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[Calamity_Jones]

That's a wonderfully ironic statement, seeing as the Ps3 is the worst offender when it comes to YASS (Yet-Another-Sequel-Syndrome).

[funny list]

I'm done.

lolz btw I agree, the PS3 is sequel-tastic...

http://www.1up.com/d...ure?cId=3155292

Haha

I think I'll get a wii, eventually... and a 360... eventually. I'm planning to wait until the summer to see what games come out, and for and hardware faults on initial production runs to be fixed.

I doubt I'll get a ps3. It's more or less a computer, smashed up, put in a blender and then injected into a slightly smaller case. If I wanted a computer, I'd buy a computer dammit!

Anyways... I think it'll be a fist fight between wii and the 360 if anything. They're both good consoles with good games. The thing is, once you get used to new, flashy graphics, the new, flashier graphics aren't the deciding factor in how much you can enjoy the game. PS3 will have to pull some great games out of the air to justify its insane price tag.

Gears of war is a fantastic game. Great fun, looks great, great fun, and great fun. I was playing it with a friend in co-op mode and it just stays enjoyable I reckon good games like that, good graphics and [halo 3] could tip things in the 360's favour...

wii of course has raving rabbids though = pwn.

[Bebbe]

If Assasins Creed doesn't come out for anything but the PS3 , I'll probably buy it in a year or so

[Ash]

@Shee & Carnivean:

Let's face it. We're preaching to a devout heathen imam. No point knocking when there's nobody in.

It's clear he's never played a PS1 game. There ARE lots of good ones and some great ones out there. The 64, yes, had some good games, but the controller layout was god-awful and this sentence:

And still all playable today. Has anybody tried playing a PS1? It was bad enough at the time. Now it's absurd.

Is possibly the most bullshit sentence I've seen in this gaming forum. Ridge 4, FF6 (yes, SIX)-IX, G-Police 2, Dino Crisis 2, Warzone 2100, F1 '97, Need For Speed: Road Challenge, Gran Turismo (the original and best), Wipeout 2097 and Wip3out. All games I have with me at uni and I still play on my PS2. And among my 'regrettably sold' games: Syphon Filter 1, 2 and 3, Destruction Derby 2, Crash 2 and 3, Spyro...
And what's more, the controller fit each and every one of them really well. The '64's controller was absurd. The console came out, what, ten years ago? That means I was eight, and you will have been seven, Kal. I couldn't get my hand around to that trigger and use the thumbstick at the same time, and even when I tried to play Perfect Dark again a few years later my hand still ached after an hour. It was ergonomically one of the worst things I've ever handled. People complain about the Xbox controller, but jesus, none of those newbs have even MET an N64 pad.

And I'm sorry, but you can't claim GoldenEye is playable today. At all. It reminds me of the time I tried to play MOHAA online on dialup.

[Torn]

I had both. I enjoyed both. I'm not gonna waste half my life arguing about which is better like you guys, collecting sales figures and getting offended at other people's opinions over a dead topic.

[Comrade Kal]

Goldeneye is perfectly playable. PD even surprises to this day. And why does everybody bitch about the controller? IT HAD 3 PRONGS FOR LEFT AND RIGHT HANDERS. YOU DIDN'T NEED TO HOLD ALL 3.

[Ash]

I wasn't trying to hold all three. I was trying to reach the centre thumbstick while being able to successfully grip the trigger. Either you had unnaturally big hands for a seven-year-old, or...well, tasteful alternatives elude me.

[Comrade Kal]

What? You just held the middle prong with one hand. If you can't put your thumb on the stick and put your index finger on the trigger... your hands must be stupidly small.

[Ash]

I can now, but when I was among the console's target audience (7-10y/o), I had literally no chance. I could do it, but the ball of my hand (where the thumb joins on) ached like hell after only a couple of hours' play.

That has NEVER happened on a playstation joypad. Or an Xbox joypad. They are infinitely better designed, ergonomically.

[Comrade Kal]

No, I mean you would have to have stupidly small hands. You'd need to be a baby or something. I mean... it's only holding a piece of plastic. It's not like it's 6 inches wide.

Edited by Comrade Kal, 14 January 2007 - 11:57 PM.

[duke_Qa]

mm, the nintendo 64, the best gaming part of my childhood apart from c&c. i had 4 sticks and a bunch of friends would come over 3 times a week and play mariocart and marioparty and generally laugh our heads off. priceless item.

can't say the same thing for the ps. bandicoot is not the same as mario. the greatest game on ps was metal gear solid imo. basically theres only two games on the ps1 that i really think was great. mgs and ff7, which i never really played through as i got sick and tired of the saving and loading times. the biggest advantige with the 64 was the quick loading times.

but i have to say that the ps stick is better than the 64 stick. i was always afraid that the analogue thingie would break... never did though, but they were pretty damn loose in the end.

[Beowulf]

Paradox, sorry dude, but there has not been a good controller design since the 64. I can play the shit out of any 64 game but am not as good on the Cube/PS2/Xbox controllers. Unless you're ridiculously inept at playing console games, you should not have had any problems with it... hell, back in the day, my cousin could play games with the 64 controller just fine... and he was five. I don't know what to make of it personally but I'd venture a guess and say it has something to do with you lacking ANY gaming skills at that age.

[Comrade Kal]

Yeah, everybody must remember that kid who played goldeneye who was like 2 or 3.

[Ash]

Well, you're all ripping me, but I swear I got serious cramps from that motherfuckin' pad. Never had that sort of crap even with a full-size Xbox pad.

[Comrade Kal]

You were holding it wrong.

[Kazyumi]

You should try not putting it in your arse, Ash, maybe that caused your cramps.

[Calisto]

WII GOT IT

[Athena]

Stop being so nasty on Ash guys.

[Torn]

Stop being so nasty on Ash guys.

Christ, they're only taking the piss.

Anyway, you can't of been 7 since the N64 was released in 1997, which makes you around 10-11 . Which means I was younger when I had mine and had zero problems.

[Crazykenny]

Im not going to get it. It just another ***** *** thing...

[Athena]

Yes, but it's not funny anymore Torn.