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It amazes me every time I see someone say how the Gamecube is kewl because it is 'small and portable', and that none of the other consoles are. What planet are you on?
Every console is portable. PCs with their monitors and cables are not portable, but consoles are. The fact that the Gamecube is marginally smaller than other consoles does not mean it's the only portable console - it means it is marginally smaller, and that's all. They are all still very portable.
You seem to class the smallest console as the only console that is portable.
It's like saying only cars that can go over 200mph can move.
What will you lot say when someone releases a console that is smaller than the Gamecube? Will the Gamecube all of a sudden not be portable, just like the Xbox and PS2 now? The Dreamcast was also very small, yet no-one claimed that as a selling point. Why not? Because it already had enough selling points that were much more valid - first 128-bit console, only console with working online games, first true next-gen console etc. etc.
The Dreamcast didn't need half-@rsed pointless and trivial selling points like 'it's so small you can take it anywhere!' because that is true of ALL consoles.
Perhaps the fact that Nintendo fans claim the size of the console makes it portable or not and then claim this as a selling point should not come as a surprise, as the majority of Nintendo fans are aged to suit the console? If Nintendo build a console to look like a dinky toy, and then make games to suit my little sisters, I suppose they can't complain when their fan-base is so young that they come up with lame positive points like the size of the console.
Step over the the Microsoft, Sony or Sega forums and you see things like 'specifications' and 'hardware' being talked about. This is because these are in fact adult consoles. No-one expects Nintendo fans to care about such things, as they are too obsessed with their cutesy little fluffy game characters to notice 'frame rate' or 'polygon count', but what they DO expect is that you appreciate that some people actually care about the POWER inside their console, and not just if it's small enough to fit down your Jap's eye or not.
At the end of the day if you lot want to sit there and get erections over your small consoles then you can do that, but don't try using it as a reason behind 'mine is better than yours' as it just makes you look stupid.
How many people have been unable to take their Xbox to another room because it was too big? None. Do you hang your Gamecubes on your eye-lashes to play on it, or do you stick it under your TV, exactly where you would stick an Xbox? How many people can take their Gamecube to places an Xbox cannot go? None. Why is this? Because SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.
Every console is portable. PCs with their monitors and cables are not portable, but consoles are. The fact that the Gamecube is marginally smaller than other consoles does not mean it's the only portable console - it means it is marginally smaller, and that's all. They are all still very portable.
You seem to class the smallest console as the only console that is portable.
It's like saying only cars that can go over 200mph can move.
What will you lot say when someone releases a console that is smaller than the Gamecube? Will the Gamecube all of a sudden not be portable, just like the Xbox and PS2 now? The Dreamcast was also very small, yet no-one claimed that as a selling point. Why not? Because it already had enough selling points that were much more valid - first 128-bit console, only console with working online games, first true next-gen console etc. etc.
The Dreamcast didn't need half-@rsed pointless and trivial selling points like 'it's so small you can take it anywhere!' because that is true of ALL consoles.
Perhaps the fact that Nintendo fans claim the size of the console makes it portable or not and then claim this as a selling point should not come as a surprise, as the majority of Nintendo fans are aged to suit the console? If Nintendo build a console to look like a dinky toy, and then make games to suit my little sisters, I suppose they can't complain when their fan-base is so young that they come up with lame positive points like the size of the console.
Step over the the Microsoft, Sony or Sega forums and you see things like 'specifications' and 'hardware' being talked about. This is because these are in fact adult consoles. No-one expects Nintendo fans to care about such things, as they are too obsessed with their cutesy little fluffy game characters to notice 'frame rate' or 'polygon count', but what they DO expect is that you appreciate that some people actually care about the POWER inside their console, and not just if it's small enough to fit down your Jap's eye or not.
At the end of the day if you lot want to sit there and get erections over your small consoles then you can do that, but don't try using it as a reason behind 'mine is better than yours' as it just makes you look stupid.
How many people have been unable to take their Xbox to another room because it was too big? None. Do you hang your Gamecubes on your eye-lashes to play on it, or do you stick it under your TV, exactly where you would stick an Xbox? How many people can take their Gamecube to places an Xbox cannot go? None. Why is this? Because SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.
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he is a bit naffed off..
I've beaten the main game in JSRF, just gotta do the street challenges and stuff now to earn the other characters. ;-))
Played Jet Set Radio Future today, took me a while to get used to the controller but that game sooooo rules. The X-Box acually has 2 good games now Halo and Jet Set Radio :0P
Actually Halo is a game I'm always going back to. I've completed it on every difficulty and I still go back for more. With the Gamecube, I found myself just playing to get the games finished in the end, I didn't really get much fun out of them.
As for Halo being the only good game, thats utter crap. There are the likes of Jet Set Radio Future, Max Payne (best version), DOA3, Project Gothem Racing, OddWorld, Gun Valkyrie, Amped, Moto GP, etc.
Plus of course theres the 200 games that are due out by Christmas with a large number of high quality titles among them.
I bought a GC and recently traded it in cause I was so disappointed in it. Rogue Leader might be able to throw a decent amount of TIE fighters on screen at once, but the AI is almost non existant. I found I couldn't really sit back and enjoy the game either, it was just pressure after pressure to get everything done as quick as possible with no time to enjoy dogfights with TIE's, etc. As for the other GC games I played, I found them either frustrating to the point of being very little fun or just dull in the case of Wave Race.
So basically its a case of different tastes.
As for Halo being the only good game, thats utter crap. There are the likes of Jet Set Radio Future, Max Payne (best version), DOA3, Project Gothem Racing, OddWorld, Gun Valkyrie, Amped, Moto GP, etc.
Plus of course theres the 200 games that are due out by Christmas with a large number of high quality titles among them.
I bought a GC and recently traded it in cause I was so disappointed in it. Rogue Leader might be able to throw a decent amount of TIE fighters on screen at once, but the AI is almost non existant. I found I couldn't really sit back and enjoy the game either, it was just pressure after pressure to get everything done as quick as possible with no time to enjoy dogfights with TIE's, etc. As for the other GC games I played, I found them either frustrating to the point of being very little fun or just dull in the case of Wave Race.
So basically its a case of different tastes.
My feelings exactly.
DeltaJava wrote:
> Halo isn't that good actually. The scenery is repetitive, and it'll
> seem empty after finishing.
I just feel that Microsoft rust it out without a clear plan are even if there where thinking straight. Theres not one game that would make buy an Xbox yet there are a few for the Cube and Some for the PS2 as well which i may still get.
> Halo isn't that good actually. The scenery is repetitive, and it'll
> seem empty after finishing.
I just feel that Microsoft rust it out without a clear plan are even if there where thinking straight. Theres not one game that would make buy an Xbox yet there are a few for the Cube and Some for the PS2 as well which i may still get.
Halo isn't that good actually. The scenery is repetitive, and it'll seem empty after finishing.
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