Post by Latios XT on May 3, 2006 15:48:42 GMT -5
Here I go again, another rant about the XBox!
I never really liked XBox as a gaming solution in general. Not because of it being Microsoft. Not because of it being a US-based system. Not because of it trying to find a (large) niche in the war of Nintendo and Sony. But because people are glamoring this box over something it's heavily based upon: the PC.
The XBox relies one too much on US titles to keep it going. If anything I'm lead to believe in the US library, the XBox's library probably has more than half of it either ported from a PC game, remade from a PC game, or was multi-platformed (we have EA to thank for that). Sure, the XBox has pretty nifty exclusives like Halo and Project Gotham (and perhaps Perfect Dark), but really, the games my brother has for his XBox were nothing but unoriginals, except for Halo 2. Max Payne, Fable (That's a PC title too!), True Crime: Streets of NY, and others. What really bummed me out was finding out Deus Ex Invisible War got slashed to death on features just so it could do well on the XBox. Deus Ex was a PC franchise, it should've stayed there.
I also feel that XBox also steals the PC gaming market's thunder. How many PC game ads do we see on TV? Proably nothing like Half-Life 2 or FEAR, but there's a plethera elsehwere. What exactly am I talking about? Call of Duty 2, Oblivion, GRAW. I get pissed that I see the 360 logo, and maybe a small "PC DVD ROM" at the bottom right. Windows is the premier platform of PC gaming, is Microsoft trying to kill it? And hell, GRAW I heard for the PC is supposed to be more hardcore to the "true nature" of Tom Clancy Counter-Terrorist simulations, such as making the maps bigger, nixing the third person view, etc.
On a last note, the 360 isn't getting much support from Japan. I still believe that consoles rely on both Japanese and American sources in order to actually obtain the multi-billion dollar venue. Once more, XBox is lacking, despite titles such as DOA and Blue Sphere. With lack of Japanese support any time soon, the 360 is just what I would say would be a "poor man's high-end PC".
I really wish the XBox wouldn't be uberly glorified.
I never really liked XBox as a gaming solution in general. Not because of it being Microsoft. Not because of it being a US-based system. Not because of it trying to find a (large) niche in the war of Nintendo and Sony. But because people are glamoring this box over something it's heavily based upon: the PC.
The XBox relies one too much on US titles to keep it going. If anything I'm lead to believe in the US library, the XBox's library probably has more than half of it either ported from a PC game, remade from a PC game, or was multi-platformed (we have EA to thank for that). Sure, the XBox has pretty nifty exclusives like Halo and Project Gotham (and perhaps Perfect Dark), but really, the games my brother has for his XBox were nothing but unoriginals, except for Halo 2. Max Payne, Fable (That's a PC title too!), True Crime: Streets of NY, and others. What really bummed me out was finding out Deus Ex Invisible War got slashed to death on features just so it could do well on the XBox. Deus Ex was a PC franchise, it should've stayed there.
I also feel that XBox also steals the PC gaming market's thunder. How many PC game ads do we see on TV? Proably nothing like Half-Life 2 or FEAR, but there's a plethera elsehwere. What exactly am I talking about? Call of Duty 2, Oblivion, GRAW. I get pissed that I see the 360 logo, and maybe a small "PC DVD ROM" at the bottom right. Windows is the premier platform of PC gaming, is Microsoft trying to kill it? And hell, GRAW I heard for the PC is supposed to be more hardcore to the "true nature" of Tom Clancy Counter-Terrorist simulations, such as making the maps bigger, nixing the third person view, etc.
On a last note, the 360 isn't getting much support from Japan. I still believe that consoles rely on both Japanese and American sources in order to actually obtain the multi-billion dollar venue. Once more, XBox is lacking, despite titles such as DOA and Blue Sphere. With lack of Japanese support any time soon, the 360 is just what I would say would be a "poor man's high-end PC".
I really wish the XBox wouldn't be uberly glorified.