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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: mm on January 20, 2002, 06:24:26 AM
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sigh, im FORCED to buy a GC for NO other reason than to play resident evil. i dont care if they release hard core hentai games, its still a kiddie console in wolves clothing, sorry eik :)
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i\'ll just get one used like i did with my xbox, and pay 1/2 price
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Originally posted by mm
sigh, im FORCED to buy a GC for NO other reason than to play resident evil. i dont care if they release hard core hentai games, its still a kiddie console in wolves clothing, sorry eik :)
i\'ll just get one used like i did with my xbox, and pay 1/2 price
Still though, its not that bad paying 1/2 and its used. And you get to play RE. Thats bascially my only reason for wanting a GC in the first place. I payed full price for my Xbox, and only have 1 game for the time being. But buying a GC won\'t be to bad, as long as you have the RE games to play.
Please do not quote images. remove the image when you quote a person.... thanks ddaryl[/color][/b]
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Plus now you\'ll be able to play Disney\'s Donald Duck Goin\' Quackers!!
Seriously, if you just read down the list (http://www.planetgamecube.com/releases.cfm), you almost forget it\'s a Nintendo console for a while. (Possibly because Nintendo itself is slacking off this quarter.)
-Eik
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Your buying a GC for Resident Evil:rolleyes:
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You DO realize that if Comcom figures out that they can make money on graphical updates, that all the NGC Res Evils will probably head over to Xbox and PS2 given a bit more time. Maybe if these games had been made 10 years ago, I\'d fork out the cash for these updates.. but pretty graphics don\'t inspire me to spend 300+bucks on games that (for the most part) I already have.
If I do decide to buy a GC later on, it\'ll be for SSB:M, SF:DP, PD2, and some of the other - original- titles that are being released on the system.
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Originally posted by Eiksirf
Plus now you\'ll be able to play Disney\'s Donald Duck Goin\' Quackers!!
Seriously, if you just read down the list (http://www.planetgamecube.com/releases.cfm), you almost forget it\'s a Nintendo console for a while. (Possibly because Nintendo itself is slacking off this quarter.)
-Eik
There\'s no reason to actually hate Nintendo, but the way I look
at it, is the lists\' very nice games (according to my taste) are in the \'RUMOR\' section.
And lately I\'ve been reading lotsa rumors about little \'artistic\'
differences between Nintendo and some of it\'s 2nd party devs.
BTW what happened to Mr. Jumpman ?
Knotter8
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WOW that dog looks real and scary! I remember I played the 1st RE game and the dogs went through the windows and I jump of the flour. :p
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RE is teh sukk IMO..
I got tired after no. 2 :shy:
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Originally posted by mm
sigh, im FORCED to buy a GC for NO other reason than to play resident evil. i dont care if they release hard core hentai games, its still a kiddie console in wolves clothing, sorry eik :)
LMAO
I find it pretty hilarous when a person thinks they have to spend a couple hundred just to play a videogame.
It isn\'t worth it, and there has to be 100 other great things to do with your time and your money then having to own all the best VG stuff around
At least I will never understand that thought process. I can\'t even bring myself to spend money on a 2nd console, or upgrading my PC thats 3 years old.
but then again I have huge plans for my house which includes making my own furniture, expanding the master beddroom and kitchen, my greenhouse and my gardens. Not to mention a river rafting trip, and saving up for a trip to Hawaii in a few years
I just can\'t fathom spending that much time and effort ofr just VG\'s
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I just can\'t fathom spending that much time and effort ofr just VG\'s
Not to be rude or anything, but the time you spend here is about the equivelant of the time most of us with multiple consoles put into videogames. I don\'t see how that\'s so hard to fathom or understand.
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Originally posted by Ryu
Not to be rude or anything, but the time you spend here is about the equivelant of the time most of us with multiple consoles put into videogames. I don\'t see how that\'s so hard to fathom or understand.
99% of the time I post here is when I\'m at work. I carry a radio and when the radio pages me I go to work, otherwise I sit and surf the net while doing side jobs in front of my PC here at work. SO basically I get paid $29.50 an hour while I post here, and time and 1/2 on Sat and DOuble time on Sunday like today
I spend maybe 1 hour a week on the net when I\'m hone and thats pushing it.
and I stand by what I said, above. There are too many other great things to do with time and money then just VG\'s. Nobody needs all 3 systems and a top PC IMO.
