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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: mm on December 23, 2006, 09:59:17 PM
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guy at work sold me his premium version for 150$ plus taking his on call week during xmas, how could i refuse?
only have tiger woods 07 for now.
impressed so far, gonna have to find a VGA cable for it. curious how 1080P looks
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sweet deal if you don\'t mind working around christmas. 360 keeps looking more and more tempting as time goes on. I have a feeling I\'ll be owning one in the next 3 months or so.
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MM budged for MS\' 360 !? :eek: An early Xmas miracle perhaps ?
While your at it, looking for a VGA cable, you\'ll get Gears of War too, right ?
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Nah its not a miracle. Its just $150 ;)
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good deal... payed 280euro for a non-used second hand premium back in may.
of course I could recommend you some games, but my guess is you\'re a pretty well informed guy, so.... :)
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I have a cheaper alternative for 360....use my roommates ;) Gears of War is insane though.
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dude im Elzer0, add me ill give you a game!!
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I would suggest Dead Rising.
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I\'ve been contemplating getting a 360 for a good while now.. I got the cash to get one now.. If I saw a sweet deal for one I\'d probably pull the trigger.
Sony better drop the price tag before I\'ll even consider their machine
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I just received an email from Microsoft indicating that my XBox 360 warranty has been extended to one year. I think it was three months originally. However, I\'ve had my 360 for about 8 months and haven\'t encountered any problems.
Xbox 360™ Warranty Announcement
Effective December 22, 2006, the Xbox 360 console warranty has been extended to one year from the date of purchase. The extended warranty applies to new customers and existing Xbox 360 owners.
If you experience hardware issues with your Xbox 360 console within one year of purchase, your console will be repaired at no cost*. For those who already paid for repairs within their first year of ownership you can expect reimbursement checks for the amount of the console hardware repair in approximately 10 weeks. These will be automatically distributed. You do not need to contact Microsoft®.
To find out more information on the Xbox 360 warranty change, please visit: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support (http://email.xbox.com/a/hBFk-8sAlyGDmA3qGY3AxONd5vI/xbox5) . Should you have questions regarding this policy change or experience any hardware issues, you can also visit: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/contact/ (http://email.xbox.com/a/hBFk-8sAlyGDmA3qGY3AxONd5vI/xbox3) or call 1-800-4-MY-XBOX and speak with an agent.
Now, that\'s a holiday gift, indeed. Play with confidence and enjoy the best of next generation gaming. Celebrate the holiday season with a catalog of over 160 high-definition games, the freedom of wireless accessories, and the online entertainment you can experience with your friends on Xbox Live®.
Remember to register your Xbox 360 console and sign up for more great information from Xbox® at My Xbox (http://email.xbox.com/a/hBFk-8sAlyGDmA3qGY3AxONd5vI/xbox4)!
Spread the holiday cheer and let your friends know about this important announcement.
* (standard warranty exclusions still apply)
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My name is Spiral Architek on Live if anyone wants to get schooled at Call of Duty 3, or Gears of War.
;)
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still only have Tiger Woods 2007, but have been playing it like it\'s going out of style.
got a giftcard for xmas, so even picked up the HD-DVD drive.
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fanboi
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heh, the whole setup only cost me 200$
hard to pass it up.
what i still don\'t like is the community.
every xbox forum on the net is ruined by the real fanboi\'s
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Probably. I\'ve been a big advocate of Xbox Live, for example, but most of my exposure is limited to typically level-headed, enjoyable experiences with games like Texas Hold \'Em and before that, Tetris Worlds.
There are a lot of young clowns mucking up a lot of the more popular titles. I guess that spills over online.
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Cannot for the life of me tolerate the console community which is in essence a dumb down version of the pc counterpart. Don\'t get me wrong, it\'s perfect for the average tech illiterate ub3r noob, but annoying as hell for the experience long time pc user. 360 or any console for that matter is targeted towards the mainstream, so in that regard Xbox live is GOOD.
Quite Franky I use for 360 for single player or with a group of friends.
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Cannot for the life of me tolerate the console community which is in essence a dumb down version of the pc counterpart. Don\'t get me wrong, it\'s perfect for the average tech illiterate ub3r noob, but annoying as hell for the experience long time pc user. 360 or any console for that matter is targeted towards the mainstream, so in that regard Xbox live is GOOD.
Quite Franky I use for 360 for single player or with a group of friends.
That about sums up my thoughts exactly on the xbox live community. As far as games in the future tho for single player, Bio Shock is looking real nice :D
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Cannot for the life of me tolerate the console community which is in essence a dumb down version of the pc counterpart. Don\'t get me wrong, it\'s perfect for the average tech illiterate ub3r noob, but annoying as hell for the experience long time pc user. 360 or any console for that matter is targeted towards the mainstream, so in that regard Xbox live is GOOD.
