oXbox - Not LTTP But Maybe To Early?

h8b1llg8ts

Is it to early to start an appreciation thread to the oXbox?

Also, am I the only one who choose oXbox games over any of the other cross platform games when it came to PS2 and Gamecube games? I don't want to start a flame war on cross platforming today but I think we could at least look back and talk about what was a couple years ago.

Not to mention what Xbox Live has done to gaming industry today. We all do know it really started off with Sega Net but can we debate that MS brought it to what is should have been today?

I will be man enough to admit I'm not the one to start off an appreciation thread but with a 100+ games in my library I can finally say I have converted from a #1 NES F*n Boy to a #1 oXbox F*n Boy.

PeregrineFalcon

h8b1llg8ts wrote: »

Is it to early to start an appreciation thread to the oXbox?

Also, am I the only one who choose oXbox games over any of the other cross platform games when it came to PS2 and Gamecube games? I don't want to start a flame war on cross platforming today but I think we could at least look back and talk about what was a couple years ago.

Not to mention what Xbox Live has done to gaming industry today. We all do know it really started off with Sega Net but can we debate that MS brought it to what is should have been today?

I will be man enough to admit I'm not the one to start off an appreciation thread but with a 100+ games in my library I can finally say I have converted from a #1 NES F*n Boy to a #1 oXbox F*n Boy.

Fuck no, the Xbox versions had 16:9 and 480p on damn near everything (and 720p on some titles) whereas it was pretty much "GL HF GG" trying to get either of those checkboxes on a PS2/NGC title. The Xbox versions also tended to look better and run smoother.

Not to mention that I XBMC'd the fuck out of my OxBox and used that to load games on the hard drive, so it was "open case, install game, play with next to no load time"

darleysam

I'd always buy games for my oXbox rather than another platform.

Star Stryke

The oXbox is still one of my favorite consoles as it has my a game that made me sit down and play it to the end, to which it deserved a sequel but will get none. Advent Rising buy it and play it.

Omegasquash

Shit yes it's grand to get an OXB thread going. I used to be a hater, but a friend of mine turned me on to it, and to this day I still keep my OXB in my in-laws' basement so that I have something to do when I go over there to help lift some stuff. It's nice to play KOTOR and get treated to a good meal.

h8b1llg8ts

I too was a Xbox hater until my brother in law brought over the Box with no games. I remember hearing about this FPS game called Halo. So I went to Blockbuster and picked up a 3 day rental. It was also the first FPS I had ever played on a console and I returned it 5 days later.

From there I went straight to Costco and picked up a Xbox Bundle: System, second controller, DVD Playback Kit, Halo and Brute Force for $279.99.

Lindsay Lohan

The only time I've ever played oXbox is store displays. I really do need to play one eventually, I've heard good things about Halo, KOTOR and Ninja Gaiden to name a few. I'm hoping that eventually I'll find one on the side of the road or a yard sale or something.

Does that make me a sheltered gamer?

Dirty

I bought my oXBox for Jet Set Radio Future. I probably wouldn't have bought many games for it had it not been the best console at the time for multi-platform games. I can't imagine why anyone, owning both a PS2 and an XBox would have chosen the PS2 version of a game (unlike today, where the only significant difference between X360 and PS3 games is Live).

The exclusives I picked up were JSRF, the Otogi games, Ninja Gaiden (later gave it away when I got Sigma), Panzer Dragoon Orta, and Phantom Dust.

In the early days of the system, I recall convincing a co-worker that the XBox would be a much better choice for him than his PS2. I mainly did this so he would sell me his PS2 on the cheap, which worked. Then I went and got MGS2 and DMC, while he lamented the lack of games available for his new system.

JohnHam

Yeah, I just re-bought JSRF, and bought for the first time Jade Empire and Mechassault 2.

JSRF is so, so fun, and I LOVED the original Mechassault, so as long as the out-of-mech shit isn't retarded to an extreme degree, I'm psyched.

Jade Empire I just bought because I really should have played it by now. I have KOTOR 1 & 2 on PC.

So everyone's aware - Gamestop is doing Buy 2, Get 1 Free for something like two days (and it works online). It's great for cheap, old games.

EDIT: FUUUUUCK ME CRIMSON SKIES

cj iwakura

Also bought mine for JSRF. It felt like the second Dreamcast to me. Lots of quirky obscure games like Xyanide, Phantom Dust, directors cuts of both Fatal Frames, SvC Chaos, Strangers Wrath, Panzer Dragoon Orta, etc.

h8b1llg8ts

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Brute Force
Crimson Skies
Fable
Halo
Strangers Wrath
Rainbow Six 3 and BA (Just for Xbox Live)
Steel Battalion

Xenogears of Bore

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me, the controller (both models) felt wrong, and it didn't have a handle on the back. Still worth owning just for its Media Center capabilities though. Oh and I guess you might enjoy it if you didn't have a good pc back then with the KOTORS and HALOS and Wolfenstein and all that.






