PS3

[NeuroNomicon]

What do you guys think, is PS3 going to suck dick like every other console out right now?

I'm pretty jaded on videogames, as the console market has consistently blown harder and harder. The last system that really knocked me for a loop was PS1. The Dreamcast was badass, and it seems like Xbox was just a souped-up version of the Dreamcast, which nobody bought anyway.

PS3's getting all kinds of hype, but I'd probably rather buy a fucking Virtual Boy off eBay instead.

[kfoll]

I can't see spending any extra money on any console, when I can play Quake III right on my own computer!!
But I thought the Xbox was pretty cool, (Halo II and Splinter Cell) and the Playstation had Metroid Prime which I really like. But I hear the new Xbox blows donkeys.

[Ecrypt]

...and the Playstation had Metroid Prime which I really like. But I hear the new Xbox blows donkeys.

Actually, Metroid Prime was on GameCube, and Metroid Prime 3 is the main reason I will be purchasing a Nintendo Wii instead of a PS3 or a 360.
Best game EVER!

[Death2all]

I haven't really keep up with the hype of the PSX3. I love the my PSX2 all I really play is madden 05 and Tony Hawks american wasteland. I got the game cube for mario cart and things such as that nature. I wouldn't mind having a PSP but I don't think the price has gone down much yet and don't see paying 200$ for it, well not yet atleast.

[egg yolkeo]

wtf The xbox was kick ass especially on live and the 360 looks like a pc on a HD-TV with some killer games like gears of war lined up.
The ps3 looks nice as well with a little more power than the 360 and some great games coming out.To bad your stuck in the ps1 days of old ur missing out

[kfoll]

...and the Playstation had Metroid Prime which I really like. But I hear the new Xbox blows donkeys.

Actually, Metroid Prime was on GameCube, and Metroid Prime 3 is the main reason I will be purchasing a Nintendo Wii instead of a PS3 or a 360.
Best game EVER!

Ah, right, my bad. Anyway I liked that thing, whatever it was. THey also had Mario Kart and Mario party, which is really cool if you've got a lot of people over and enough joysticks to go around.
And yes, I agree Metroid is the best game I've ever played. Something about being able to curl up in that magnetic ball... fucking awesome scenes too. I really liked the Halo series too but a lot of people didn't. On PC I can't play too many newer games because my video card is crap... tried to install Doom 3 but it only ran for about 5 minutes before crashing. The newest thing I can play is UT2k4, which isn't too bad but it occasionally runs too slow for it to be any fun. I mainly had it because I was designing levels for it for awhile using the editor that comes with it. So I play quake, and gosh darn it, quake III is still fun as hell in a huge-ass deathmatch or free-for-all.
I also played the original Unreal series a lot back in the day, still have it, and REturn to Castle Wolfenstein. I've played a tiny bit of Half-Life2 on my brother's computer but not enough to do more than gawk at the fucking awesome graphics.

[kfoll]

wtf The xbox was kick ass especially on live and the 360 looks like a pc on a HD-TV with some killer games like gears of war lined up.
The ps3 looks nice as well with a little more power than the 360 and some great games coming out.To bad your stuck in the ps1 days of old ur missing out

I liked the old Xbox... I was talking about xbox 360, and that's just what I've heard. I have never played on one myself, except once I was in Circuit City and played with the menus a bit but there were no games installed on it that I could find and the menus seemed confusing to me. However, from all I have heard you can install LInux on an Xbox hard drive and run it like a PC... if you're really into getting all ghetto on your game console.

[Mitch]

Actually, Metroid Prime was on GameCube, and Metroid Prime 3 is the main reason I will be purchasing a Nintendo Wii instead of a PS3 or a 360.
Best game EVER!

YES Wii will be awesome. Don't forget zelda and the fact that it's <= $250.

[egg yolkeo]

wtf The xbox was kick ass especially on live and the 360 looks like a pc on a HD-TV with some killer games like gears of war lined up.
The ps3 looks nice as well with a little more power than the 360 and some great games coming out.To bad your stuck in the ps1 days of old ur missing out

I liked the old Xbox... I was talking about xbox 360, and that's just what I've heard. I have never played on one myself, except once I was in Circuit City and played with the menus a bit but there were no games installed on it that I could find and the menus seemed confusing to me. However, from all I have heard you can install LInux on an Xbox hard drive and run it like a PC... if you're really into getting all ghetto on your game console.

As much as you seem to like FPS like I do,u should invest in a 360/w a hard drive and a HDTV and component cable.The live service is hard to beat and u dont have to keep upgrading graphics cards.

[kfoll]

As much as you seem to like FPS like I do,u should invest in a 360/w a hard drive and a HDTV and component cable.The live service is hard to beat and u dont have to keep upgrading graphics cards.

Hmm.. yeah sounds like a sweet setup... if only I didn't have other priorities on my $$ just now, like getting a decent camera. HDTV would kill, but I'd rather have a good 24" computer monitor. The other aspect of it -- at least it used to be -- was that with PC games you usually get some kind of editor, and I was interested in learning level design at the time.

