Guitar Hero and Rock Band are awful, awful games. Due in large part to the terrible music choices, but also on principal. Any game that has music by Disturbed, Slipknot and Coldplay as a feature gets the J BONES BAN HAMMER.
Halo is a terrible FPS series.
Guilty Gear has poor character designs.
Final Fantasy 9 > Final Fantasy 7.
I concur. Going to work and fucking driving a fork lift should not be fun, but it was. What the hell?
Although PSX may have had been a better system, N64 has aged a lot better. Iām still playing certain N64 games today where as I donāt pop up a PSX game that often. Probably has something to do with the N64 having far stronger multiplayerā¦
And I STILL maintain that Quest64, although mediocre, was no where near horrible as everyone says it is. The battle system was actually fun, the game was just horribly unbalanced (you pretty much have to focus on Earth and Water to beat the game, where are Fire and Wind are wastes of time).
Also, Lunar:SSSC > The Silver Star. I dunno why, I just liked it better.
This is very true. This rings back to when I had imported KOF 95ā for the Saturn before I actually owned the system. I used to rent the system from Video Warehouse whenever my friend came down from another state (which was usually twice a month) and we played the hell out of it.
I donāt buy a system based on stats or āgames to comeā but rather whatās out now that I want to play.
Solid advice, JustB.
Nobody should take SRK XB360 hate seriously. Why?
Everyone here knows that PS2 was the way to go for fighting games, which is SRKās favorite genre, so they are letting their established alligence take them over to the PS3. Better pad for Soul Calibur, and Street Fighter IV, and it has Tekken.
I dont think that all the stuff that PS3 people get excited for is worth it. Echochrome? Stardust? Little Big Planet? Even Metal Gear Solid 4, most people probably never even PLAYED a prior version before 4, and if they did, they were posers who started looking for them just to know the story before 4 came out. Thanks to these idiots, Gamestop can charge $30 for MGS3 used, when a little while ago it was $10 game. It all really sounds like desperation and self assurance.
I have all the machines as well. Iāve had all for over a year. Soulcalibur is the FIRST game Iāve bought on PS3 over 360, just because the d-pad. But I hear it is YET another game that looks slightly better on 360. And of course online will be better. I dont have any alligence, I know what I want to play, and I will get the multi games on the system that suits me most.
Midnight Club LA - 360
SF4 - PS3
Saints Row 2 - 360
ect, ect.
lulwut?
Didnāt MGS1 sell like a billion copies? Same with 2 and 3.
Exactly.
To say that most people didnāt jump on MGS until 4 is retarded.
Better boat sequence? Better voice acting?
kill yourself
e-^ Thought about it several times while playing Shenmue 1.Shenmue is mostly a nostalgia trip, a shitty one at that.
Yeahā¦that guy is fucking stupid.Snake eater sold the most of em all, but 1 & 2 werenāt that far behind.
Iād give SRKāers and gamers in general a little more credit than to assume that most people blindly choose a system based on āallegianceā to a previous-gen system. If that was the case, PSX wouldnāt have been so successful, DC wouldnāt have ever been popular with the fighting-game crowd, etcā¦ Your notion that people like X360 because of logic and reason and people like PS3 because of fanboyism and allegiance is kind of bullshit. Even if LBP isnāt something that interests you, if you canāt see how a game this original is worth getting excited over, you donāt know what youāre talking about.
I donāt think anyone really thinks the X360 is a bad system. I just think itās evident to a lot of people that the X360 and PS3 are so close to each other in terms of games, with PS3 offering free internet, free wifi, and Blu-Ray player, tipping the match in PS3ās favor. This may very well be different twelve months from now, and if I had to guess, Iād say that the X360 will eventually emerge as the better gaming machine, but as of the present, unless you actually really like Halo 3, there is no compelling reason to choose X360 over PS3.
BTW, I wish people would realize that saying they have more than one system doesnāt make their opinion any more credible and less biased than anyone else.
When I first bought Guitar Hero II [which was my intro to the series], I loved it.
Then over time, it lost its fun quality. However, later I played against other people and that added some nice replay value and fun that it once had.
Now Rockband is an awesome party game, especially whoever gets the vocals.
Hearing your cousin trying to add a rap tone to rock music and getting booāed off stage made the game awesome in my book. But Iām sure if I got to play it more, that too would lose its fun factor [especially in single player mode].
Exception.
PS1 started out VERY strong before the previous gen competitors(Sega and Nintendo) had a chance. Anyone with a 1/2 brain could see that the PS was the system to have by late 1996, regardless if you wanted a Sega or Nintendo machine.
This is also an excpetion. The DC had the first (non import/ram cart) arcade perfect CPS2 Capcom ports(MVC1,ST), All the SF3 titles before PS2, DC-based aracde MVC2 and CVS2. It did all that before the PS2 was released, or PS2 version of said games were released. Soā¦of course it was the main console of choice.
I really cant see it. A fucking stupid looking game with little substance. Whats original? Nobody at this point can do anything that HASNT been done before. Wowwee, I get to design a level and have other people go through it. Whoop.
Free online. You get what you pay for. Play ANY game on both systems online, and tell me the WHOLE experience is the same. Sure, gameplay and latency is about equal, because it depends on your connection, but you got less people, even less of them with mics.
