6th July 2005, 5:06 AM
But that's not what these anti-fanboys are saying. They say love everything, hate nothing. If I say I love Nintendo games I get branded a fanboy. When I got pissed off that MGS is 3 hours long I was branded a fanboy. This anti-fanboy mentality is forming because of one major reason. For the first time since, hmm, forever? There are 3 successful systems on the market. It's not Nintendo Vs. Sega or Nintendo Vs. Sony, it's 3 systems playing king of the hill. When it was N64 Vs. PS2 Vs. Dreamcast the DC took a major spill at the starting gate, it was like the universe couldn't deal with 3 major consoles at once and removed Segas. The XBox, for some reason beyond my grasp has actually stayed in the running and gained ground. Dont tell me it's because of online games because only 15% of console gamers (something like 50% to 60% for PC) play online (in the US). I'll have to go dig around for the numbers but if you took the number of XBox owners (USA) and the number of people who use XBox Live (USA) you end up with a 7% margin of people in the united states who play online with their XBox. They still keep gaining ground though regardless of the fact that we're talking about a system with 5 exclusive games out of its entire library.
PS2 I can understand, cheaper, more games (more genres), higher installed user base from PS1 (making transition to new hardware easier) topped with the cool factor and killer ads. Whoopay, it makes a hell of alot more sense than the XBox still floating around.
Wow ranted.
It makes perfect sense to insult a company's lineup one moment and at the same time hope that company will go third party and develop for your console the next.
Weren't you the one bitching the most when some sports God was traded to some other team? I dont follow sports at all but you were pissed about it because you wanted him to be on 'your' team, but after you calmed down you finally realized that "he sucked anyway." I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but yes, it makes perfect sense to get angry at a company for not releasing Burnout 3 or Revenge on other consoles and call them idiots for doing so.
A sequel on another console is a "rehash," while a sequel on your console is not; in fact, it's highly anticipated.
A sequel to Harry Potter: Adventures in Harmionie's Budding Bush should not be anticipated as much as a new Zelda or FF game. although.... I would actually really like.... anticipate...... nevermind.
Innovation is what it's called when your console has a unique feature. Otherwise, it's called a gimmick.
This is directly talking about the Eye Toy. The Eye Toy is a gimmick like it or not it's not even a damn game much less a collection of mini games like Wario Ware but atleast you get the satisfaction of playing old school games on the latter. The Power Glove was a gimmick, the E-Reader is a gimmick and the Eye Toy is the definition of gimmick. The only innovative things this past generation were XBox's Live! and Nintendo's handheld to console hookups and wireless RF controllers. Everything else was a God damn gimmick until someone makes a worthwhile leap in to using those gimmick's in cohesive gameplay or hardware builds.
YEAH, TAKE IT, TAKE IT ALL, PAIN, IN YOUR FACE and other things that involve me holding down shift, etc.
PS2 I can understand, cheaper, more games (more genres), higher installed user base from PS1 (making transition to new hardware easier) topped with the cool factor and killer ads. Whoopay, it makes a hell of alot more sense than the XBox still floating around.
Wow ranted.
It makes perfect sense to insult a company's lineup one moment and at the same time hope that company will go third party and develop for your console the next.
Weren't you the one bitching the most when some sports God was traded to some other team? I dont follow sports at all but you were pissed about it because you wanted him to be on 'your' team, but after you calmed down you finally realized that "he sucked anyway." I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but yes, it makes perfect sense to get angry at a company for not releasing Burnout 3 or Revenge on other consoles and call them idiots for doing so.
A sequel on another console is a "rehash," while a sequel on your console is not; in fact, it's highly anticipated.
A sequel to Harry Potter: Adventures in Harmionie's Budding Bush should not be anticipated as much as a new Zelda or FF game. although.... I would actually really like.... anticipate...... nevermind.
Innovation is what it's called when your console has a unique feature. Otherwise, it's called a gimmick.
This is directly talking about the Eye Toy. The Eye Toy is a gimmick like it or not it's not even a damn game much less a collection of mini games like Wario Ware but atleast you get the satisfaction of playing old school games on the latter. The Power Glove was a gimmick, the E-Reader is a gimmick and the Eye Toy is the definition of gimmick. The only innovative things this past generation were XBox's Live! and Nintendo's handheld to console hookups and wireless RF controllers. Everything else was a God damn gimmick until someone makes a worthwhile leap in to using those gimmick's in cohesive gameplay or hardware builds.
YEAH, TAKE IT, TAKE IT ALL, PAIN, IN YOUR FACE and other things that involve me holding down shift, etc.