What is your least favorite and most favorite console?

[h8b1llg8ts]

Least favorite, from a collectors stand point, is N64. The system has aged to far beyond repair in both graphics and hardware.

My favorite system is not hard to guess but for quite a while the oXbox was the king but the 360 is "were it's at" today. 90% of my gaming is held within that system. But a close second is the Saturn. Fighters and imports are the bee's knees for this gem of a system.

[ATARI800XLfan]

For now Favorite is either the Dreamcast or SNES. Least would be the Gamecube.

[AppleQueso]

Favorite: CDi

Least Favorite: SNES

[o.pwuaioc]

Favorite: CDi

Least Favorite: SNES

[o.pwuaioc]

oXbox was the king but the 360 is "were it's at" today.

Ironic much?

[cptfishstick]

My favorite consoles are the ones that work.

My least favorite are the ones that are broken and unfixable.

[Balasubbie]

If you can't see the forest for the trees to notice that there ARE plenty of genres well represented on the Saturn, that's not on me. I only hawk the fighting games because that's predominately what I care about.

There's plenty of great action games, platformers, RPGs, racers, sports games, beat 'em ups, shmups and others on the Saturn. What makes the Saturn relevant is that a good chunk of those games cannot be experienced on other systems, either back then or even now.

If a system would have been a great system in one generation or another, as far as I'm concerned, it's a great system. It's just a matter of allowing time to tell. If you are arguing that the Saturn would only have been great if it released a generation earlier, then you are arguing that the only measure of a system being a 'good' system is if it was a 'good' system in it's time. Basically, it has to have been a commercial success to be considered a 'good' system. I strongly disagree with this sentiment.

It doesn't matter what time the system came out. It doesn't matter what the atmosphere of the industry was when the system came out. Any and all temporal conditions don't account for jack squat. Is it fun now? Will it still be fun later? Is there a reason to boot it up now and in the foreseeable future? THAT is all that matters. That's how I determine whether a system is 'good' or not.

Obviously, it's a matter of taste. Some people take to games like X-Men Vs Street Fighter and Die Hard Arcade like cancer to a prostate. Others don't. Such is life.

I was just trolling you for shits and giggles. I agree the Saturn's mighty awesome.

[TornadoCreator]

Favourite: Playstation 2

It's a fantastic console. There's a reason the PS2 has the longest lifespan of any console (with the possible exception of the Atari 2600 and that's debatable at this point). Just look at it's game list...

I love action games, and the PS2 has really great action games like God Of War, Devil May Cry 3, Shinobi and Shadow Of The Colossus. It has great RPG's like Final Fantasy X, Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. It has great sports games like Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 and Fight Night Round 3. It's got so many great 3D Platformers like Rayman 3, Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Vexx, Mosters vs. Aliens and Psychonauts to name just some of them. Then there's the GTA series (love San Andreas) and Incredible Hulk if you want Sandbox games, there's Killzone and Black for FPS fans, there's Resident Evil 4 and Dirge Of Cerberus for if you want 3rd Person Shooters, there's Gran Turismo 4, Burnout 3: Takedown and Need For Speed: Most Wanted if you like racing games, there's Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Tekken 5 and Guilty Gear X for fighting game fans, and there's the Silent Hill and Fatal Frame games if you like survival horror. Then there's games you wouldn't expect, like Champions Return To Arms, a PC style hack 'n slash game, and the Naval Ops: Warship Gunner series which is a battleship combat simulator game that's really good. It has the Sega Genesis Collection and Atari Collection, so you can play loads of the best arcade and 16-bit games on it. Hell, this console even had a version of Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution... I'm fairly sure, it's got everything except the kitchen sink AND it's fully compatible with the PSOne games so you can play classics like the earlier Final Fantasy games, Crash Bandicoot, Legend Of Dragoon and more... AND it's a DVD player!

Yeah as much as I adore the Dreamcast, and I love my Sega Saturn and the Sega CDX (I was a Sega kid). The PS2 is simply incredible. All those great games, plus it's compact, quiet and very reliable, I still have my original PS2 from 2001 and it works fine after 10 years.

Most Hated: Nintendo 64

People are going to hate me for this one. The Nintendo 64 is an overhyped, propped up waste of space that would be better off not existing and I'm really not joking. The console did NOTHING well.

