XenoCorpse

This debate will never be settled until we have a sex simulator on the 360. get crackin' boys!

Why is it that all the cyber-strippers and sex games are only present on the PC. How does the PC get away with that kind of controversial content (people ACTUALLY having sex, such as in Virtual Eve, or realistic looking strippers as in several other programs) when the consoles get nailed for some blocky-looking CLOTHED characters bumping against each other in Hot Coffee?

Seriously- Why all the focus on consoles by the outraged parents? Haven't they gotten past the "video game consoles are for kids" mentality yet?

WHY do people keep letting Uwe Boll touch their intellectual property?

I mean, how can anyone announce- with a smile on their face: "Uwe Boll is making my movie!"

I mean, I grimaced just TYPING that.

I had one of the biggest collections you'd ever see, and then I got smart and sold most of it. What was it doing for me? Nothing. I wasn't playing the old consoles anymore, and most of the games were not that playabe either.

So it went on eBay, and I made thousands which I used to pay bills. Welcome to adulthood!

Now, years later, I don't regret it at all. It was a waste of space. I'm a gamer- I PLAY games. Collections of things you never use are for obsessive-compulsive types.

I think the poll is more indicative of the age of the respondants than which game is truly the best. Ocarina of Time wins because most of the Gen-Y kids started their gaming experience on an N64, and I'd bet they're the majority on Joystiq. Note that us old-school types who voted for the original are in smaller numbers now... :(

This is getting REALLY tired. How many of these bands covering 8-bit game songs are there, anyway?

Why not try writing your own music? Or if you have to cover something and be all trendy, why not cover old Nokia ringtones, or music from the C64, or music from 1950s TV shows? Do something different.

I swear, if I see another Nintendo cover band, I'll scream. This is ridiculous and gimmicky.

What's next? A live stage production of the cinemas from Zero Wing? Mario: The one-man show? A Christian rock band that plays religious versions of the tunes from the Game-n-Watch series?

Give me a break.

seth: Maybe you should put your 360 in a place where it's not overheating. Either that, or your 360 is broken, because my 360 plays 720p trailers fine, no stutters, looks great, high frame rate.

I'm inclined to lean toward HD-DVD simply because I've seen what happens to Sony-backed formats. Beta anyone? ATRAC? MiniDisc? Sony-BMG CDs? Sony's got a history of backing (or producing) the wrong pony.

As for add-on drives and comparing to the Sega CD, you're all conveniently ignoring the ones that were a smashing success. The TurboGrafx CD was a great device, and extended the life of the TG-16/PC Engine quite a bit, eventually leading to the TurboDuo being a highly-desired console. I'd also point out that the Sony Playstation (1) was basically a SNES CD system, and that was hardly what I'd call a failure.

BUT this is not going to be used for games. This is a movie add-on for people who just want the ability to play HD-DVD without paying for a stand-alone player. It's a good move.

All the idiots complaining about component being used for HD content are just that: Idiots. There's NO DIFFERENCE between HDMI, DVI, and Component when it comes to the actual visual output. The only difference is the delivery of the information, and the copy protection supported in the completely digital formats. Unless you're watching on a 60" plasma screen (and 99% of Americans won't be) you won't see a single pixel's worth of difference in HD-DVD between Component and DVI/HDMI.)

I swear, you're like those audiophiles who SWEAR they can hear sounds outside the human range. Get over it. HDMI and DVI would have been a waste on the 360, and they're going to be a waste on the PS3 because the content will look NO DIFFERENT than 720p or 1080i. Nobody's got a television that will display the ridiculously high resolutions Sony keeps claiming the PS3 will support, and no developer will spend the development hours to make a game supporting those resolutions when only 1% of the nation will have the ability to use it.

Well, if Sony's Blu-Ray choices are all too expensive (and looking at the price of Blu-Ray players at CES), an Xbox 360 owner might see some value in a $100 add-on drive to watch HD content.

I don't care if fanboys don't like the 360 because they disagree with the marketing or the choice of media. I've had a ball playing DOA4 this week, and before that I enjoyed Condemned, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Geometry Wars, Zuma, Hexic, Call of Duty 2, Gauntlet, and downloaded demos of Madden and, most recently, Fight Night. On top of that, Halo 2 looks great in widescreen 720p on my HDTV, and being able to stream my iPod while playing games is a definite improvement over anything the PS2 offered me in terms of soundtracks.

But hey, you can act all nasty about the 360 if you want. I understand it's only sour grapes because you don't have one, can't afford one, or are simply peeved that Sony won't be dropping the PS3 on America until late fall, 2006.

Oh, yeah... And those reports that developers hate the PS3's dev kits might be a little bit of a bummer.

Oh, and the fact that Sony isn't showing anything new regarding PS3 at CES- no real games, no working prototypes, no new footage, no accessories- might be a bit worrisome.

And the fact that the PS3 isn't going to have a centralized internet experience, and will instead rely on gaming companies to set up their own servers and police them might be a bit of a downer for the multiplayer crowd.

Oh, and those reports that PS3 dev kits are melting might be a bad sign.

But despite all that, when (if?) the PS3 arrives, I'll be one of the early adopters. I'm a gamer. I like games. I play them if they're good. I don't care who makes the console.

Unless it's the sucktastic NGage. That thing was just crap.

Guy #1: "I'm sure glad I'm not Jack Thompson!" Guy #2: "I had to pee on consoles at EB Games!" Reagan: "Well, fellas, thanks to trickle-down economics, we can toast to our bright future as leather coat models!"