Quite Franky I use for 360 for single player or with a group of friends.
yerrrp. If your able to put together a good system and play games on PC, for the most part, you are not a gay ass mother fucker..to put it lightly. I\'d run into one douche per like 20 people on raven shield. But with the console community i run into one non-douche per 20 douches.
I\'m partly glad that im more into the $400 console from a practical view for right now, but i really miss playing with the group of guys that iv been playing PC games with for 5ish years. But the main guy is off doing whatever and when he isnt around none of us really play so i cant get into PC games right now. I played a bit of BF2 just now and loved it for an hour er so but then it got boring playing alone.
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Well, I\'m sure there are less morons on the PC side, but that doesn\'t mean that it\'s unlikely to run into morons. I mean, there\'s always a bunch of idiots TK\'ing and writing stupid things because they got shot or whatever.
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yeah, eik.
live arcade is pretty slick, but nothing really screams out to me for 8-10$+
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True. I didn\'t look at it that way. I thought to myself, "today I don\'t mind blowing 20 bucks" and so I bought some points. Then it was just a matter of, which of these arcade games do I want to try?
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why did he sell it?
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my interest in the 360 has been so up & down lately....*shadapp titan!*....but now i\'m interested in of course,.. gears of war, lost planet & bullet witch...i\'m still kinda holdin\' out for the ps3, but i hope capcom makes lost planet for it. I\'m not sure who makes bullet witch, but i hope that comes over to ps3 as well. If they continually continue to get some really great games tho, i might consider it, as the only thing that\'s ever really stopped me from buyin\' one was the controllers.
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have you tried it? the controller is much better than the xbox controller IMO
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The 360 has the best controller of all the current systems, preferences about motion sensitivity aside.
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I agree. It\'s the best traditional controller ever.
The only one that challenges it is the GameCube controller, and that\'s purely ergonomically. IMO, the X360 pad is probably better.
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Not the same league, in my opinion. Not a fan of the GC pad at all.
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The GCN pad feels really natural in my hands.
Button placement is fairly weak, the D-Pad sucks, but the ergonomics are phenomenal for me. Depends on your hands.
The X360 controller is definitely more well-rounded.
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Blade, I agree with you. I think the GameCube controller is one of the best fitting in your hand, but the 360 has taken it a step further I believe. The PS3 controller is obviously nothing new, but it has been comfortable since the beginning. It\'s better than that boomerang though!
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I think the GameCube controller is one of the best fitting in your hand
I\'m 6\'4\'\' and I can hold a D size boob fairly easily. Playing GC for more then 1 hour hurt my fingers. I need to stop for a few hours after a short session of GC.
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I\'m 6\'4\'\' and I can hold a D size boob fairly easily. Playing GC for more then 1 hour hurt my fingers. I need to stop for a few hours after a short session of GC.
So you\'re saying that they need to develop controllers more like D size boobies?
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So you\'re saying that they need to develop controllers more like D size boobies?
yup! something that small hand can have ton of fun playing with and huge hand can feel it perfectly!
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The nipple can be the joystick ;)
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oh my goodness, lol.
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good thing i didn\'t pay full price for any of this.
aside from gears of war, the 360 library is a wasteland of mediocrity. i had to cancel my gamefly subscription already because i ran out of titles.
HD-DVD? tanking, hard.
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mm, have you played King Kong yet? It\'s not exclusive, but was my favorite 360 game for a long time. I only really got into Fight Night Round 3, Saints Row and Gears of War after it.
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Dead Rising isn\'t mediocre.
Okay, technically it is. It\'s not the best, not the worst. :) But it is an 8.5 at least.
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i sent dead rising back after the second act.
so bored playing it. way too many limitations.
will look into king kong, although i\'m doubtful.
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Your optimism overwhelms me. ;]
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my expectations for 60$ next-gen titles is even more overwhelming
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I hear ya. King Kong should be cheaper now. The reason I don\'t have that many 360 games is because of the price tag.
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10$ gasp
But yea, if you didn\'t play Condemned on the PC I would suggest it. I loved it on the 360.
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I hate how the games are more now. Are they seriously that much more to develop?
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Yes, they are.
I got bored with Condemned, although I did enjoy the first few levels for sure. Very moody.
Boz - I don\'t buy a lot of $50 games, either. I only pick up a lot of games at launch, and then later on if I really think I\'ll get my money\'s worth. I don\'t play enough to be throwing away all that cash, personally.
