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The lazy readers around this forum will read my first paragraph then reply with a barrage of insults, claims of greatness and 'PS2 rulez' statements. If you want to make yourself look clever, or not look like a fool, read the whole damn thing. Nothing angers me more than lazy readers, or people who read the first paragraph then reply with something that I've written later on in the topic.
Righty, now that that little annoyance has been sorted, only decent, honest posters will be left reading this. So what am I talking about? The PlayStation 2, of course (that's why I'm here). This is my story...
The first next generation console that I owned, like many many other people was a PlayStation 2. At the time, I thought it was great - Smuggler's Run was a right royal laugh, Dark Cloud was perfect for me, since I loved Zelda on the N64, and SSX was also brilliant. And I loved my PlayStation 2, right through the frankly hectic Christmas period up until around about February of this year. I just got bored.
With such a lacklustre release schedule over the next few months, I saw it within my limits to actually buy Rez, something which I wouldn't have bought had it have been released in November or December the previous year. After a sub-one hour finish and a slight disappiontment, I got a refund and sat on my chair, in my brightly lit room trying to get through an import copy of Golden Sun on my GameBoy Advance. I was THAT bored with my PS2.
And then came the Xbox. After hiring out an Xbox and witnessing the sheer delights of Halo, I decided I'd have to buy an Xbox. Throwing aside initial preoccupations with selling my PS2, I snapped up an Xbox during my holiday to Australia for the ridiculous price of £210. Remember, this was before the price drop so I was still entitled to the reward pack. High value for money, if you ask me, especially since I bought it for the equivalent of 2/3 of a PS2 (including cost of reward pack) PLUS with a hard drive, often rumoured to be as much as £110.
Halo wowed me for weeks, Oddworld wowed me for months. Then surprise surprise, I got bored of my Xbox. Its a usual case of post-launch game blockage, since the launch Xbox games were pretty slim in greatness. Not to worry, because only a few weeks after that, the GameCube came out and my dad (loving as he is) bought me one.
By now you can guess that my PlayStation 2 was gathering dust in the top of my wardrobe - great games were all but non-existant by now for the machine, and with the awesomelly betterness of the GameCube and Xbox, I couldn't give a damn. Even now I hold my GameCube in a much higher regard to my PS2, so abuse me if you will but that's the fact.
And then came Final Fantasy 10. Down came the PS2, in went the disc and I played. And played. And played some more. Its great. I love it. And for some reason, now I love my PlayStation 2. It shows that great games CAN change your opinion of a console - I'm sure if any of you sonyphiles (as you are annoyingly dubbed) play Halo, you'll find it brilliant fun. And the same goes for Super Smash Bros Melee. I now believe the fact that it is the games that make or break a console. I understand why Sega went down - lack of games. The ones out may have been great quality, but in this gaming industry it has to be quantity over quality.
The PSone beat the N64 hands down because of many games available. But I beleive that in this next generation race, this may not be the case. PS2 has tonnes of games, but the ratio of good to bad is very distinctive - something along the lines of about 30:1. And due to this negative factor, and inferior technology of the PS2, I hated it. Thanks to the brilliance that is Final Fantasy 10, I love it.
Games make or break a console. In the gaming industry, its quantity over quality which will bring in the casual masses. I've only recently found out that, despite this rock-solid theory, quality still exists in the sea of mediocrity. Final Fantasy is brilliant. Final Fantasy made the PlayStation2 my Marmite - I did hate it, but now I love it.
Righty, now that that little annoyance has been sorted, only decent, honest posters will be left reading this. So what am I talking about? The PlayStation 2, of course (that's why I'm here). This is my story...
The first next generation console that I owned, like many many other people was a PlayStation 2. At the time, I thought it was great - Smuggler's Run was a right royal laugh, Dark Cloud was perfect for me, since I loved Zelda on the N64, and SSX was also brilliant. And I loved my PlayStation 2, right through the frankly hectic Christmas period up until around about February of this year. I just got bored.
With such a lacklustre release schedule over the next few months, I saw it within my limits to actually buy Rez, something which I wouldn't have bought had it have been released in November or December the previous year. After a sub-one hour finish and a slight disappiontment, I got a refund and sat on my chair, in my brightly lit room trying to get through an import copy of Golden Sun on my GameBoy Advance. I was THAT bored with my PS2.
