Original Xbox or Xbox One?

[curl-6]

Mr Puggsly said:

curl-6 said:

Beyond the genre-redefining epics of Halo 1 and 2, the original Xbox also had the likes of Jade Empire, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Burnout 3/Revenge, Chronicles of Riddick, GTA, Splinter Cell OG/Pandora Tomorrow/Chaos Theory, Ninja Gaiden Black, Oddworld Munch's Odyssey/Stranger's Wrath, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Knights of the Old Republic, Morrowind, Blinx, the Timesplitters trilogy...

I certainly wouldn't describe its library as weak or lacking, it had a great many of the most acclaimed and popular games of its generation.

That's not a bad list for the time. But PS2's had more strong titles in the same and other genres. A PS2 felt like a necessity for avid gamers.

In comparison, I didnt quite feel that with 360 and Xbox One because they have more robust libraries. If we are talking quantity of quality/enjoyable titles, the OG Xbox gets trounced.

And again, I will always consider ports as part of a library. Hence, Halo 1 and 2 are Xbox One games.

As an avid gamer, PS2 never felt like a necessity to me, and I don't think any FPS on PS2 even comes close to Halo 1 and 2.

I guess where we mainly differ then is that to me, Halo 1 and 2 were/are mind-blowing on original Xbox, but on Xbox One, they're just ports of games I already own and played many years ago so hence kinda pointless. Old experiences are never as exciting as fresh new ones of the same caliber.

What ultimately separates the two systems for me is that the OG Xbox has diamond-tier exclusives, and Xbone doesn't.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 05 July 2020