BigDeadFreak
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I've got an MVS arcade machine. I never had one when they were current though.Did you actually own a Neo Geo?
I've got an MVS arcade machine. I never had one when they were current though.Did you actually own a Neo Geo?
To be fair, the other side was hyping their system also.It's ironic that the Xbox diehards are voting PS5 when they were overhyping the series X on the outset of the gen, telling everyone how it was going to dominate with it's tech. If this is about exclusive games surely you can only make a judgement at the end of the gen. I don't think I can look at anything on that list as overhyped, except maybe stadia as that was a bit of a wet fart. At the time I played any of the old consoles upon their release I had enjoyed them for what they were. As for the current consoles I think they're all great bits of tech and there are a lot of great games to play. How anyone can say they have nothing to play is beyond me.
Agreed. Nintendo has sucked ass imo since the N64 era. There are a few good games here snd there and that's about it. You don't even get many good 3rd party games while you wait for few good Nintendo made games because 3rd party support has been horrendous on Nintendo since the N64.Well I'm just talking what is overrated right now on the internet, and the GC has so many cultist lately it's crazy. Especially all the people going nuts over motherfucking Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker, which are some of the worst pieces of shit ever made. I guess you could also say it was the last time Nintendo actually tried to compete in the traditional console space. I don't know about the N64 being underrated either, it sold quite a bit in the US and it's exactly rated for what it is, a console with 2 o 3 extraordinary games that teached everyone how to design 3d games, and like 10 of other good games. Even though I'm seeing a lot of people calling M64 and OoT badly aged and shit, that's way too far.
If we want to talk about overratedness vs actual commercial success then it must be the Wii and all of its horrifying shovelware, and probably the Switch with so many fucking late ports and Wii U conversions. Yeah I'd say Nintendo consoles in general, maybe they're not necessarily overrated but surely overhyped.
Only Nintendo fans can hype themselves this much for one decent kart game and a bunch of inferior, very late third party ports, GC emulation that runs worse than 2012 laptops, terrible online that works like garbage and favela Discord.
To be fair, the other side was hyping their system also.
It's funny listening to the fanboys argue about their consoles power when they are just made with mid tier PC parts not and there isn't any special sauce anymore.
The console fanboys are convinced they are going to do something more than the PC that came out 5 years before it would do.
I remember Sony Ponies here going on at nauseam about how this special SSD was going to completely change the games we play. Guess what? It did the same thing an SSD did to a PC over a decade before it. Some Mark Cerny jizz sauce was going to make this SSD do things never seen before, You couldn't tell them anything though.
Let down by everyone.Wait you mean being let down by Sony right? 3rd party isn't the issue at all
Still no votes for Sega CD ..
Ah, it's been a good day.
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Don't knock points off it for how Capcom chose to keep pushing in that direction!
Also Resident Evil 5 is one of my favorite co-op experience.. I replay it with a friend almost on a yearly basis.
I feel like people who say N64...never owned an N64. Was it disappointing in some/many respects? Sure. But did it have genre defining/changing bangers (for it's time)? Absolutely. It also introduced Analog control and Force-FeedbackI can only think of one console that was barely a fart in the wind that some make out to be something of a success.
But I'm not surprised by the Poll leader.The N64
That was never built-into the controller, so most gamers missed out.It also introduced Force-Feedback
Yea but everyone got to experience analog control/true 3d movementThat was never built-into the controller, so most gamers missed out.
So it's unanimous then...I feel like people who say N64...never owned an N64.
Loved the Dreamcast but Genesis was peak SEGA. SEOverrated on Internet forums? Easily, the Dreamcast.
I got one on launch day and still own it to this day. It really did not offer much.
what am I a fanboy of? Can you show the posts?You of all people talking about fanboyism...
Also : yet another late 2010's account with barely 100 posts, subtlety and self awareness are never the strong points of alt accounts/astroturfers it seems.
Definitely not my first console but was my favourite console that gen. To name a few standout titles:GameCube has the worst Zelda, the worst Mario and one of the worst Mario Kart game, yet has hundreds of obsessive fanboys that idolize this console and these games because they were their first.
Funny because imo the GameCube was my vote for this thread.The Wii. Literally a waggle box for a 83y granny to exercise to while watching CNN. I question the sanity of every actual gamer that bought it, and loved it.
Funny because imo the GameCube was my vote for this thread.
Its retroactively beloved but honestly I think Wind Waker (and maybe Melee) are the only two games that didn't have superior Wii counterparts. Also the controller is straight up fucking horribly uncomfortable and is terrible for anything that isn't Smash or Mario Sunshine.
The Wii was actually an awesome console, it has a near PS2-level library of quality shit to play and I loved Nintendo's attempts at online social content with the Mii voting channels and Nintendo app giving DS demos and stuff like that. Was genuinely cool back in the day.
Anyone saying PS5 or Series X/S doesn't understand what overrated means, it's a pretty common complaint that this gen has overall been lacking
I didn't find this remotely true; while I did own all three consoles in Gen 7, my Wii collection is over 50 games, which averages out to over 8 games per year over its 6 year lifespan.if you only had a Wii during gen7... you were fucked... you'd have 1 great game a year tops on average, while the 360 would have banger after banger.
Agreed, 99% of its games were shovelware of the highest order.Wii was massively popular and a true piece of shit, the definition of overrated
That SSD stuff was a such a shit show. The funny thing is DF did a test with R&C on PC using as old of an SSD they could find. I think it ran at just 1-2gb/s and the game worked perfectly fine. A fraction of PS5's SSD speed. The only difference was the transitional time warping kind of screens took a touch longer.To be fair, the other side was hyping their system also.