And then came the Xbox. After hiring out an Xbox and witnessing the sheer delights of Halo, I decided I'd have to buy an Xbox. Throwing aside initial preoccupations with selling my PS2, I snapped up an Xbox during my holiday to Australia for the ridiculous price of £210. Remember, this was before the price drop so I was still entitled to the reward pack. High value for money, if you ask me, especially since I bought it for the equivalent of 2/3 of a PS2 (including cost of reward pack) PLUS with a hard drive, often rumoured to be as much as £110.
Halo wowed me for weeks, Oddworld wowed me for months. Then surprise surprise, I got bored of my Xbox. Its a usual case of post-launch game blockage, since the launch Xbox games were pretty slim in greatness. Not to worry, because only a few weeks after that, the GameCube came out and my dad (loving as he is) bought me one.
By now you can guess that my PlayStation 2 was gathering dust in the top of my wardrobe - great games were all but non-existant by now for the machine, and with the awesomelly betterness of the GameCube and Xbox, I couldn't give a damn. Even now I hold my GameCube in a much higher regard to my PS2, so abuse me if you will but that's the fact.
And then came Final Fantasy 10. Down came the PS2, in went the disc and I played. And played. And played some more. Its great. I love it. And for some reason, now I love my PlayStation 2. It shows that great games CAN change your opinion of a console - I'm sure if any of you sonyphiles (as you are annoyingly dubbed) play Halo, you'll find it brilliant fun. And the same goes for Super Smash Bros Melee. I now believe the fact that it is the games that make or break a console. I understand why Sega went down - lack of games. The ones out may have been great quality, but in this gaming industry it has to be quantity over quality.
The PSone beat the N64 hands down because of many games available. But I beleive that in this next generation race, this may not be the case. PS2 has tonnes of games, but the ratio of good to bad is very distinctive - something along the lines of about 30:1. And due to this negative factor, and inferior technology of the PS2, I hated it. Thanks to the brilliance that is Final Fantasy 10, I love it.
Games make or break a console. In the gaming industry, its quantity over quality which will bring in the casual masses. I've only recently found out that, despite this rock-solid theory, quality still exists in the sea of mediocrity. Final Fantasy is brilliant. Final Fantasy made the PlayStation2 my Marmite - I did hate it, but now I love it.
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The lazy readers around this forum will read my first paragraph then reply with a barrage of insults, claims of greatness and 'PS2 rulez' statements. If you want to make yourself look clever, or not look like a fool, read the whole damn thing. Nothing angers me more than lazy readers, or people who read the first paragraph then reply with something that I've written later on in the topic.
Righty, now that that little annoyance has been sorted, only decent, honest posters will be left reading this. So what am I talking about? The PlayStation 2, of course (that's why I'm here). This is my story...
The first next generation console that I owned, like many many other people was a PlayStation 2. At the time, I thought it was great - Smuggler's Run was a right royal laugh, Dark Cloud was perfect for me, since I loved Zelda on the N64, and SSX was also brilliant. And I loved my PlayStation 2, right through the frankly hectic Christmas period up until around about February of this year. I just got bored.
With such a lacklustre release schedule over the next few months, I saw it within my limits to actually buy Rez, something which I wouldn't have bought had it have been released in November or December the previous year. After a sub-one hour finish and a slight disappiontment, I got a refund and sat on my chair, in my brightly lit room trying to get through an import copy of Golden Sun on my GameBoy Advance. I was THAT bored with my PS2.
And then came the Xbox. After hiring out an Xbox and witnessing the sheer delights of Halo, I decided I'd have to buy an Xbox. Throwing aside initial preoccupations with selling my PS2, I snapped up an Xbox during my holiday to Australia for the ridiculous price of £210. Remember, this was before the price drop so I was still entitled to the reward pack. High value for money, if you ask me, especially since I bought it for the equivalent of 2/3 of a PS2 (including cost of reward pack) PLUS with a hard drive, often rumoured to be as much as £110.
Halo wowed me for weeks, Oddworld wowed me for months. Then surprise surprise, I got bored of my Xbox. Its a usual case of post-launch game blockage, since the launch Xbox games were pretty slim in greatness. Not to worry, because only a few weeks after that, the GameCube came out and my dad (loving as he is) bought me one.
By now you can guess that my PlayStation 2 was gathering dust in the top of my wardrobe - great games were all but non-existant by now for the machine, and with the awesomelly betterness of the GameCube and Xbox, I couldn't give a damn. Even now I hold my GameCube in a much higher regard to my PS2, so abuse me if you will but that's the fact.