* Metal Wolf Chaos excluded.

cj iwakura

It even had a Shin Megami Tensei game.

Which crashed and burned, of course, but it was there.




I think it's worth somewhere around $5 now.

Dirty

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Raijin Quickfoot

I regret to say I've never owned an original Xbox and have therefore missed out on a lot of games I wanted to play. I'm trying to slowly pick up a title here or there that is actually backwards compatible but it is very, very, very slow going...as in not going at all.

Xenogears of Bore

Dirty wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Pretty good actually.

Otogi, Otogi II, PD0, JSRF, and a few others are the only real OXBOX exclusives I can think of and I didn't really find any appeal to any of them.

Everything else was on the PC, PS2 or GCN.

RainbowDespair

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

Xenogears of Bore

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

Hey they finally lowered the price.

Omegasquash

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

That right there? That right there made me laugh audibly.

cj iwakura

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Pretty good actually.

Otogi, Otogi II, PD0, JSRF, and a few others are the only real OXBOX exclusives I can think of and I didn't really find any appeal to any of them.

Everything else was on the PC, PS2 or GCN.

Xyanide, Phantom Dust, SvC Chaos, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath were all XB exclusive.

Leitner

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

Maybe if you had a girlfriend or family you'd realise just how far 25 quid can stretch!

Also yeah the oXbox was fantastic. Gamecube was my first console but my xbox library quickly outnumbered it. Ever since I first played Halo at my mates I fell in love with the thing. In fact playing it co-op has to be amongst my top three favourite gaming moments. The final run was simply sublime.

RainbowDespair

Leitner wrote: »

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

Maybe if you had a girlfriend or family you'd realise just how far 25 quid can stretch!

Also yeah the oXbox was fantastic. Gamecube was my first console but my xbox library quickly outnumbered it. Ever since I first played Halo at my mates I fell in love with the thing. In fact playing it co-op has to be amongst my top three favourite gaming moments. The final run was simply sublime.

Um, I married and have 2 children with a 3rd on the way. I know what it's like to be careful with your gaming purchases because you have more important places that the money needs to go. Even still, $50 for a game system is dirt cheap, especially when you consider that you can pick up many quality games for around $5 used. Heck, I'm tempting to pick up an oXBox myself just for those games that the 360 doesn't emulate well.

Xenogears of Bore

To be fair I thought the price was still hovering around $70 like it was earlier in the year. $50 is a pretty good deal for a Media Center box or to get to better know some of those older games.

Dirty

cj iwakura wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Pretty good actually.

Otogi, Otogi II, PD0, JSRF, and a few others are the only real OXBOX exclusives I can think of and I didn't really find any appeal to any of them.

Everything else was on the PC, PS2 or GCN.

Xyanide, Phantom Dust, SvC Chaos, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath were all XB exclusive.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the XBox needed more JRPGs for him to like it.

I could be wrong.

PeregrineFalcon

Dirty wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Pretty good actually.

Otogi, Otogi II, PD0, JSRF, and a few others are the only real OXBOX exclusives I can think of and I didn't really find any appeal to any of them.

Everything else was on the PC, PS2 or GCN.

Xyanide, Phantom Dust, SvC Chaos, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath were all XB exclusive.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the XBox needed more JRPGs for him to like it.

I could be wrong.

No, it definitely needed stylus input and waggle.

Leitner

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Leitner wrote: »

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Original XBOX is too expensive. They still cost an arm and a leg at Gamestop, which is why even the smallest hole in the wall outlet has like 20 on hand at any given point.

$50 is too expensive?

Maybe if you had a girlfriend or family you'd realise just how far 25 quid can stretch!

Also yeah the oXbox was fantastic. Gamecube was my first console but my xbox library quickly outnumbered it. Ever since I first played Halo at my mates I fell in love with the thing. In fact playing it co-op has to be amongst my top three favourite gaming moments. The final run was simply sublime.

Um, I married and have 2 children with a 3rd on the way. I know what it's like to be careful with your gaming purchases because you have more important places that the money needs to go. Even still, $50 for a game system is dirt cheap, especially when you consider that you can pick up many quality games for around $5 used. Heck, I'm tempting to pick up an oXBox myself just for those games that the 360 doesn't emulate well.

