What video game SYSTEM should I buy?

[Mik]

My last system was PS 1 many, many years ago. However, I am looking to get back into gaming, and thinking of purchasing a system. Basically, it's either going to be XBox or PS2. What system should I get?

 

And what system has the better games? Some qualifiers: I like sports games and RPGs the most. Thanks for any help you can give.

[chirs3]

PS2. You'll have no shortage of sports games, and the PS2 owns the RPG market.

[Guest MikeSC]

My last system was PS 1 many, many years ago. However, I am looking to get back into gaming, and thinking of purchasing a system. Basically, it's either going to be XBox or PS2. What system should I get?

 

And what system has the better games? Some qualifiers: I like sports games and RPGs the most. Thanks for any help you can give.

Hmm, tough one. I think XBox has the best RPG's. But PS2 has the most RPG's that are, at least, decent.

-=Mike

[AboveAverage484]

Get a modded Xbox. End of thread.

 

Oh, within the confines of the law. Uhhh, PS2.

[Guest Vitamin X]

If you're fine with inferior hardware with a massive game library (filled with way more duds than studs when it comes to exclusives), go with the PS2. If you want a very good system with not that many games to play, but all of them are good, go with the Gamecube. If you want a decent sixed game library (in terms of exclusivity anyways), and a very good system, go with the Xbox.

 

Personally, I play sports games the most followed by a little bit of everything. The Xbox is especially good for online play, and is usually the best system to play multiplatform games on, but the other two have a lot of good exclusive games.

[Kahran Ramsus]

Well you want RPGs so it is PS2 all the way with you. They basically have a monopoly on the genre.

[AndrewTS]

PS2 has the best variety of RPGs.

 

Plus, with EA you'll be more or less playing the PS2 versions of sports games on XBox anyway.

[Guest MikeSC]

Get a modded Xbox. End of thread.

 

Oh, within the confines of the law. Uhhh, PS2.

You could always go the HD loader route with the PS2.

-=Mike

...Not that I'd do it...

[Guest JebusNassedar]

Dreamcast.

 

I mean, look at it. Grandia II, the original Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Phantasy Star Online...plus, there's all sorts of goodness outside of RPGs. The best realistic basketball game ever (NBA 2k1), the best tennis game ever (Virtua Tennis), top fighter Soul Calibur, the hardest game in history (MDK2), a remake of the first supergood racer (Daytona USA), the best mice-running-from-cats sim in existance (Chu Chu Rocket), tons of amazing shooters (Mars Matrix, Gunbird 2, Giga Wing 1/2), The best celshaded game ever (Jet Grind Radio), and the most insane typing teacher ever (The Typing of the Dead.)

 

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

That controller was a orthopaedic nightmare. Seriously, after playing Soul Calibur for any long amount of time with a friend of mine, we'd walk away with our hands hurting for a while.

 

It honestly kept me from owning one.

[Mik]

Sounds like what I sort of already figured - it's a tough choice. I consulted some of my college and high school buddies and they all said that XBox is a better system, but PS2 had more games that suited what I liked.

 

Thanks for the input - I probably won't decide until I'm at Best Buy with both in front of me.

[Guest JebusNassedar]

That controller was a orthopaedic nightmare. Seriously, after playing Soul Calibur for any long amount of time with a friend of mine, we'd walk away with our hands hurting for a while.

 

It honestly kept me from owning one.

There were third party controls that were smaller, too. Even one that looked like a Genesis controller.

 

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

[AndrewTS]

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

That controller was a orthopaedic nightmare. Seriously, after playing Soul Calibur for any long amount of time with a friend of mine, we'd walk away with our hands hurting for a while.

 

It honestly kept me from owning one.

My only complaint was the L trigger, and I would have preferred a 6-button face layout (which I have always wanted to come standard with a controller since the Genesis days).

 

Then again, I don't like any of the X-Box controllers released, when plenty of people swear by the newer ones.

 

As far as controllers go, the PS2 one is far superior to the X-Box for just about everything, IMO, but XB has a better D-pad.

 

The Gamecube controller feels incredible. It's perfect for the 1st party Nintendo games...but the button layout is all wrong for just about everything 3rd party.

 

Call me crazy, but my dream controller would be a better-made N64 claw controller with bigger C buttons.

[Kahran Ramsus]

Sounds like what I sort of already figured - it's a tough choice. I consulted some of my college and high school buddies and they all said that XBox is a better system, but PS2 had more games that suited what I liked.

 

Thanks for the input - I probably won't decide until I'm at Best Buy with both in front of me.

X-Box is the system to get if you like first person shooters and action games and it is easily the most powerful system, but the Japanese developers tend to avoid it like the plague, so if you want to play a lot of Japanese games (like most RPGs, Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Star Ocean, etc.) then you are pretty much locked into the PS2.

 

With sports it doesn't really matter, with one exception, the PS2 WWE games are much much better than the ones on the other two systems.

 

If you like to play games online, then get the X-Box.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

BECAUSE THEY'RE OLD AS SHIT.

[tbondrage99]

There is really no need to even ask this question, My friend has an X-Box (which he won from beer, the lucky bastard), a Game Cube & a Gamboy DS, and he still thinks the PS2 is the best system. Why he dosent have it is byond me. I know I have mine.

[The Ghost of bps21]

I have all 3 and I almost never use the PS2 or Gamecube.

[AndrewTS]

With sports it doesn't really matter, with one exception, the PS2 WWE games are much much better than the ones on the other two systems.

They're still not very good, though.

 

Plus, there are better *wrestling* games available on both the PS2 and older systems.

