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Topic	C/D: Xbox has no identity.
green butter 05/29/17 9:32:16 PM #48:	Xbox rant incoming I'm a big Xbox fan and the current state of the Xbox One makes me so sad. The OG Xbox was AWESOME - it had this core vision of getting PC gamers to play on a console (hence the name) and it did that by getting some amazing PC-style games that console gamers had never seen (Halo, Morrowind, KOTOR, Splinter Cell, etc) with "traditional" console games like Fable, Dead or Alive, JSRF, GTA, that kind of stuff. There are also some amazing, industry changing features like the HDD, Xbox Live, etc then along comes the 360 and for a while it's great, still giving a good variety of games, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Oblivion, Bioshock, CoD2, Dead Rising, more industry changing games like Gears of War, etc. There was even a solid selection of Japanese games for the system early on - MS tried hard to get Japanese gamers on board. However, 2007 arrives, CoD4 comes out and gaming EXPLODES into the mainstream, DLC starts becoming a thing, annual franchises happen, streaming media becomes ubiquitous, the motion control gimmick is in full force, and basically what happens is that MS has trouble adapting to this new era. They decide to focus on that casual CoD fanbase who just started gaming with CoD4, they decide to focus on the casual motion control gimmick, and they more or less ignore their core fanbase they built up for like 10 years, occasionally throwing them a bone with a new game here or there. The Xbox One went full media center, and when that flopped, they went where they are now, where the system seems to be leaning HEAVILY towards games as a service and not a proprietary gaming machine like a Playstation or something. Idk, that's just the vibe I get. Anyway, my point is that with the Xbox i felt as if they had a vision for a long time and then went off the rails, and while I still play their shit hoping they'll have some comeback story like Apple or something and get back on track, it's mostly just disappointment. My PS4 mostly gets the love these days when I am playing --- http://i.imgur.com/LhwwG.gif <cite>green butter posted [p:880045007] in C/D: Xbox ... [t:75399737]...</cite> <quote>Xbox rant incoming I'm a big Xbox fan and the current state of the Xbox One makes me so sad. The OG Xbox was AWESOME - it had this core vision of getting PC gamers to play on a console (hence the name) and it did that by getting some amazing PC-style games that console gamers had never seen (Halo, Morrowind, KOTOR, Splinter Cell, etc) with "traditional" console games like Fable, Dead or Alive, JSRF, GTA, that kind of stuff. There are also some amazing, industry changing features like the HDD, Xbox Live, etc then along comes the 360 and for a while it's great, still giving a good variety of games, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Oblivion, Bioshock, CoD2, Dead Rising, more industry changing games like Gears of War, etc. There was even a solid selection of Japanese games for the system early on - MS tried hard to get Japanese gamers on board. However, 2007 arrives, CoD4 comes out and gaming EXPLODES into the mainstream, DLC starts becoming a thing, annual franchises happen, streaming media becomes ubiquitous, the motion control gimmick is in full force, and basically what happens is that MS has trouble adapting to this new era. They decide to focus on that casual CoD fanbase who just started gaming with CoD4, they decide to focus on the casual motion control gimmick, and they more or less ignore their core fanbase they built up for like 10 years, occasionally throwing them a bone with a new game here or there. The Xbox One went full media center, and when that flopped, they went where they are now, where the system seems to be leaning HEAVILY towards games as a service and not a proprietary gaming machine like a Playstation or something. Idk, that's just the vibe I get. Anyway, my point is that with the Xbox i felt as if they had a vision for a long time and then went off the rails, and while I still play their shit hoping they'll have some comeback story like Apple or something and get back on track, it's mostly just disappointment. My PS4 mostly gets the love these days when I am playing --- http://i.imgur.com/LhwwG.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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