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.
Romulus
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I think they're all terrible now. Playstation is my console of choice but it's basically just a multiplatform machine. Lol, even the ps4 blew it away in terms of what the sentiment in here is all about--exclusives, and ps4 was a step down from the others.
In a way, if we're just looking at that, xbox at least has more ways to play and platforms. Playstation has been reduced to "we promise games are coming" whereas by this time in the OG Xbox life, it absolutely decimated ps5/XSX with exclusives.
Nintendo is the only real platform keeping that going, and even they've faltered or, if you're like me, you just don't prefer their games.
Boo Who?
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OG Xbox was fantastic.
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Jet Set Radio Future
Rallisport Challenge 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Butcher Bay
Halo
Halo 2
Forza
Fable
KOTOR
Dark Alliance
Brothers in Arms
NFL2K series
Morrowwind
Full Spectrum Warrior
Burnout 3
Burnout Takedown
Those are just off the top of my head. Its a shame what has happened to them. OG Xbox and the 360 were beasts with amazing libraries.
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Jet Set Radio Future
Rallisport Challenge 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Butcher Bay
Halo
Halo 2
Forza
Fable
KOTOR
Dark Alliance
Brothers in Arms
NFL2K series
Morrowwind
Full Spectrum Warrior
Burnout 3
Burnout Takedown
Those are just off the top of my head. Its a shame what has happened to them. OG Xbox and the 360 were beasts with amazing libraries.
cinnamonandgravy
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played it for the first time at a gamestop and thought the shaders and overall graphics were impressive (some racing game with super aggressive DoF and some combat boat game with waves)
console size and controller were funny--felt half-baked/unrefined
had pc and other consoles, and didnt care about halo that much, so didnt bother with the og xbox.
console size and controller were funny--felt half-baked/unrefined
had pc and other consoles, and didnt care about halo that much, so didnt bother with the og xbox.
Badlucktroll
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I wonder what it would have been like if Microsoft entered the console race around '95-96 instead of 2000. The controller would have looked like this
Team Andromeda
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I'm enjoying gaming more now on the Series X than at any time since the 32-bit age, that said, I've enjoyed all the generations of gaming.
What kills me and hurts me the most in modern gaming is the death of lightgun games and Arcades
I love Arcade gaming so much
Curiously they choose not to judge the PS5's library against the PS2's.
Team Andromeda
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
The original Xbox is a fantastic console that I actually gain more appreciation for over time. It is the only great Xbox console as far as I'm concerned, because it was the only one with 1) a shitload of excellent exclusives and 2) hardware that was up to the task of running games properly.
If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to really understand just how far ahead of the curve the Xbox's hardware was. Seeing Dead or Alive 3 for the first time was mind-blowing, and it ran at a completely consistent 60fps. It was perfection. And that was kind of the norm for Xbox - games looked stupid good and ran exactly how you wanted them to. Sure, PCs were able to put out similar visuals at high resolutions, but it's kind of moot because you weren't seeing Japanese games like DOA3, Jet Set Radio Future, etc. with art styles that really popped on the PC back then. And these days, plugging in the Xbox via component to a Retrotink 4K makes it look crazy good. I genuinely wouldn't have cared if graphics never advanced beyond this.
The games were phenomenal and it was the first time you were seeing good western game development happening on consoles. It was hardware that PC developers could actually use properly. Sega was going balls to the wall with the obvious stuff like Jet Set Radio and Panzer Dragoon, but also putting out absolute bangers like Gunvalkyrie. But there were a ton of great games that really didn't get a lot of attention that I'm still picking up and playing for the first time, most of which were exclusive. The system had a really unique identity - it felt like you were getting an experience that you could only get on the Xbox, and - like the other systems of the time - games had a bit of a unique look thanks to the hardware. And ports were almost invariably much better on the Xbox than on the other consoles. It was nice having a hierarchy back then where you just knew that if you wanted the best thing, it was on here. Even now, I'm going back and checking out new games that I never had the chance to play back in the day, and I still have a great time with them. It's aged remarkably well.
I wouldn't say I got super into online gaming on there - though I did play a lot of DOA 2 Ultimate - but I got a hell of a lot of playtime out of the local multiplayer stuff. It was the perfect continuation of what the N64 wanted to do with multiplayer, except with games that I actually wanted to play with people.
