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As many of you know, the X-Box had one of best launch line ups ever, which was only second best to the GameCube's. It included the amazing Halo, Jet Set Radio: Future, Project Gotham Racing and more fairly good titles to back up these smash hits. But after you've finished these, which could be some time if you've got Halo, there's nothing else. After all the fame and fortune from the launch line up, good games seemed to stop dead. I honestly couldn't name anymore well known classic games after that.
The X-Box is a perfectly capable machine - don't get me wrong. When you look at the technical specification compared to Playstation 2 and GameCube it blows them out of the water. A huge Polygon count of 116 million compared to GameCube's 12 million and PS2's 66 million. It's processor is twice as fast as the PS2 and a fair bit faster than the GC. Plus with much higher music and memory capabilities, surely this would be the console to get, no? No.
Do you know why that is? All hardcore, or at least long time, gamers should know that Tech Specs is just something fancy to show off about. What really matters is the games.
This console has, and always will have, huge possibilities for making great games and getting a good market. But they do need more than they have. They need a lot more classic games after the brilliant launch line up. Halo's all well and good but not for the rest of the year. Maybe if they got some games with some serious beats on them to show off their high music capabilities. But that's much easier said than done.
If they want to get some good games that stand out in a crowd, they'll need to get some reliable exclusive second party developers or some exclusive signings. Something that would make someone change their format. Getting GTA3 and MGS2 is all good, but PS2 owners won't buy an X-Box for them.
The Big N have Rare and Resident Evil, which would make me and Resident Evil lovers buy the console, in fact, that's the main reason I did. I thought Veronica X looked brilliant, but not just that, all the exclusive deals like Starfox Adventures and Metroid Prime, how could I resist? Mean while with the X-Box, I may crave to play Halo, but it's just not enough to make me switch formats. I wouldn't give up Res Evil and Rare classics for one game. Microsoft need some deals!
In terms of games for the X-Box, things don't look good, but there is something they could do. Surely most, if not all, of the PC games could be ported across to the X-Box. If this happened many PC lovers were maybe get an X-Box for both PC and X-Box games. It seems logical, but then, who are they competing with? Themselves, it may boost X-Box sales, but wouldn't PC's stop selling? Of course not, everyone needs a PC for something, whether it's writer on Word, creating databases, you name it, PC's have it.
Halo's already being ported across to the PC, so ports to the X-Box could work.
So maybe for all you X-Boxers out there, there may not be shattered dreams, but it all depends on how Microsoft go about it.
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS
The X-Box is a perfectly capable machine - don't get me wrong. When you look at the technical specification compared to Playstation 2 and GameCube it blows them out of the water. A huge Polygon count of 116 million compared to GameCube's 12 million and PS2's 66 million. It's processor is twice as fast as the PS2 and a fair bit faster than the GC. Plus with much higher music and memory capabilities, surely this would be the console to get, no? No.
Do you know why that is? All hardcore, or at least long time, gamers should know that Tech Specs is just something fancy to show off about. What really matters is the games.
This console has, and always will have, huge possibilities for making great games and getting a good market. But they do need more than they have. They need a lot more classic games after the brilliant launch line up. Halo's all well and good but not for the rest of the year. Maybe if they got some games with some serious beats on them to show off their high music capabilities. But that's much easier said than done.
If they want to get some good games that stand out in a crowd, they'll need to get some reliable exclusive second party developers or some exclusive signings. Something that would make someone change their format. Getting GTA3 and MGS2 is all good, but PS2 owners won't buy an X-Box for them.
The Big N have Rare and Resident Evil, which would make me and Resident Evil lovers buy the console, in fact, that's the main reason I did. I thought Veronica X looked brilliant, but not just that, all the exclusive deals like Starfox Adventures and Metroid Prime, how could I resist? Mean while with the X-Box, I may crave to play Halo, but it's just not enough to make me switch formats. I wouldn't give up Res Evil and Rare classics for one game. Microsoft need some deals!
In terms of games for the X-Box, things don't look good, but there is something they could do. Surely most, if not all, of the PC games could be ported across to the X-Box. If this happened many PC lovers were maybe get an X-Box for both PC and X-Box games. It seems logical, but then, who are they competing with? Themselves, it may boost X-Box sales, but wouldn't PC's stop selling? Of course not, everyone needs a PC for something, whether it's writer on Word, creating databases, you name it, PC's have it.
Halo's already being ported across to the PC, so ports to the X-Box could work.
So maybe for all you X-Boxers out there, there may not be shattered dreams, but it all depends on how Microsoft go about it.
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS
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See, if the X-Box did get a mascot, more great spin offs would be made. What about a flying Koala :-) Maybe not...