 

BECAUSE THEY'RE OLD AS SHIT.

 

Because nothing outside of the current console generation is worth playing today.

 

I have all 3 and I almost never use the PS2 or Gamecube.

 

But you almost never post except to plug the X-Box.

 

I had all three at one point and the X-Box was the one I played least, because there weren't enough games to fit my tastes.

 

Yet again:

I don't like Sony, but I like a hell of a lot of games that you can only play on their shitty hardware.

[Guest Vitamin X]

To be honest, I really like the Gamecube too, if only it had DVD capability (fuck off I don't feel like buying one) and a better selection of games. I'll probably buy it sometime in the future, though.

[LJSexay]

Dreamcast.

 

I mean, look at it. Grandia II, the original Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Phantasy Star Online...plus, there's all sorts of goodness outside of RPGs. The best realistic basketball game ever (NBA 2k1), the best tennis game ever (Virtua Tennis), top fighter Soul Calibur, the hardest game in history (MDK2), a remake of the first supergood racer (Daytona USA), the best mice-running-from-cats sim in existance (Chu Chu Rocket), tons of amazing shooters (Mars Matrix, Gunbird 2, Giga Wing 1/2), The best celshaded game ever (Jet Grind Radio), and the most insane typing teacher ever (The Typing of the Dead.)

 

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

*seconds*

 

I love my Dreamcast. Marvel vs Capcom 2, crazy taxi's, on top of what else you listed... gotta love my dc

[Hoff]

Fuck all, Super NES is where it's at. Of the "current" generation, between my roommate and I, we own all three, and the PS2 pretty much collects dust. I think a lot of that is my residual resentment at Sony for nabbing Square, and then making (in my humble opinion) inferior games. In fact, I want to try to get into more modern RPGs. So that may pick up...but right now, outside of HALO~, the Cube gets the most usage in a walk. The XBox gets a fair amount of play, as well. We pretty well like all genres of game, except he doesn't like sports games. So, I'd say we're a decent sample group. Take this for what you will, but it's just another opinion.

[AndrewTS]

Sony's got just about everything else beat for depth and variety of games, that except for the rare instant classics from Nintendo or the X-Box's semi-exclusives (among consoles anyway), you have pretty much all the games you need from any genre between the PS2's library and the PS1 titles.

 

Most of the Dreamcast classics mentioned above even appear on PS2/1 in some form (don't forget Gunbird 1 as Mobile Light Force, even) or another.

 

"Fuck all, Super NES is where it's at."

 

Nintendo at arguably their very best (Zelda and Mario on 64 as big exceptions) + third parties like Capcom, Konami, Square, Midway (when they actually mattered), EA (when they were relatively humble), etc. is pretty hard to top.

 

If you don't totally dig Halo, I don't see why you'd give a damn about the X-Box unless you mod that sucker.

[Guest JebusNassedar]

Why more people don't own Dreamcasts is beyond me.

BECAUSE THEY'RE OLD AS SHIT.

You know, it says something about technology when a system released in 1999 is "old as shit."

 

It's also says something that I have every modern system, and play Dreamcast the most. Admittedly, it;s mostly because of Fire Pro Wrestling D, but I have fun with it. And when I buy a game system, I buy it to have fun. I have had more fun with Dreamcast than any other system I've ever owned, aside from the Sega Channel days of the Genesis.

 

And besides, I've decided that staying "up to date" is not as important to me as having fun with my games is. I don't have fun with any PS2 games, excluding Katamari Damacy, and I already 100%ed that. I have -some- fun with Gamecube, but that's just because of Nintendo's terrifyingly strong first party base. Also factor in the Game Boy Player. I had fun with X-Box, but Halo 2 bored me, I beat Riddick, and Fable is PC bound. So, yeah. I can't wholeheartedly recommend any of the new generation of consoles. I mean, as handhelds go, it's still GBA all the way, but not major consoles.

[AndrewTS]

Fire Pro D's still an import, though. Although you can probably get a burn of it easily.

 

Thankfully, more of DC's awesome stuff actually came Stateside compared to the Saturn's. Owning a Saturn without some method of playing imports is extremely silly.

[PLAGIARISM!]

I'm not a huge gamer, but I find it interesting that the PS2 is the most popular here. A fair few people (in England) here consider it the worst, cos there's no exclusive games. I like the gamecube. How games should be.

[Crimson Platypus]

I don't understand why the lack of exclusive games makes the PS2 the worst system, but whatever.

 

 

My only advice would be that if you plan on getting an X-Box, wait until the X-Box360xenonrevolutionnext3 comes out so the price will (probably) drop.

[razazteca]

PS2 has all of those platform games with the hero being some kind of animal.

[Black Lushus]

well, I traded my PS2 in for a Box almost a month ago and I haven't looked back...

[Guest MikeSC]

PS2 has all of those platform games with the hero being some kind of animal.

But the Ratchet and Clank series kicks insane amounts of ass.

-=Mike

[Kahran Ramsus]

I'm not a huge gamer, but I find it interesting that the PS2 is the most popular here. A fair few people (in England) here consider it the worst, cos there's no exclusive games. I like the gamecube. How games should be.

There are lots of exclusive games, more so than the X-Box. The Final Fantasy series, the Suikoden series, the Xenosaga series, Star Ocean, and essentially every other RPG that matters. The only thing they don't have is KOTOR which is also on the PC, and Paper Mario.

 

And you have to remember, Mik is specifically asking for RPGs and sports games (which you can get anywhere). Recommending an X-Box or GameCube to an RPG fan is like recommending the PS2 to someone who only wants to play Halo.