn, and it was superb, but unfortunately not everyone saw it in the same light as myself. My side had lost, but there was a light on the horizon.
Dreamcast. A brand new console, as it would have to be, a complete revelation in gaming ñ and it was exciting! I donít care how few people bought the console ñ in itís early days, and letís face it, most of its ëlife spaní were its early days, were really good ñ with new groundbreaking titles being released every week, with exciting features like Online gaming, VMU memory cards, events, genre defying games ñ the Dreamcast was superb. I was wrapped up in the community of Dreamcast, I bought every single magazine, every game receiving 9/10 or more in the official magazine, and I even entered some competitions ñ and won!
But now the excitement is lost, but it will be regained. Sega was on a mission, an uphill, no up mountain struggle to try and sway all potential PS2 owners to buy a Dreamcast, but the support was not there and the DC crumbled to itís knees, still a damn good console that you should buy, but the PS2 has been in a relatively open market for around 8months, with no fierce competition, and so what side have I been on? The PS2 has had no real competitors, the Dreamcast did and believe it or not, I tried my best to help it succeed, managing to persuade 15 people to buy one, that I know of (reviews/opinions written online may have had an effect, but I cannot take these into account), but soon maybe, everything will hot up a bit!
The X Box ñ Microsoft, a monolithic presence in the world, soon to unleash their rather large games console onto the games playing public, Nintendo ñ already dominating the Handheld market, have already released their Game Cube to the Japanese, and pre-orders are going incredibly well in the United States ñ is it any good? Who knows, but rest assured we will be having a lot of ìPS2ís better than Game Cubeî and ìX Box kicks PS2ís backsideî, as if the PS2 has a backside, and itís good healthy competition, and with Sega announcing themselves as the best friend of each of these consoleís manufacturers, it will be very interesting indeed to see how it all fairs out.
Will Microsoft have shelf supremacy? Could Nintendoís Game Cube prove too bright for the rest? Or will Sony be able to keep up their tremendous sales of the PS2? Who knows, the futureís a state, weíll never be in the future, but the next generation of gaming, is just around the corner. Choose your team, be excited, and most importantly play the games, have a good time doing so, and remember ñ Sega make the best games in the world ;-)
Dan2K1
I have suddenly found a new liking for gaming, I have sold my Dreamcast and now a rather nice PlayStation 2 sits happily beside my PC monitor on the desk at which I am currently writing at. Iíve decided that Moto GP is not as bad as it used to be, that GT3 is unbeatable by any game at the present time and that Le Mans 24 on the Dreamcast exceeds the PS2 version many times over in all departments. Gaming over the last few months has not really appealed to me as much as it once did. But now, I have a blue VMU sitting on a PS2, which err, has nothing to do with the post.
Oh wait. Excitement. When a games company is excited and confident about their product or range of products, then the consumer generally echoes that excitement, a level of hype and glamour surrounds whatever it is being produced and success could happen very easily. With the Dreamcast, I had already chosen a side ñ I had chosen not to buy a PlayStation, I chose to buy a Sega Saturn, and it was superb, but unfortunately not everyone saw it in the same light as myself. My side had lost, but there was a light on the horizon.
Dreamcast. A brand new console, as it would have to be, a complete revelation in gaming ñ and it was exciting! I donít care how few people bought the console ñ in itís early days, and letís face it, most of its ëlife spaní were its early days, were really good ñ with new groundbreaking titles being released every week, with exciting features like Online gaming, VMU memory cards, events, genre defying games ñ the Dreamcast was superb. I was wrapped up in the community of Dreamcast, I bought every single magazine, every game receiving 9/10 or more in the official magazine, and I even entered some competitions ñ and won!
But now the excitement is lost, but it will be regained. Sega was on a mission, an uphill, no up mountain struggle to try and sway all potential PS2 owners to buy a Dreamcast, but the support was not there and the DC crumbled to itís knees, still a damn good console that you should buy, but the PS2 has been in a relatively open market for around 8months, with no fierce competition, and so what side have I been on? The PS2 has had no real competitors, the Dreamcast did and believe it or not, I tried my best to help it succeed, managing to persuade 15 people to buy one, that I know of (reviews/opinions written online may have had an effect, but I cannot take these into account), but soon maybe, everything will hot up a bit!
