Board 8 > Has there ever been a console that you considered a day 1 must have?

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Most of what I can remember is consoles that, while not terrible, were more or less average for the first few months, and generally taking around 8 months to a year to get out their first "killer app".

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No, most consoles don't offer enough at launch to be day 1 must-haves.

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the sega saturn for the best fighting game pad ever made


well I guess you could just have bought the pad

nevermind

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IIRC I knew I needed a PS2 as soon as I could get one. I couldn't buy it on Day 1 but as soon as I knew about FFX I wanted one.

No. Never.

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I also remember reading some game magazine that talked about how you could see "the individual blades of grass" in Tekken Tag Tournament for PS2 and that seemed quite impressive to me.

Nothing gets me more excited than blades of grass!

Now if they had told me I could literally see paint dry, then I would've been sold day 1!

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OmarsComin posted...
I also remember reading some game magazine that talked about how you could see "the individual blades of grass" in Tekken Tag Tournament for PS2 and that seemed quite impressive to me.

Bahahahaha

Although for all I hate on the idea of competitive Tekken, as a casual game it's a blast

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you can see the individual drips of paint and they stream to the ground just like they would in real life!

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From: OmarsComin | #009
you can see the individual drips of paint and they stream to the ground just like they would in real life!

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I've never played a Tekken game, just the idea and screenshots were quite impressive to my brain at the time.

Jak and Daxter was my first PS2 game and man it was something. I thought it looked amazing and the complete lack of load times was impressive. First 10 minutes of playing that game I was smiling throughout.

and voice acting! holy smokes. it's hard to describe how big the PS2 leap felt at the time.

I didn't feel any desire to own a PS2 until FFX came out so I didn't. :P

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OmarsComin posted...
I've never played a Tekken game, just the idea and screenshots were quite impressive to my brain at the time.

Jak and Daxter was my first PS2 game and man it was something. I thought it looked amazing and the complete lack of load times was impressive. First 10 minutes of playing that game I was smiling throughout.

Shame the sequels kind of ruined it :/

But yes, Jak and Daxter was an amazing game. It was also one of the only games I got 100% complete!

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I enjoyed the sequels more than the original!

J&D1 is fine, but it doesn't do much to distinguish itself from your average 3-D platformer other than Daxter being awesome, and he's in the next two games anyway.

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I got a PS2 as soon as I could, and with it SSX.

Man I loved and was so amazed by that game's beauty at the time.

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From: Procrastinater | #017
I got a PS2 as soon as I could, and with it SSX.

Man I loved and was so amazed by that game's beauty at the time.

this exactly

i also got smuggler's run though

memories =)

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Jak II and 3 didn't do much to distinguish itself from "argh I speak in a gruff voice I'm mad let's ruin a good platformer with sloppy gta elements"

Also, unless a price drop is coming within the next year or so, I don't mind getting a console day 1. After all, if it's gonna be worth it eventually, it doesn't really matter when you buy it!

From: pjbasis | #019
Jak II and 3 didn't do much to distinguish itself from "argh I speak in a gruff voice I'm mad let's ruin a good platformer with sloppy gta elements"

What other games do this?

I'm having a hard time thinking of any!

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The point is that it's inherently bad!

They're all too expensive, for starters. But there have been some I've considered eventual must haves, right at launch. Most notably the greatest console ever. The PS2.

Super Nintendo is pretty close.

Super Mario World (and F-Zero & Gradius III if you're into that) at launch, with Super Castlevania IV before the end of the year, that's a pretty good start.

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Probably the N64 when it first came out. There was so much hype surrounding it. I remember how huge Mario 64 was for my friends. Looking back, yeah, that launch kind of sucked. SM64 really is an incredible game though.

Right now, the Vita is really enticing (but this has a lot to do with Skype more than anything). I still probably won't buy it until later.

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Super Mario World (and F-Zero & Gradius III if you're into that) at launch, with Super Castlevania IV before the end of the year, that's a pretty good start.

Don't forget Pilotwings, Super R-Type, Final Fight, Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, Actraiser, and Final Fantasy 2!

SNES had a kickass first 5 months.

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Ah yeah I forgot about some of those being '91 games and not '92.

Honestly the SNES did pretty well every year of its life cycle. It's weakest year was probably 1993 and that year still saw games like SF2 Turbo, Mega Man X, Mario All-Stars and friggin' STAR FOX. They only really messed up with Mortal Kombat, but man did that cost them. And I guess a collection of NES remakes being your only big first-party holiday title didn't help a ton, but as remakes go Mario All-Stars is one of the best. And it's not like Sega was bringing the first-party guns, their big game was Sonic Spinball.

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Nod. SNES would be second place.