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Wright said:


So you're not agreeing with Ed's point.

I'll leave you with this.. and see if i agreed with him.


"The point Ed made was that no major exclusive MS has had surpassed a group of Sony's top tier franchises highest metacores (even though they most likely did in sales). You used a third party game as a rebuttal when he was talking about exclusives Sony makes scores vs games that MS pays for outside of Halo. When it comes down to it, its always Halo and Gears. I would beg to differ with him though because Halo: Combat Evolved was the highest rated Xbox game ever made sitting at a 97 metascore. That is a proper rebuttal. "

If he said Sony had the most high rated exclusives of any other consoles that gen I would agree with him because that is indeed true. There is a difference. 

Go to a Gamestop. Sony had a higher variety of IP's compared to MS and Nintendo last gen.



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S.T.A.G.E. said:


"The point Ed made was that no major exclusive MS has had surpassed a group of Sony's top tier franchises highest metacores


You're clueless. I already pointed out that @bolded wasn't Ed's point.

I already told you, your insight was appreciated but wasn't needed because you were making a wrong point under the wrong assumption of the wrong argument. You still are. Hence why you're walking in circles.



Goatseye said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Interactive movies...lol...I see you've been ignoring the way videogames have been going since the 90's. Videogames are slowly closing the production gap with movies, especially since Sony hit the gaming industry and they make movies themselves. I mean its not like Halo didn't learn a lesson about the importance of cinematics, quicktimes and scripts. Halo 4 is finally understood everything Sony has known for years.

Sony didn't release nothing highly well produced in terms of audio and visual like Halo CE until 2007 with Uncharted.

God of War I and II.



Goatseye said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Interactive movies...lol...I see you've been ignoring the way videogames have been going since the 90's. Videogames are slowly closing the production gap with movies, especially since Sony hit the gaming industry and they make movies themselves. I mean its not like Halo didn't learn a lesson about the importance of cinematics, quicktimes and scripts. Halo 4 is finally understood everything Sony has known for years.

Sony didn't release nothing highly well produced in terms of audio and visual like Halo CE until 2007 with Uncharted.


Microsoft didn't even create Halo. They bought it mid production. The only thing they could probably attribute to MS was that it became an FPS. The score was already written and the art style and concepts were already laid out when they released it at Apples show. 

Sony is actually INVOLVED in the development process. Microsoft had more of a hand in the Kinects development and they didnt even create that

Lastly, Halo's story was never properly told by Bungie. It wasn't until Halo 4 that it was properly done when it came to tone, artistic direction and so much more (obviously because the team changed). Halo Reaches attempt at emotional dialogue and comradery was worse that Gears of War which was at least drew people in despite its Michael bay style dialogue.

I am so glad someone else took over the story of Halo outside of Bungie because they aren't that great. They are much better at characters, gameplay and balancing levels.



Im just going to assume the ED is a master troll as he has succesfully derailed this thread.



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EspadaGrim said:
People please calm down this thread has become nothing more than another battleground for stupid console war arguments.

Wasn't that the point all along? I am not surprised to see the OP has quickly begun reminding us that MS buys games, cannot compete with Sony when it comes to games, actually taught the industry how to make cinematic games, and Xbox has little IP's in its favor, etc etc



S.T.A.G.E. said:


Microsoft didn't even create Halo. They bought it mid production. The only thing they could probably attribute to MS was that it became an FPS. The score was already written and the art style and concepts were already laid out when they released it at Apples show. 

Sony is actually INVOLVED in the development process. Microsoft had more of a hand in the Kinects development and they didnt even create that

Lastly, Halo's story was never properly told by Bungie. It wasn't until Halo 4 that it was properly done when it came to tone, artistic direction and so much more (obviously because the team changed). Halo Reaches attempt at emotional dialogue and comradery was worse that Gears of War which was at least drew people in despite its Michael bay style dialogue.

I am so glad someone else took over the story of Halo outside of Bungie because they aren't that great. They are much better at characters, gameplay and balancing levels.

You recycle your argument over and over when it comes to MS topic.

For the last time, Bungie didn't know if they were going make Halo a RTS or a TPS game before they were acquired by MS.

There wouldn't be a Master Chief without MS.



Man, I'm out. All you want to do is bash, bash, bash anything non-sony.
You get people all worked up with your same argument.



LudicrousSpeed said:
EspadaGrim said:
People please calm down this thread has become nothing more than another battleground for stupid console war arguments.

Wasn't that the point all along? I am not surprised to see the OP has quickly begun reminding us that MS buys games, cannot compete with Sony when it comes to games, actually taught the industry how to make cinematic games, and Xbox has little IP's in its favor, etc etc


It was Honestly, it has become pretty clear that this thread was created by the OP with an agenda to create dumb arguments.



EspadaGrim said:


It was Honestly, it has become pretty clear that this thread was created by the OP with an agenda to create dumb arguments.

My problem (yes I have a problem), is not that the OP has clearly an agenda.

It's because there are a lot of people that think like him, in this place were we're supposed to be well informed.

It *ucks/r*pe and blows my mind.

Ugh, whew...