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[aerts1js]

Listen - now that MS is announcing their huge future games are also coming to PS5 it’s as good as dead. I figured now is as good of a time as any to hold a eulogy in remembrance of it.

What was your favorite memory of it ? What was your worst ?

I guess my favorite was the first half of the 360 era when they were firing on all cylinders and was probably the best console out there for a few years .. probably would have continued to crush it if the wii didn’t come out and entice MS to go full retard with the Kinect.

Worst Memory? When MS again went full retard and figured their own internal studios were no match to Sony’s so bought two huge publishers to produce games for a console that no one was buying which resulted in them being forced to go third party. Also i guess their dollar a month game pass (who knew !) wouldn’t be enough to support these costly productions.

We will miss you Xbox.

 

[kazuyamishima]

Is it dead already??

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Is it dead already??

who is gonna tell him champs?

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Artistic]

Since when is Xbox dead?

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I still think that OG and 360 before Kinect was Microsoft’s best contribution in gaming. So many wildly creative and beautiful games, especially Halo by Bungie and oddball series like Fable.

I miss these times, where Xbox was a very distinct platform with their own style of exclusives like Viva Pinata and Kameo.

 

[ManaByte]

Since when is Xbox dead?

 

[aerts1js]

I still think that OG and 360 before Kinect was Microsoft’s best contribution in gaming. So many wildly creative and beautiful games, especially Halo by Bungie and oddball series like Fable.

I miss these times, where Xbox was a very distinct platform with their own style of exclusives like Viva Pinata and Kameo.

They had a seriously solid run there for a few years.

 

[salva]

 

[kazuyamishima]

who is gonna tell him champs?

I just wanna be ready:

 

[laynelane]

 

[aerts1js]

I just wanna be ready:

My man it’s time to suit up.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Halo CE LAN parties until 4:00 AM

Blood Gulch earned its namesake

 

[Hrk69]

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Halo CE LAN parties until 4:00 AM

Blood Gulch earned its namesake

Red vs Blue for life

 

[Codes 208]

Best: going to the halo reach midnight release with my friends (which also happened to be the year we graduated so we had weeks to enjoy before most of us went off to college/work

Worst: the xbox one reveal back in 2013.
“Tvtvtvtvkinecttvtvrkinectkinecttvtvtv” single-handedly sold me on a ps4,
Or at least it would've if not for my die hard fanboyism as the time.

Actually the worst moment i can think of was buying halo mcc at launch, just for it to be a broken mess. This was when thedownfall of halo and xbox started for me.

 

[digital_ghost]

Red vs Blue for life

I used to love red vs blue. I had the video on my ipod video in high school and my friends on the bus laughed.

 

[Codes 208]

Red vs Blue for life

I’m glad they were able to finish the story just before wb killed rt, but i still think the series should've ended either at season 10 or 13 (the chorus chronicles was pretty good)

 

[feynoob]

 

[poppabk]

Since when is Xbox dead?

Check out that other over reaction thread - console gaming itself is dead.
Sony and MS are pissing on console gamings still warm corpse.
Also PC gaming is dead, it's more stutter than game now.
And switch 2 is an underpowered piece of trash.

 

[demonstr8]

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Check out that other over reaction thread - console gaming itself is dead.
Sony and MS are pissing on console gamings still warm corpse.
Also PC gaming is dead, it's more stutter than game now.
And switch 2 is an underpowered piece of trash.

These are all actually true in some way lol.
Xbox is pretty much dead though but Microsoft Gaming is rising from it's corpse.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

GAMING REVENUES

CURRENT 2024 data so far (not full year yet) -
PlayStation: $26.79 billion
Xbox: $15.47 billion
Nintendo: $12.04 billion

2023
PlayStation: $30.12 billion
Xbox: $18.13 billion
Nintendo: $12.08 billion

2022
PlayStation: $24.41 billion
Xbox: $15.56 billion
Nintendo: $12.6 billion

2021
PlayStation: $24.87 billion
Xbox: $16.28 billion
Nintendo: $15.3 billion

2020
PlayStation: $22.67 billion
Xbox: $13.83 billion
Nintendo: $12.1 billion

2019
PlayStation: $20.84 billion
Xbox: $11.57 billion
Nintendo: $11.4 billion


As for my best and worst memories; Bungie for Halo CE LAN and Halo 2/3 online being best, worst was 343 trashing Halo MCC and a series of shite Halo campaigns and mixed multiplayer games.

 

[Raven117]

Halo CE LAN parties until 4:00 AM

Blood Gulch earned its namesake

For that reason… Xbox will always hold a special place in my heart.

 

[drganon]

The og and 360 were awesome.

 

[semiconscious]

i've only ever owned a series s. i haven't really had enough time to make any memories...

 

[Danknugz]

best memory was either achievements system or KI surprise at the xbox one launch. worst memory is all the threads like this and how hard people go out of their way to rally round and circle jerk

 

[wipeout364]

IMO these threads are really annoying to be honest, I don’t think they add anything of value to GAF. If someone posts this sort of garbage in a reply to a thread I don’t care, but just creating a thread to dump on a console is just brutal. I would never make a thread just to crap
on Sony or Nintendo in this way.

Shouldn’t we want all the consoles to survive.

 

[rm082e]

What was your favorite memory of it ? What was your worst ?

Favorite: The hundreds of hours I spent playing Halo CE and Ninja Gaiden Black. I got two of my all time favorites on one console at a time when I had few responsibilities and tons of time to binge on them.


