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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Emmett The Crab on February 01, 2011, 11:43:12 am
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I don't usually start a topic, but I thought of this in the PSP2 discussion.
I don't buy a console until some game comes out that I must have. Who else does this? Has anyone done this as recklessly as me?
Saturn = Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2 (then Saga)
Dreamcast = New Panzer Dragoon (I bet on the wrong horse)
XBOX = Panzer Dragoon Orta
Game Cube = Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee (later there was an xbox version)
XBOX 360 = Clive Barker's Demonik (Never happened)
PS3 = Valkyria Chronicles
Wii = Godzilla Unleashed (ended up being terrible)
I guess I am a little impulsive. I bought 2 consoles for games that never happened, one for a game that ended up being multi-platform, and one for a game I ended up selling.
Edit: Atari 2600, NES and SMS my parents bought for us, so I don't count those. I bought a Super Famicom due to pier pressure when I lived in Japan (I wanted a Saturn, but it was brand new and way too expensive). I also bought a N64, maybe for Killer INstinct or Mario Kart? I can't remember, and I don't have it anymore. PS1 Maybe for FF7.
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Hmmm, generally I used to just buy the next Sega console, because i knew it would have more of the games I loved. Since Dreamcast things had changed a bit, but I can't think of any one game that drove me to get something.
For Mega Drive, my dad bought one for me. Saturn and Dreamcast were defaults since they were the next Sega console (although Sonic Adventure and VF3 were the big Dreamcast draws. VF2 for saturn).
Xbox - I was on the fence until I saw the 'Super Entertainment Deal' or whatever. Basically an Xbox, DVD Remote, Halo, Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002. Awesome, awesome bundle.
PS2 - Bought one last year for a number of games, the $79 price tag won me over.
Xbox 360 - The successor to Xbox, which I grew to love. At launch I can't think what really drove me, it certainly wasn't Perfect Dark Zero...
Wii - My sister wanted one, and I wanted to check out Twilight Princess, which ended up being pretty awesome. First Zelda game I ever played too.
PS3 - Again, got it for a good price from a friend more than any one game, but Yakuza series and Valk were the big drivers.
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I bought nearly every SEGA console simply because it was a SEGA console (though I did not get the 32X or SEGA CD on release, due to being a poor little boy). Saturn I picked up in 1997 for NiGHTS, though over time I got into the AM2 fighters and the Sonic Team titles for the system.
XBOX - Bought it ONLY to play JSRF. Later I got most of the other SEGA titles as well as Halo and Blinx. When JSRF released, I rented an XBOX from the local video store and played JSRF for four straight days. 9 months later I bought the JSRF/SEGA GT bundle that had the revised controller included for my birthday. I had already played Shenmue II on the Dreamcast, however I did buy the XBOX version to support a potential sequel (damn!).
PS2 - Bought it December 2001 when the Dreamcast was on the way out. I think Rez was the one game I bought the system for, however since I was a savvy importer so I swear I knew I could import it. I think the promise of AM2 and UGA games also caused me to buy the console. After buying it, I got into Kingdom Hearts 1.
360 - Bought it in 2009 with cruise ship casino winnings. Wanted to play a lot of titles, however Sonic Unleashed was the first game I picked up in a buy 2 get 1 free deal. Also got Superstars Tennis and Sonic '06 for free (lol).
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Bought an Xbox for JSRF, DOA3 and the eventual release of Ninja Gaiden.
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Xbox - Bought it for the sake of the English version of Shenmue 2, since I refused to play it without the charming English dubs.
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If a console is not listed that I own or used to own, it is because I got it as a gift or cannot remember entirely why I got it at first.
Saturn - Got it years after mainly for Virtua Fighter games, Sonic games and NiGHTS.
Dreamcast - Sonic Adventure. Launch.
Neo Geo Pocket Color - Sonic Pocket Adventure
Nintendo 64 - Conker's Bad Fur Day, I think
Game Boy Advance - Sonic Advance, probably some other stuff too
GameCube - The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Sonic Adventure games again
Wii - The Legend of Zelda series, original Sonic games and Nintendo EAD games.
Xbox - Shenmue II and Dead or Alive 3, Jet Set Radio Future also looked cool to me. Probably a lot of other stuff, I used to blindly hate the platform.
