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I've spent a lot of time researching and arguing with people over the various consoles, and you know what? It really DOESN'T MATTER. Everyone is always going to have their own opinion, you can RARELY change it, and the arguments just go back and forth, back and forth. It's stupid. You said you want RPGs, I say you're right on to go with the PS2. The way it's looking right now, is GameCube is going to be another "party system" (i.e. N64 - Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Goldeneye), PS2 is the RPG/adventure system, and X-Box is Microsoft's jacked up wang on a stick. Someone said the X-Box games look better than the best looking PS2 games? Get your prescription checked, buddy. Go compare the anti-aliasing in FFX's cinematics to those in Halo (which is, BTW, the *only* good game out for PS2 - imho, of course, I know everyone else may be jumping for joy over wastes of money time and natural resources like THPS3). FFX wins. BTW, Halo is nowhere near as good as it was going to be for PC-and rumour says they're making a PC version of it anyway, which is almost guaranteed to be better. RPG-wise, GameCube will have nothing; no way would Squaresoft (or Enix, or other RPG makers) move to a platform that gives them LESS room per disc. They may not be using a complete DVD right now, but believe you me - compare, say, Beyond the Beyond (one of, if not the, first RPG for PSX) to Final Fantasies 8 and 9. The graphical change is IMMENSE. One of the reasons I chose PS2 is because I'm expecting this sort of full utilisation of the potential of the console. Now, looking at FFX and trying to put that in the place of Beyond the Beyond or even FFVII...The implications are mind-boggling. GameCube is like the new DreamCast, in a way; great, fast engines, smooth but on the whole cartooney graphics (see new Zelda (hint: puke, reason #1 I didn't buy GameCube - Zelda 64 was reason #1 I got N64), although Rogue Leader and Resident Evil do show some nice realism) and not too many great games (so far: Rogue Leader (possibly...), the Resident Evils (mostly rehashes anyway), and...oh wait, that's it). The Resident Evil remakes and the new 1 or 2 are excellent but frankly I don't find they have a lot of replay value and thus I'm going to rent them and a GC rather than use them to justify buying one. I'd rather finish building my computer, thanks. X-Box so far has had NO game made for it that Microsoft didn't either outright buy/absorb a company for the explicity purpose of making it, or pay the company an exorbitant amount of money to make them switch over consoles (see Oddworld). That's NOT what I would call developer support. And we all know developer support is key; Windows has all the developer support and Macintosh has very very little, this is why something like 90% of people use Windows as their primary operating system. It's also a self-perpetuating cycle. Now, down to the hardware, yes X-box's hardware is better than that of the PS2, but it also has no active cooling for that 733 Mhz Intel chip and the Nvidia Nforce! The overheating implications are staggering. PS2, on the other hand, has a fan which really isn't that loud and does keep it nice and cool. Not having owned a PSX, I found the backwards-compatibility a majorly attractive buying point, and I would imagine (and hope) that Sony continues this trend with the PS3. As for bugs with DVDs, I did hear rumours about that recently, but my PS2 is currently my primary DVD player, since we haven't bought a standalone yet, and I've never had any kind of problem with it. You mentioned DVD-Rs with X-box, well whoopee. They both have copyright protection, you'd have to get a modchip for either of them, and in any case that's illegal so of course none of us would ever imagine doing anything like that, right?
So to reiterate the major point: No one will ever settle the console wars.
If you want RPGs and action/adventure like Agent Under Fire or Metal Gear Solid or Grand Theft Auto 3, go with PS2. I'm not sure since I detest sports games but I believe PS2 is also currently the best for those.
If you want a party system so you and your buddies can play Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and various other inane wastes of time, go with GameCube. Personally I believe that consoles are for single-player game excellence, and PCs for multiplayer. There is some ground for leniency; FFXI (the multi-console online universe, akin to EverQuest) may work out very well, and I'm not sure how Deus Ex would be on a console, but for the most part, that's my philosophy.
Finally, if you want to be a Microsoft whore and go with the most powerful system (yes, I will admit that it's the most powerful system, but do you buy a console for the console or for the games? Think about that for a minute. The dual-800 MHz G4s are much more powerful than, say a 1 Ghz or even a 1.5 Ghz Pentium 4, but you can't play jack on the G4. So which are you going to get?) then get X-Box. But you better keep a fire extinguisher handy.
-Forsaken >>
You sir are an idiot.
Thank You , good day.
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