In the case of Guitar Hero, I\'ll spend more because it\'s worth it to me. Haven\'t been able to talk myself into GH2, though, since it hasn\'t changed much.
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my expectations for 60$ next-gen titles is even more overwhelming
thats true.
Rainbow six is fun. Marvel ultimate alliance is fun if you liked x-men legends (if not you\'ll hate it).
that\'s pretty much about it for you. I have nba 2k7, madden 07, and burnout too and like those games but i dont imagine you liking...anything...ever
Splinter Cell single player was definitly worth a rent..i hate SC multiplayer
they do price drop relatively quickly with 360 games though which is nice.
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I got bored with Condemned, although I did enjoy the first few levels for sure. Very moody.
Boz - I don\'t buy a lot of $50 games, either. I only pick up a lot of games at launch, and then later on if I really think I\'ll get my money\'s worth. I don\'t play enough to be throwing away all that cash, personally.
It\'s all good, you just made it sound like 60 was so much worse than 50 and that it was the 360\'s fault. But you saying you don\'t buy many 50$ games then I can understand completely.
As for Condemned, I guess to each their own.
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In the case of Guitar Hero, I\'ll spend more because it\'s worth it to me. Haven\'t been able to talk myself into GH2, though, since it hasn\'t changed much.
Yeah but you also got a controller for 20 bucks, when it retails for 30. Get Guitar Hero 2. It has a better selection of music, the game is more refined (hammer-ons and pull-offs are a lot easier), looks better and the songs are a lot more fun.
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I didn\'t know which thread to put this in, so I just picked this one.
I have a new complaint about the XBox 360: I was thinking about picking up the wireless network adapter for the 360, so I stopped by to check them out at a Fry\'s over the weekend.
That stupid peripheral was priced at $99.95!!!!! WTF???? I was thinking it would probably be about $40 - $50, since the PC equivalent is usually around $30 - $40. No way did I expect it to cost more than double what I expected. Needless to say, I didn\'t buy it. To save $100, I can live with the ethernet cable in my hallway.
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yea, the overpricing is bull
there\'s no way the 120GB harddrive should be 180. thats as much as the damn hd-dvd player.
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Xbox + HD-DVD + wifi + 120gb = waaaaay more expensive than PS3. :)
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thats why only the dumbass rich people got all 4 of those. you really dont need 120gb unless ur into downloading all those tv shows they have on the marketplace. Hd-dvd is probably going to lose..and i dont need wifi so that\'s all that really matters,lol.
only reason i want 120gb is because i hate only seeing 7GB\'s on my harddrive available. Makes me feel clostrophobic,lol.
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since this was bumped, my 360 is collecting dust and has been for some time...
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yea, the overpricing is bull
there\'s no way the 120GB harddrive should be 180. thats as much as the damn hd-dvd player.
Not to mention I can get a 120GB hard drive at Best Buy for like 60 bucks.
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since this was bumped, my 360 is collecting dust and has been for some time...
its funny because my friend, whose a huge xbox guy, says the same thing about his ps3 and only talks shit about it. maybe if you guys gave up the loyalty act you\'d enjoy both consoles
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What I find funny is people are so loyal to their own systems, they still buy like a PS3 at 500 dollars and talk shit about it or visa versa. If you are so loyal to your system, why shell out that much money on the competition?
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Probably they didnt even buy it
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its funny because my friend, whose a huge xbox guy, says the same thing about his ps3 and only talks shit about it. maybe if you guys gave up the loyalty act you\'d enjoy both consoles
/signed for truth.
It\'s pathetic really. Everyone wants to jump in and go, "well, mine is collecting dust". That\'s fine - but it doesn\'t mean anything, other than you are not playing yours. Guess what? Mine isn\'t collecting dust, as I am still in love with Guitar Hero 2. Does that matter? About as much as the fact you chimed in that your\'s is collecting dust...Not at all.
And as for Titan\'s comment and Unicorn\'s, well, people want something to bitch about. I\'m sure some of those people buy one. I don\'t own a PS3, I will eventually, once I see a reason to buy one. It\'s the same reason I didn\'t buy a 360 on launch or Wii at launch. I need more than one game to convince me to throw my hard earned money down. Until then, I\'ll just enjoy what I do own and wait for the other systems to come around.
.../ will buy a Wii when SSBM comes out.
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uhhh, did you forget i own a 360, a PS3 and a wii?
/boggle
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Smash Bros...I hope they nerf Fox
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uhhh, did you forget i own a 360, a PS3 and a wii?
