Re: Re: 10 reasons to wait for Ps3 and not 360
Originally posted by Ast
360 fails? You are taking IGN's word on that? 😕IGN also has a 10 reason list for the other two systems. 😆
Don't worry...me for one is for the 360..I got a issues with sony for a long time even though I ended up with the nintendo...
In my mind at the time
Sega>>Nintendo>>>Microsoft(hated it at first)>>>SOny (hated it at first as well thsoe damn ps2 fanboys always messing with Nintendo...
Originally posted by Ken Kenobi
Everyone needs to shut the hell up and stop masturbating because their favorite system is better than other systems in their views.
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Originally posted by Ken Kenobi
I laugh in the faces of those that praise one system but bash on the other. Open your mind and accept the fact that all of the systems will be great in one way or another...douche bags. 😛
Yep, I dont try to bash on the PS3, just these 'promises' that every developer uses to sell their console. N64 DD? PS2 hard drive? What happened with those?
And the rabid fanboys who are too ignorant to pay attention to what is actually onscreen in front of them but instead nitpick on the minor flaws.
For the previous consoles, initially I considered getting a Gamecube, then considered PS2, then finally bought an Xbox. At the moment I want a 360, but I could change my mind. The developers have to impress with more than hyped marketing promises.
Can't think of 10 of my own reasons, but I know one but it really counts. Playstations rule! Been going since the middle 90's! Great games!
Xbox games are just so boring. I look at them & like 'uuurrrgghhh...zzzzz'. I play a Playstation game & love it!
Playstation games are more for adventure games, Xbox is for shooting games; which to me are pretty much all the same. Blow something up, shooting someone, blah blah blah. But if other people enjoy them then fine.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about the next-gen console war right now. I've always said it has started too soon, and I still believe in that. I won't get involved in it on sheer principle. It's just graphics after all. If I buy into it like everyone else, I'll just be contributing to the depressing situation: graphics drive the industry.
Out of everything I'm most intrigued by the Revolution. It could be a steaming pile of gimmicky shite, but it could also be amazing.
As for the uber graphics, look at Madden. Trailer - awesome. Reality - looks more lke XBox 1.5. Marketing and bullshit hype over proof of concept everytime. And stupid idiot people buy into this bullshit every time, even people who WERE THERE for the PS2 and XBox not so long ago, and should know better.
In fact, I see this whole next generation as a "1.5" rather than a proper step forward. In many ways it's a step in completely the wrong direction, especially where XBox 360 and PS3 are concerned. Graphics are wonderful, yes, but they should never be the driving force behind video gaming. It's so f*cking depressing and I'm only gonna bother looking at video games consoles again when they've shown me some proof they've grown out of this rediculous assumption that graphics mean everything. It's likely this generation won't be any different from the last. Graphics are nice for a while, then everyone gets used to them and starts making PROPER games (apart from EA who will always continue to defacate into DVD boxes and put them on shelves).
The XBox 360 lineup is depressing beyond belief. Bump maps, parrelex maps, mip-mapped teraflopped hip hops - this is what excites us as gamers? Since f*cking when? Speaking as a 3D artist, who works with other 3D artists, in a 3D company, who would normally be salivating over this step in technology if it wasn't so done-to-death and over marketed and shoved down our throats: if this is the future of video games, I don't think I want to be a gamer any more.
Originally posted by Blue Dragon
Can't think of 10 of my own reasons, but I know one but it really counts. Playstations rule! Been going since the middle 90's! Great games!Xbox games are just so boring. I look at them & like 'uuurrrgghhh...zzzzz'. I play a Playstation game & love it!
Playstation games are more for adventure games, Xbox is for shooting games; which to me are pretty much all the same. Blow something up, shooting someone, blah blah blah. But if other people enjoy them then fine.
Thank you for your well informed contribution to the conversation.
As it stands, I am currently a fanboy without a system. I bought an Xbox a while back. The hard drive, all the bells and whistles it had, etc etc, I bought it. I never would call myself a fanboy, but I was loyal. Sure, I passed by some good games on the PS2 Im sure, but I was satisfied because I had a few exclusives on the box to fill that void, either that or I held out for a port. Sometimes they came, like with Metal Gear Solid 2, sometimes they didnt, like with DMC, and I eventually just forgot that I wanted to play the game. Overall, I been really happy. But this holiday season, Im really lost. All the games that I really want to play, are on Playstation 2. And there are no games coming out for the xbox that will fill that void. All eyes are on the xbox 360, with no interesting games, and graphics that really dont look all that much better than xbox. Putting their store display models on the best high definition tv out there may fool many, but doesnt fool me.
