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28 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

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I worked at Sega during the Dreamcast era...it was sad to see it go.


Aww... Dreamcast was the best. Say, if I won the lotto, could you contact Yu Suzuki for me so I could pay him to make Shenmue III? At this point, I'd make a Dreamcast release just for kicks. I want Shenmue III! Anyway, Dreamcast was the best system ever. No question.

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The gamecube from 2001-2006 was the dark age for Nintendo. It was awfully designed, had a kiddy image that could never be shaken off and it had terrible third party support. Luckily for Nintendo, the Wii saved them and made the gamecube a distant memory.


Yeah, except all the problems you've pointed out are now in actuality worse on the Wii, except that the Wii is painted white and not purple. Really, no mature games on the Wii, it could be a great platform for a realistic shooter, like Rainbow Six or Flashpoint, but nope. I basically see it as only a console for little kids and senior citizens wanting to play Wii Sports or something.

So with that said, I'm going to say the Wii, for ruining video gaming as we know it. I mean sure, you can say CD-i, or Game.com, or some obscure thing like that, but they never could impact anything. However, Wii's impact has ruined gaming. Plus, specs wise, an original Xbox is better than a Wii.

Maybe I've become a bitter old "back in my day..." kinda person at my young age. Oh well.

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The Atari 7800 had backwards compatibility with the 2600, this was actually one of the systems strongest selling points in my mind. The Sega Genesis had backwards compatibility with the Sega Master System with the Power Base Converter add-on. And yeah, Dreamcast was running a trimmed down version of Windows CE, it was like an Xbox beta.


Yes and no, I mean it ran on Windows CE for it's OS for some stuff, but games were programmed in I believe assembly. But stuff like Sega browser and whatnot was CE. Yeah, Dreamcast seems more or less like an Xbox prototype. Same damned controller even.



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28 Oct 2011, 11:04 am

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Now this is just silly :P how many consoles do you know that have been upgradable? I know the answer ISN'T zero, but it wasn't many. It doesn't hold the games industry back at all. It's the way the cycle goes: New games console > better games > push console to limit that games can manage > new games console (naturally there's more minor things in between such as peripherals)



Seems like you do not play on a PC. We who do can tell if a game is "consolified" or not, i.e. it has been dumbed down to allow for slow reaction times (i.e. a gamepad/controller), it has a stupid simplistic GUI, features removed and there are no way to beef up graphics beyond what was state of the art - half a decade ago.


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28 Oct 2011, 2:33 pm

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3DS as contender, some people can't see 3D, other people get headaches, also bad for developing children's eyes (though my eyes survived the CRT monitor era lol). Nintendo acknowledges this and suggest to turn off the 3D effect, then I say, it is fair game to compare to the PSP; relatively, makes it not so astonishing anymore. I would like to compare it to the Vita too, but that's not even out yet...


You obviously think the 3D effect of the Nintendo 3DS is a "big threat" to people. :lmao:



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05 Nov 2011, 11:54 am

For the worst game system of all time I'd have to go with the Virtual Boy, it had no good games what-so-ever (In my opinion) and using it for too long fried your eyes,


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06 Nov 2011, 4:35 pm

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Yeah, except all the problems you've pointed out are now in actuality worse on the Wii, except that the Wii is painted white and not purple. Really, no mature games on the Wii, it could be a great platform for a realistic shooter, like Rainbow Six or Flashpoint, but nope.


Mature games =/= good games. (I'm supposing you mean "mature" as in rating?) And yes, there are. To mention a few, No More Heroes (which I have myself, and it's great) and Madworld (which has got "good" or better reviews from what I've seen. Google "mature games for wii" and you'll find a bunch. They're not the majority of games on it, but they exist.

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I basically see it as only a console for little kids and senior citizens wanting to play Wii Sports or something.


*sighs* This discussion again? To mention a few "good" games: Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Galaxy 1+2, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Punch-Out, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Okami, No More Heroes, plus backwards compatibility with Gamecube and downloads of old games. And trust me: I'm a Wii gamer and absolutely detest games like Wii Sports.
(also, shame on them for daring to release games that appeal to more than the "hardcore" market. Yeah, for shame.)

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However, Wii's impact has ruined gaming.

Really? I don't see how.

You'er free to keep you opinion about not liking the console, only pointing out a few flaws.



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12 Nov 2011, 12:58 pm

I'm sure some people won't like what I'm about to say, but..

Wii. 90 percent of its games are for little kids, it has HORRIBLE graphics and online, and the only good games are made by Nintendo.

I'm not a person who judges games by their graphics, but the Wii is less powerful than a smartphone for Gods sake. That's just sad.


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12 Nov 2011, 4:14 pm

^ I agree. It's a good family console though, plenty of kid games and simple enough to navigate for a five year old. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are too complicated for a kid so young to navigate, but my seven year old niece can easily get on Netflix with the Wii (whereas with the Xbox and PS3 she is totally lost).

I like Nintendo consoles because they are made simple, but the graphics aren't up to par with the PS3 and Xbox 360.


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12 Nov 2011, 5:38 pm

I also agree, the Wii is actually just sad, It only sold because of the new controls (Which were fun for 2 days)


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12 Nov 2011, 7:31 pm

1000Knives wrote:
So with that said, I'm going to say the Wii, for ruining video gaming as we know it. I mean sure, you can say CD-i, or Game.com, or some obscure thing like that, but they never could impact anything. However, Wii's impact has ruined gaming. Plus, specs wise, an original Xbox is better than a Wii.