/boggle
No. You strike me as someone who just wants something to complain about. I mean, it\'s almost abusrd to say the 360 is gathering dust, but your PS3 is played in a constant manner, simply due to the lack of PS3 games. However, if that is the case, and you do love your PS3 that much, that\'s fine. I was just pointing out that people always want to chime in and take cheap shorts at any given console, when in reality, there is no reason. Play what you like and quit trying to complain or compare.
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it\'s almost abusrd to say the 360 is gathering dust, but your PS3 is played in a constant manner
good thing i didn\'t say that then, and you\'re just making it up.
if comments offend you, please turn off the internets.
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good thing i didn\'t say that then, and you\'re just making it up.
if comments offend you, please turn off the internets.
Good thing I didn\'t say I was offended.
:)
I simply pointed out that I find it absurd to think a 360 can be gathering dust as opposed to a PS3 at this point in each consoles life. If for no other reason, than the simple fact the PS3 has not had enough time to amass a decent library of games.
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i never mentioned PS3.....at all.
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Fair enough.
Then again, you did mention in ANOTHER THREAD that Motorstorm was worth the price of a PS3?
;)
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And as for Titan\'s comment and Unicorn\'s, well, people want something to bitch about. I\'m sure some of those people buy one. I don\'t own a PS3, I will eventually, once I see a reason to buy one. It\'s the same reason I didn\'t buy a 360 on launch or Wii at launch. I need more than one game to convince me to throw my hard earned money down. Until then, I\'ll just enjoy what I do own and wait for the other systems to come around.
I see your point. I mean, as I\'ve grown up, I completely dropped the fanboy mentality. I still like to poke fun at Microsoft every once in a while but in reality, all the consoles have their strong and weak points. I know of some games on 360 that I want but the games that I really want, like Metal Gear and GranTurismo are on the Playstation line. There isn\'t enough on PS3 right now for me to buy it plus time is a big factor. This summer, I expected to play guitar for at least an hour a day. That didn\'t happen. Life happened and I still haven\'t even had time to myself. Now summer is almost over for me and I still have had a grand total of 7 days to myself. I played GTA: San Andreas but stopped because I didn\'t have the time between work and friends and working out. Hopefully when I go back to school, I will have more time, money and friends to play video games with which will be some incentive to buy a PS3 or Wii. My roommate has a 360 so I can just use his until I graduate.
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meh i think it\'s ok to have some type of loyalty,..i mean as long as your\'re not crazy with it, i mean i think we all have brand loyalty to some extent, i admit i prefer sony when it comes to consoles because i\'ve experienced a great gaming experience with them since the psx, but i also appreciate what ms and nintendo brings to the table to keep sony honest...
Loyalty is never more seen than in sports, and i know everybody in here has a team that they love and that they will stand by no-matter if they\'re havin\' a s**tty year or a fantastic year...just like how i know that you ALL know that dallas is the greatest football team around...:fro:....the list goes on and on...some people prefer to drive only a certain brand of vehicles,...my pops? he will only drive ford trucks and lincoln towncars, why? cause he\'s had a good experience with them....
So it\'s ok to have a little loyalty when it comes to consoles as well, cause sayin\' that sony or ms don\'t care about what we think(they just want your money) the same can be said of car dealerships and everything else that we seem to have a certain brand loyalty for.. and sports? trust... those cats that play sports that are gettin\' paid millions could care less about whether we\'re cheerin\' for them or not....they can leave the league and still be set for years to come...
My point? it\'s ok to have a little loyalty to anything or brand that you have had a great experience with, it\'s only natural,..just as long as you don\'t get crazy with it...
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Loyalty to anything is dumb let alone a video game system. Please people times have change there is enough content for you to enjoy just about all three systems if you want to.
I just blew like 800 on audio for my car should have bought a ps3
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Loyalty to "anything" is dumb? What qualifies as "anything"?
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wow clips thats one of the best posts I\'ve seen around here in some time
There is nothing wrong with being \'loyal\' to a console, although I think loyal is probably not the right word and sounds kind of crazy.
with the ps1 and ps2 I got 6 years of quality gaming. There is constantly being new games/series being added to the software for the past decade so no reason not to stay \'loyal\' and purchase a ps3
Nintendo lost my \'loyalty\' with the 64. They released just one TRUE mario game on the system and proceeded to make thousands of mario spinoffs instead of a new series. Same holds true for the GC and its looking the same for the Wii. I refuse to buy a system just to play Zelda, SSB, Mario in space, and minigames.
