Gaystation/Nintendont fans BTFO
Xbox 20th Anniversary Celebration Thread - AKA Xbox Nostalgia Thread
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20 years. Wow, I feel old.
I remember first hearing about the console and seeing footage of the games on the TV show Electric Playground in 2001, I was blown away by what I was seeing.
Later I got one for my 13th birthday in 2002, the main reason I wanted it and the first thing I played was Oddworld Munch's Oddysee, which was awesome, then later I played Halo which was of course mind blowing.
It was an awesome console with a lot of fascinatingly weird and creative games, so many weird hidden gems like Whacked!, as much as I loved my PS2 it was cool to have a console that had even more powerful hardware, I'll never forget Christmas of 2002 and me and my cousin playing Splinter Cell and both of our jaws were just on the floor.
One thing I really wish we could have gotten more of is Crimson Skies, I'll never understand why that didn't get a sequel.
Xbox overall unfortunately did have a negative influence on gaming as a whole as it helped shift gaming away from being Japan focused to western focused, but that's not really the original Xbox's fault, it had perfectly healthy Japanese support with Tecmo and Sega (it's always been weird to me how the Xbox was also like an unofficial Dreamcast 2) with Ninja Gaiden alone justifying it's existence, that shift happened later on, from where things stood during the 6th gen there was plenty of room for both western and Japanese developers.
Later I got one for my 13th birthday in 2002, the main reason I wanted it and the first thing I played was Oddworld Munch's Oddysee, which was awesome, then later I played Halo which was of course mind blowing.
It was an awesome console with a lot of fascinatingly weird and creative games, so many weird hidden gems like Whacked!, as much as I loved my PS2 it was cool to have a console that had even more powerful hardware, I'll never forget Christmas of 2002 and me and my cousin playing Splinter Cell and both of our jaws were just on the floor.
One thing I really wish we could have gotten more of is Crimson Skies, I'll never understand why that didn't get a sequel.
Xbox overall unfortunately did have a negative influence on gaming as a whole as it helped shift gaming away from being Japan focused to western focused, but that's not really the original Xbox's fault, it had perfectly healthy Japanese support with Tecmo and Sega (it's always been weird to me how the Xbox was also like an unofficial Dreamcast 2) with Ninja Gaiden alone justifying it's existence, that shift happened later on, from where things stood during the 6th gen there was plenty of room for both western and Japanese developers.
I had an Xbox with a PlayStation 2 in the family room around 2004-2005. Mainly GTA: Vice City, NASCAR Thunder 2002 and Splinter Cell. Graphics on there compared to the PS2 were night and day. But damn, that Duke was cumbersome.
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20 years and still put out less Rareware games than the n64 did in 5.
I have many great memories with the Xbox 360. Best console yet.
I genuinely enjoyed the ergonomics of this controller. It reminded me of the original Gameboy or the Model F keyboard.
My Xbox is still hooked up to my CRT tv modded as a retro gaming console.
Had it since launch.
Every time I touch it I’m amazed it still turns on
Had it since launch.
Every time I touch it I’m amazed it still turns on
Gotta lot a love for the OG Xbox
- Replaying Halo 1 on Legendary with my retarded Step Brother because my Stepdad was toJewish lazy to shill out for Xbox live.
- 100%ing Shadow the Hedgehog because autism.
- Modding my Xbox to play emulators.
- Praying that the Halo 1 loading screen wouldn't reverse due to all the scratches it had.
- Getting cucked on Ninja Gaiden Blacked.
- Praying that Sonic Adventure 2 would come on Xbox (lol it did on the 360)
- Star Wars Kotor 2 necking itself on and off.
- Phatom Crash was so fucking good yet so obscure.
- Seeing Halo 2 ads on slushies at 7/11 blew my fucking balls off as a kid.
- Spending hours trying to figure out how Ryu is talking to Chinese people despite not knowing Chinese in Shenmue 2.
- Morrowind for teaching me why its ok to enslave others who don't look like you.
-Getting sniped by Jackals and blacked by Brutes on Halo 2 Legendary.
- The Xbox allowed you to make custom music playlists and you could play your games over your music. So fucking based at the time.
-Debating why Xbox was superior to my friends only for them to point out that the Xbox had no games which caused me to seeth and cope because I secretly wanted the PS2.
