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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 1267542" data-attributes="member: 9298">I never remember to look in this forum, video games should be lumped in with the tv, movies and books forum. having 3 forms of media together and the fourth seperate is silly.so i'll jump into the fray late:xbox: dont own one, dont have friends who own one. played it at an xbox launch event. the controllers are BRUTAL. the most uncomfortable controller ever. would rather play with an atari 2600 box-with-button-and-stick controller. As far as I've heard and read the only must own games for Xbox are Halo and Knight of the Old Republic. Halo eventually hit the PC, KOTOR hit it a few weeks after console release, so right now, there is NO reason to buy an Xbox in my eyes. I see absolutely NO xbox-exclusive games that excite me. NONE. On the plus side, you dont need a memory card so you save 20 bucks. This isnt a big deal, for my Gamecube I have ONE huge memory card that saves everything. Unless you save multiple sports games by season, you only need one big one.ps2: firends have them. you still need a multi-tap to play with 4 players. With backward compatibility, the system has a huge library but for a long time, all the games sucked. Luckily, this has gotten MUCH better lately and theres actually enough PS2-exclusive games to make this system worth buying. Might have to get me one soon. I really want to play Kingdom Hearts and the upcoming sequel,and both Jak and Ratchet games. The controller is acceptable but small and I dislike double shoulder buttons.Gamecube: I have one of these. I feel that Nintendo has dropped the ball with this system. No online play. No backward compatibility. Too many sequels and not enough NEW games. And dropping the world's BEST controller (N64s) for an adequate one but moving the perfectly place N64 z-trigger button to the shoulder positon. Ugh. All that said, you still cant go wrong with the Nintendo-exclusive franchises being the best games around. Mario games, Zelda, Metroid, Starfox, Donkey Kong.  They kiddy image is a myth as Eternal Darkness is the best "mature" game I've ever played and Nintendo now also has the Resident Evil series (which I personally never got into) . When it comes to PARTY games where you actually have 4 people in your house Mario Kart, Mario Party,Super Smash Brothers Mario Golf,and  the eventual release of Mario Tennis along with the Super Monkey Ball series make this THE system. Gameboy Advance: the best selling system with the largest library of games. Everyone should have one. As for long-term use, everyone should know by now that systems have a 5-6 year life span. Period. Expect new systems from all three companies in 2005. JRRNeiklot seems to doubt his reflexes but wants games with depth. Stick with your PC and CRPGs. Otherwise, I'd suggest a gamecube/gameboy combo for you as there are simpler games and lots of old school rpgs available on gameboy. For Biggus Geekus, he needs to abandon DDR and get a gamecube for the multiplayer goodness.As for the Final Fantasy series. In American numbering:1 was a solid generic console RPG2 was the best console RPG ever until LUNAR: SILVER STARY STORY came out and thats only because Lunar had great voice acting and two songs. FF2 had some great characters, a great story, great music and one of the greatest death scenes of all time. I almost cried. On second thought, FF2 is still the best.3 was still solid but HARD. The beginning of the end was seen here as they battles were already getting overly-complicated.7 is supposed to be really good, but I actually have never played it. I got a PS1 very late in its life span and still have games sitting here that I havent played (inlcuding a borrowed copy off FF7) I've still heard that the battles are too long do to magic but not as bad as the monstrosity that was..8 SUCKED. I actually gave up on this game 1/4 though. The battles were endless. I hate RPGS where you START with hundreds of HP and finish with thousands. Its ridiculous. Someone needs to take a lesson from the mario and luigi gameboy rpg. SMALL NUMBERS. The story was boring, the characters were BRUTAL, boss fghts would take hours. I watched my gf toil through the rest of the game and wondered where Square went wrong.From what I hear 9 and 10 werent as bad as 8 but were still worse than the rest. I can see just by looking at x-2 that I have no interest.This series completely fell apart when they went from sprites to actual grapchics. But then again, so did the entire industry.</blockquote>

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