Xbox 360 - Sonic 06 (Yep.), Dead or Alive 4 (which ended up disappointing me a lot) and Ninja Gaiden II even though it was not announced at the time. I assumed this would be the next console I would be completely content with for 5 or so years, and I was right, but the first year was pretty bad.
PlayStation - Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot games
PlayStation 2 - Jak and Daxter, Shinobi, Final Fantasy X (LOL) and the first Crash Bandicoot game not by Naughty Dog, it was the last in the series I ever bought.
PlayStation 3 - Yakuza series, Naughty Dog games and miscellaneous games.
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NES: Super Mario Bros. - The ability to find hidden bricks that would spit out coins kind of blew my mind back then. The kind of secrets that were passed down through the playground.
SEGA Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - The huge amount of speed you get on those loops in Chemical Plant Zone.
Gameboy: It was a gift, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan got a lot of playtime.
Nintendo 64: There was a kiosk in town that had demos of Waverace 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Mario Kart 64, and GoldenEye to test out. GoldenEye was the one that really sold me though.
Gamecube: The tech demo for the Zelda that never happened. That and Smash Bros. Melee.
Dreamcast: Shenmue - I was really interested in this one for a couple years before I got my Dreamcast.
Gameboy Advance: Metroid Fusion - I had this game for over 6 years before I finally played through it last year.
PSOne: Final Fantasy VII - I picked it up and played through it so that Advent Children would make sense. I'd been interested in the game since it came out though. I got a few gaming magazines and memorized all the character names, drew copies of the artwork, the whole deal.
Nintendo DS: Embarrassingly enough, I think it was Nintendogs. I picked up the Mario Kart bundle though.
Wii: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - It was the Zelda game I'd been waiting for since the Gamecube tech demo.
PS2: Guitar Hero II/MGS2/Yakuza - Another system I bought pretty late in the grand scheme of things. Yakuza reminded me of Shenmue, I couldn't stop playing Guitar Hero at my friend's place, and I needed to know what happened next once I beat Twin Snakes on the Gamecube.
PS3: Metal Gear Solid 4, and Valkyria Chronicles - I picked up the MGS4 bundle so it would come with the Dual Shock 3 instead of the sixaxis.
PSPGo: Valkyria Chronicles 2, and MGS: Portable Ops - There wasn't a chance in hell that I was going to miss the next Valkyria Chronicles game.
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Xbox for Panzer Dragoon Orta, JSFR and Shenmue.
PS3 for Valkyria Chronicles and Yakuza series.
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XBOX was basically a Smilebit machine for me. Forgot to add GunValkyrie and Otogi 1&2 (not Smilebit). Those three are still only on the XBOX, really wish they had backward compatibility on the 360.
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I got the SEGA games for Xbox, but never got around to getting an Xbox. Thankfully, my girlfriend has one though :).
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Wish i had something unxpected to say, but jet set radio sold me both a dreamcast and an xbox 180. Metroid Prime 3 got me on board with the wii- the best first-person shooter control system i've ever seen.
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The only game that has moved an entire console for me was Shenmue II on the Xbox.
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I bought
Dreamcast for Resident Evil: Code Veronica 10 years later still totally worth it.
Gamecube for Resident Evil 4 (with 0 + 1 being bonuses it was mainly RE4) I miss the absence of scary dark scenes from previous games but as a whole 4 does more things right than it does wrong.
X360 for Resident Evil 5: Worst decision of my life, I bought the RE5 Edition 360 it doesn't come with the extras included in RE5 limited edition it is in hideous red, the extra charges for buying controllers and rechargable battery packs (which then die and i'm back to buying AA battries) have greatly disappointed further more the fucking machine doesn't even have wifi.
But those are all small complaints, I found RE4 to be rather inorganic it was an amazing game but it was to much of a side story and not a real Resident Evil game everything about it was so different. Resident Evil 5 on the other hand couldn't successfully move all the RE4 gameplay features into the sequel nor did it have a exciting b movie storyline like RE4, the storyline wasn't even thrilling and emotionally intense as 2 and Code Veronica.
It was quite a disappointment and a miserable way to end a phenomenal series.
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the storyline wasn't even thrilling and emotionally intense as 2 and Code Veronica.
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Kamiya's best work for sure!
Truly heart wrenching. I love the part where he screams out her name and punches the ground.
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RE5 was kinda a dissapointing end to the series, but Wesker was awesome throughout at least. Really cemented him as the 'Big Bad' of the series. My favourite is still Code Veronica though.