It's funny listening to the fanboys argue about their consoles power when they are just made with mid tier PC parts not and there isn't any special sauce anymore.
The console fanboys are convinced they are going to do something more than the PC that came out 5 years before it would do.
I remember Sony Ponies here going on at nauseam about how this special SSD was going to completely change the games we play. Guess what? It did the same thing an SSD did to a PC over a decade before it. Some Mark Cerny jizz sauce was going to make this SSD do things never seen before, You couldn't tell them anything though.
But Ratchet isn't possible on PC... Or so some said.I remember Sony Ponies here going on at nauseam about how this special SSD was going to completely change the games we play. Guess what? It did the same thing an SSD did to a PC over a decade before it. Some Mark Cerny jizz sauce was going to make this SSD do things never seen before, You couldn't tell them anything though.
Nostalgia does weird things to people. I was a Saturn owner at the time and just remember reading about games that would not come to Saturn. Month after month. It was a tough time being a Sega gamer. We had Tomb Raider and Resident Evil but no sequels. There were long droughts. At the time I was a teenager and couldn't afford many games anyway, today it would have been atrocious.The vast majority of Saturn's multiplats were inferior to PlayStation, and there would often be a lag between releases.
There's been a bit of hype of YouTube about how much of a hidden gem the Saturn is and, as someone who owned one back in the day, temper your expectations.
1996 was a great year for Sega's first party (Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 slipped into that year here in the UK), but after that it just died on its arse in terms of game releases in the west.
Nostalgia does weird things to people. I was a Saturn owner at the time and just remember reading about games that would not come to Saturn. Month after month. It was a tough time being a Sega gamer. We had Tomb Raider and Resident Evil but no sequels. There were long droughts. At the time I was a teenager and couldn't afford many games anyway, today it would have been atrocious.
Yes well to be overrated you have to be highly rated in the first place. What they have done recently isn't doing them any favors.The Xbox Series:
- No exclusive games
- High price
- Worst OS among consoles
The only reason to choose it is if you frequently use Game Pass. End.
Thats because the Xbots are pushing eachother to vote for the PS5, DEFLECTING that the Xboxseries sucks morePS5 is voted worst PlayStation and now most overrated console![]()
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The point of the SSD or the velocity architecture was to allow more seamless worlds with higher fidelity and not having to rely on a huge amount of system memory to accomplish it. To do more with less. As for changing the way we play, well that's down to devs to come up with something. They're both capable systems and just because that aspect hasn't been fully utilised it does mean the potential isn't there. The trouble we have now is that exclusive games are becoming a rarity so the likelihood of getting something coded to take advantage of it has diminished.To be fair, the other side was hyping their system also.
It's funny listening to the fanboys argue about their consoles power when they are just made with mid tier PC parts not and there isn't any special sauce anymore.
The console fanboys are convinced they are going to do something more than the PC that came out 5 years before it would do.
I remember Sony Ponies here going on ad nauseam about how this special SSD was going to completely change the games we play. Guess what? It did the same thing an SSD did to a PC over a decade before it. Some Mark Cerny jizz sauce was going to make this SSD do things never seen before, You couldn't tell them anything though.
The result does seem disingenuous when the series has so few votes and there's not really that much that separates it from the PS5. The series consoles had a huge amount of hype from the media at the beginning of the generation regardless of where things stand right now.Thats because the Xbots are pushing eachother to vote for the PS5, DEFLECTING that the Xboxseries sucks more![]()
The result does seem disingenuous when the series has so few votes and there's not really that much that separates it from the PS5. The series consoles had a huge amount of hype from the media at the beginning of the generation regardless of where things stand right now.
I agree with some of this, but what single banger -ie not a generic FPS over the shoulder dude bro shooter - that still holds up today was on Xbox that the Wii didn't have an alternative?the GameCube had ok-ish third party support, the Wii didn't. third party games on Wii were 90% shovelware, 5% crappy ports of better 360 games, and 5% actually decent games.
if you had only a GameCube during gen6, you'd be fine.
if you only had a Wii during gen7... you were fucked... you'd have 1 great game a year tops on average, while the 360 would have banger after banger.
sure the GameCube wasn't the best all-rounder system, and yes the controller is shit for anything that isn't a Nintendo game, but the Wii is worse in both departments.
Nostalgia does weird things to people. I was a Saturn owner at the time and just remember reading about games that would not come to Saturn. Month after month. It was a tough time being a Sega gamer. We had Tomb Raider and Resident Evil but no sequels. There were long droughts. At the time I was a teenager and couldn't afford many games anyway, today it would have been atrocious.
The vast majority of Saturn's multiplats were inferior to PlayStation, and there would often be a lag between releases.
There's been a bit of hype of YouTube about how much of a hidden gem the Saturn is and, as someone who owned one back in the day, temper your expectations.
1996 was a great year for Sega's first party (Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 slipped into that year here in the UK), but after that it just died on its arse in terms of game releases in the west.
I agree that the perception of the Saturn would be different if more titles from Japan made their way overseas.The point is that, yes, being a Saturn owner back in the day in the west mostly sucked, but things have changed now since we're getting tons of Japanese exclusive games translated while we're also being able to easily get them running thanks to all the ODEs, the Saroos and the whatevers.
The console is madly underrated and it deserves to have the little to decent resurgence it's getting in these like 10 years or so.
I could even say it's one of the "better aged" of that gen thanks to all the wonderful 2d games in it's library.