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[619_Master]

Best Console: PS2 Gamecube XBOX Nintendo                    

[Kraul]

Best console out of the current three? I think it's a tie between the XBOX and the PS2.

The XBOX has the best graphical capabilities of the three. It's the only one that you don't need a memory card for. For many games, custom soundtracks are a reality. And the online gaming community is booming in the XBOX for those who like playing online.

The Playstation 2 has the largest library with the most diversity. The most comfortable and easy to learn controller (I believe). The ability to play first generation Playstation games. The ability to play DVDs without need to buy extra equipment (unless you want the remote).

The Gamecube is a great system with many nostalgiac feelings to it and the size of the system itself is superb, but it lacks when it comes to games. Some games are truly phenomenal, but a lot are sub-par.                    

[Aldogg]

I would have to say X-Box.

The PS2, while it has a big library, is made like a piece of trash and I have gone through 2 PS2 already.

I also feel like the X-Box has a lot better features that are more important.  The build in hard drive on the X-Box is incredible.  While the PS2 just came out with their HDD, they have not used it to its best potential, as only two games, RE: Outbreak and FFXI use the HDD.  X-box uses thier HDD to help games load faster and provides downloadable content, which can either be whole new games like the Ninja Gaiden hurricane pack or new planets like in KOTOR or other downloadables.

X-Box also has a big advantage in online play.  The saying "you get what you pay for" rings true here.  PS2 online is slow, choppy and with people making unlimited names, you could get a bad record in a game then make a new record and start fresh (look at Madden.)  On X-box, once you get a name, its yours on every game, and if you delete it, you need to pay to get another name.  It tends to cut down on the cheating idiots who ruin online games.                    

[The Headliner]

The problem with the GameCube is that it gets left out in the cold. When publishers release a "multi-format" game, it's always on PS2 and Xbox, hardly ever on GC. It was the same with the N64, but at least then there was the reason that a conversion would mean using cartridges instead of CDs. Not so with the GC, as its discs can hold as much data as its rivals'. Publishers just seem to have written off Nintendo, meaning that most of the decent games on the system have to be developed in-house, and those aren't enough to attract the majority of gamers.

I've had a PS2 for almost a year now. It felt like selling my soul to the Devil when I bought it, because I still have irrational feelings of sentimentality towards the games industry, and sorely long for Nintendo (in the absence of my first favorite, Sega) to rise from the shadows and put the faceless corporate bullyboys in their place. But in the end, of course, it had to come down to the games, and the games I most wanted just weren't available on the unloved GameCube.

I can't comment on the Xbox as I've never played it, but if I ever need an expensive plastic breeze block for whatever purpose, I'll be sure to order Microsoft's console.                    

[Aldogg]

Originally posted by The Headliner
I can't comment on the Xbox as I've never played it, but if I ever need an expensive plastic breeze block for whatever purpose, I'll be sure to order Microsoft's console.

I used to think that way about the X-Box, then I was given one after a family tragedy, and to tell you the truth, the only reason I keep my Playstation is Square-Enix hasn't realized how powerful the X-Box is and how awesome games like FFX would look on X-Box, Star Ocean and other Square RPGs would look with the X-Box's graphics.

X-Box's graphics look so much better than PS2's its not funny.  Also, as I put, how X-Box adds things to games after they come out keeps games fresh.  The "Hurricane Pack" for Ninja Gaiden is just sick.  When the creator comes out and says "This game isn't hard enough, this update will increase the challenge," and can do it without a sequel, that is impressive.

I would say since i got my X-Box I only got 2 PS2 games, Madden NFL 2005: Collector's Edition since I was in online leagues until I realized that game sucked horribly and Star Ocean:Til the End of Time, since that game is very good (and I better beat it, since Fable hits tomorrow )                    

[619_Master]

I Stilll Think That PS2 Is Better Than XBOX                    

[The Poison]

5 words


Grand



Theft


Auto


San


Andreas

I think X-box is a little bit better than Ps2 because it has many games that I WANT on PS2 like Ninja Gaiden and Halo but we have the GTA series before you and Tekken don't count that out so
X-box-10 stars
PS2- 9 1/2 stars
Gamecube- who cares                    

[The }{urricane]

Originally posted by SoNumb
X-box-10 stars
PS2- 9 1/2 stars
Gamecube- who cares

Personally I'd put the Gamecube ahead of the X-Box... which is just a glorified paperweight until it reaches it's full potential.                    

[Aldogg]

So Numb, GTA: San Andreas might be on X-Box as soon as March or April.  Check this, a buddy of mine runs a game store, and he thinks that Gates is willing to pay the fine that Rockstar will have to pay for not keeping GTA exclusive on PS2 for 1 year and he will make sure GTA is out on X-box 6 months after the PS2 version, with better graphics and any bugs discovered fixed.  That is a rumour though, can't confirm nor deny it, but I could see it happening.                    

[The Headliner]

That would be a very smart move, I think. For Microsoft's sake, the sooner the better, because every day that San Andreas is exclusive to PS2 is another day for potential Xbox buyers to lose patience and buy Sony's machine instead.                    

[Aldogg]

Headdy, I think you are mistaken about that.

Same friend and I were talking that same day, and we both had the same exact idea

"Rent GTA on PS2 just to check it out, but we know in a few months, we will get a superior version."  Since everybody has a PS2 and frankly, if you don't have a PS2 by now, I doubt this one game will have people running to the store to buy a PS2.

And there is one thing you are sleeping on.  See, GTA don't need to be released on X-Box right off the bat.  About 2 weeks or so after GTA comes out, X-Box has a little game on its own coming out, you might have heard of it, its called Halo 2.  Thats why people with X-Box really aren't sweating getting GTA as soon as PS2 will.  PS2 will never have Halo 2, while X-Box has to wait a while to get GTA, but we have possibly the best game ever made in Halo 2.                    

[The Headliner]

Wait a minute, have I just somehow become the designated PS2 fanboy?                    

[The Poison]

Originally posted by Aldogg
Headdy, I think you are mistaken about that.

Same friend and I were talking that same day, and we both had the same exact idea

"Rent GTA on PS2 just to check it out, but we know in a few months, we will get a superior version."  Since everybody has a PS2 and frankly, if you don't have a PS2 by now, I doubt this one game will have people running to the store to buy a PS2.

And there is one thing you are sleeping on.  See, GTA don't need to be released on X-Box right off the bat.  About 2 weeks or so after GTA comes out, X-Box has a little game on its own coming out, you might have heard of it, its called Halo 2.  Thats why people with X-Box really aren't sweating getting GTA as soon as PS2 will.  PS2 will never have Halo 2, while X-Box has to wait a while to get GTA, but we have possibly the best game ever made in Halo 2.

 Halo 2 dammit it will come out soon but not if I have anything to do with it                    

[RKO11]

PS2 wins cuz it has so many better games it doesnt matter if xbox has a built in hard drive or because xbox has xbox live the thing that makes the PS2 better is that it has a hell of a lot better games.                    

[Aldogg]

So Numb, if you were able to somehow get Halo 2 delayed, you would have about 7 million people on your front lawn ready to lay a beat down on you the likes you would never see.

Me and my friends, we would hold you up while we each took turns kicking you in the nads.  My buddy got a E3 video in which they showed Halo multiplayer, and we had to clean the drool off the floor after watching the video about 10 times and still sitting there picking out the spots where we want to snipe and and just planning how to use the Banshee and Warthog to raise hell.