Sorry but I personnally can\'t fathom it, for a person to spend that much time and money on VG\'s one would have to be sacrificing a good portion of a meaningful life IMO
and its not really a money thing either, even though I would rather spend cash on some power tools and vactioning etc...
its the time factor. To play all the cool games on all these systems and really get the most out of them a person would have to sit in fornt of there TV approx. 4 hours a day. Add in the amount of time people go to school and/pr work and further more the other things that just have to get done in a persons life that is pretty much all of your freetime or a solid portion of it.
Its great to be a huge fan of videogames, but there\'s a line between a fun hobby and obssesive behavior
and it is just my opinion. I could care less, I just don\'t understand how people justify it. I have so many other things I want to do and have fun with well outside the world of VG\'s. I could never find the time or willingly part with the money it would take to own all systems. I\'d rather install a hot tub on my patio and improve my gardens surrounding sed patio.
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I am pushing 20 systems, a handful of arcade machines, hundreds of different games and I can\'t fathom how someone WOULDN\'T spend this much on gaming.
My latest game: Ghouls and Ghosts for SMS. Yet another find for my SMS collection! suck it down, shoddy NES version!
and i still have time and money for vacations, movies, other entertainment, putting money into my car, good food, etc.
Eric Jacob
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Originally posted by ddaryl
LMAO
I find it pretty hilarous when a person thinks they have to spend a couple hundred just to play a videogame.
It isn\'t worth it, and there has to be 100 other great things to do with your time and your money then having to own all the best VG stuff around
At least I will never understand that thought process. I can\'t even bring myself to spend money on a 2nd console, or upgrading my PC thats 3 years old.
but then again I have huge plans for my house which includes making my own furniture, expanding the master beddroom and kitchen, my greenhouse and my gardens. Not to mention a river rafting trip, and saving up for a trip to Hawaii in a few years
I just can\'t fathom spending that much time and effort ofr just VG\'s
Not sure if this ever occured to you, but for some of us videogames are a hobby and owning all the new stuff / or impressive stuff is part of the hobby, therefor spending that money on a game isn\'t so hard to imagine.
Gee..:rolleyes:
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I find the money to go on trips every year, upgrade my PC whenever it needs it, add to my toy collection and generally have a great time with my GF. Within the next month or so I\'m going to buy a HDTV and surround system.
I couldn\'t imagine spending money on expanding my garden or greenhouse. Renovating or going river rafting. IMO that\'s money wasted.
IYO it\'s not. The difference is that I\'m not going to sit here and judge you and your preferences. You like gardening--if that\'s your thing, that\'s great for you, but don\'t tell me I\'m foolish for spending my money on what I want.
If I spend 1k on video games a year what difference is that going to make to my income--it is a timy fraction of my income--and I\'m not rich by any means. I can justify it because I enjoy it, and I want to play.
We don\'t buy this stuff to piss you off. Don\'t be an ass.
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Not sure if this ever occured to you, but for some of us videogames are a hobby and owning all the new stuff / or impressive stuff is part of the hobby, therefor spending that money on a game isn\'t so hard to imagine.
Gee..:rolleyes:
I can\'t see it your way. There are to many other excellent things to do in your life then sit in front of a TV and play 4 + systems and PC games. I laready spend 5 - 20 hours a week playing 1 system, and haven\'t finished all the games I already bought, and I have absolutly no time to even think about squeezing in more.
I love to play a great game as well as the next. and I will fit in some free time to do so, but there is no way in hell I could possibly fit in and enjoy 4 systems and PC games without making huge sacrifices in other facets of my life.
so you can roll your eyes all ya want. I mentioned multiple times it was my opinion. That opinion will never change.
Videogames are great fun, but no matter what you say I can\'t see the justification in spending that much time money and effort playing them. Its a past time not a way of life, and as I have said 20 times by now there are some really cool other things to experience
Maybe you guy\'s idea of a life is sitting around with friends playing games as much as possible. Maybe thats what makes you hardcore.
I personally will just enjoy what I can and face the fact that I would rather spend time and money doing, again, like I said above, a heluva alot of other things.
and I realy don\'t care what your guy\'s choices are, and believe it or not I don\'t look down on any of you for doing so. I really just can not see how or why anyone would do it. Especially buy a whole system for one game ????
Its just my opinion on the matter, that all
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Originally posted by Watchdog
I couldn\'t imagine spending money on expanding my garden or greenhouse. Renovating or going river rafting. IMO that\'s money wasted.
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Watchdog
sorry
You think river rafting is a waste of time ?????
