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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Etan Moonstar" data-source="post: 462638" data-attributes="member: 7762">There is one aspect of console gaming that I'm surprised nobody has touched on yet, given the nature of this board--multiplayer gaming.  Before I moved to go to grad school (sadly, haven't found a gaming group here yet), my wife and I used to have friends over every Saturday for a couple of sessions of D&D.  Meeting shortly after everyone had a chance to get their own lunch, we'd play D&D for a few hours, then I'd collect a couple of dollars from everyone to compensate for the groceries I'd purchased earlier in the week and cook dinner for everyone (great way to save money if someone in your group likes to cook).  While dinner was cooking and being eaten, we'd turn on the Nintendo and play some multiplayer games.  After dinner, we'd then resume gaming for another few hours.It is in the area of fun multiplayer games that the Cube really outshines the competition (as did the N64).  A quick list of my old group's favorite games: James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire; Bomberman Generation; Gauntlet Dark Legacy; Super Monkey Ball (and number 2 is even better than the first); and of course the ultimate party game, Super Smash Bros.  As someone mentioned earlier, the PS2 really doesn't support multiplayer gaming.  The X-Box has Halo and some sports games, I guess, but since you say you dislike fps's that's not a big deal to you (and I don't like sports or sports games).My philosophy regarding console gaming is that I have a PC if I want to play single-player or online games.  X-Box games are generally ports from the PC or multi-console games, so it lacks appeal, imho, to PC gamers.  Thanks to ePSXe, I can also play PS games on my PC (and they generally look a lot better on a hi-res monitor than on the TV), so the backwards-compatibility of the PS2 doesn't mean much to me.  I also watch DVDs on my computer, so I couldn't care less about the DVD capability of the PS2 or the X-Box.  The PS2 does have a lot of great single-player games, and I love playing some of them on my brother-in-law's PS2, but I find myself accumulating too many single-player games on the PC that I haven't had enough time to play.Summary: if you use your computer for single-player games, online gaming, and watching DVDs and just want a console for great multi-player party games, go with the Cube (which also has some good single-player games--Nintendo has always been known for concentrating on fun gameplay).  If you're not interested in multiplayer and just want to play single-player console games, get the PS2.  And if you have a computer, don't waste your time even looking at the X-Box.</blockquote>

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