[ProstheticHead12]

I'm looking foward to the PS3 coming out so that xbox360s will be cheaper. Oblivion was awesome when my roomate had a 360, and I'm looking foward to Halo3. I thought 400 bucks was bad for the 360, and 500 for a PS3 just seems absurd.

[Mike]

$500 is just for the basic one. the bigger hardrive, HDTV compatible, etc. is $600.
And fuck Sony. After the rootkit thing they can keep all their over-priced shit to themselves.

[Mitch]

Oblivion is really good from what I've seen when my friends play it. But I'm not convinced that the price of the 360 will drop even when PS3 comes out. 360 has only been out a year and they're already undercutting PS3 by $100. I don't think they'll gain too much by lowering the price. But I could be wrong of course.

[NeuroNomicon]

Mitch, price is ALWAYS a competitive weapon!!!



I was personally looking forward to Gears of War for 360, and never saw anything from it again.

Typically, my main gripe with consoles is that there is a lot of hype. The reason I cite the PS1 as a killer box is that, when it came it out was absolutely leaps and bounds better than the previous videogame incarnations. You're talking a jump from 16-bit vector-graphics to full-blown, fully-realised three-dimensional simulations.

The problem is a creative one, the games are, for the most part, exactly the same, only with prettier graphics. There hasn't been a lot of revolution in the console market in almost a decade. The games for 360 and PS2 are identical to the predecessors, with the only exception being the limited ability to save more game data, and with a graphical overhaul.

With the processing power at hand, I was hoping for "the next level" in gaming, with PS2 and 360, and the same expectation is placed on PS3. Hopefully they can pull it off. Now, I'm a big fan of great graphics, but at the same time, a lot of what's coming out is simply tried-and-true formatting of a stale and predictable sort.

When the first Resident Evil game came out it blew my fucking mind.

Perhaps as a gamer I have come to expect more, but I think the only majour revolution in the gaming industry, as of late, has been the incorporation of Massively-Multiplayer-Online gaming. That has become truly revolutionary in its own right; however, the bandwidth capabilities of the home systems, and the servers themselves for that matter, are completely limited. Perhaps fully-functioning fibre optic networks could change some of this, but even cable and DSL are woefully inept at transmitting the data speeds necessary to ensure a fully lag-free environment. Many of the MMOG's are cripled by latency.

My main worry, in regards to the home console market, is that there is a massive chasm and an inherent flaw in the design that makes internet connectivity more difficult than the home PC or Mac, and as such, makes access to such a gaming environment, which I believe to be a step forward in the grand scheme of videogames in general, rather difficult.

I think my last favourite console was Dreamcast, the bastard child of the gaming world. The graphics were clean, and some of the games were radical. Shenmue is an amazing title.

[Mike]

Mitch, price is ALWAYS a competitive weapon!!!



I was personally looking forward to Gears of War for 360, and never saw anything from it again.

Typically, my main gripe with consoles is that there is a lot of hype. The reason I cite the PS1 as a killer box is that, when it came it out was absolutely leaps and bounds better than the previous videogame incarnations. You're talking a jump from 16-bit vector-graphics to full-blown, fully-realised three-dimensional simulations.

The problem is a creative one, the games are, for the most part, exactly the same, only with prettier graphics. There hasn't been a lot of revolution in the console market in almost a decade. The games for 360 and PS2 are identical to the predecessors, with the only exception being the limited ability to save more game data, and with a graphical overhaul.

With the processing power at hand, I was hoping for "the next level" in gaming, with PS2 and 360, and the same expectation is placed on PS3. Hopefully they can pull it off. Now, I'm a big fan of great graphics, but at the same time, a lot of what's coming out is simply tried-and-true formatting of a stale and predictable sort.

When the first Resident Evil game came out it blew my fucking mind.

Perhaps as a gamer I have come to expect more, but I think the only majour revolution in the gaming industry, as of late, has been the incorporation of Massively-Multiplayer-Online gaming. That has become truly revolutionary in its own right; however, the bandwidth capabilities of the home systems, and the servers themselves for that matter, are completely limited. Perhaps fully-functioning fibre optic networks could change some of this, but even cable and DSL are woefully inept at transmitting the data speeds necessary to ensure a fully lag-free environment. Many of the MMOG's are cripled by latency.

My main worry, in regards to the home console market, is that there is a massive chasm and an inherent flaw in the design that makes internet connectivity more difficult than the home PC or Mac, and as such, makes access to such a gaming environment, which I believe to be a step forward in the grand scheme of videogames in general, rather difficult.

I think my last favourite console was Dreamcast, the bastard child of the gaming world. The graphics were clean, and some of the games were radical. Shenmue is an amazing title.

I still play my Dreamcast. And Shenmue was amazing. Too bad it never really continued as a series.