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　The only time I've bought a console for a game was at the 16-bits era.
Crying everyday, months later, my mom has finally bought a Mega-Drive for me ;pppp
I wanted it just to play BARE KNUCKLE and FIGHTING MASTERS! I was completely crazy about the horse guy on that game XDDDD FLAMER!!! AMAAAAZING!!! The screen explosion effect at the KOs were amazing!! And the musics, the SEs, ;___;
But instead that, I got Phelios as my first Mega-Drive game ever. :|
The rest, I've bought because I was a Sega fan. Never bought another company console when Sega was a platform holder.
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Bought:
Saturn - Virtua Fighter Remix, Daytona
N64 - LoZ: Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye
Dreamcast - Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Shenmue
Gamecube - Rogue Squadron 2, and promise of more Nintendo
Xbox - Halo 2 (E3 demo sold me)
DS - Mario Kart, Animal Crossing
Wii - LoZ: Twilight Princess
Xbox 360 - Gears of War
Intend to get:
PS3 - Valkyria Chronicles (already own the game)
3DS - Kid Icarus
PSP/NGP (whichever I end up getting) - Valkyria Chronicles 2 & 3
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Hasn't happened yet, but I'll be getting a Wii just to play Sonic Colors. Probably will hold off of too many other Wii games until I complete that and some 360 games. Would be stupid to go Wii buying crazy and then have to finish a pile of games.
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The majority of systems owned I've omitted due to the fact no one or two game swayed me--rather the potential of the console's library, or general interest in the hardware.
The Sega Genesis I purchased due to Altered Beast and Sonic the hedgehog. Also, Without GoldenEye 007, I likely would have purchased a Sega Saturn instead of a Nintendo 64.
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Bought SEGA's FONZ at release just so I could play FONZ.
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I just bought a ps3 for Uncharted 2. It's the first console purchase I've made based on a standout piece of software since Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Ever since that beautiful 128 bit machine wen't under I've been apathetically floating from console to console aimlessly searching for a new home. Goddamn you sega for going third party.
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I just bought a ps3 for Uncharted 2. It's the first console purchase I've made based on a standout piece of software since Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Ever since that beautiful 128 bit machine wen't under I've been apathetically floating from console to console aimlessly searching for a new home. Goddamn you sega for going third party.
Poor guy, but I'm sure your situation isn't atypical. No doubt a lot of Sega fans still feel that way.
I think the entire time I owned a Dreamcast, I was wearing a Nintendo life-vest. The first time there were cracks in the hull and the captain gave the bad news about our ship's eventual demise, I was hurling myself overboard.
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the storyline wasn't even thrilling and emotionally intense as 2 and Code Veronica.
[youtube:23tw7tzm]QQw5Sep9e24[/youtube:23tw7tzm]
Kamiya's best work for sure!
Truly heart wrenching. I love the part where he screams out her name and punches the ground.
I hope your serious here (sometimes it hard to tell with you :)).
But that scene was epic for sure, and probably why I prefer this Paul over the new Paul (VA for Leon).
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RE5 was kinda a dissapointing end to the series
What do you mean kind off?
but Wesker was awesome throughout at least. Really cemented him as the 'Big Bad' of the series. My favourite is still Code Veronica though.
Not here, I couldn't get over the change in VA, really a dick move by Capcom. But that is a minor complaint to the egg headed mindless tactics Wesker was using.
His whole Skies of Arcadia esque plan to make a new world on the ashes of an old one was cliche and stupid.
His decision to kill the hottest chick in the series, before her character was even developed properly was also foolish, I guess they wanted to show a cold ruthless side to him but that was established in RE1 only.
I think the biggest problem in RE5 was Wesker's master plan not being original, and actions lacking the proper motivation. Yes, yes he wants to be a god, but what good is a god without any people left to command?
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I think the biggest problem in RE5 was Wesker's master plan not being original, and actions lacking the proper motivation. Yes, yes he wants to be a god, but what good is a god without any people left to command?
That's what makes him truly evil. Pure narcissism.
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Yeah, sometimes it is enjoyable for a villain to be evil just by being an absolute douche. Consistent overwhelming power would eventually get boring. Going nuts and doing whatever you want for a short period of time is great.
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The plan was cliche'd for sure, but I didn't say it was great, just that it cemented Wesker as the true villian of the series. In earlier games he was present but not really all that overt as the baddie, and in RE5 we saw that he was really behind everything all along.