This was supposed to compete with the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation but by the time it finally came out in 1997 the Playstation and Saturn had a solid 2 year lead on it which is just sad. There's actually less time between the release of the N64 and the Dreamcast than there is between the Playstation and the N64. So let's compare. It's two years late to the game and it's already out of it's depths. Sure it's 64 bit and more powerful than the other consoles, but using cartriages basically ment that the games had to be rediculously cut down. Games on the N64 which appeared on other consoles where often cut down and butchered to get on the N64. The sound quality was also awful. Consoles had been using CD quality sound since 1993 with the Amiga CD32 and Sega CD, the N64's compressed soundbites where painful by comparison. But maybe it's games where good... let's see.

Action games erm... yeah, we didn't really have any. Playstation had the Syphon Filter series and the Metal Gear Solid series, Saturn had Crusader: No Remorse. Oh and they both had Tomb Raider. What did N64 have.... nothing.

Oh, how about RPGs, surely Nintendo knows how to do RPGs, it had the RPG king of the SNES (unless you lived in Europe where NONE and I really do mean none of the SNES's famous RPGs where released). Well the N64 has... erm... literally sod all. There isn't a single RPG on the entire console. The Playstation has Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX, Breath Of Fire III and IV, Alundra, Suikoden I and II and Vagrant Story (if you live in USA you also got Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Valkyrie Profile and Xenogears because Europeans aren't good enough to get those games are we, bastards). The Saturn didn't have as many but it had Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Dark Savior and Dragon Force... and would you look at that, it's DIFFERENT games too, they're not just multi-plats.

Ok, so what about racing games. N64 had Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Waverace 64 and F-Zero X, so that's good at least... but PSOne had Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer and Driver, and the Saturn had Daytona USA and Sega Rally Championship. N64 doesn't have any realistic racing games. Also both consoles had Wipeout, which was considerably better than F-Zero X and Waverace. Really F-Zero X just wasn't very good, F-Zero GX on the Gamecube is great, as is F-Zero for the SNES, but the N64 one is rushed, unbalanced and buggy. So it's down to Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing, which is basically a Mario Kart clone. Sure, Mario Kart is great... but both the SNES and GBA Mario Kart games are better.

Right, OK. What about FPS games. We can't lose here. The N64 had Perfect Dark, Turok and GoldenEye... surely that's an insta-win... except it's not, not even close. GoldenEye was extremely fun in multiplayer sure, but honestly, it's not that good single player and it never really was, it's just it was well timed. Like Halo, GoldenEye get's far more praise than it deserves, it was a great game sure, but it's not enough to carry a console. Still there's three solid FPS games there, let's see the other consoles do something with that. Well PSOne had Descent Maximum, Medal Of Honor Underground, The World Is Not Enough (basically GoldenEye, but better), Doom (and Final Doom, a harder version of Doom 2) and Quake 2... yeah, it's beaten you down N64. But the Saturn, can that do any better well it's got Forsaken, Hexen, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Exhumed and Alien Trilogy (a better remake of the game that was the only good reason to by a Jaguar and easily the best FPS of the early 90's). So put simply, no, the N64 sucked at FPS games too, and becides, if you wanted FPS games, you where playing them on PC in the early 90's right?

So lastly, surely Nintendo of all people can beat it's competitors with platformers. It created Mario... so what do we have. Well there's a shitty butchered version of Rayman 2... and then, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day. Right then... I hate Super Mario 64, it has a camera that is always too slow to turn the corner after you or is so close to Mario's arse you can see nothing else, the controls make you feel like you're on ice, the levels stopped being liner hop n bob goodness and became a scavenger hunt for stars... it's just crap really and I've no idea why people love this game so much. It butchered all that made the 2D Mario games so great. And as for the others.... they're ALL Mario 64 clones. They have the same controls, same camera, and same obsession with collecting stuff. News flash RARE, a platformer is about moving from A-B with skill and timing, the challenge is making later levels require more precise control and better reflexes. A platformer is not a damn scavenger hunt, I don't want to collect any more damn bananas, or music notes. Oh, and those people about to defend Conker's Bad Fur Day for it's humour, unless you're 12, GROW UP! It's all jokes about being drunk, swearing and poo. It's a childs perception of what adult humour is, and if you find this funny you clearly have the maturity of a boy of seven and half the intellect. It's not funny, it's pathetic. Psychonauts, that's funny. Portal, that's funny. Conker's Bad Fur Day... pathetic.

But still, even though I don't like the games, at least it has them right? Sure... except the PSOne has Tomba, Spyro The Dragon, Crash Bandicoot and Ape Escape. As for the Sega Saturn, you've got Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos, Spot Goes To Hollywood, Sonic 3D Blast (the decent version), Gex, Astral and NiGHTS into Dreams... yeah, Nintendo, you've just been handed your arse.