The X Box ñ Microsoft, a monolithic presence in the world, soon to unleash their rather large games console onto the games playing public, Nintendo ñ already dominating the Handheld market, have already released their Game Cube to the Japanese, and pre-orders are going incredibly well in the United States ñ is it any good? Who knows, but rest assured we will be having a lot of ìPS2ís better than Game Cubeî and ìX Box kicks PS2ís backsideî, as if the PS2 has a backside, and itís good healthy competition, and with Sega announcing themselves as the best friend of each of these consoleís manufacturers, it will be very interesting indeed to see how it all fairs out.
Will Microsoft have shelf supremacy? Could Nintendoís Game Cube prove too bright for the rest? Or will Sony be able to keep up their tremendous sales of the PS2? Who knows, the futureís a state, weíll never be in the future, but the next generation of gaming, is just around the corner. Choose your team, be excited, and most importantly play the games, have a good time doing so, and remember ñ Sega make the best games in the world ;-)
Dan2K1
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I think the PS2 is over-rated... I mean, even the PS2 font, which took me a whole 3 minutes to find and download isn't that good! I mean, it isn't even a PS2 only font! Well, anyway!
Game: Has crappy PS2 font...
Game: Has crappy PS2 font...
Nice post, Shame about the last but "Sega are the best" Really messed up your chances :o)
That was a very good read. I've never lost my excitement for games even when I went 8 months without a new game.
I'm now a proud owner of a PS2 and some of the titles coming out excite me.
As I'm unbiased, the Gamecube looks very exciting and hopefully does well.
The X-Box is a unknown package. It's powerful but will the games match it?
Early next year will be a very exciting time for gamers in this country.
I'm now a proud owner of a PS2 and some of the titles coming out excite me.
As I'm unbiased, the Gamecube looks very exciting and hopefully does well.
The X-Box is a unknown package. It's powerful but will the games match it?
Early next year will be a very exciting time for gamers in this country.
It's about time you realised GT3 was better than MSR.
:D
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Right, my first self admitted blatant game a day attempt, I am aloud to do this, if I donít stick around to follow up my post, then you may slap fishes at me, should you be able to find me. Now thatís out of the way, I hope my topic will raise some decent discussions, will be read by at least one person, and with any luck wonít crash the Special Reserve servers. But no promisesÖ
I have suddenly found a new liking for gaming, I have sold my Dreamcast and now a rather nice PlayStation 2 sits happily beside my PC monitor on the desk at which I am currently writing at. Iíve decided that Moto GP is not as bad as it used to be, that GT3 is unbeatable by any game at the present time and that Le Mans 24 on the Dreamcast exceeds the PS2 version many times over in all departments. Gaming over the last few months has not really appealed to me as much as it once did. But now, I have a blue VMU sitting on a PS2, which err, has nothing to do with the post.
Oh wait. Excitement. When a games company is excited and confident about their product or range of products, then the consumer generally echoes that excitement, a level of hype and glamour surrounds whatever it is being produced and success could happen very easily. With the Dreamcast, I had already chosen a side ñ I had chosen not to buy a PlayStation, I chose to buy a Sega Saturn, and it was superb, but unfortunately not everyone saw it in the same light as myself. My side had lost, but there was a light on the horizon.
Dreamcast. A brand new console, as it would have to be, a complete revelation in gaming ñ and it was exciting! I donít care how few people bought the console ñ in itís early days, and letís face it, most of its ëlife spaní were its early days, were really good ñ with new groundbreaking titles being released every week, with exciting features like Online gaming, VMU memory cards, events, genre defying games ñ the Dreamcast was superb. I was wrapped up in the community of Dreamcast, I bought every single magazine, every game receiving 9/10 or more in the official magazine, and I even entered some competitions ñ and won!
But now the excitement is lost, but it will be regained. Sega was on a mission, an uphill, no up mountain struggle to try and sway all potential PS2 owners to buy a Dreamcast, but the support was not there and the DC crumbled to itís knees, still a damn good console that you should buy, but the PS2 has been in a relatively open market for around 8months, with no fierce competition, and so what side have I been on? The PS2 has had no real competitors, the Dreamcast did and believe it or not, I tried my best to help it succeed, managing to persuade 15 people to buy one, that I know of (reviews/opinions written online may have had an effect, but I cannot take these into account), but soon maybe, everything will hot up a bit!