Worst:

 

[El Muerto]

Favorite: All those one-off IPs that we saw during the OG and 360 era. Hanging out with friends playing Halo and Gears multiplayer while getting drunk as fuck.
Worst? When both my og Xbox and 360 both got the RROD.
The brand isnt going anywhere. Hoping we still get consoles because I prefer playing games on my Xbox than PS5. If they go OEM, and the console makers use different specs, then the Xbox brand will crash. No developer is going to make games specifically for xbox if each console has different specs.

 

[RavageX]

So...introduction to paying for Live....BS. Brought about complete foolishness.

Good notes....I enjoyed my time with the OG Xbox. I first played Morrowind and stuck with it there. Other small gems like Outlaw Tennis(or was it Golf?) Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball actually being a decent game(from what I remember) and Project Gotham being not bad.

Skipped the 360 and Xbox One.

Having said that, I think the Xbox One announcement didn't do them any favors. SO focused on tv that they forgot about the games.

 

[Danknugz]

IMO these threads are really annoying to be honest, I don’t think they add anything of value to GAF. If someone posts this sort of garbage in a reply to a thread I don’t care, but just creating a thread to dump on a console is just brutal. I would never make a thread just to crap
on Sony or Nintendo in this way.

Shouldn’t we want all the consoles to survive.

there's clearly a lot of pent up aggression and wounds still open, or something. xbox fans would maybe make some dumb memes and have fun about it, from what i've seen it seems playstation fans in general take it way more serious almost personally, and try way harder. that's why you see so many threads like this unfortunately.

for me it's all good i am a playstation fan as well, i loved the PS2 and PS1.

 

[Celcius]

The original Xbox was the best Xbox

 

[poppabk]

Best memory - playing LAN Halo 1
Worst memory - being shit at Halo
Only memories - see above

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Best memory: When they finally got their shit together and made a 360 that wouldn't die. A great console with great actual exclusives.
Least Favorite: Everything after. They fell off the cliff immediately after the 360.

 

[Halo2redvsblue]

Best 2001-2010 Worst 2011 - Now. I wished I left it back then and went with PC and Nintendo only.

 

[Clintizzle]

Best:
Getting home from school, no responsibilities, booting up the 360, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3, Doritos, Mountain Dew, Creed blasting on the Radio.

Worst:
Getting home from work, many responsibilities, booting up the Series X, Halo Infinite, Starfield, no doritos, no mountian dew, no music playing, games are boring. I dose off dreaming of what was and what will never be.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

The original Xbox was my first experience with surround sound in games. The console had native Dolby digital, and I think every game supported it. I don't recall the game (maybe mechassault or phantasy star online), but I remember being totally wowed when my character ran through some water and I could hear the splashes behind me. Amazing.

I sold off all my Xbox stuff a year later to buy a PS2. Never touched Xbox again until a friend gave me his old Xbox One S just so I could play Blue Dragon. I still don't have any Xbox One games, since they are all superior on PS4. However, I do have a stack of approximately 20 Xbox 360 games I will play one day.

 

[GigaBowser]

all downhills since halo 1 its all true im sorry my friends

 

[GigaBowser]

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Worst memory: standardizing paid online multiplayer and DLC/MTX

Favorite memory: going 3rd party

 

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Seeing the Gears, Mad World commercial for the first time was pretty special but playing Halo CE 4P split screen at my friends house was it.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I still use the elite controllers on my PC, not forgotten yet.

 

[Perrott]

Favorite memory... Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain trailer at E3 2013, followed by the two Metal Gear Solid: Rising appearances at E3 2009 and E3 2010.

Worst memory? The drifting on my Xbox controller just months after being purchased.

 

[SHA]

Worst(rrod), Best (Xbox OG and the fact that it has two Halos).

 

[CashPrizes]

Worst memory is the 2nd Red Ring of Death. I had one like a year before, sent it in for the free fix. Then the 2nd one happened, I can't remember what I was playing at the time. But I had to buy a brand new Xbox because Mass Effect 3 was out in a few months and I was pretty tied to my main Shepard I had played in ME1 and 2 on 360. Also after I bought a new Xbox 360, like 1 month later they announced a better version with (I think with HDMI and a larger HD and slim) that released the same day as they announced it....

Never bought a Xbone or Series.

Best memory is probably playing Panzer Dragoon Orta and Jet Set Radio Future on original Xbox. Also KOTOR, all 3 of those are like within a year of each other.

 

[Mephisto40]

My worst memory was finally buying an xbox this gen, and then realising Starfield was the only thing I wanted to play on it, which turned out to be a sub par game

My best memory was cancelling my game pass subscription a month ago when they decided to hike the prices up again and move day 1 releases to a different subscription tier for no good reason

 

[T-0800]

IMO these threads are really annoying to be honest, I don’t think they add anything of value to GAF. If someone posts this sort of garbage in a reply to a thread I don’t care, but just creating a thread to dump on a console is just brutal. I would never make a thread just to crap
on Sony or Nintendo in this way.

Shouldn’t we want all the consoles to survive.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Shouldn’t we want all the consoles to survive.

Sure, if they're worth it.

The market clearly has spoken.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Classic Gaf.

Xbox as a console is dead/dying and next gen will be the final nail in the coffin where it transitions out of its caterpillar form into a beautiful butterfly of gaming PC goodness! *cringe* lol

But yes, the memory's of Co op on halo 3, gears of war and many more. They changed the industry and lost their way at the end of the 360 generation.

 

[Mownoc]

Don't rush it. Didn't anyone teach you to savour your food.

Best memory of Xbox is probably my launch 360, PGR3 blew my mind with the graphics in the garage.

Worst memory is obviously everything related to the Xbox One. It's just been a slow continual collapse ever since 2013.