your least favorite console?

[RCBH928]

its really hard to say
as a kid i never got much consoles, and when i did I hardly got games(i recall buying super famicom in 95 '1 year before 64' and buying 1 game for it, i dont know if i bought more) , but i had a friend that had like almost every console in the world so i got a taste of most consoles out there,
If I actually owned those machines maybe i would hate some of them because money i spent, but because i only got a taste, i am always impressed with using video in 3do playind mad-dog, road rash, johny bazokatone , and on neo-geo arcade like graphics, arcade joystick!? WOW... so everything you think about i can see a thing or too i would want to play or wish i had. I don't really hate but..

I saw a virtual gameboy(the one where you wear on your head) i don't recall it interesting me much. Genesis to me , was always the weaker SNES wannabe(now i would like to own one for nostalgia reasons) , and ps2. To me ps2 is soul-less. No character or life in it, just a machine with many good games and it just wants to sell. Even its shape is black life-less box.

i hate none of them, just these are more un-appealing to me.
maybe the jaguar, that system really looks pathetic, but even that one i recall asking my mom if i could buy it

[executioner]

Least favorite would say xbox 360. Don't have one I really hate it because I wan't one and don't want the risk of it breaking down on me since I know so many 360 owners with big white bricks in their homes.

[Gamerforlife]

The 360, which may sound weird given the awesome games I have been playing on it and talking about on these forums. It's just the whole obsession with online gaming that bugs me a bit. How every game MUST have a multi-player mode and that reviewers actually see fit to lower a game's score if it doesn't have one.

Plus, the RROD issues people have had, the way they screwed up backwards compatibility and the greed that Microsoft represents. Little by little we are seeing more games where you have to pay for "additional content" that seems like it should have been in the game to begin with and I'm starting to see games that require players to use peripherals for so-called achievements.

Also, Gamertags are becoming too tied to our gaming now. There's a secret pinata in Viva Pinata 2 that players can get and it comes in a variety of different looks. Once you get it however, you can never get another because it is permanently tied to your gamertag. So if you don't like the look of the one you got, you're stuck with it FOREVER. In the old days, you could just start your game over or make a new save file or whatever. Now, it's like a damn commitment when you do things in a 360 game. That's too much regulation for my tastes

Plus, part of me hates Microsoft for having the success that Sega should have had with the Dreamcast. But hey, I'm not a system fanboy. I don't LIKE the 360(or Microsoft), but I go wherever the good games are. And right now many of them are on the 360

[MrPopo]

I'm going to go with the 360 (though the original Xbox is at around the same level) because of the things it brought to gaming that strike me as bad. It's similar to that paradigm shift that happened when the PSX made games more mainstream (especially RPGs), and as a result everyone started catering to that wider audience.

First off, Live, and specifically, the fact it costs money. I've been playing PC games for far too long to accept paying for any form of online play outside of the MMO (where I acknowledge the cost of operation, as well as the fact that a good MMO like WoW has a rediculous amount of post-launch content that the money pays for). But there is no reason to have to pay money to play some FPS deathmatch against people.

Second, Halo. A very generic shooter, but somehow it became some kind of holy grail, and made FPS's mainstream enough on the consoles that the PC market for it suffers. Mouse and keyboard is the ONLY proper way to play a true FPS (though Wiimote + chucks is almost as good). Dual analog is horrible, and nothing can change it. Goldeneye/Perfect Dark were fun, but there were a lot of gameplay concessions made to make them workable. And it was known that things like Quake would stay on the PC, and the consoles could have Goldeneye, and they would be separate. Then the Xbox comes along with it's Halo and ruins Deus Ex: Invisible War.

Third, achievements. I don't get it. So the game will let me know if I've accomplished some random thing (as well as milestones in game that I knew I made it to anyway). Ok, I guess that's slightly nifty, and gives me an idea of ways to challege myself. Except now there's some kind of score associated with it, so you can wave your epeen around. And it becomes a point of comparison that another platform doesn't have them. What?! The PS3/Wii version is inferior because it doesn't have a completely meaningless feature?!

Fourth, hardware. My brother ended up picking up the 360, as he felt it had more games he was interested in, which is fine. But it started having problems. The system would lock up upon trying to load it up. So in order to get it fixed, the solution was to leave it powered on long enough to go full on RROD, so that Microsoft would replace it. The ONLY problem I've had with a console before that experience is the original NES connector being crappy. And that took about $20 and 20 minutes to fix.

