MARCUSDJACKSON said:
Michael-5 said:
See I got Conker after I bought my 360, so online is dead anyway. As long as the core game is the same, I'm happy. the core game was the multiplayer. it made the game. when the story was done it was done.
Still MS has butchered Rare. Look what Rare makes on 360 now, Kinect Sports, Avatars, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts? Damn MS. I mean how hard would it be to make a proper Killer Instinct game? People always argue MS has relativly few 1st party titles, and Rare has a bounty of great IP's. I mean a proper Banjo Kazooie would be nice too, 360 needs an exclusive platformer. dito
Also I agree with you Gears of War 4 might come out on PS4. I hope it does, so I can still continue to play the franchise. I told you Sony is a much better company then MS, and third party exclusives are becoming so rare nowdays. Mass Effect is already multiplatform, so if next gen is like this one I'll just get a nextbox after a slim redesign and many price cuts. dito
As for 360, I guess I'm just defending my taste. Most people here love the PS3, and it's exclusives, so you guys really don't have to defend yourselves. I always feel on this website, I have to explain why I prefer 360 over PS3 for software. People are shocked, but for the 3 genres that dominate my gaming, 360 is better. Overall I think PS3 is better, I'm just not big on Action Adventure or Platformer titles like God of War, LBP, and Ratchet. Maybe it's because I look to Nintendo for those types of games. If I were a fan of PS3 platformers, I might share the view of more people here. How we lead to this, I dunno. Guess we didn't want to debate to die. well every console fits a sertant taste, and as for debating we just ran low on things to debate about lol. see although this seems to be a Sony dominated site, it seems now adays everyone pitches in for all consoles. back in the early days you wouldn't dream of seeing a Sony fan post anything positive about 360, but its done everyday here now. maybe the fall season will end the since of normalcy we have around here now but as things stand to day it seems we all work to improve the site and educate newcomers letting them know that VGC isn't the place for hardcore fanboys so get that straight or move on.
i'm really not like any other sony fan on the site. i was a N64 owner cause it had the games i liked. i was a PS2 owner cause my brother onwed the Xbox. now i'm a PS3 owner for 2 reasons. 1 my brother and i said we would stick to the brands we own so i stuck with Sony and he's disapointed with the xbox 360 so he's getting a PS3. the other reason is i'm very demanding when it comes to supporting any platform and for me Sony does it better with more.
alot of people say xbox live is better but me and my more core 360 owners really see no difference other then the way there set up. i've always had the same problems and successes with both never a difference other then 1 you pay and the other you don't don't have to. PS+ i by choice. i guess you can say its more of a charity lol but it has great deal's.
speculation time:
the real question is wht will MS do next gen when it starts all over again and everyone is on even footing with no edge and Sony and Ninty exlcusives push PS4 and Wiiu ahead of them just by a small margin and Halo has already been released . Epic says the cost is to great and GEARS goes multiplayform, new ip's are one sided in sonys favor cattering to everyone(not likely) and the war is between Ninty and Sony because noone can get anything timed exclusive and bundles for 3rd party on consoles and games show there faces day and date and wht most call money hatting nolonger works.
will they still say the best multiplatform experiance is on nextbox or start building ip from internal studios cause i'm sure next gen saying were the best console for multiplatform games won't work. end speculation!
i'm sure some 3rd party bundles will happen but 3rd party won't want to miss out on the potential of a sells boost just to catter to one console.
Don't worry, I'll argue with you somewhere else. We just need a good topic to debate. We're dry here. i'd say so except the conkur thing
BTW Resistance 3 is looking awesome. They brought back a proper co-op mode. can't wait to get on it.
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N64 was your first console? You're 26, that means you got into gaming at earliest 10. You had nothing before that?
I've always been a hardcore Nintendo fanboy. My sister had a SNES, and I wanted my own system so I got a genesis. However I was pretty disappointed with the genesis so I got an N64 when it came out, and then a PS1 for some reason. Last gen I bought a PS2 and GCN basically at launch, but I played the Cube more then the PS2. However looking back, I should have played more PS2. This gen I went 360 because I didn't have an X-Box 1, and before Uncharted 2, 360 really looked like a lot better of a console (I mean Bioshock, Lost Planet, and Elder Scrolls were all exclusives at one point, and multiplatform games looked better on 360). However reliability was terrible, so I bought a used PS3 while my 360 was off for repairs, and I later bought a Wii because finally a proper Mario Kart, and Pikmin 3 (now Wii U). However My PS3 broke, and with the right amount of b***hing I got a much more reliable HDMI 360 free (with a free controller by accident). Next gen I'm doing what you did and sticking with brands I know and trust. So it's PS4 for me, and maybe a Nextbox after a few models come for reliability issues and overall disgust and MS market strategy.
PSN is almost as good as XBL. Considering PSN is free and XBL is $60 a year, PSN is a great bargain. The only benefit I take advantage of in XBL is cross game chat (Party's). That and mic's came with the 360, but that's not exactly an XBL benefit. However I don't do party chat's that much anymore. I would say PSN is better because I can literally pick it up and play it for 3 hours for 1 day of the month, and not worry about cost. XBL is only available over monthly timeframes, and I really don't play online much during the summer. PSN is actually one big reason why I am switching back to Sony next gen.
As for your speculation. MS has $$$ Remember how many third party exclusives the 360 had at the start of this gen? Also 360 did start off with a decent amount of first party support. Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero, and Kameo. Followed by Halo, Forza, PGR4, Crackdown, Fusion Frenzy and 2 Viva Pinyata's in the next 2 years. Sony wasn't much different with the PS3. Resistance was the only 1st party launch game, and it's only a 1st party IP developed by a third party company, so I'm not sure if that really counts. Then in the next two years they developed a couple Motorstorms, Uncharted, Eye of Judgement, Ratchet & Clank, Warhawk, LBP, SOCOM, a second Resistance, and a handful of sports/sing games.
So I don't think you are giving MS enough credit. After all they are still selling good volumes of 360's even though it's at a higher price point then the PS3. I mean if they have the ability to sell a cheaper system at a higher price, who knows what they can pull next gen. I often hear MS has a 3 generation home console strategy. X-Box was to get a name out there, 360 was to get the brand some recognition, and next gen for them to go full out.
MS will have some sort of third party game. Gears of War got big because MS heavily funded the project, I'm sure MS will do the same with some other game next gen. This is why even though Gears is third party, at least this gen I give it the same credit as a first party game. MS had a lot to do with the franchise getting to where it is.
