xbox 360 and the wii

reason

I want ps3 domination

Dreamcast was horrible to me no matter what I did to it, online didn't worked (mind you it was dial-up back then) games chipped easily and was a pain to repair.

klc0100:
xbox 360 and the wii

reason

I want ps3 domination

Hey, I own the first two and not the third. (and interestingly the first two cost the same as the third even after you factor in a years subscription to the first one's online service)

Maybe you're looking for the generic console that EA and Denis Dyack so hopefully and futilely await.

Eldritch Warlord:

klc0100:
xbox 360 and the wii

reason

I want ps3 domination

Hey, I own the first two and not the third. (and interestingly the first two cost the same as the third even after you factor in a years subscription to the first one's online service)

Maybe you're looking for the generic console that EA and Denis Dyack so hopefully and futilely await.

Oh no I just wish to put my crusade amour away and scream "YEA WERE NUMBER ONE" to a few people, but a serious post for me would be the game boy micro its smaller with less features than the gba and sp but cost more

Dreamcast:
was never advertised, and most people i ask bout ot give me a blank stare for
the lack of knowlage, was an alright system to play though, had sum fun in Madden 2k1 lol

definitely virtual boy. I'm not just going with popular opinion here, I actually bought one when it first came out.

I never got headaches, and Wario Land and TeleroBoxer were pretty cool. It wasn't so bad, but there wasn't anything there that couldn't be done on a gameboy (besides the fake 3d).

But it is one of the most ridiculous moves on Nintendo's part for releasing such a pointless system and charging $200 at it's release. Within like 6 months, they were selling the same thing in stores for 35 bucks. I remember feeling totally screwed and vowed never to buy another console at it's release again.

On a happier note, I recently bought a Gamecube for 35 bucks and have been having a blast.

I can't stand the Wii's controllers and graphics.

Virtual Boy, without a doubt. Horrendous.

flatearth:

Dommyboy:
Anyone here actually bought a Virtual Boy?

Did anyone anywhere actually buy a Virtual Boy?

Apparently only in the UAE: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080914/PAGETHREE/439268714/1119

klinger-7:
Dreamcast:
was never advertised, and most people i ask bout ot give me a blank stare for
the lack of knowlage, was an alright system to play though, had sum fun in Madden 2k1 lol

I loved my dreamcast, powerstone 1 and 2 were awesome!

To be honest, I'd have to say it's like that Gizmondo or whatever the heck that handheld that made you watch commercials was. Seriously, no one likes Commercials, we buy stuff like TiVo and DirectTV just so we don't HAVE to watch commercials and surveys done by a few local papers and websites of TV Turn-offs had over 50% of them being commercials.

The N-Gage I'll give some credit to, as crappy as it was. There were some game developers that were at least trying, like say Pocket Kingdom. Whereas on the virtual boy as been mentioned enough times to destroy Vegeta's Scouter, they weren't really trying. The AVGN probably said it best:

"They didn't even ATTEMPT to make it virtual reality!"

(probably off since I haven't seen that video for awhile nor do I wanna slog through blinding red graphics or wait for it to load since I'm on Dial-Up)

I'd have to go with the N-Gage or the Virtual Boy. I got beaten to the AVGN quote for the Virtual Boy, so here is an N-Gage quote from "Decline of Video Gaming 2" by "Super Flash Bros.":

"Dude, you bought an N-Gage? Hey, Dave, this guy actually bought an N-Gage!" "No way!" "What a loser!" "Fag."

I originally thought the Dreamcast was a show or a DVD player. Would of been a better console if they did some advertising for it.

Dommyboy:
I originally thought the Dreamcast was a show or a DVD player. Would of been a better console if they did some advertising for it.

Sad, sad truth. I thought they didn't do a good job at demonstrating it - a sonic speed game doesn't translate well to 3D, but that was all that was on the Demo consoles.

madden and tony hawk are tied for worst franchise.
i'm not liking the psp right now. it gave me some good times, but now it's not worth it anymore

Cyclomega:

Anyone ever played on a Tiger game.com ? this looked like one of the worst things ever.

Yes, I still use it. Often.