Really, it's one of my personal favorite consoles to this day. It was partially there at the right time and place to give Sega a new home, it was partially just a super overpowered system that we're fortunate Microsoft was willing to take a bath on, and it was also just a damn good era for video games. The 360 never recaptured the magic for me, as it was underpowered and caused games to look blurry and run like shit, it became a dumping ground for substandard PC ports, and Japanese developers had completely lost the plot by that point. Some bright spots, to be sure, but the brand was never anywhere close to as good as it was during that initial system. I highly recommend that people who never played the OG Xbox check it out someday.
If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to really understand just how far ahead of the curve the Xbox's hardware was. Seeing Dead or Alive 3 for the first time was mind-blowing, and it ran at a completely consistent 60fps. It was perfection. And that was kind of the norm for Xbox - games looked stupid good and ran exactly how you wanted them to. Sure, PCs were able to put out similar visuals at high resolutions, but it's kind of moot because you weren't seeing Japanese games like DOA3, Jet Set Radio Future, etc. with art styles that really popped on the PC back then. And these days, plugging in the Xbox via component to a Retrotink 4K makes it look crazy good. I genuinely wouldn't have cared if graphics never advanced beyond this.
The games were phenomenal and it was the first time you were seeing good western game development happening on consoles. It was hardware that PC developers could actually use properly. Sega was going balls to the wall with the obvious stuff like Jet Set Radio and Panzer Dragoon, but also putting out absolute bangers like Gunvalkyrie. But there were a ton of great games that really didn't get a lot of attention that I'm still picking up and playing for the first time, most of which were exclusive. The system had a really unique identity - it felt like you were getting an experience that you could only get on the Xbox, and - like the other systems of the time - games had a bit of a unique look thanks to the hardware. And ports were almost invariably much better on the Xbox than on the other consoles. It was nice having a hierarchy back then where you just knew that if you wanted the best thing, it was on here. Even now, I'm going back and checking out new games that I never had the chance to play back in the day, and I still have a great time with them. It's aged remarkably well.
I wouldn't say I got super into online gaming on there - though I did play a lot of DOA 2 Ultimate - but I got a hell of a lot of playtime out of the local multiplayer stuff. It was the perfect continuation of what the N64 wanted to do with multiplayer, except with games that I actually wanted to play with people.
Really, it's one of my personal favorite consoles to this day. It was partially there at the right time and place to give Sega a new home, it was partially just a super overpowered system that we're fortunate Microsoft was willing to take a bath on, and it was also just a damn good era for video games. The 360 never recaptured the magic for me, as it was underpowered and caused games to look blurry and run like shit, it became a dumping ground for substandard PC ports, and Japanese developers had completely lost the plot by that point. Some bright spots, to be sure, but the brand was never anywhere close to as good as it was during that initial system. I highly recommend that people who never played the OG Xbox check it out someday.
clarky
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Hunter 99
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My dad brought one and gave it to me a year later or so.
Halo was an amazing experience and DOA. I thought the graphics were incredible for the time.
But for me the standouts were JSRF and Shenmue 2.wow it was like having a dreamcast 2.
(I also loved you could play your own music while playing)
Good times
Halo was an amazing experience and DOA. I thought the graphics were incredible for the time.
But for me the standouts were JSRF and Shenmue 2.wow it was like having a dreamcast 2.
(I also loved you could play your own music while playing)
Good times
Skifi28
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Going from a PS1 to an Xbox felt like moving up two generations. Not just the games, but features too. An internal HDD on a console felt unreal at the time and playing GTA or racing games listening to your own officially ripped CD music didn't get old. Not having to worry about space and buying/managing memory cards was also liberating.
Of course there's the games too. There's too many to list, but stuff like Rallisport Challenge, PGR, Sega GT and Mechassault just kept me endlessly occupied. Then later on Doom 3 and Half life 2 made even my PC-only friends jealous as their rigs couldn't handle them. Halo 2 was a masterpiece and Forza scratched that Gran Turismo itch, perhaps better than GT did back then.
So many fond memories, too bad they had to take a crap on them. Thanks Don and Phil!
Of course there's the games too. There's too many to list, but stuff like Rallisport Challenge, PGR, Sega GT and Mechassault just kept me endlessly occupied. Then later on Doom 3 and Half life 2 made even my PC-only friends jealous as their rigs couldn't handle them. Halo 2 was a masterpiece and Forza scratched that Gran Turismo itch, perhaps better than GT did back then.
So many fond memories, too bad they had to take a crap on them. Thanks Don and Phil!