Which Console

MAC_E

Hope this poll hasnt been done before! Nice and simple, where does your loyalty lye?

tHE vAGGABOND

Own a gamecube but make games for Xbox

So buy both

Big Chief

would have to say ps2, playstation game range has always been far superior to its challengers. That and i would vote on it alone for pro evoloution soccer 2, best football game ever

gta3 was also fookin ace, im looking forward to buying vice city when i gets paid, as spent so many hrs on first part

koneko

The Xbox is my fave in some ways, but the biggest problem is the lack of decent games.

The Gamecube is shaping up. I didn't like the look of it at first because I don't like any of the Mario/Super monkey ball/puzzle type games.

Asuka

Wow, a poll where an atari jaguar option would be almost relevant...

A

MAC_E

Its true that a big amount of the games on the cube are aimed at the younger audience. But i think as the titles start to be released quicker well see more and more top quality releases.....more along the lines of resident evil.

amp

Originally posted by Asuka
Wow, a poll where an atari jaguar option would be almost relevant...

A

And so it came to pass...

Shinji

Nice and simple, where does your loyalty lye?

It lies wherever there are good, creative entertaining games to be played - which right now covers all three consoles. And the GBA. And the PC. And the Dreamcast, come to think of it.

Anyone professing "loyalty" to any given console needs to get out more.

Stephen

I prefer my PC to any console really .... can't do without a keyboard and mouse.

/me looks at PS2 which has lain mostly unused for months

Dcully

Yep i agree with Stephen,you cannot beat a good PC.
I bought xbox so i could link up with 3 friends via ethernet hub and play Halo.Also consoles are great for Multiplayer sports titles.
Ive got to say im dissapointed with lack of good games on Xbox.
Apart from Halo theres nothing for me ,atleast until Splinter cell,MGS substance and Ghost Recon[which i love for PC] comes out so i can link up with it too.
I wish PES 2 was on xbox ,what an amazing game it is.
PC games are so deep with huge longevity compared to most console games.

Like i said i only got Xbox for link up with friends which i might add is great once you get used to controls.My friends and i wouldnt bother with any console if Broadband internet access was affordable where we live,atleast linking up we have zero lag.

If i hadnt got this link-up setup id go for PS2 as its a huge library of great games and of course PES2.

byte

Has to be Atari Jaguar. Even though I don't have one, I know it has the same power as the rest of them*

* 230V ~

kaimera

PC games are so deep with huge longevity compared to most console games

PC gamers are the aristocrats of gaming.
Bring on Splinter Cell and all you PS2 owners can stick your MGS2...

I'm thinking of buying a 'Box after Christmas maybe. That or the 'Cube.

I'm *really* not a PS person. The ads annoy me...the console doesn't look great to me...the controllers dont feel right to me.

Maybe it's becos I'm *too* acustomed to my PC.

tman

i was *going* to get a cube, but tbh i want a console that does more than play games.
xbox looks pretty decent, but the ps2 has exclusive rights to vice city:(
:mad:
cant make up my mind

Retr0gamer

I'm finding pc games at the moment lacking any real imagination or even bring anything knew to the gaming scene. Consoles is where its at at the moment. The pc needs another half-life, warcraft or MOH pretty soon. Splinter cell might be the one. Don't expect Doom3 to blow you away with anything but its graphics.

Giblet

Dreamcast, what other single console can I play Dreamcast, Playstation, Snes, Megadrive, Master System, Nes games on, and watch VCD's and DIVX films.
pWNED :>

MAC_E

Anyone professing "loyalty" to any given console needs to get out more.

It strikes me that anyone who posts over 5000 posts needs to get out more.

Shinji

I think it's worth noting that my posts-per-day rating isn't shockingly higher than yours, buddy

You'll have to excuse my earlier outburst, listening to stupid fanboys blather about "loyalty" to console manufacturers who couldn't care less about them (or about anything other than their financial bottom line) gets bloody tiresome after about seven years of it.

monument

Originally posted by MAC_E
It strikes me that anyone who posts over 5000 posts needs to get out more.

tip to Newbie: don't start a fight with Shinji, you wont win!

