Antipodean Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 XBOX - It's great for games and doubles up as my media player. I've networked it to my PC so as I can just stream avi's straight from my hard disk and watch 'em on the TV screen. Gotta love that. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arktis Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 LINUX - Not because of the games that are availible for it, but because everything you need to develop games that are just as good as anything else is completely OPEN and FREE. And you can put linux on nearly ANYTHING. It's just a shame that it doesn't get even 1/10th as much attention. And yes, linux can be categorized under the term "gaming platform". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 my favourite is the twister mat. 36 multicoloured circles covered in baby oil and you play for your opponents clothing. oooo-er missis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamp Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 well you missed out the sega mega drive, the best console ever! kicked the super nintedoes ass all over the wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFreed69 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Lord knows I didn't spend well over $3000 over the past 3 years to get this machine of mine to hold my hand while going to the bathroom for nothing but Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 1942, Quake, Doom, and all those great emulators for Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, and XBox games... Who needs a console, I have a computer that'll stroke my ego as well as a few other things...LOL ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 You forgot to mention the Sega Genesis. Anyone remember that old gem from the middle ages? You get to play as Sonic, wow! I'll take Jedi Knight anyday on PC thank you very much. Really I think PC is the best platform because PC games require you to think, not rely on reflexes like the console games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadair Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 As for PSP - list 10 games worth playing that I don't already have on my PS2 or Cube or Xbox consoles? I cant give you 10 (well, its only been out 3 months in the UK so far...), but I'll give you these: GTA: Liberty City Stories (almost the same city as GTA3, completely new story and different characters) Lumines (Tetris, but trickier and more fun) Mercury Infection Pursuit Force WipeOut Pure (brand new tracks and racers still being released as downloads to add-on to the game) Oh, and you can run emulators on it too :D (Amiga 500, Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 800, Atari ST, Lynx, Chip8, Commodore 64, GameBoy/GBColour/GBAdvance, Genesis/MegaDrive, Master System, MAME, MSX, Neo Geo, NES, SNES, ScummVM, ZX Spectrum, and even x86 - running Win95 and Linux) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted November 28, 2005 Author Share Posted November 28, 2005 i was reading the edge magazine which has screen shots of the call of duty on the xbox 360 and to be honest they dont look any different to the pc version running a x800 graphics card...so much for this console being the best gaming machine hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabrood Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 [x] Gameboy ...because that damn thing still works after 14 years and at least 3 heavy drops on the the floor :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanevci Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 This is a place for Sci-Fi fans, what'd you expect ? Of course PC rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 I got my first platform back in the '80s... C64 with tapestation. I took forever to load any game. My past favourites = C128 (first diskdrive & modem), Amiga (first HD), Mac (first TV-card) My current favourite = PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyran Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 manic miner .. never did finish it sabre wulf took me two days and nights and the wife helped i loved my speccy but the pc beats em all and it plays them all via emulators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastardFox Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Second, your poll acts like videogames didn't exist before 1995. Not true. Super Nintendo is generally considered the best console ever, but you don't even list it! Bogus. I love the SNES :3 What I don’t get is, the PC can handle every consol to date, that I know of .. and well too, even the handhelds, though of course those aren’t portable .. but it can play their games. .. Why are there not more Consol to PC ports ... even if you’re using a special process that takes too much CPU time to emulate, one can always include a PCI card of some kind :3 I think Xbox/PS2 developers would get more money out of me if they did. I wouldn’t buy a PS2 for sly-cooper, Armored core, and a few others, but I would buy those games if they were cross platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastardFox Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 i was reading the edge magazine which has screen shots of the call of duty on the xbox 360 and to be honest they dont look any different to the pc version running a x800 graphics card...so much for this console being the best gaming machine hehe What ever slight edge consoles can gain with being specifically designed to cope with what ever fancy rendering options they want (Ie, special instruction sets, or ultra fast ram ect. ect.) they still lose to moore’s law, the PC continues to march ahead with baby steps and giant leaps. Except for maybe arcade machines, but, and this is a big one .. who wants to spend 2000+ on a machine, to play one .. or a few games :D, why not just buy a PC lol. Plus, with the sophistication of modern games, consoles just can’t cut it anymore .. so why try? Why not make -the best- consol games one can make? Maybe a 2d side scroller wouldn’t cut it for the PC, but I think they would very well on a consol, the control format is perfect for it. Some of the most frustrating games I’ve ever played have been 3d FPS’s on a consol. Even Metroid Prime (at least I thought it had exilent execution) would have been much funner with a mouse and keyboard. I can’t imagine trying to play BF2 and BF2:SF with a joy-pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyran Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 a console can never beat a pc cos a pc can always upgrade to better specs a console is stuck with what it has apart from the harddisc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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