As for wireless, you should wire up anyways. Its the damn people with their machines on different floors than the router thats stinking up MY online gaming. At this point, wireless is NOT as good as hardwire. Even my Wii, I have the hard wire adaptor.
Blu Ray? My PS3 came with That redneck Nascar movie, and I traded it in before watching it. HD torrents + fast connection+ HDD space > $30 Blu Ray movie that you will watch once. But then again, I guess people want to actually say they purchased their PS3 for something. If not games, then movies.
You must realise not everyone just got their system, not when MOST multiplats are looking and playing the same. I already had all the systems, back when PS3 versions of games were looking much crappier than 360ās, they were coming out later than the 360 version.
But even if I were shopping TODAY for oneā¦thereās still the same games, give or take plus a bigger backlog of games for 360. Its the PS3 that has no compelling reason to be chosen. Unless you want Little Big Planet over Gears 2. Or a backlog of lesser performing multiplatsā¦or 6 hour exclusives, like Heavenly Sword, or Drakes.
As I said, I didnt just buy these yesterday. I was there when there was NO real reason to own a PS3. Since the 360 has shitted on PS3 in every single way possible the whole time Iāve owned them, I dont see the PS3 as the leading machine.
And ofcourse if all you have is the PS3, I must take your opinion with a huge grain of salt. Owining systems does count for something.
And I dont like Halo, and never owned a Halo game. Or Gears.
360 fucking sucks.
Shut the fuck up.
Contrary to popular belief, the Dreamcast was a big financial success. It just wasnāt big enough to cover the gigantic hole that Sega had dug themselves into with the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn in America.
The only reason to get a 360 is for the Xbox Live Arcade games, specifically Pacman CE and Castle Crashers.
Most gamers donāt really give an ass ratās about online play, and those that do simply want a way to play games online regardless of whatever extra features are available via Xbox Live, so theyād rather the PSN for free than pay $50/year for the former.
Nonetheless, these are indeed the features(like free online play) that contribute to the PS3 being a greater perceived value.
Thatās the thing with the 360. To the core and hardcore US gamer, its game library feels like heaven simply because it was built with that demographic in mind, but to others, itās rather boring. This is a big part of the reason itās the worst selling console outside of the US.
I donāt fucking think so. When I bought my PS3 I only had to spend 10 bucks on accessories (okay so I was going to get a bluetooth headset, 30 bucks big whoop) but for Xbox, I need, since day 1:
VGA Cable or 49.99 HDMI official for the audio input adapter
Play and Charge Kit (or cable/batteries seperate)
60GB HDD
Xbox Live service
Another 50FT Ethernet Cable / or Wireless bridge
Thatās another 200 bucks on top of 389 I already spent on it+game. Not only does this cost a lot, but you donāt even get any of the perks that PS3 has and the PS3 is only 399.99+59.99 for a game. Itās controller already has a rechargeable battery, itās HDD is already 40gbs and itās enough. The HDMI to DVI cable I already had only cost 7 bucks. PSN is free and it already has WiFi built in. You see how much I had to spend to get what I need? Big difference between what I need and what I want.
Only thing that 360 got going for it is itās backlog of games (thatās changing now, drastically I might add) and itās Live service. On the games front, most games (like 80-90% of them) are going multiplatform, Iāve just recently looked at the release list for the rest of this year for both consoles. So far both consoles only has maybe 3 at most exclusive games to buy and the rest is multi-platform. If you own one console you donāt need to own another unless you REALLY want those exclusives.
As a 360 owner currently without a PS3. I can say that looking at the release lists for both that I can wait to get another PS3 because of how close the lists resemble each other. Is it because 1 platform is better than the other? No, itās just how the market is right now. Iāll tell ya right now, February is going to be the month to buy a PS3 if you donāt have one.
Even if you donāt like it, the majority of people in the world do enjoy being creative and having an outlet to share that creativity. Not only that, but a game centered around user-created levels gives it pretty much infinite possibility and infinite replay value. Plus, when LBP takes off commercially, there is every chance that it may give rise to level editors becoming standard issue with every game, thereby increasing the diversity and replayability of every game out there.
Understood. You do that.
Most gamers HERE dont give a rats ass about online. None of the DC or PS2 fighters had online, and even with newer system, online fighting games dont play the same online. If all I cared about was fighting games, then I would not care about online either. All you should be doing in a fighter is offline VS modes with friends, or training anyway.
When you get used to good online, you cant go back to single player, for ANY other genre.
Arent we in the US? I like the same kinds of games now that I like when there were only Sega, Nintendo and Sony systems. I dont have Half Life, Quake, Halo, Gears, or what ever such shooting game on any systems, unless you call Red Steel and Metriod Prime 3 western shooting FPS games.
PS3 has almost the same amount of āwesternā games, complete with middleware engines like unreal, and havok.
Iām ending my piece on this; if the game isnt dependant on the d-pad, like Soul Calibur is, I am buying it on the 360. The only other way I would buy the PS3 versions is if I can import it, months ahead of US release like Battle Fantasia, or if I play the game HEAVILY on 360, and need the PS3 version to get me through a RROD.
Its called create a character.
I heavily play games with these modes. Infact, I need to turn on the PS3, I have some create a souls to do in SCIV.