Basically, in my opinion, the Nintendo 64 is one of the most overrated consoles EVER. The only games worth playing where Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and Pokemon Stadium and even then, compare Super Smash Bros. to Melee on the Gamecube and you can see the vast improvement. In the end, the only thing I used my N64 for was a paperweight, and a way to play my pokemon game on the big screen. Occationally I'd break out Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. but all that would do is make me wish I was playing a better console, you know like the SNES with Mario Kart and Killer Instinct Gold... so I'd just get that out instead.

So. Now that I've thrashed one of the most cherished consoles ever made, I expect endless flaming, but honestly if someone can give me a reason why the N64 was anything other than a peice of junk that was already obsolete when it came out (remember it came out 2 YEARS after both the Saturn and the Playstation and they were both considerably better before it'd even been launched), I'll happily hear it. Personally I can't think of a mainstream console that was more dissappointing, the Sega Saturn may have bombed terribly, but at least it had decent games on it.... oh yeah, and it was a CD player which back in 1995 was pretty cool as CD players where expensive, the N64 is not a CD player, points lost there.

[boltfanSD]

Action games erm... yeah, we didn't really have any. Playstation had the Syphon Filter series and the Metal Gear Solid series, Saturn had Crusader: No Remorse. Oh and they both had Tomb Raider. What did N64 have.... nothing.

Rogue Squadron, Battle for Naboo, Shadows of the Empire, Jet Force Gemini, Resident Evil 2, Castlevania, Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars), Sin and Punishment, Tony Hawk 1-3, 1080 Snowboarding, Bomberman, Robotron 64, Blast Corps, etc.

Oh, how about RPGs, surely Nintendo knows how to do RPGs, it had the RPG king of the SNES (unless you lived in Europe where NONE and I really do mean none of the SNES's famous RPGs where released). Well the N64 has... erm... literally sod all.

Sure it didn't have many RPGs, but it did have Paper Mario, Harvest Moon 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and Quest 64.

Ok, so what about racing games. N64 had Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Waverace 64 and F-Zero X, so that's good at least [...]Also both consoles had Wipeout, which was considerably better than F-Zero X and Waverace.

Wipeout 64? Also try the Cruis'n series, the Rush series, Beetle Adventure Racing, Excitebike 64, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, Hydro Thunder, Extreme-G, etc.

Right, OK. What about FPS games. We can't lose here. The N64 had Perfect Dark, Turok and GoldenEye... surely that's an insta-win... except it's not [...] Well PSOne had Descent Maximum, Medal Of Honor Underground, The World Is Not Enough (basically GoldenEye, but better), Doom (and Final Doom, a harder version of Doom 2) and Quake 2... yeah, it's beaten you down N64. But the Saturn, can that do any better well it's got Forsaken, Hexen, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Exhumed and Alien Trilogy

The World is not Enough was released on the n64. How about some more n64 releases: Quake 64, Doom 64, Forsaken, Hexen, Duke Nukem, and Rainbow Six. And Pokemon Snap

So lastly, surely Nintendo of all people can beat it's competitors with platformers. It created Mario... so what do we have. Well there's a shitty butchered version of Rayman 2... and then, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

You must not like 3d platformers much as you just listed off some of the best releases in the genre.

But still, even though I don't like the games, at least it has them right? Sure... except the PSOne has Tomba, Spyro The Dragon, Crash Bandicoot and Ape Escape. As for the Sega Saturn, you've got Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos, Spot Goes To Hollywood, Sonic 3D Blast (the decent version), Gex, Astral and NiGHTS into Dreams... yeah, Nintendo, you've just been handed your arse.

Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Astal, and NiGHTS are all amazing games, not so much the others you listed. Also try Goemon's Great Adventure, Mystical Ninja, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, Kirby 64, Mischief Makers, and Yoshi's Story. Gex also had an n64 release.

[marballz]

My favorite has to be the Saturn. there is so much nostalgia that it just blows my mind. it reminds me of Las Vegas, Lol..seriously my family and I would stay at Circus Circus hotel and I would always go upstairs to the arcade section and always remember playing; Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter, Vitua Cop, and I believe it was dynamite cop or was it die hard the arcade game?? I dont know, but boy when I got my Saturn I was one happy kid.

My least favorite has to be Sony Playstation. I was given the Playstation as a gift a year after i bought my saturn. but never got into it..