I was being facetious. A reference to an earlier debate. 25 quid is nothing.

Deadfall

Crimson Skies? Crimson Skies.

h8b1llg8ts

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I hate just about everything about the original XBOX. None* of the exclusive games remotely interested me

What's it like, not having a soul?

Pretty good actually.

Otogi, Otogi II, PD0, JSRF, and a few others are the only real OXBOX exclusives I can think of and I didn't really find any appeal to any of them.

Everything else was on the PC, PS2 or GCN.

Xyanide, Phantom Dust, SvC Chaos, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath were all XB exclusive.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the XBox needed more JRPGs for him to like it.

I could be wrong.

No, it definitely needed stylus input and waggle.

That's what the PS2 was for.

guidedbyvices

Some of my fondest memories are courtesy of Microsoft's fat box that could.

JSRF?
CRIMSON FUCKING SKIES?
Chronicles of Riddick?
Stubbs The Zombie?
Otogi 1 & 2?
Gunvalkryie?
Phantom Crash?
KOTOR?


Also: Nothing beat the rush of tearing through a crowd of people in JSRF. Fuck GTA4, Jet Set Radio Future did the living, breathing city aesthetic waaaay before. And to the tune of Sweet Soul Brother.

Dirty

JSR's Tokyo certainly had a very distinct personality. Especially the run-down areas of Kogane. I would love to have a sandbox game in that, or a very similar location.

cj iwakura

I still prefer the look and gameplay of JGR over JSRF, but the sequel's still fun.

I never bothered getting all the extra characters in Future, while I had everyone in the DC version.

Dirty

Oh, if you put a gun to my head and forced me to give one up, I'd keep the original Jet Set Radio. I think the original is better overall, but Future is different enough that one doesn't invalidate the other, and Future is pretty much the main reason I leave my XBox hooked up in my living room.

BubbaT

Without oXbox I probably wouldn't have come back to console gaming from PC. Between the death of the Dreamcast, burning out on jRPGs from SNES to PS1, not seeing much on the PS2 that interested me until later in the console's life with stuff like Katamari, Guitar Hero and SotC, and the late 90s being a Golden Age in PC games, I didn't see any reason to be dropping $50 on console games when PC games cost $40. Then oX showed up with a resurrected SEGA lineup, and Halo which had had huge buzz since E3 1999.

The_Scarab

THE DUKE APPROVES OF THIS THREAD


What a great controller. Fuck the haters.

h8b1llg8ts

But what about the other part Xbox Live!!!

I remember having the console but just getting a new PC. Everybody at work was hyping up Star Wars Galaxy and being a SW fan myself it seemed very intresting. But there was something about MS marketing that was ringing in my head.

So it was payday and with $50 in my hands I did something that I have never done before. I asked the Gamestop employee his opinion. Thank god he was right because we all know how SW:G turned out.

I remember the early days of XBL playing Ghost Recon with Granade Launchers. You think you had lag problems with Halo 3 .... please! But what really turned my opinion around was when Rainbow Six and clans came around. Setting up clan matches, meeting up with friends who you never knew your really name, and promising yourself this REALLY was the last round. After saying that 8 times before and it's now 2:15am and you are due at work in about 4 hours.

Those we're the days ....

Fig-D

I'm with XoB on this one. oXbox didn't have the exclusives to bring me in. Otogi & Otogi II were cool, but not system sellers, I didn't like Phantom Dust, SvC Chaos was trash at best, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath was probably the best exclusive on the system that wasn't Ninja Gaiden.

I'm not a big fan of Halo.

KotOR was great, I have it on PC. I loved Jade Empire, got it on PC.

And then there was Ninja Gaiden, the one game that *almost* got me to buy an Xbox. but I ended up borrowing a friend's system instead and beat the game over a weekend. I still love it, when I got my 360 I went out and bought a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black.

The_Scarab

You fools the best OXbox exclusive was Crimson skies high road to revenge you fucking heathens.


Also, when a game is released with no mention of a PC release a year later I think that is a kind of quasi exclusive.

do we count PC ports in the exclusivity thing anyways? We're talking xbox versus gamecube and ps2 here.

Fig-D

Crimson Skies was neat, but I didn't play it a lot. It didn't seem like the sort of thing that would sell me on a system though.

cj iwakura

I really do think I'm the only person on the planet who's played Xyanide.

taliosfalcon

Breakdown was pretty much tbe best Xbox game, hell the best console game ever. and its tied with God hand for most criminally underrated game to ever exist

scootch

JSRF is my favorite xbox game. kinda like how JGR is my favorite dreamcast game. man I miss sega the way they were.