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"My thoughts on the Xbox"

I don't like the Xbox.

Simple statement, and I'm sure you'd like a reason, so here it is:

It's not fun.

The Xbox is not fun.

It looks to damned serious. It looks like Microsoft have made a console that you will look at and say "That Xbox, it means business!"

But meaning business is often rather dull. When the talk is all about games that look great, and shift polygons and powerful chips, I'm not listening. There's no one sitting in the Microsoft corner saying "You know what, these games are a right laugh!"

Early Playstation titles seemed to suffer from similar, but it does seem that some of the games around now are fun, like GTA3, and probably some others.

But the Xbox games? Dull. Project Gotham Racing could well be a Gran Turismo beater. What do I care? I don't like realistic driving games, I have no interst in them.

Halo looks like it takes itself too seriously.

I guess that's why I want a Gamecube, the games are, above all else, fun.

I've seen nothing on the other consoles that makes me smile in the way that Nintendo games do.

Luigi cringing at the sight of ghosts is hilarious. Plaing that game looks fun.

In fact, many of the games that are coming from Nintendo look fun.

I know that these realistic graphics and the like don't stop a game from being fun, but often it does mean that they are rather linear. For example (made up):

"You are secret service agent Chip Badnuff, on a mission to infiltrate a terrorist network to stop the evil Algoran Goranisavic."

So that's your mission, and off you go, into buildings, through streets, always heading towards an inevitable goal.

Games like that just get boring. GTA3 is one game where you can have plenty of fun NOT doing missions.

Many games on the Gamecube offer the same kind of appeal to me. You can switch on, have a laugh, not complete any missions but still enjoy yourself.

I really hate the Xbox, you know.

The image is naff. It looks like it wants to be a machine for 'serious gamers'. I'm not a serious gamer, never want to be, I play to have a laugh, not to really believe I'm in the army and aliens are attacking.

Games on the Xbox have rubbish names.

Mad Dash Racing must be the worst titled racing game ever.

The pad looks and feels awful.

My advice, don't buy an Xbox, it's no fun.

Buy a Playstation2 if you want, I have no problems with that console, wait for a Gamecube if you like that kind of games, but I really cannot stress strongly enough how poor the Xbox appears to me, someone that has never played any games on it.

JCSuperStar wrote:
> I think the X-BOx will be great. Its fast(733Mhz) compared to the GC(405Mhz)
> and it has that console feel frather thatn the GC's cube fell (I know it is in
> the name). Both consoles stand to be outstanding but what will really focus is
> whether thay can do their best with the games for them - push themselves to the
> limits. nuff said :)

Jcsuperstar: The Saviour of Souls

Ooooh!
So you want to get technical?

Well, the Gamecube has stronger cache, so it uses its clicks (405 Mhz means 405 million clicks per second apparently), more efficiently so only 1 in 2 is wasted.
The Xbox only processes 1 in 5.

I don't know why it does this because it was an "unbiased" technicians report on a Nintendo website.

But I do know that it means that the Gamecube's processor out performs the Xbox's, that's if you want to argue in spoddy tech details, which quite frankly, is dull, nerdy and boring.

Dr. Duck wrote:
Do you remember that story about the 'special' last
> dreamcast to be produced? Any news on that? I'm intruiged, and was thinking
> about getting a dc anyway. Just trying very hard to make sure i don't buy one
> trying to get the special one : )

Haven't heard anything about the last dreamcast, I'd love to know whats in it though :-)

JCSuperStar wrote:
> I think the X-BOx will be great. Its fast(733Mhz) compared to the GC(405Mhz)

Very different architecture.

Means nothing to me.

I think the X-BOx will be great. Its fast(733Mhz) compared to the GC(405Mhz) and it has that console feel frather thatn the GC's cube fell (I know it is in the name). Both consoles stand to be outstanding but what will really focus is whether thay can do their best with the games for them - push themselves to the limits. nuff said :)

Jcsuperstar: The Saviour of Souls

ResÆvilfan wrote:
> The first Xbox was signed by Bill Gates, that person must be proud :-D

Do you remember that story about the 'special' last dreamcast to be produced? Any news on that? I'm intruiged, and was thinking about getting a dc anyway. Just trying very hard to make sure i don't buy one trying to get the special one : )

I'll be waiting to know a little more on x-box before i judge it. I don't think it looks good, but playing, to me, is the most important thing.

Still, since i've pre-ordered my gamecube, it's pretty academic.

I shall also reserve my judgement until I have actually player one. But, I will say this, if Dead or Alive 3 is as good as number two, then I will probably get it.

Even though I hate the X-Box just as much as Meka and many others i've gotta' say this. Lets just wait till we can get are hands on it and play it! Then we can judge how good it may be. I mean look at games like GTA or GTA2. If I saw them two for the first time not noing a thing about them then i'd think its looks preety rubbish! But after playing it there true classics!

All I@m saying is apperance isn't everything to all the peopl saying the X-Box is too big etc...

Also, Meka, You said that the Playstation started off with dull titles but then turned around, well for all you know it might be the same with X-Box..

I'm not buying one even though this post sounds like I love Microsoft and its X-Box, but I'm sticking to PS2 and G-Cube.

GTA 3 will be coming out on PC, infact the original GTA was on the PC first I believe. Damn those PS2 theives, can't they do anything themselves? Infact the PS2 does take a from the PC with it's substandard conversions to PC and delaying new releases by having Max Payne made for it. Grr.

I'd copy the signature and cash myself a fat cheque! I'd say about 10 bil! :D

The first Xbox was signed by Bill Gates, that person must be proud :-D