Do you think my 2.4ghz with 512mb RAM and an MX420 where a real video card should be is going to play Crysis? I enjoyed Half-Life 2 and many a round of CS and Starcraft, as well as Diablo 2 back in the day, but my PC is no longer for gaming on the cutting edge of PC gaming where most real pc gamers are. Granted, games like WoW would keep PC alive even if the rest of its games failed, but if the PC has no good games to play, it could still lose the system wars temporarily. The only difference being that it could come back at any time.
Um, the head start does count. The XBox 360 has had twice as much time to build up a good library as the PS3 and Wii, and that's precisely what makes the XBox 360 the best home console available right now.Dr_Corndog
What I'm saying is that it is no coincidence that the xbox team got its crap together and launched a year earlier. Its like saying the only reason I can't beat my friend in tennis is he practiced all summer and I just started practicing. Also, as the other consoles gain momentum and reach the level of quality games the 360 had last year, the 360 shows no sign of running out of steam, and is setting a higher benchmark right now for where the PS3/Wii need to be next year by your standards. It could be possible that neither console ever catches up, like how the PS2 stayed out in front all last gen despite stellar lineups from the GC and Xbox.
People need to stop excusing the lack of games for a system of their choice compared to the 360 by blaming the 360s year-long head start. Anytime a Wii or PS3 fanboy gets stumped when asked to name currently released games that make their system "so great", they come back with "how many sweet games did the 360 have between Nov 05 and Aug 06???". The thing is, Microsoft chose to have that head start.
The excuse of "the console is just getting started" no longer applies IMO. It has been almost a year since launch for the two systems, and at this point, they need to put up or shut up. The Wii is about to start with MP3, and the PS3 is making an effort with Warhawk. Until either gets more great games, or until Wii/PS3 FBs find some other path of logic to declare their systems superior by, I think we can conclude the 360 is ahead with full momentum at this point. Flame shield deploy...
NCAA is boring you because no one is playing it? Maybe you should buy Madden 08. It is great, and the only thing that has managed to pull me away from it so far is bioshock.
At football camp my friends 360 got tipped from vertical to a 45 against a sink when a kid tripped a cord. The disk didn't even scratch. I do know a guy who ruined his gears going from vertical to horizontal while it was running though.
I would say Bioshock is easily in my top 5 of all time. While the gameplay alone works very well, I think that some people are detaching from the story by not paying attention to little clues and skipping the voice logs. Even if there was no challenge whatsoever and all you did was kill the same type of enemy with one gun the whole game, I would still probably finish it just because of the story, although I doubt I would like it near as much.
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