And then came Final Fantasy 10. Down came the PS2, in went the disc and I played. And played. And played some more. Its great. I love it. And for some reason, now I love my PlayStation 2. It shows that great games CAN change your opinion of a console - I'm sure if any of you sonyphiles (as you are annoyingly dubbed) play Halo, you'll find it brilliant fun. And the same goes for Super Smash Bros Melee. I now believe the fact that it is the games that make or break a console. I understand why Sega went down - lack of games. The ones out may have been great quality, but in this gaming industry it has to be quantity over quality.
The PSone beat the N64 hands down because of many games available. But I beleive that in this next generation race, this may not be the case. PS2 has tonnes of games, but the ratio of good to bad is very distinctive - something along the lines of about 30:1. And due to this negative factor, and inferior technology of the PS2, I hated it. Thanks to the brilliance that is Final Fantasy 10, I love it.
Games make or break a console. In the gaming industry, its quantity over quality which will bring in the casual masses. I've only recently found out that, despite this rock-solid theory, quality still exists in the sea of mediocrity. Final Fantasy is brilliant. Final Fantasy made the PlayStation2 my Marmite - I did hate it, but now I love it.
Righty, now that that little annoyance has been sorted, only decent, honest posters will be left reading this. So what am I talking about? The PlayStation 2, of course (that's why I'm here). This is my story...
The first next generation console that I owned, like many many other people was a PlayStation 2. At the time, I thought it was great - Smuggler's Run was a right royal laugh, Dark Cloud was perfect for me, since I loved Zelda on the N64, and SSX was also brilliant. And I loved my PlayStation 2, right through the frankly hectic Christmas period up until around about February of this year. I just got bored.
With such a lacklustre release schedule over the next few months, I saw it within my limits to actually buy Rez, something which I wouldn't have bought had it have been released in November or December the previous year. After a sub-one hour finish and a slight disappiontment, I got a refund and sat on my chair, in my brightly lit room trying to get through an import copy of Golden Sun on my GameBoy Advance. I was THAT bored with my PS2.
And then came the Xbox. After hiring out an Xbox and witnessing the sheer delights of Halo, I decided I'd have to buy an Xbox. Throwing aside initial preoccupations with selling my PS2, I snapped up an Xbox during my holiday to Australia for the ridiculous price of £210. Remember, this was before the price drop so I was still entitled to the reward pack. High value for money, if you ask me, especially since I bought it for the equivalent of 2/3 of a PS2 (including cost of reward pack) PLUS with a hard drive, often rumoured to be as much as £110.
Halo wowed me for weeks, Oddworld wowed me for months. Then surprise surprise, I got bored of my Xbox. Its a usual case of post-launch game blockage, since the launch Xbox games were pretty slim in greatness. Not to worry, because only a few weeks after that, the GameCube came out and my dad (loving as he is) bought me one.
By now you can guess that my PlayStation 2 was gathering dust in the top of my wardrobe - great games were all but non-existant by now for the machine, and with the awesomelly betterness of the GameCube and Xbox, I couldn't give a damn. Even now I hold my GameCube in a much higher regard to my PS2, so abuse me if you will but that's the fact.
And then came Final Fantasy 10. Down came the PS2, in went the disc and I played. And played. And played some more. Its great. I love it. And for some reason, now I love my PlayStation 2. It shows that great games CAN change your opinion of a console - I'm sure if any of you sonyphiles (as you are annoyingly dubbed) play Halo, you'll find it brilliant fun. And the same goes for Super Smash Bros Melee. I now believe the fact that it is the games that make or break a console. I understand why Sega went down - lack of games. The ones out may have been great quality, but in this gaming industry it has to be quantity over quality.
The PSone beat the N64 hands down because of many games available. But I beleive that in this next generation race, this may not be the case. PS2 has tonnes of games, but the ratio of good to bad is very distinctive - something along the lines of about 30:1. And due to this negative factor, and inferior technology of the PS2, I hated it. Thanks to the brilliance that is Final Fantasy 10, I love it.
Games make or break a console. In the gaming industry, its quantity over quality which will bring in the casual masses. I've only recently found out that, despite this rock-solid theory, quality still exists in the sea of mediocrity. Final Fantasy is brilliant. Final Fantasy made the PlayStation2 my Marmite - I did hate it, but now I love it.
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