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"Look out mo'reen, Edgy's gettin' an X-box!"

Since I was born, holding a joystick as I exited the womb, I have always been a fan of Nintendo. Despite never getting a NES (I was too young to buy one myself at the time) I have enjoyed many a gaming moment with Nintendo's systems, the SNES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and even the Game Boy Advance. I have enjoyed many classics over the years, including The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World and Super Smash Bros Melee, and I am still looking forward to many games, including Rare's first and last GameCube exclusive title, Starfox Adventures, and other games such as Mario Kart GC, The Legend of Zelda GC and F-Zero GC (something fishy's going on - GC). But there's something that's going to change in the future, not just yet, but sometime very soon, and it's going to change the way I game for a long, long time. I am going to start going radioactive-green, talk like Banjo and brandish a chainsaw whenever I see the X-box logo, ready to change it to say "Edgy". Why? I'm getting an X-box.

Don't get me wrong, I haven't lost any faith in Nintendo, infact I still reguard them as the best videogame developers in the world. And to be quite honest, despite using a Windows operating system on my PC (by choice) and claiming I am going to get an X-box, I hate the company Microsoft. But there are many games on the X-box that aren't appearing on the GameCube (or PC) that I would like to try, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (well, any chance to see Alyson Hannigan whenever I like...) and Halo, as well as to see what Banjo Threeie, or whatever they decide to call it, will be like. As I said, I am not giving up on Nintendo. Infact, the GameCube will still be the main console I play on, especially when I've got high anticipation for games such as Starfox, Zelda and Mario Kart on the GameCube. But sometimes I like to try something different, and my brother already has a Playstation 2, which I'm not too fond of right now, except for the game This is Football 2003, and I've got all the games I can find available for the Dreamcast that I like to play, so the X-box is the only logical decision.

If you must know, I have always been curious about the X-box. I still dislike the controller, but I'm sure it'll grow on me, or I'll get used to it before it takes root (sorry, bad joke I know), but at the end of the day, it's a better controller than the Playstation 2 one. Ok, ok, I have probably just started Console War III but I'm only saying what I believe to be true. Sticking two analogue sticks in parallel to each other was a bad thing as Microsoft and Nintendo have learnt. Atleast, when I get myself an X-box, which will probably be nearer Christmas, I wont have to buy Memory Cards - no one else I know has got one and if they want to play on 'my' X-box, they'll have to come over my house as I'm not carting that thing around with me. I'll just need one extra controller (atleast until I start finding games that more than one person is interested in playing with me) and there are only a few games I want to try at the moment anyway, so I wont need to spend much dosh on them either.

So what is my main reason for deciding to get one? Cash. I have a temp' job and so am earning money. I work in a videogames shop and see the X-box all the time. I have even sold a couple the other day (as well as GameCubes and PS2s) and I have gotten used to the idea of having a third console on my bedroom floor next to my GameCube and Dreamcast. In a couple months time I will have earnt enough money to satisfy my wants and will hopefully have more money left over. I'm trying to save incase I don't find another job for a while anyway, plus with me having a driving test in under eight weeks time, I'm going to need some money to fund my want to drive anyway.

There is one problem though. I am getting put off by people on here:

"Ooh, Halo is great, better than that Mario Crap!"
"Haha! Lamecube, Nintendo is for Pansies, almost as good as the NOM jokes about the Fony Greystation Poo!"
"X-box is the best because it's the most powerful console!"

I know this doesn't refer to everyone here, but I don't want to become one of you! I prefer being the way I am! Happy with my games, open minded and ready to try anything once (unless it involves imminent death - in real life that is) and bascially don't want to be seen as 'cool' if pretending to be better than Nintendo fans is what being 'cool' is. Ofcourse, getting an X-box wont change me like that. My attitudes to some games may change, but I'll still be me no matter what. I'm a Nintendo fan and that's the way it'll stay.

So what do you think? Am I making the right move, or would you like to warn me away whilst you still can? I will take all opinions into consideration, but none of this crap about Nintendo being rubbish ok!

The one thing about the PS2 I can not stand is the controllers. Who's idea was it to stick two analogue sticks next to each other in the first place? Makes FPSs much more fun to play on the GameCube and X-box - atleast you don't knock thumbs at all!

Other than that, the PS2 is ok, just nothing brilliant.

As I've said before, I can't stand being without all the current consoles and having the choice of all the top games. I've been playing loads of multiplayer Halo at the moment, it's one of the best multiplayer FPS games and a load of fun, but I just couldn't be without my Mario Sunshine, Rogue Leader and the great NBA Courtside, my favorite NBA game so far.

In addition to this, I can't be without my PS2 and all the great games coming out for that over christmas and afterwards. For instance, there are 10 game demos on the current OPS2M disc, most of them for great games and only one of a platinum game. So it doesn't have the graphical flare of the other two consoles, but it does have the playability.

Strafex wrote:

> BY the way, you forgot to put Rare games as one of your reasons...

But it's not one of my reasons.

I didn't buy the GameCube because of Rareware, I didn't encourage my brother to get an N64 because of Rareware, and the only Game Boy Color games I've had by Rareware were absolute crap! (Perfect Dark and Conker's Pocket Tales - however Battletoads and the Donkey Kong Land series on the original Game Boy were good!)

The reason I am buying Starfox Adventures on the GameCube isn't because it's a Rareware game but because I like the look of it and hope it plays as good.

I have enjoyed many a Rareware game in the past, but they aren't a company that greatly excite me. Sure, they've pulled off some one-off classics like Goldeneye, Donkey Kong Country and Conker's Bad Fur Day, but not all their games are great. That's why I stick with my decision that even if I end up not getting an X-box in the near future, I still wont feel any loss on my part where Rareware are concerned.

Saying that, I am detirmined to get an X-box, but GameCube still comes first for me.

Oh, I'm glad no one has put up those stupid lists of games :D After all, I work in a videogame shop and I know what's out and coming out, and anyway, those lists mean nothing to me anyway - just names of games, doesn't actually mean the games in those lists are to my taste does it :)

I love the controller S.....

By the way, Edgy, this link may be useful to you:

http://tinyurl.com/1yby

Or mabye he just want to play games and enjoy himself.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOO EDGY! WHY? Why? Why? People like you are killing Nintendo, taking Gates Bait, dancing to his tune! NO!

You wont look back, unless you have neck strain.

Edgy, that makes us two of a kind.

BY the way, you forgot to put Rare games as one of your reasons...

er no praising an xbox game and edgy saying he's gonna get an xbox- good lord their must be something in the water!

If you dislike the xbox controller- controller S is the way to go.

You will be able to play the best of all worlds now.