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After reading the shocking and pleasantly surprising news yesterday of the X-box's sudden price drop, you'd probably expect me to continue the post with a long and endless rant about the good and the bad points to this.
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
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Solskjær wrote:
> Would you say that all of these games and possibly more have 'poor' or
> even 'very bad' gaming quality compared to other games???
No, it's just nowhere near the standards of some games I have played, in the distant past and recently.
> Would you say that all of these games and possibly more have 'poor' or
> even 'very bad' gaming quality compared to other games???
No, it's just nowhere near the standards of some games I have played, in the distant past and recently.
Er, yes...
I've played Halo extensively, and I have to say it's not as good as Quake 3 on the PS2, which is the best FPS I have ever played on a console (but then I've never played Goldeneye single player). I don't know, but the two-gun thing seems like a gimmick, and apart from that it's just the same as every other FPS I've ever played, except the controls are weird as seem quite hard to aim properly. I'm not a mouse junky, it's just the move threshold is set far too high.
I've played Halo extensively, and I have to say it's not as good as Quake 3 on the PS2, which is the best FPS I have ever played on a console (but then I've never played Goldeneye single player). I don't know, but the two-gun thing seems like a gimmick, and apart from that it's just the same as every other FPS I've ever played, except the controls are weird as seem quite hard to aim properly. I'm not a mouse junky, it's just the move threshold is set far too high.
So... have you playd an X-box???
From what i've read in the reviews and heard in the news, Halo is sposed to be one of the greatest games ever created! And it even works very well for an FPS played using a 'huge' pad, without a keyboard and mouse.
And some of the other titles:
Buffy
Dead or Alive 3
Project Gotham Racing
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault
and several others also.
Would you say that all of these games and possibly more have 'poor' or even 'very bad' gaming quality compared to other games???
From what i've read in the reviews and heard in the news, Halo is sposed to be one of the greatest games ever created! And it even works very well for an FPS played using a 'huge' pad, without a keyboard and mouse.
And some of the other titles:
Buffy
Dead or Alive 3
Project Gotham Racing
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault
and several others also.
Would you say that all of these games and possibly more have 'poor' or even 'very bad' gaming quality compared to other games???
I just wish it could set the standards in gameplay quality, or even come anywhere near the current standards at least.
Um....... thanks??
Note: Due to misfortune, luck acts of God or the fact i wanna go watch the simpsosn, asher didn't read the topic, but read the title.
XBox is not setting the standards, but that's my view. Bye.
XBox is not setting the standards, but that's my view. Bye.
After reading the shocking and pleasantly surprising news yesterday of the X-box's sudden price drop, you'd probably expect me to continue the post with a long and endless rant about the good and the bad points to this.
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
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