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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 50487" data-attributes="member: 2067">The Eternal QuestionAh, the Gamer's Dillema.I'd go for the PS2...mostly because of one overriding factor: Squaresoft. These guys make superb games in the RPG/Adventure genrea. Final Fantasy X is reason enough...and don't judge it too much by it's predacesors, either. It plays like a 50-hour movie, and when was the last time you spend $1/hour on a movie? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And where Square goes the rest will follow.  PS2 is the RPG system.Gamecube is next, but not for a while. Smash Bros. Melee is an absolute blast, especially with multiplayer. Pikmin and Super Monkey Ball are quirky, and intriguing. By next year, this will have a new Zelda, a new Mario, and a new Metriod. So, I'll be waiting, but this is something I'm picking up at some point (probably about when Zelda comes out). Also, Resident Evil is going over to Gamecube, which should help obliterate it's Kiddie image, and open it up to more 3rd party stuff.Xbox is...distant. To me, Halo is intriguing, but it doesn't balance out the just plain *wrong* feeling I get from supporting Microsoft. I just feel icky about doing it any more than I have to for convenience, and there's no Xbox game that I feel the absolute need to have....nothing matching the party-fun of Smash Bros or the story-in-a-disc of Final Fantasy X. The features that the box has now (like hard drive and broadband) will be solved in expansions for the PS2 (or they better be, by the time FFXI comes out!). Until Xbox has at least a game or two that I *need* to play, I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass on it. Which isn't really a big problem at $400 smackers for a Microsoft vehicle.Basically, weigh the games:PS2: Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto IIIGamecube: Smash Bros., New Zelda, New Mario, New MetroidXbox: ...Halo...Just so you  know my biases, I own a PS2, and plan on picking up a Camecube when one either Zelda, Mario, or Metroid come out. Xbox I don't see myself shelling out for.</blockquote>

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