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My Xbox 360 is just 6 months old (Bought in February this year). It was only meant to be a "Halo box", pretty much a fourth system and yet in the end it replaced both my PS3 and my gaming PC.

Before I got the Xbox 360 I hadn't played a JRPG for two years or so and I was pretty much just a Final Fantasy whore so not really a JRPG fan. Since I got the Xbox 360 I've played 3 pretty cool JRPG games - Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon and im keen to play Last Remnant and Infinate Undiscovery before the year is out. These 5 games will take up several hundred hours of my time and there simply aren't any PS3 JRPGs in the same genres to play that I consider worth my time this year. Because of the hours I played and enjoyed JRPGs on the Xbox 360 I just got fond of the system and the controller so thats the reason why I play all the multiplat games on it.

Last year the PS3 was saved somewhat by multiplatform games, like COD IV and others which radically boosted its software lineup to an acceptable level. Now this year for me its drowning in a sea of them. There are a few exclusive games which I would miss if I didn't have a PS3 except there are multiplatform alternatives for all the shooters so really its not something I would worry about. I would probably miss LBP the most but I would be too busy with other games to really care for that loss.

Wow, my PC - replaced. Thats the *Holy Shit!* Moment right there. PC gaming better than console gaming? Not this time. I have always been a PC gamer first and foremost. I have always disliked consoles for being inferior to "The PC" and I wished that all the console gamers could see the light and buy a gaming PC and forget about all that console nonsense. I kinda resented that all these good games came out for consoles and "forced" me to buy a console to play them on an "inferior" platform too!

PC/360 game? I play it on the 360. Its not like I don't have a decent computer its just that I get a better experience on the Xbox 360. I have watched with interest as console controllers and the games themselves have gotten better and better. What would have been considered "good" for a PS2 game last generation would be considered floaty and inprecise this generation. I go back and play a few PS2 games so I get the perspective from it when I come back and play games from this current generation. The controllers are "good" and the graphical differences have hit a point of diminishing returns, so really I don't get enough of an advantage to outweigh the disadvantages of the PC platform so I play the games on the 360.

I used to be PC>PS3>Wii>Xbox 360 but now it's Xbox 360>Wii>PC>PS3. Wow what a change. Thank you Mr Xbox!



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i like mine, i have just picked up condemned 1/2 for 30 bucks and i have to say give it a whirl..they are a 10 on the creepy so far



 

LBP/Fable 2 will be huge.



Wow! thats one of the longest anti PS3, anti PC troll threads I've read in a while!
Usually they're just snappy one liners but this one is truly an epic.
Gilgamesh epic.
You don't own a Wii? you seem to have left them out.



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mesoteto said:
i like mine, i have just picked up condemned 1/2 for 30 bucks and i have to say give it a whirl..they are a 10 on the creepy so far

Played em, Loved em. The "boxing" in that game was awesome. I really enjoyed that game from every perspective. Its disapointing that they didn't sell more!
 

 



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Yeah it sounds very biased. Just having read it I doubt that you even own a Ps3.



Spankey said:
Wow! thats one of the longest anti PS3, anti PC troll threads I've read in a while!
Usually they're just snappy one liners but this one is truly an epic.
Gilgamesh epic.
You don't own a Wii? you seem to have left them out.

I like my Wii, my Xbox 360 hasn't diminished the importance of it. Its my 2nd system behind the Xbox 360.

 



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i have all 3 consoles too, for me the 360 is normally in the top 2, depends though, at the moment its 360>PS3>Wii for me, but it changes almost daily!



I own all three console do not let the name deceive you in the slightest.

I rank the consoles as follows:
PC = Ps3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Wii = X360



Op is posting in the Microsoft discussion forum so I'm not sure how you could count this as a troll. He's entitled to his opinion, just as you are to yours.

I will not mention the PS3 however at all (outside of that) when I say that I totally agree, my 360 has eaten all of my gaming time since I purchased it. I think I dropped 100+ hours into Oblivion and that is just sad.

I haven't played Blue Dragon (reviews were tepid) but may pick it up as I think it is platinum now. Not picking up Tales? Reviews I have seen have been really positive (ign, 1up) and IU is a week away still... Clearly reviews aren't everything but I don't have the time to play all the games I want to, so try to use reviews from credible sources to screen some games I'm interested in.

LO, was great too. I thought I'd never relate to Kaim as he is extremely feminine, but it didn't take long for me to see past that and enjoy the ride. If you did many of the side missions though, the final boss was, well to me at least, very easy.