- Madcatz, ya'll were fucking trash but you did your duty when I had to let my little sister play.
Thank you OG Xbox for making me into the faggot I am today. I couldn't have done it without Jeffery Epstein's #1 bro: Bill Gates.
- Replaying Halo 1 on Legendary with my retarded Step Brother because my Stepdad was to
- 100%ing Shadow the Hedgehog because autism.
- Modding my Xbox to play emulators.
- Praying that the Halo 1 loading screen wouldn't reverse due to all the scratches it had.
- Getting cucked on Ninja Gaiden Blacked.
- Praying that Sonic Adventure 2 would come on Xbox (lol it did on the 360)
- Star Wars Kotor 2 necking itself on and off.
- Phatom Crash was so fucking good yet so obscure.
- Seeing Halo 2 ads on slushies at 7/11 blew my fucking balls off as a kid.
- Spending hours trying to figure out how Ryu is talking to Chinese people despite not knowing Chinese in Shenmue 2.
- Morrowind for teaching me why its ok to enslave others who don't look like you.
-Getting sniped by Jackals and blacked by Brutes on Halo 2 Legendary.
- The Xbox allowed you to make custom music playlists and you could play your games over your music. So fucking based at the time.
-Debating why Xbox was superior to my friends only for them to point out that the Xbox had no games which caused me to seeth and cope because I secretly wanted the PS2.
- Madcatz, ya'll were fucking trash but you did your duty when I had to let my little sister play.
Thank you OG Xbox for making me into the faggot I am today. I couldn't have done it without Jeffery Epstein's #1 bro: Bill Gates.
As a business thing and product I have always admired the Xbox. Microsoft basically walked in a decades old market and actually changed the game.
And perhaps it even got to compete in the strongest line up with Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Game Cube being in play as well. Of course Microsoft was lucky that Sony decided to be full autistic and put over complicated hardware into their console making it expensive and hard to develop for.
On a other note I liked how they established their design language to oppose Sony and Nintendo. Sony decided to go full elegant, Nintendo decided to look like a toy and MS decided to look cool. Funny how after the decades it still kinda holds true.
And perhaps it even got to compete in the strongest line up with Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Game Cube being in play as well. Of course Microsoft was lucky that Sony decided to be full autistic and put over complicated hardware into their console making it expensive and hard to develop for.
On a other note I liked how they established their design language to oppose Sony and Nintendo. Sony decided to go full elegant, Nintendo decided to look like a toy and MS decided to look cool. Funny how after the decades it still kinda holds true.
If it was a 360 you would be even more amazed. jk
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Based Phil saved you Xbox. That said, Party Chat's with the randoms I befriended online are some of my happiest memories with vidya. Shame that many I spoke with are gone now.
I did my 360 first then it shit itself about 2 years ago so I did my Xbox
Who knows maybe in the future the 360 will be a rare collectors console due to the early models not being reliable.
Of course in general the optical drive based consoles have their disk drive as a point of failure, that killed my PS2 slim back then. (That, and playing too much Budokai Tenkaichi 3.)
Not to mention the 20-30 years lag of nostalgia will be always at play.
lol, the Xbox is hueg
Oh, and there was a special limited edition Mountain Dew-branded Xbox:
And if that's not enough, there's an entire subreddit dedicated to finding where all 5000 of them ended up, complete with a Google spreadsheet.
Some PS2 games stood toe to toe with the Xbox graphically, games like Silent Hill 3 and the Resident Evil Outbreak games, but they usually did so by taking an entirely different approach, usually with as sharp texture work as they could manage.
Xbox could do fancier effects like bump mapping that sometimes led to games that looked like early 7th gen games like Escape From Butcher Bay and of course Xbox could do razer sharp textures too like Ninja Gaiden, so the Xbox was definitely the more powerful of the two, I'm just saying clever enough devs could make magic on the PS2 as well, the gap wasn't always THAT big.
Meanwhile the GameCube's big claim to fame was being able to have a "smooth" look to things, think Super Mario Sunshine, think Wind Waker.
I miss when console's graphics had their own different personalities and styles like that, now they're all just basically discount PCs.
