Original Xbox - Share your memories
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Team Andromeda
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This thread is just another pathetic excuse to try and hide behind wanting discourse, but really is just an excuse for saying how good Xbox was and how terrible they are now.
To make out that platform warriors weren't around until the internet age is just as silly and wrong as making out they weren't bullying until social media. Both went on in the school long before the internet age or even the console age; I remember ZX Spectrum fans in my Junior school making fun of the one kid who had a C64 and calling him Billy No Mates
To make out that platform warriors weren't around until the internet age is just as silly and wrong as making out they weren't bullying until social media. Both went on in the school long before the internet age or even the console age; I remember ZX Spectrum fans in my Junior school making fun of the one kid who had a C64 and calling him Billy No Mates
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SkylineRKR
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I tried not that long ago. I beat Otogi 2, and despite the 4:3 and camera, I really liked it.
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L*][*N*K
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I would love it if From Software did a remastered collection
I tried not that long ago. I beat Otogi 2, and despite the 4:3 and camera, I really liked it.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
The problem is because Xbox wasn't as popular as PS2/PS3, progress towards Xbox emulation isn't as fast.
However, I've played plenty of Xbox games through emulator just fine.
Only problem for me, is file space. A PS3 game that is 1.2 GB will be like 7 GB on Xbox because for some reason Xbox games fill the entire size on a DVD.
At least that is what I understand. I tried with army of two, and while rpcs3 is good, the Xbox 360 just runs flawlessly compared because of the compiling shader annoyance with rpcs3. graphics also seems to be better, but that just don't justify the bigger file size.
Its expensive being an emulator guy.
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simpatico
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Yes. Xbox was great then. Basically designed without the confines of profit and infinite growth. Gave us a taste of "just making cool things because we can" rather than what we have now, where everything has to be an infinite profit gambling box that carefully skirts the edge of law and ethics.
As to your second point about console war driving discourse, maybe it just didn't exist in my bubble. We had a long standing daily after school Tony Hawk Dreamcast + gravity bong session at my house for pretty much my entire senior year. I don't recall anyone ever saying they wished we had the PSX version instead or how it was someway better. If anything there was a delicate balance between enjoying the games and not letting yourself appear too invested in it, lest you be considered a nerd.
Hudo
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When I was a wee lad, I was regularly going to Xbox Link parties, taking my Xbox with me. On one such a party, we were playing Halo like usual and I killed a specific guy quite a lot that evening. Not deliberately, it just happened. At a certain point, that guy freaks the fuck out and walks over to me trying to start shit. I saw him coming and just used my Duke controller to defend myself. And so we ended up fighting for a bit. Dude walked away with a bloody nose and I walked away unharmed. Plugged the Duke in and just kept playing.
Good times.
Good times.