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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.
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.
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Can't say that I like it either, On cybernet they showed 3 or 4 gamecube games than the Xbox titles followed, utter rubbish, good graphics but the games were dreadfull. Nintendo have the right idea and thats what made the PS1 so succesfull.
I heard the future of Microsoft lies in its success so if it flops they might go bankrupt, haha I'd love to see that :-)
I heard the future of Microsoft lies in its success so if it flops they might go bankrupt, haha I'd love to see that :-)
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.
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.
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