The Xbox 360 was really cool and exciting too for the first 3 years, but after 2008 I felt like the quality dropped off pretty hard, the only post 2008 360 game I care that much about is Alan Wake, which I would mark Alan Wake as the end of Xbox's classic creative peak, after that was the fucking embarrassing Kinect era which if you ask me basically permanently damaged the brand, Xbox went from "the gamer's gaming machine" with games about badass dudes with big guns, ninjas chopping up dudes or big titted women playing volleyball to fucking gay ass Wii wannabee casual audience shit.
I really look back and cringe at just how fucking bad 2009 to 2012 was for gaming, a few standout titles but what a shitshow it was, for all the faults gaming has today things are still better now than back then.
So no, I wouldn't say it was the best console yet, I like the original Xbox overall more, but the Xbox 360 was the home to one of my top all time favorite games, Dead Rising for a decade, so it's got plenty to be proud of.
One cool thing about the 360 is it was like a reversal in one degree to the original Xbox, if the Xbox was also like an unofficial "Dreamcast 2" then the 360 was a better follow up to the PS2 than the PS3 was since many series that started on the PlayStation had 360 exclusive titles like Ace Combat, Armored Core and Tenchu, even Dead Rising although technically a new series felt very much in the vein of what Capcom had been doing on the PS2, I always thought that was fascinatingly strange the way so many Japanese devs jumped ship to the 360 like that for a brief time.
Regretfully I didn't get around to playing that one until 2018 when it was pretty dated, but I would have loved it in 2002, it was definitely very interesting for it's day, I wish I had played it when it was new.
Riding around San Andreas while listening to the Paranoia Agent soundtrack on the in game radio was a mighty weird experience.
What's funny is I rebought San Andreas on Xbox after playing it on PS2 but I don't think I ever bothered to replay the entirety of San Andreas on the Xbox, I just dicked around and used the ability to have my own music on the radio.
I really regret losing touch with a guy I used to play with a lot back in 2008 and 2009, maybe it's just as well since I moved on to PC and he seems to have stuck with Xbox, but he was a cool guy who I wish I had kept in touch with beyond as just a gaming buddy, I did befriend him on Myspace which... lol, did not become a way to get in touch with someone after a while.
Ive seen stupid prices on them nowdays For boxed & special editions.
Generic consoles have had a bit of a bump recently due to retro gaming.
I just play games. Don’t collect games or consoles ect. I had the NES, Sega, Atari, PS1 ect since they came out. Sold the lot. I’m good with emulation & wireless controllers. No more blowing on cartridges or being tied to a console 4ft from the screen
Actually went out this afternoon & grabbed another 360 nearby for $10
Jet Set Radio Future, easily my favorite game on the OG Xbox & still one of my all-time favorites today. Been waiting most of my life for SEGA to stop being exceedingly homosexual & port the game to PC & current gen consoles.
I didn't hate the big controller but I did get the smaller one when it became available.
The trouble with the smaller control though is the rubber wears off on the sticks over time and a few years ago a brand new official and non-generic controller cost more than the fucking console itself on Ebay, now it seems like new controllers are not available at all for any price.
You can buy replacement sticks or just generic controllers (though I've heard they're not as good as real ones) but it's still one thing the big controller has over the small one.
Played that way back in 2002, didn't finish it until 2017, 15 years later (better late than never, eh?)
The game of course looks incredible and has an incredible sense of style, but personally I don't find the gameplay all that engaging, it's too easy to fall off stuff, the gameplay is more something you tolerate so you can see more eye candy which is where the real fun lies because man, what a cool aesthetic that game has, that Japanese style of aesthetic is something that's begging for rediscovery today.
One thing I found cool about JSRF though is if you pay close attention to certain things in the environments it seems like Tokyo was destroyed by an earthquake and we're skating around a rebuilt Neo Tokyo, that never goes commentated on in the game itself, it's just something you notice if you read between the lines.
Then there's Gunvalkyrie from the same developers, that game also has a really cool setting and style but tragically the gameplay is just flat out bad, what ruins it is bad controls which make certain platforming sequences a nightmare and failing a level just because you didn't kill one easy to miss bug monster just sucks, that one I've never been able to beat.
I think they were going for a Space Harrier as a 3D action game vibe but they sadly didn't pull it off, I've rarely seen a game waste as much potential as Gunvalkyrie does.
I really wish Sega would reboot Gunvalkyrie though because the setting and lore is begging for another game.
Iron Jaguar
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That was a GREAT game.