The X Box ñ Microsoft, a monolithic presence in the world, soon to unleash their rather large games console onto the games playing public, Nintendo ñ already dominating the Handheld market, have already released their Game Cube to the Japanese, and pre-orders are going incredibly well in the United States ñ is it any good? Who knows, but rest assured we will be having a lot of ìPS2ís better than Game Cubeî and ìX Box kicks PS2ís backsideî, as if the PS2 has a backside, and itís good healthy competition, and with Sega announcing themselves as the best friend of each of these consoleís manufacturers, it will be very interesting indeed to see how it all fairs out.
Will Microsoft have shelf supremacy? Could Nintendoís Game Cube prove too bright for the rest? Or will Sony be able to keep up their tremendous sales of the PS2? Who knows, the futureís a state, weíll never be in the future, but the next generation of gaming, is just around the corner. Choose your team, be excited, and most importantly play the games, have a good time doing so, and remember ñ Sega make the best games in the world ;-)
Dan2K1
I have suddenly found a new liking for gaming, I have sold my Dreamcast and now a rather nice PlayStation 2 sits happily beside my PC monitor on the desk at which I am currently writing at. Iíve decided that Moto GP is not as bad as it used to be, that GT3 is unbeatable by any game at the present time and that Le Mans 24 on the Dreamcast exceeds the PS2 version many times over in all departments. Gaming over the last few months has not really appealed to me as much as it once did. But now, I have a blue VMU sitting on a PS2, which err, has nothing to do with the post.
Oh wait. Excitement. When a games company is excited and confident about their product or range of products, then the consumer generally echoes that excitement, a level of hype and glamour surrounds whatever it is being produced and success could happen very easily. With the Dreamcast, I had already chosen a side ñ I had chosen not to buy a PlayStation, I chose to buy a Sega Saturn, and it was superb, but unfortunately not everyone saw it in the same light as myself. My side had lost, but there was a light on the horizon.
Dreamcast. A brand new console, as it would have to be, a complete revelation in gaming ñ and it was exciting! I donít care how few people bought the console ñ in itís early days, and letís face it, most of its ëlife spaní were its early days, were really good ñ with new groundbreaking titles being released every week, with exciting features like Online gaming, VMU memory cards, events, genre defying games ñ the Dreamcast was superb. I was wrapped up in the community of Dreamcast, I bought every single magazine, every game receiving 9/10 or more in the official magazine, and I even entered some competitions ñ and won!
But now the excitement is lost, but it will be regained. Sega was on a mission, an uphill, no up mountain struggle to try and sway all potential PS2 owners to buy a Dreamcast, but the support was not there and the DC crumbled to itís knees, still a damn good console that you should buy, but the PS2 has been in a relatively open market for around 8months, with no fierce competition, and so what side have I been on? The PS2 has had no real competitors, the Dreamcast did and believe it or not, I tried my best to help it succeed, managing to persuade 15 people to buy one, that I know of (reviews/opinions written online may have had an effect, but I cannot take these into account), but soon maybe, everything will hot up a bit!
The X Box ñ Microsoft, a monolithic presence in the world, soon to unleash their rather large games console onto the games playing public, Nintendo ñ already dominating the Handheld market, have already released their Game Cube to the Japanese, and pre-orders are going incredibly well in the United States ñ is it any good? Who knows, but rest assured we will be having a lot of ìPS2ís better than Game Cubeî and ìX Box kicks PS2ís backsideî, as if the PS2 has a backside, and itís good healthy competition, and with Sega announcing themselves as the best friend of each of these consoleís manufacturers, it will be very interesting indeed to see how it all fairs out.
Will Microsoft have shelf supremacy? Could Nintendoís Game Cube prove too bright for the rest? Or will Sony be able to keep up their tremendous sales of the PS2? Who knows, the futureís a state, weíll never be in the future, but the next generation of gaming, is just around the corner. Choose your team, be excited, and most importantly play the games, have a good time doing so, and remember ñ Sega make the best games in the world ;-)
Dan2K1
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