I have no reason to be loyal to MS, they abandoned the Xbox 1 and the 360 is poorly made. they charge for online, overcharge for add-ons and their top 2 games can be played on the PC. Thier only good is that they\'re competition. There wouldn\'t be HOME on PS3 etc if it wasn\'t for LIV
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sdf
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you have selective hearing clowd. you\'ve gone to the point of insanity with it, which he alluded too. and for that, i poop on thee
seeing as iv had problems with the consoles running with both companies, i have no loyalties. I go out of my way to make sure that they dont break down, and they do. my friend has his launch 360 in this little cave, with little ventilation, and his doesnt break down, while mine just broke down. and i went through 3 ps3\'s (the last being refurbished, but still).
But i do agree there are some natural loyalties. Right now, im just defending the 360 because of the spew of bullshit going on. i guarantee if this were a 360 board and people were talking mindless bullshit about the ps3, id defend that just because i hate blind loyalty. (emphasis on the word blind)
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wow clips thats one of the best posts I\'ve seen around here in some time
There is nothing wrong with being \'loyal\' to a console, although I think loyal is probably not the right word and sounds kind of crazy.
with the ps1 and ps2 I got 6 years of quality gaming. There is constantly being new games/series being added to the software for the past decade so no reason not to stay \'loyal\' and purchase a ps3
Nintendo lost my \'loyalty\' with the 64. They released just one TRUE mario game on the system and proceeded to make thousands of mario spinoffs instead of a new series. Same holds true for the GC and its looking the same for the Wii. I refuse to buy a system just to play Zelda, SSB, Mario in space, and minigames.
I have no reason to be loyal to MS, they abandoned the Xbox 1 and the 360 is poorly made. they charge for online, overcharge for add-ons and their top 2 games can be played on the PC. Thier only good is that they\'re competition. There wouldn\'t be HOME on PS3 etc if it wasn\'t for LIV
Go outside and meet some girls.
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There is nothing wrong with being \'loyal\' to a console, although I think loyal is probably not the right word and sounds kind of crazy.
Maybe preference is a better description....and Dr Phil(Evi)....gives good advice...:fro:
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I have no reason to be loyal to MS, they abandoned the Xbox 1 and the 360 is poorly made. they charge for online, overcharge for add-ons and their top 2 games can be played on the PC.
How did they abandon the Xbox? It had a nice lifespan and they moved on. Exactly what is wrong with that?
Charge for online? Well, yeah, compared to what is offered by Sony I can see why they charge. The Live experience is a big part of the 360\'s North America success. There is no reason you shouldn\'t be able to afford a Live subscription, that is, unless you\'re a "minum wage bum".
:D
All jokes aside, not sure why you\'re dead set that MS is some evil corporation that has done nothing right. Yes, their hardware is shit, there is no defending that. But the games for the 360 and Live experience have been top notch so far.
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4 years and losing billions of dollars is not a nice lifespan.
the 360 was utterly rushed and i\'ll be shocked if it lasts longer than 4 years
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Except for the fact I don\'t care how much any given company makes or loses, as long as when that console was around, it had games I enjoyed and the Xbox did have that.
/shrugs
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Loyalty to anything is dumb let alone a video game system. Please people times have change there is enough content for you to enjoy just about all three systems if you want to.
I just blew like 800 on audio for my car should have bought a ps3
I have loyalty to sony in the console market and always will but I have a respect for MS and Nintendo as well and won\'t mind shelling out money to either. You can have loyalty to one company and still experience others.
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Tell that to my wife
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Tell that to my wife
Why? She likes Trojan\'s whereas you like Durex? ;)
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Why? She likes Trojan\'s whereas you like Durex? ;)
nope...it\'s more like she has a loyalty to NVIDIA, but she "prefers" clips...;)
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You can have loyalty to one company and still experience others.
LOL, you don\'t see the humor there?
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LOL, you don\'t see the humor there?
I see the irony but it does have a point. I\'m going to use an example of film since that is what my job is about. I\'m a big Fuji film person. I work with Fuji machines, I have the best luck with Fuji film and I love their disposable cameras. I\'m a loyalist to Fuji. However, every so often I like to cross over to Kodak to try their film. And hey, I found they have good products too. I don\'t like them as much as Fuji but they still have a great product that I like to use as well. However, I still have brand loyalty. See my point? It gets a bit deeper. I don\'t like their digital cameras. I\'ve only used a couple before but I don\'t like them as much as Canon. I\'m a big Canon loyalist in the digital market.
I can transfer this point over to the console market. I\'ve always bought Sony. I\'ve had an NES growing up but strayed. I\'ve been very loyal to Sony as my past has demonstrated. However, I still like to play Nintendo games, Xbox games and really enjoy them to the extent of buying and enjoying the console. However, my loyalty in my heart is always Sony...until they piss me off.