Finally, demographic shift. When I started playing games, they were for the geeky kids. And it was great. We had our thing, and the other kids had baseball, or something. Then the PSX comes out, and there's this shift. Now more people are playing. Now, it isn't too bad, since the graphics are pretty horrid, so it becomes kind of something to do once or twice a week for those guys. It did screw with the direction of the Final Fantasy series, though, and there were similar kinds of shifts in the targeted gameplay from publishers. But there was still a lot of really great stuff. Then the Xbox comes out, and snaps up the frat crowd. And not just for an hour a week. They get really into it. The net result being far too many games catering to that crowd, and less of the geekier titles (though Atlus still keeps me afloat).

[lordofduct]

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can get a 1 or 2 slot MVS for 80 bucks and MVS games for 10-50.

This is very true, but it is now many years after its conseption... and that is still the arcade gear and not the console (even tho they are the same games).

I just mean for a console to be great or a game it really needs to be played. They managed to release an awsome piece of harware so far out of their customers reach to almost be a joke, and this is made alot worse by the fact of its sheer greatnes.

I just think because of that it was a complete failure as a home console, but therin it has probably ensured it will stand the test of time as an all time great....

It's the same hardware and software even though it has a JAMMA edge on it. It has control ports and a memory card slot and can easily be connected to a TV, I don't see what the big deal is. The AES and MVS hardware and software is exactly the same.

It was also played; a great deal in fact, it just wasn’t played at home but in Arcades all over the world. Just as you can’t expect everyone to be able to hire their own personal Chef or Bartender, you can't expect everyone to be able to own their own high caliber arcade equipment. NeoGeo hardware was out pre-SNES and continued to be competitive 2D quality until the atomiswave system hit.

Because you can't afford to own a billiard and black jack tables doesn't mean the game suck, just means you can't afford to own it. Just because you can't have Chef Emrald or Wolfgang Puck come cater your birth day party doesn't mean they suck as Chefs, just means they are out of your league financially.

But he didn't say it sucked. The original question of this thread, and turkey's response, was that it was his least favourite. Something being your least favourite doesn't mean you think it sucks. Lobster is by far my least favourite food, I can't eat it, gives me hives and makes me vomit. I don't think it sucks, and I don't think it's bad food. I just can't eat it... just as I couldn't afford the NeoGeo.

As for my least favourite console. That is a hard one.

Everyone brings up 3DO, I own one, and I've enjoyed quite a few games on it. Other people bring up the PS1, I really don't like the playstation line of systems, but I do love a handful of games on them (especially the Silent Hill series). Jaguar is another and I've only played it a total of 10 times in my entire life and can't really say much about it.

The question at root is my least favourite of the consoles I've played. Well I think I'm going to have to agree with a previous post. The Nintendo64. I didn't enjoy a single game on the console... that includes Zelda64 and Smash Bros. I hated the controller, it had barely any 3rd party support, they were expensive titles, I could just never get into the console.

N64 has to be my least favourite I must say. Trailing just behind is the SNES... yep, I don't like the SNES, mostly because what games I do like on the console are far better (in my opinion) on the Genesis. And the tiny handful of games exclusive and I like, like Mario, I can do with out.

[D.D.D.]

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[Pingfa]

My least favorite console is the one I don't play.

[The Apprentice]

The PS2. I'm not a fan of global tyrants, especially ones that stopped the Dreamcast from giving the gamers a superior experience. The controller is way too crampt, the system (original version) is bulky and ugly, and the games had some of the worst graphics this generation unless the developer had a large budget and was working exclusively on the system.

[Pulsar_t]

My least favourite is the N64, followed by the PSP, CD-i and the Jaguar.. All four systems fail to grasp the concepts of gaming for their respective times (N64 used carts, PSP offers watered-down console ports, the CD-i was a joke and the Jaguar was just a ridiculous endeavour) I also think the 32X was a disaster. I'm on the fence with regard to the 3DO, it was an open-system (but you still needed licensing) and Trip Hawkins is a decent businessman. The M2 was supposedly superior to the filter-blunder that was the N64, but Matsushita screwed up that one.

I hate the Playstations with a passion too, yet I love the games (Only MGS1 on the PS1, and dozens of games on the PS2)

[disorderlyvision]

PSP offers watered-down console ports

I agree that it has a lot of ports, but i have a modded one and have been able to try a bunch of games i probably wouldn't have otherwise, and i got to say it actually has some good games. not to mention i can play about any other systems games on it ps1 and previous. I didn't have super high expectations because i had heard that the game library sucked, but i have to admit it is quickly becoming my favorite handheld, and about the only handheld i don't own is the ds.