MAC_E

dont take it so literally, i didnt realise my choice in wording when i posted this simple poll was going to be taken so seriously.

astrofool

just post the picture of him licking kevo's ear and you can't lose

Retr0gamer

I'd post more than 5000 posts if I was getting paid for it.
If your not getting paid for it shinji then I think he may be right:)

monument

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I'd post more than 5000 posts if I was getting paid for it.
If your not getting paid for it shinji then I think he may be right:)

Sense his posting started Feb 1998, you might be talking BS as usually???

Kalina

I have a PS2 and I love it. FF10, Vice City, Tekken 4, The Two Towers... enough to keep me occupied for a long time.
If I could afford another console I'd buy a Game Cube, even though the games are a bit too cute. Hopefully there will be some more games aimed at the 12+ market coming out shortly!!:)
I don't particularily like the X Box, it's ugly to look at and the controllers are horrible. That said I haven't played it much so I should reserve judgement.

monument

Originally posted by Kalina
and the controllers are horrible.

you could get the small controllers

festivala

Originally posted by monument
you could get the small controllers

They should come with it. The big ones are a joke. A bad joke.

kaimera

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I'm finding pc games at the moment lacking any real imagination or even bring anything knew to the gaming scene. Consoles is where its at at the moment. The pc needs another half-life, warcraft or MOH pretty soon. Splinter cell might be the one.

Splinter Cell as mentioned.

What about

Unreal II
MoH: Spearhead ?

Dcully

Some people seem to feel the way a machine looks can swing a sale ,strange!:)

Stephen

Originally posted by astrofool
just post the picture of him licking kevo's ear and you can't lose

monument

ha ha, missed that lasted time it was posted

Thorbar

Seeing as alot of us play our games on pcs which are really just big ugly plastic boxes I can't understand how you could be fussy about how a console looks.

Shinji

death to stephen.

monument

ha ha ha

magick

GameCube

popinfresh

The PS2 has the best games, therefore it's the most woth-while to get. Having said that though The X-box and the GameCube are still good consoles, just the PS2 has the best games.

sudo911

I have both a PS2 & XBOX (Both modded by me to play backups ) , but I'd go for the XBOX.... versions of games are much better on the XBOX and you can even run LINUX on it!!!

Sudo911.

phreak

Three letters:

G T A

does that answer your question?

Ryo Hazuki

Anyone professing "loyalty" to any given console needs to get out more.

Quite True, Need a quick laugh? Just take a look at Aertel 1 page 396 to find mass of console-war crap.

Its quite disturbing sometimes actually, threats of

"ill kill ya if ya buy a cube" etc

DiscoStu

you can run linux on a ps2 and you dont need to chip it either.

Dont be at yourself

Originally posted by Phreak
Three letters:

G T A

Yes! It's the game that'll quite rightly shift huge amounts of PS2s - a game worth buying the system for.

Retr0gamer

Here's a more important question:
Does Shinji watch too much neon genesis evangelion.
Not really a bad thing since it's class.

Shinji

Does Shinji watch too much neon genesis evangelion.

Dunno what counts as "too much" - saw it all about seven years ago just after it came out in Japan - and yes, that's where the nick came from. Admittedly, I picked up the nick BEFORE seeing the movies, and kinda wished I could drop it after seeing them....

Oddly enough actually, I finally got around to replacing my VHS copies with the cool DVD Perfect Collection box set a couple of weeks back. Expensive but worth it (and not the most expensive thing out there by a long shot... I just spent 60 quid on the limited edition of the first episode of SaiKano. I'm a sucker for DVD boxes with toys in them )

(Oops, vastly OT... Er, videogames are good, aren't they!)

theciscokid

Originally posted by sudo911
I have both a PS2 & XBOX (Both modded by me to play backups ) , but I'd go for the XBOX.... versions of games are much better on the XBOX and you can even run LINUX on it!!!