RiCk0sS wrote:
> But out of what's milked you get some damn good games. Take Super
> Mario Kart for instance...
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And I really liked Mario Golf and Mario Tennis.
> But out of what's milked you get some damn good games. Take Super
> Mario Kart for instance...
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And I really liked Mario Golf and Mario Tennis.
But out of what's milked you get some damn good games. Take Super Mario Kart for instance...
RiCk0sS wrote:
> It's the X-Box's lack of a mascot. All big games companies have them.
> Nintendo have Mario, Sega have Sonic and Sony have Crash (I suppose).
> Sony's macot may not be exclusive, but when it was it got them some
> sales and a fair few good titles.
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Sony don't really have a mascot. Crash is on XBOX.
Who needs mascots anyway. All they do is milked in 20 very similar types of games anyway.
> It's the X-Box's lack of a mascot. All big games companies have them.
> Nintendo have Mario, Sega have Sonic and Sony have Crash (I suppose).
> Sony's macot may not be exclusive, but when it was it got them some
> sales and a fair few good titles.
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Sony don't really have a mascot. Crash is on XBOX.
Who needs mascots anyway. All they do is milked in 20 very similar types of games anyway.
RiCk0sS wrote:
> There's a high chance it will come to the GameCube or PS2, exclusives
> these days normally mean Multi-Format ;-D
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Shenmue II & III will be show-cased at E3 in the XBOX area.
> There's a high chance it will come to the GameCube or PS2, exclusives
> these days normally mean Multi-Format ;-D
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Shenmue II & III will be show-cased at E3 in the XBOX area.
Well, i've thought of another reason why X-Box might not have as many exclusive and original titles as others companies. When you think about it, it's very simple.
It's the X-Box's lack of a mascot. All big games companies have them. Nintendo have Mario, Sega have Sonic and Sony have Crash (I suppose). Sony's macot may not be exclusive, but when it was it got them some sales and a fair few good titles.
But the main reason is, companies exploit gamers with mascots; making huge amounts of games with different genres and then gamers buying them because of the characters. But what do Microsoft have? A big guy in a futuristic suit who shoots people in the face? Just doesn't seem the same.
If they did get a mascot, loads of spin-offs would obviously appear; racing games, platform games, puzzlers and more. All good would come of it, because out of that thick pile of games, a lot of exclusives classics will be made.
But so far, no sign of a mascot. Unless they want to make the star of Halo a mascot, there doesn't seem to be much on the horizon.
RiCkOsS
It's the X-Box's lack of a mascot. All big games companies have them. Nintendo have Mario, Sega have Sonic and Sony have Crash (I suppose). Sony's macot may not be exclusive, but when it was it got them some sales and a fair few good titles.
But the main reason is, companies exploit gamers with mascots; making huge amounts of games with different genres and then gamers buying them because of the characters. But what do Microsoft have? A big guy in a futuristic suit who shoots people in the face? Just doesn't seem the same.
If they did get a mascot, loads of spin-offs would obviously appear; racing games, platform games, puzzlers and more. All good would come of it, because out of that thick pile of games, a lot of exclusives classics will be made.
But so far, no sign of a mascot. Unless they want to make the star of Halo a mascot, there doesn't seem to be much on the horizon.
RiCkOsS
I'm thinking you played that series too much...
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Good. That makes me very happy!
I'll be extremely annoyed if I never get to see what happens next.
I wanna fight Lan Di! Although I know he'd kick my_ass. :-D
But maybe not if Gui Zhang came and helped me out. As long as he let me stamp on his head once we'd defeated him, I'd be happy. :-D
I'll be extremely annoyed if I never get to see what happens next.
I wanna fight Lan Di! Although I know he'd kick my_ass. :-D
But maybe not if Gui Zhang came and helped me out. As long as he let me stamp on his head once we'd defeated him, I'd be happy. :-D
There's a high chance it will come to the GameCube or PS2, exclusives these days normally mean Multi-Format ;-D
X-Box has Shenmue though!
Damn them! I want Shenmue! But I don't want an X-Box.
I bought both Shenmue games for the Dreamcast so I can't just leave it and forget it. They were brilliant games. Although I can't say I liked all the magic stuff at the end of the second.
Still, I WANT SHENMUE FOR PS2 OR GAMECUBE!!
Damn them! I want Shenmue! But I don't want an X-Box.
I bought both Shenmue games for the Dreamcast so I can't just leave it and forget it. They were brilliant games. Although I can't say I liked all the magic stuff at the end of the second.
Still, I WANT SHENMUE FOR PS2 OR GAMECUBE!!
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