Ever buy a console for just ONE (or two) games?

[Original_Name]

Panzer Dragoon Orta, Jet Set Radio Future, OutRun 2006, The House of the Dead 3, Otogi 2, Fatal Frame II, Silent Hill 2, and Breakdown are the only Xbox games I'll probably ever own. I've said it before, but despite being such a big success, the console has just never had much merit at all in my eyes

It usually had the best versions of multiplatform games and it could handle PC games the PS2/GC couldn't like Thief: Deadly Shadows, Doom 3, Half Life 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
It does have some exclusives like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Blinx and Mad Dash Racing

Yeah, I understand that -- it's just that its PC-in-a-box design always sort of made me feel like I was being forced to play PC games with less options. I understand that PCs intimidate some gamers, but having played PC games for years, it just seemed like from a design philosophy standpoint all the console really did was split the market. Plus you'll have to excuse my peevishness at having been a Sega fanboy playing the games I had been waiting for on the Dreamcast on not-Dreamcast.

EDIT: Eh, this criticism is off-topic, and I honestly should've learned to just stop bringing it up in gaming conversations by now -- so I'll just wave off my statements before the topic gets derailed. The Xbox had some incredible games released for it, I just have kind of complicated standards.

EDIT EDIT: Oh, and I do want to get The Indigo Prophecy, come to think of it...

[irixith]

Gamecube... Metroid Prime (for free).

Metroid Prime was the reason I bought a GameCube as well -- but I didn't get it for free, only a $30 discount for bundling the two together.

Turns out the GameCube was pretty much the worst system I ever bought. That'll teach me to forgo my usual rule of "wait until there are 10 games you want to play before you buy".

[Original_Name]

Gamecube... Metroid Prime (for free).

Metroid Prime was the reason I bought a GameCube as well -- but I didn't get it for free, only a $30 discount for bundling the two together.

Turns out the GameCube was pretty much the worst system I ever bought. That'll teach me to forgo my usual rule of "wait until there are 10 games you want to play before you buy".

The GameCube had a lot of shortcomings, but I have a soft spot for it because it's probably the most interesting of Nintendo's systems in my mind. Nearly every flagship franchise was handled in a completely original way -- it was refreshing, considering how content Nintendo has been to feed their fans' demands that they make the exact same game over and over and over again. Sunshine, Wind Waker, and Prime all had really interesting takes on the worlds and gameplay styles that the franchises could operate in, and titles like Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Chibi-Robo were fresh and interesting. Plus the third-party titles like Killer 7, Odama, Eternal Darkness, and Cubivore were totally up-my-alley and unbelievably unique.

Although I admit that you couldn't pay me to play fuckin' Pikmin... God, I canNOT watch those little things die.

[Valkyrie-Favor]

Yeah. I like my GameCube fine, but I got it for $20 at a garage sale. If I bought it at full price when it was popular, I probably would have wished I had a PS2.

[Menegrothx]

Yeah, I understand that -- it's just that its PC-in-a-box design always sort of made me feel like I was being forced to play PC games with less options. I understand that PCs intimidate some gamers, but having played PC games for years, it just seemed like from a design philosophy standpoint all the console really did was split the market. Plus you'll have to excuse my peevishness at having been a Sega fanboy playing the games I had been waiting for on the Dreamcast on not-Dreamcast.

Even though you could say that Xbox is the console that started the consolization of genres like FPS and WRPG, I like the fact that back then those games were still made for PC and later on ported to Xbox and not the other way around.
I dont have a problem with games like Goldeneye, Halo and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance since they were originally designed consoles and their limitations in mind, I just hate the fact that genres as a whole are dumbed down/"streamlined" so they could be played with gamepads. In other words modern FPS games and WRPGs suck compared to ones made during 1990s&2000-2004.

[AppleQueso]

Yeah. I like my GameCube fine, but I got it for $20 at a garage sale. If I bought it at full price when it was popular, I probably would have wished I had a PS2.

I had the gamecube as my main system in that era. I had a lot of fun with it, tons of great exclusives, etc, but damn was I jealous of all the stuff my friends could play on their ps2s that I never got on my gamecube.

[Reprise]

I had a Gamecube as my only system in that generation (well I did have an X-box for a while too I guess), bought when it first came out, and I wasn't jealous in the slightest. Great multi-platform games + Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, Metroid Prime, Tales of Symphonia, MGS Twin Snakes, Resident Evil Remake and loads of other great exclusives.

10 years later, I still love it.

[isiolia]

Even though you could say that Xbox is the console that started the consolization of genres like FPS and WRPG, I like the fact that back then those games were still made for PC and later on ported to Xbox and not the other way around.

Didn't some of the console-first start even then? KoTOR was on XBox first by a few months, but Jade Empire was XBox exclusive for nearly two years. Not that I particularly dislike the console - it was a great first effort for MS. I think the shift in development focus is far more on the shoulders of gamers - either PC piracy rates or just plain sales trends dictated the change. Not a console.


On the subject of the Gamecube, it was one of the only times I've traded in a current game system. I wound up buying another with Wind Waker and (free due to promo) Metroid Prime, but still. 'course, it was never my only console either.

[BoringSupreez]

Yeah. I like my GameCube fine, but I got it for $20 at a garage sale. If I bought it at full price when it was popular, I probably would have wished I had a PS2.

I had the gamecube as my main system in that era. I had a lot of fun with it, tons of great exclusives, etc, but damn was I jealous of all the stuff my friends could play on their ps2s that I never got on my gamecube.

GCN was a much better option last gen if you coupled it with a PS2 or Xbox.