I think the problem with this next generation, and Im talkin bout all the consoles, is that the gaming industry isnt ready. With all generations before, the next generation came about around the time that the industry needed more hardware to put there games out. Graphics of the old generation were being pushed the the max, and they had ideas they couldnt do without new hardware. Thus the next generation was born, with new games to blow you away. But with this generation, the xbox/ps2/gc is still going strong. Most these games can probably be done on the current generation. The graphics dont look that advanced, there is no "leaps and bounds" being made, just little tweaks. I think Ill just wait a couple years for all the dust to settle before I jump into this round of console wars, and I currently dont have a side. Although I sure as hell wont be buying a revolution. lol.
All I use my ps2 for is mainly RPG's now...other then that it's useless. The only thing that will be good about the ps3 is the fact that it too will be hi def compatible and it will have that dvd thingy with it..i forgot what it's called.
The xbox 360 like the older version will be suited with a more...mature type of gameplay in most of its games like pdz, doa 4, gears of war ect. I cant sa if the ps3 is better or not than the 360 but im not gonna rush out to buy it...i'd rather get halo 3 when that comes out.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
what's the big deal that you can play PS1 games? We're meant to be moving forward, not back. Though of course the sheep will actually boot up Tunnel B1, Ridge Racer, Descent or Tekken 1 and start saying "Oh this console rules!". It happened with PS2, I remember. It's not is it?Both Xbox AND Microsoft are getting props, not for going forward or innovating but for going back, for having DVD capability and stuff. Don't go around saying it's a mad console because it does all this other stuff.
-AC
I greatly disagree with this comment. Nobody wants to lose the playability of their older games just because a new system has come out and doesn't support them anymore.
Just because a new system comes out with new games doesn't mean our older games go out the window or on our shelves to collecte dust and sit for eternity.
Your statement is very bold and UNKNOWLEDGABLE.
is it COMPREHENSIBLE.....
Indeed, that list was just stupid.
But then again, I'm entering into the 360/PS3 battle (Revo is neglected as always, I see. IGN sucks.) from a different point of view. That POV being full-time cube, fair amount of time with the X-box, and maybe 6 weeks of PS2 ownership. From this point of view, I've seen what I like about games, and at this point nothing on the 360 jumps out at me. My current support goes to Nintendo's Revolution for their bravery in showing a new way of playing games, NOT giving specs on graphics yet, and their first-party games that will always be some of the best gaming experiences. After that is the PS3, purely for their third-party support which is, quite simply, the best. the 360 is notable for pretty much the same thing as the X-Box was: The best online gaming experience, through XBL.
But comparing the consoles, making consumers think they have to buy one or the other (or the other), is stupid. If some games come out for the 360 that I think I'll enjoy, I'll buy a 360. Same thing for the other two consoles. That's the way gamers should be thinking, not resorting to childish fanboyism like this IGN crap.
The backwards-compatibility thing may actually help show people that their games haven't really progressed any further than the Playstation in terms of design, scope, size and gameplay.
All just the same games, all over again, in sharper resolution. They won't be any bigger, or better. Games haven't really gotten any bigger with leap in technology, have they? That's because the resources needed to make the games is scaled along with the capabilities of the system. As consoles become more powerful, more techniques are used, times get bigger, everything is scaled, like any economy.
Nothing REALLY changes when graphics are the driving force. Advances in AI are potetntially the best thing about the next gen consoles, but I seriously doubt most companies will look beyond "gr4fix!!!!" as their main selling point. We'll see the same tired, played out mechanisms, control schemes, level designs and interaction, all in a higher resolution. One game every blue moon will come out and redefine how we design games. That was worth the £300 wasn't it? How many of these games would I happily trade for an old Game Boy and a copy of Tetris? Probably most of them, just like the current crop.
Personally, my faith lies with Nintendo. Make games fun again. I want my imagination to go into overdrive as much as when I played Super Mario Brothers on the NES 15 Christmases ago.
Unfortunately, people are immature, and kids are stupid. If it isn't realistic, 30,000 poly characters with normal mapping in a vast, sprawling, (yet devoid of life and spark) city with a cool car and SuperHiDef mip maps tessalting over 3 million quadratic equations, it ain't cool. It's absurd. Like I said, gaming has become about the technology, rather than the art of making a great GAME. If people could just take a step back, look in the mirror, and realise just how rediculous they must seem when they salivate over realistic-yet-empty video games and numbers on a tech sheet to see which one has the highest numbers, they'll realise how absurd and pathetic the majority of the video game industry has become.