You think investing money into your home is a waste of money ????
hey enjoy your world thats fine. but I have to :laughing:
Like I said its my opinion. I never said it was yours so may I suggest that you don\'t be an asswipe if that is possible
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Plus now you\'ll be able to play Disney\'s Donald Duck Goin\' Quackers!!
lol, Eik. i love joo man!
anyways, about me and my money, hmmmmmm.
i dont drink, or do drugs. what else is there to spend my money on? after my rent/utilities/jeep/insurance/bills/girlfriend are covered, what else is there? save for a rainy day? build a nest egg? forget that, i could get hit by a bus week walking down the street from class. i got 3 months of "reserve" money in a savings account in case i lose my job or have an emergency, and thats it. im FAR too young to be worried about my future.
i know guys that spend 500$ a week to feed thier coke habit. whos wasting money now?
i might be pathetic, but when my parents split and couldnt be bothered with the kids they dragged into this world, i only had one outlet to live in an "alternate" world, that i could be who i wanted, and do what i wanted free from abuse. i always thought of people that think video games are less that what they are as "sheltered". they had everything handed to them free of charge and didnt have to pay for it with fear, or pain. ack, im on a tangent, KILL ME!
we cool, ddaryl. no worries. we just have our priorities in different order, and that whats makes the world go round
/me hugs ddaryl
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and it is just my opinion. I could care less, I just don\'t understand how people justify it. I have so many other things I want to do and have fun with well outside the world of VG\'s. I could never find the time or willingly part with the money it would take to own all systems. I\'d rather install a hot tub on my patio and improve my gardens surrounding sed patio.
That\'s good. You prefer to improve upon your house and go on vacations. What abotu the people who don\'t need to go anywhere? Who are comfortable where they live? Who save and save for months only to accumulate cash for no particular goal. Then, when they decide how to spend that money, it\'s their choice to decide what they want to spend it on. A new car, a new home, a vacation, what\'s left? What happens when you are perfectly content with staying where you are, you own the car you want and can easily afford the payments and the home you live in is suffiecient and contains anything and everything you could possibly need?
Games are my vacation and when they last me weeks at a time in between other activites I do, then I am on vacation for hours at a time everyday of the week. Sure, at times I can\'t play anything for a couple of days, but that\'s not a problem, it\'s my choice. Vacations are so limited to planning ahead, alotting the time, taking the time off, all types of restrictions that are so hard to work around that just planning them needs to be done weeks or months in advance. Look at your example for a trip to hawaii... You said in a few years you would be going... In my opinion, that\'s nothing to strive for. Ripping your guts out and working your ass off for 2 straight years to go away for one week of vacation? I\'m practically on vacation as often as I want to be and all it costs me at a time is a miniature investment, which costs far less than any trip to hawaii and lasts me a good four years. Consider all the consoles I buy and each fifty dollar game I pick up as a souvenir and the investment events out, except I spend more time having fun at least once a week, and at most, every day.
Clip is right, this is a hobby and I consider spending money on games as investments on time and fun and me enjoying my hobby. If that\'s something you can\'t fathom or understand, then I\'m sorry. Maybe you should ask yourself then why you play games at all if you can\'t see the point in us investing in them.
On a side note, I paid 45 dollars for Final Fantasy 7 and beat it 4 times at 25-75 hours a piece and then MGS2 4 times at 7-13 hours a piece and then I play Street Fighter religiously for about 4 hours a week. That\'s just 3 games and the time I have invested in each of them at 45 bucks a piece for 150 dollars total, I consider all that time well worth it. Why you don\'t see that is beyond me. I didn\'t mean to turn this into some life philosphy debate or try to tell you how to live, but when you knock what I enjoy as a hobby, you do a diservice not only to me, but to the millions of other gamers out there like me and to this whole forum in general. I thought the whole purpose of this site was to debate what we all love, videogames, and not to question that fact. I just think it\'s a bit hypocritacle of you, being a game player yourself, to question why we do something for fun when we just do it more than yourself.
It sort of sounds like you consider yourself as the model image of a game player and how all game players should be and anything moreso beyond how you do it is just wrong or should be questioned. It just sounds very strange.
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It\'s quite evident that you are the ass here. You were the one that said :
"LMAO. I find it pretty hilarous when a person thinks they have to spend a couple hundred just to play a videogame. It isn\'t worth it, and there has to be 100 other great things to do with your time and your money then having to own all the best VG stuff around. I just can\'t fathom spending that much time and effort ofr just VG\'s"
You are looking down on us, telling us how to spend our money, telling us it isn\'t worth it. Do you want us to say you are right? If you want to know, to tell you the truth I pity your life. I don\'t own a house, I don\'t have a garden, I have any commitments no obligations. I can go on a vacation whenever I want, I have complete freedom to do as I please; to spend my money on whatever I want. The best part is that I\'m still maxxing out my RRSP contributions while actually living life.