Sudo911.

well no not yet legally, you can however with ps2 they have an official linux pack you can buy for it

Three letters:

G T A

does that answer your question?

not bad but hardly worth buying a ps2 for when most people have a pc and can dl it for free in an .iso

the only game i would be tempted to buy a ps2 for is ICO and at that its supposed to be very short,

i think the recent announcement of 4 new original games and bio4 for the gamecube has helped it alot

killer 7
viewtiful joe
project no.3
biohazard 4
dead phoenix

as with metroid, zelda etc..

amd as for XBOX still too expensive and has failed so miserably in japan with even major developers wlking away from it in america , EA won't even support it with their strict LIVE policies , they should adopt the attitude of sony's online plans ,

by the way only 20% of european homes will have broadband by 2005 , thats not enough for a machine which is totally dependent on XBOX LIVE now to survive

Woden

simply put the xbox is the most powerful console on the market but the amount of penetration the ps2 has is just too much for microsoft to cope with, the younger brother it getting a ps2 for xmas and i cant wait at the end of the day the ps2 is the only machine console or pc that you can get FFIX on and thats all that matters. As regards to controllers the ps has the best controller i have ever used, even considered getting a cable to allow my ps controller to connect to my pc

theciscokid

Originally posted by Dataisgod
simply put the xbox is the most powerful console on the market but the amount of penetration the ps2 has is just too much for microsoft to cope with, the younger brother it getting a ps2 for xmas and i cant wait at the end of the day the ps2 is the only machine console or pc that you can get FFIX on and thats all that matters. As regards to controllers the ps has the best controller i have ever used, even considered getting a cable to allow my ps controller to connect to my pc

thats true the xbox has the grunt of the bunch, although if you dl those vids of capcoms new games for gamecube data you will be very surprised , easily matching the power of the xbox at this time, but its not about graphical power now is it,

true the playstation generation will argue and flame that they have the most games which is true, but for gameplay and value for money you cannot beat nintendo games,

final fantasy no. 9 is it, ? number 10 online looks sweet but has it's bugs, by the way the first 6 we're on nintendo's machines and they are migrating back , the new final fantasy chronicles is a gamecube exclusive

Shinji

by the way the first 6 we're on nintendo's machines and they are migrating back

That's not strictly true - Crystal Chronicle looks great and all but the mainstream of Final Fantasy titles is staying on PS2 for now. FFXII and FFX-2 are both PS2 titles.

As for FFXI... I don't think we'll ever see that over here on PS2, actually

Woden

sorry ffX is what i meant for the ps2 looking forward a lot to getting that and sorry ffIX never saw the light of day on the p.c i held off for ages before buying it and eventually it went platinum. As regards to the earlier ff titles, there all available on emulators and they even released a lot of them as ps1 titles if i remember correctly. In relation to future ff titles we will have to wait and see. I'm not knocking the game cube, i think it is a good console at a good price, however i do question nintendo's decision over their choice of media and believe the console should have been able to double as a half-decent dvd player

kaimera

Originally posted by NekkidBibleMan
Yes! It's the game that'll quite rightly shift huge amounts of PS2s - a game worth buying the system for.

PC version of GTA3 wipes the floor with the PS2 version.

Shinji

PC version of GTA3 wipes the floor with the PS2 version.

Matter of opinion. I thought the PC version was a particularly crap port, personally.

monument

Originally posted by Shinji
Matter of opinion. I thought the PC version was a particularly crap port, personally.

I second that

Dont be at yourself

The PS2 version was great.

And one* game won't influence Joe Soap to shell out €1000 on a PC, but it could very possibly persuade him to buy a €250 dvd-playing console.


* Yes, I know there's plenty of wonderful, fantastic, mind-blowing games on the PC - I'm just addressing how significant GTA3 is to each format.