Also, I like his new VA.
This discussion is making me really want to play through all the RE games again now...
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I got a PS1 because of Gran Turismo.
Gameboy Color for Pokemon Red, Advance for Sonic Advance.
The Nintendo DS because of Pokemon Silver/Gold.
I usually buy the consoles because I find some games attractive at the time (chose Xbox over PS2 becasue of JSRF for example).
I look at what's available in each console, and then I buy them. In those cases I saw those games and tought "ok what console is that on?".
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I was walking toward the exit in a Fred Meyer when I saw an OXM cover with the Panzer Dragoon Orta closeup with Orta's face next to the dragon. My heart stopped. I was totally awestruck, and I had to buy the magazine and save for an XBOX. At that moment my Dreamcast was yesterday's garbage.
I bought the Dreamcast in the hopes of getting a new Panzer Dragoon, and here it was on some other console.
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XBOX Nation's cover of PDO was what sold me on the XBOX:
(http://http://www.games.net/features/images/116581_6.jpg)
Not a compelling cover, very simple, but that's what drew me to the cover. I picked up the mag, got a subscription and later bought my JSRF/SEGA GT XBOX bundle (with the reviesd controller). :)
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I bought that exact Xbox bundle as well! But original DUKE master race here ;)
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Most consoles have been bought whenever a great sega game came out for them. I remember we bought an xbox for panzer dragoon orta.
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Orta is such an awesome game, and it got great critical success. Too bad that didn't translate to sales.
It also is glitchy on the XBOX 360, since they stopped BC development soon after the Orta patch came out.
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I'd wager to guess that a good number of Dreamcast fan's next console was that XBOX JSRF bundle with the "controller S" pad. While totally not a SEGA console, it felt like the next best thing. I did buy a PS2 well before the JSRF bundle, but the XBOX was far more exciting a purchase as a SEGA fan.
Box could have looked cooler, but whatever. It was a SEGA bundle.
(http://http://www.nakoko.com/xbox-sega-gt-2002-jsrf-jet-set-radio-future-pack_495_r24078.jpg)
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I loved Sega GT 2002. I still think it's the best GT racer on the console. I didn't enjoy the first Forza.
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Barry was right on the money with that bundle (but mine came with Halo too!), I saw that in a catalogue somewhere and was 'OMGWTFJSRF&SEGAGT2002&HALO!? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY'
But I had the superior Duke pad instead of that sissy new controller (Just kidding, the S controller is probably better, but until I got a 360 I LOVED the Duke and couldn't use the S controller).
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(Just kidding, the S controller is probably better, but until I got a 360 I LOVED the Duke and couldn't use the S controller).
this!
On a related note, I just got a cool adapter that lets me play PS3 with my Duke. I'm loving it!
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I'd wager to guess that a good number of Dreamcast fan's next console was that XBOX
According to a poll at DC.IGN
Dreamcast consumers were evenly divided into 4 categories:
25% PS2, GC, X-Box, and Lastly 'Gasp, nothing can replace the Dreamast'
I stayed on the last option.
Give or take a few percent almost all of them were equal but if memory serves GC had 29% with the lowest being either PS2 or Xbox at 19%.
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Xbox Duke controller was incredible and very underrated.
As for the percentages. I played over 200+ PlayStation 2 games and dozens on each of the others, but I probably played Dreamcast thousands of hours more than all of those consoles combined, and it still runs like a dream.
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Xbox Duke controller was incredible and very underrated.
A blessing really. Never again will we have such sturdy controller.
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My Boyfriend had a PS3 when we first met and he was always playing games on it and talking about it and such. When I saw Uncharted and Uncharted 2 I pretty much went out and bought my own PS3. As well as all of it's accessories. It was the First console I ever bought myself. :D
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Sonic 06 on the PS3 was the most I've ever been excited to get a new console. I can't tell you how happy I was to finally play it. =)
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For me, Jet Set Radio Future. In fact, I got it several days before I got an Xbox. I remember just staring at the box many times during those several days. I wasn't even a kid then, I was a grown man already! I think I was moving between houses at that time so that threw the timing off everything.
More recently, Valkyria Chronicles, and the possibility of Yakuza 3 being localized, got me to get a PS3... that and backwards compatibility so I could catch up on some PS2 games I missed.