I don\'t have to worry about morgages, kids, renovations etc. In July my GF and I decided to go to Nice, France, in August we were there.
Don\'t judge me and talk like you know my life and spend your money more wisely than I do.
So yes, I do think river rafting is a waste of time. I went in high school and haven\'t wanted to go back. You like it, that\'s fine, many people do. Personally, I\'d rather take a slow ride down a merky river in Australia, watching crocodile eyes follow slowly behind. Different people have differing tastes.
But don\'t apologize to me for my opinion.
You\'ve backed away from your initial post, in the face of angry responces, but you still carry a tone of "Do what you want, but I know best." , of arrogance.
Don\'t pretend to know me.
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Hey Ryu, what\'s going on with the SF series and next gen consoles. I haven\'t heard anything and am getting an itch.
On a side note, if SF ever goes online here, I\'d like to look you up, to see how good your kung-fu is--my friends refuse to play me anymore, heh.
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Watchdog
You\'re getting pretty defensive there dude
I never told any one what they should do. I just re-itterated that I can not underrstand why someone would do it, and I don\'t.
mm
I also do not find anyone here pathetic or anything. I voiced my opinion.
I do admit I get a chuckle out of your hardcore gamers getting all defensive and trying ot convince me of why you do what you do.
sit back chill, and try not to give a rats ass about my opinion on it.
Or lets continue this until all of you diehard hardcores convince yourselves that your Obsession is a hobby ;)
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its WAY beyond an obssession. i am a certified video game junky!
w00t!
/me does a little dance, then goes back to GTA3, ignoring urge to urinate
oh, and heres a link to cheer everyone up
http://www.toiletduk.net/multimedia/flash/humor_pong.swf
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Ryu is a washed up SF junkie! :p 4 hours a week? ha! Try 15 hours a week! I am still overly addicted to that game when I find the time to get some guys together, we play religiously for hours at a time!
Nobody can still touch my Q! Fear me Watchdog and Ryu, when SF goes online, you will have your asses handed to you by the masked fat-slapper!
Eric Jacob
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Ha! What the hell can a Sega junkie know about SF?
I\'ll lay waste to you with Ryu, then humiliate you with a thorough beating by Chun-li.
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I know the Dreamcast is the only place I can play it at home, and I know that my Dreamcast has played it over a thousand of hours since I have gotten it. I also know when I am home, I enjoy the comfortable quality of a MAS stick. So, yes, I will whoop your ass with anyone I feel like ;) But if you pull out Shotos (cheapest asses in the game) I will have to pull out my Shoto...Akuma.
Also, my Makato is getting pretty good, FEAR THE OBSCURE CHARACTERS!
Eric Jacob
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Then give me Zangeif, Sagat or Birdie--they are all the same, and have too much of mean and too little of compassion to grant you even a chance.
I have one concern, given current technology, I doubt that contemporary braodband connections are adequate to carry the fat signal that is my kung-fu. For medeocre players like yourself, this isn\'t a problem of course, but for the true world warrior it certainly is.
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I only play Street Fighter 4 hours a week because the computer os not really training at all. No one wants to play me, and the people who do demand that I put my handicap up so my moves do little to no damage. You\'d be surprised how long a match can go when people can\'t touch me and when I just beat them senseless only to drop them 50% in like 5 minutes of fighting. It just gets boring fighting computer drones with the same patterns all the time. Besides that, I\'m using my ascii FT2 pad for my PS2 to fight in capcom vs snk 2. Joysticks were just never my forte.
As for the comments...
I\'ll lay waste to you with Ryu
Hehe. That was so funny when I read that. :P
FEAR THE OBSCURE CHARACTERS!
Agreed there. The Shotokan people are alright, but I prefer variety nowadays with Rock Howard, Terry Bogard, Kyo, Nakoruru, Haomaru, E. Honda, Zangief, Blanka, and a slew of other people. I don\'t stay strict to one person like I used to. It\'s all about variety with me.
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Its not really important what other people do in their free time. The fact that DDaryl doesn\'t understand what MM is doing just goes to show that they have different prioties, nothing wrong there!
Also Street Fighter is a cool game! :)