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I'd think that finding the rotter who froze me would be more important than the distraction of some games consoles in the corner of the cryo-chamber.



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1980-now

Nintendo = King



can't wait for Track Season 2009/2010, guna beast out!

Travis Touchdown ERECTION CONFIRMED!

id be like damn, its been 15 years but nintendo still knows how to kick ass



I would probably be a Sony Fanboy.



 

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seece said:
Looking at how Microsoft opened up Online Gaming, no I wouldn't be sad.

You mean Sega with the dreamcast. Hell, I played Bomberman and Quake on my Sega saturn online...its their fault that no one ended up buying it in masses like they did with xbox. They should still get the credit...

Regarding the OP - it would be very hard to adjust. I mean, 8/16 bit era was pure 100% gameplay. Today some games are 30% gameplay and 70% cinematics. The person that woke up in 2009 would probably spend a lot more time on VC, PSN and XBL buying games that playing MGS's, resident evils and gears of war's we get today and call AAA software.

 



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disolitude said:
seece said:
Looking at how Microsoft opened up Online Gaming, no I wouldn't be sad.

You mean Sega with the dreamcast. Hell, I played Bomberman and Quake on my Sega saturn online...its their fault that no one ended up buying it in masses like they did with xbox. They should still get the credit...

Regarding the OP - it would be very hard to adjust. I mean, 8/16 bit era was pure 100% gameplay. Today some games are 30% gameplay and 70% cinematics. The person that woke up in 2009 would probably spend a lot more time on VC, PSN and XBL buying games that playing MGS's, resident evils and gears of war's we get today and call AAA software.

 

No I mean Microsoft, I'm aware Dreamcast came up with it, I think without Microsoft though, Sony wouldn't be so hard pushed to make online. So where would we be?



 

lestatdark said:
I would be extremely sad that this generation of gaming, games are what matter the less. Now it's all about who's got the biggest amount of graphical mumbo jumbo in their games, who can do 1 fps more than the other, who can make the most nanosecondal perfect motion sensor, who has a 0.1 better score on some random internet web page....the list goes on.

There have been a lot of good things in this generation, and bringing more and more gamers into this medium has been a great plus, but I feel if things go on like this, we will reach a day were people will stop talking to one another just because they don't share their same views of gaming. It's kinda like a xenophobic (in gaming terms) feeling that it's starting to boil and it will reach a rupture point. Hopefully people will realize that those attitudes are just a bunch of c***, and that what really matters are the games and the enjoyment they bring us.

Back in the day it was 'Blast power'!!  No it is the Cell.....Graphics were already important then.



 

@Lostplanet

Yeah there were some feuds here and there, but it wasn't anything like it is now. Take for example MK 2. The only thing said in comparison of both versions, the SNES and the Megadrive, was the censorship made by Nintendo, which had MK 2 for the snes with green blood and strange effects in some Fatalities and Stage kills. If that same comparison was made today, they would nitpick the hell out of each version, counting what frame would be out of sync, what pixel wasn't well executed, who had the best resolution, yada yada yada.
That is utter BS, what matters is that the game is good and that it is playable for whomever owns the game.



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seece said:
disolitude said:
seece said:
Looking at how Microsoft opened up Online Gaming, no I wouldn't be sad.

You mean Sega with the dreamcast. Hell, I played Bomberman and Quake on my Sega saturn online...its their fault that no one ended up buying it in masses like they did with xbox. They should still get the credit...

Regarding the OP - it would be very hard to adjust. I mean, 8/16 bit era was pure 100% gameplay. Today some games are 30% gameplay and 70% cinematics. The person that woke up in 2009 would probably spend a lot more time on VC, PSN and XBL buying games that playing MGS's, resident evils and gears of war's we get today and call AAA software.

 

No I mean Microsoft, I'm aware Dreamcast came up with it, I think without Microsoft though, Sony wouldn't be so hard pushed to make online. So where would we be?

While I agree that MS took the idea and made it in to a spectacle that it is today, there were online gaming systems in 1994.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_NetLink

Someone waking up form 1994, who was using these devices will probably wonder why we didnt get more advance than we are now.

I mean MK2 and MK3 were playable online on my sega genesis and snes? Yet the PSP midway classics port doesnt let me play online...SHAME!

 



seece said:
disolitude said:
seece said:
Looking at how Microsoft opened up Online Gaming, no I wouldn't be sad.

You mean Sega with the dreamcast. Hell, I played Bomberman and Quake on my Sega saturn online...its their fault that no one ended up buying it in masses like they did with xbox. They should still get the credit...

Regarding the OP - it would be very hard to adjust. I mean, 8/16 bit era was pure 100% gameplay. Today some games are 30% gameplay and 70% cinematics. The person that woke up in 2009 would probably spend a lot more time on VC, PSN and XBL buying games that playing MGS's, resident evils and gears of war's we get today and call AAA software.

 

No I mean Microsoft, I'm aware Dreamcast came up with it, I think without Microsoft though, Sony wouldn't be so hard pushed to make online. So where would we be?


you guys both mean Nintendo with the SNES.

nintendo had the first online adapter with the super.