No, the Wii didn't ruin it, XBox Live ruined it. Even without the Wii the PS3 and XBox360 would suck as much as they do with they lack of variety and the focus on realistic shooter and online gimmicks to the depend of everything else.

Also, the specs don't say everything. The GameCube was almost as good as a XBox technically wise, and on that point superior to the PS2. (Though I do consider the PS2 as the best console of it's generation for the variety of games.)


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12 Nov 2011, 7:38 pm

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1000Knives wrote:
So with that said, I'm going to say the Wii, for ruining video gaming as we know it. I mean sure, you can say CD-i, or Game.com, or some obscure thing like that, but they never could impact anything. However, Wii's impact has ruined gaming. Plus, specs wise, an original Xbox is better than a Wii.

No, the Wii didn't ruin it, XBox Live ruined it. Even without the Wii the PS3 and XBox360 would suck as much as they do with they lack of variety and the focus on realistic shooter and online gimmicks to the depend of everything else.

Also, the specs don't say everything. The GameCube was almost as good as a XBox technically wise, and on that point superior to the PS2. (Though I do consider the PS2 as the best console of it's generation for the variety of games.)


Wii did ruin gaming, they introduced the new controls and the Sony/Microsoft hopped onto the bandwagon. Since the new controls there has been an influx on gimmicky games that rely sololy on the motion sensor controls.


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12 Nov 2011, 8:47 pm

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Tollorin wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
So with that said, I'm going to say the Wii, for ruining video gaming as we know it. I mean sure, you can say CD-i, or Game.com, or some obscure thing like that, but they never could impact anything. However, Wii's impact has ruined gaming. Plus, specs wise, an original Xbox is better than a Wii.

No, the Wii didn't ruin it, XBox Live ruined it. Even without the Wii the PS3 and XBox360 would suck as much as they do with they lack of variety and the focus on realistic shooter and online gimmicks to the depend of everything else.

Also, the specs don't say everything. The GameCube was almost as good as a XBox technically wise, and on that point superior to the PS2. (Though I do consider the PS2 as the best console of it's generation for the variety of games.)


Wii did ruin gaming, they introduced the new controls and the Sony/Microsoft hopped onto the bandwagon. Since the new controls there has been an influx on gimmicky games that rely sololy on the motion sensor controls.

Still, most games on PS3 and XBox360 don't use them. So what's the problem, can't stand a parallel market!? As long that they still making games for serious gamers, this is not a problem. Sadly that last one was ruined for me because of the making of online FPS to the depend of everything else that barely exist anymore; but this is not Nintendo and their motion controls fault.


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12 Nov 2011, 8:57 pm

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Kenn_San wrote:
Now this is just silly :P how many consoles do you know that have been upgradable? I know the answer ISN'T zero, but it wasn't many. It doesn't hold the games industry back at all. It's the way the cycle goes: New games console > better games > push console to limit that games can manage > new games console (naturally there's more minor things in between such as peripherals)



Seems like you do not play on a PC. We who do can tell if a game is "consolified" or not, i.e. it has been dumbed down to allow for slow reaction times (i.e. a gamepad/controller), it has a stupid simplistic GUI, features removed and there are no way to beef up graphics beyond what was state of the art - half a decade ago.


Okay, I think you've completely walked around my point as opposed to actually answering to it (and actually I do play games on PC, specifically designed for gaming.)

However, if you find that a game has been 'consoleified' as you put it, this is down to the games companies not making the decision to make these changes for PC. You'll also find that especially these days that game companies will favour consoles over PC - it's where their biggest market is.

To summarise my point though: Console =/= PC.



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14 Nov 2011, 1:56 am

The original game boy (with no color)
The wii
The computer


I like playstation 3 or nintendo ds.
I wanted to keep our xbox but my fiance gave it to his sister. :(



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14 Nov 2011, 10:53 am

All video game consoles have their ups and downs, but I think this thread should be about the most serious ups and downs (such as controller designs or graphic display).

Of course we would all look at older consoles, because of how new gaming was back then. Now it is refined so much, we're looking at the little things about the consoles that could easily be fixed in a future generation.

So, ask yourselves this: What really is the worst video game system?


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15 Nov 2011, 11:53 am

MakaylaTheAspie wrote:
All video game consoles have their ups and downs, but I think this thread should be about the most serious ups and downs (such as controller designs or graphic display).

Of course we would all look at older consoles, because of how new gaming was back then. Now it is refined so much, we're looking at the little things about the consoles that could easily be fixed in a future generation.

So, ask yourselves this: What really is the worst video game system?


I think that the above post is very reasonable, and unbiased.

Can Flash be considered a video game system? Although I once enjoyed playing a Flash game on the Adult Swim website, Robot Unicorn Attack, recommended by WP user gailryder17, I find the medium generally unfit for the purpose of gaming.


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17 Nov 2011, 5:28 pm

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Wii. 90 percent of its games are for little kids, it has HORRIBLE graphics and online, and the only good games are made by Nintendo.
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define "for little kids"
I guess you mean games that aren't rated "mature"?