SteinFaust:
madden and tony hawk are tied for worst franchise.
i'm not liking the psp right now. it gave me some good times, but now it's not worth it anymore

Ok, thats ironic, since THPS 3 is one of the best rated games ever, and the best rated sports game ever.

Indigo_Dingo:

SteinFaust:
madden and tony hawk are tied for worst franchise.
i'm not liking the psp right now. it gave me some good times, but now it's not worth it anymore

Ok, thats ironic, since THPS 3 is one of the best rated games ever, and the best rated sports game ever.

That's cool, it and 4 were the only ones I liked.

Definitely tied between the Gizmodo and Virtual Boy.

And destroys your body, the other destroys your mind. Pick your poison.

I didn't want anyone else to suffer. Plus, it's a shit console, and no one wants to buy shit.

Let's see here.

Atari Jaguar - Running 8 video processors in parallel is not 64 bit graphics.
EA Madden/NCAA franchise - I'm sure if they could find a way to put kill codes on all of their previous year games, they would. In fact, I might just change this to the entire DRM loaded EA franchise. Sure the games are fun, but why do I need to buy a new game EVERY YEAR.
3DO - One of my parents friends bought one a few years ago in a pawn shop for like 20 bucks. It was a great system that was too far ahead of it's time.
Duke Nukem 4 - Will it ever come out? The loose scheduled release dates are between 2010 and 20110. I'm serious.

Atari 2600-Before you say "It had classics like Joust" it also had A lot of terrible games and really to get worst console PAC-MAN was enough let alone E.T

Worst Franchise is Metal Gear. Man those games pissed me off.

wilsonscrazybed:
I'd say for the handheld market the Sega Game Gear was pretty high on my list. That thing was a battery monster and was about as comfortable as the old xbox controllers.

Gah, don't get my started on them- 6 AA batteries=4 hours of playtime.
Horrible, freakin' horrible.

My tops
1) Virtual Boy
2) Turbo Graphix 16 (did anybody actually have that system?)
3) Sega CD (games on this system were NOT better than a computer with a CD-ROM)
4) MOST (not all) TIGER hand held electronic games (especially the Disney ones).

Anyone who says anything but the Atari Jaguar is lying to themselves.

klc0100:

Oh no I just wish to put my crusade amour away and scream "YEA WERE NUMBER ONE" to a few people, but a serious post for me would be the game boy micro its smaller with less features than the gba and sp but cost more

But isn't the point of Crusading to scream "YEA WERE NUMBER ONE" to people and then beat them until they agree?

And I never understood the point of the micro either. Unless there's some people out there that literally have no place to store things besides their pocket protector. Kinda like those stick cell phones that are about the size of a flash drive.

n-gage yeah... my friend and i took to using his as a way of meting out punishment to each other: "EAT BRICK!"
It never died, despite many instances of bouncing thrice then skittering away on concrete roads
...it never died

I'll have to jump on the Virtual Boy bandwagon here (proof, as if it were needed, that innovation isn't always a good thing).

I'll also have to give mention to the games with 'Wii' in the title like 'Wii sports' and 'Wii fit'. From what I've heard they're just an assortment of mini-games and rainy day activities.

Finally, mention must go to F.E.A.R and it's spawn. Three words that summerised those games were: repetitive, dull and dark. I'm dreading the day when F.E.A.R 2 comes out (I've heard they're making it).

Dommyboy:
What about the Phantom? It ironically never got released. :P

Ah yes, the Phantom. I remember reading articles about it in game mags. I wonder if it was ever going to be a real console or if it was just some kind of prank.

This probably isnt the worst console but its a serious contender:The Sega CD!
Does anyone own this piece of shit? Has anyone even heard it?!
Oh yeah and the crowd favourite it seems, The supposedly 'portable' pair of eyes on legs,The Virtual Boy

Easily its got to be The tiger R-zone.

philips cdi... i remeber watchign those infomercials saturday mornings at like 6am when i was like 8 yrs old.. tryign to get my parents to get me one. Apparently they do know best. thank god

It just baffles me how many people are bashing the Virtual Boy, simply because that bad console can't hold a candle next to how horribly bad the Philips CD-i was.

Sure the Virtual Boy had some dumb design flaws to it, but the console was within a resonable price range and its games where actually not bad at all. The only problem with the games was just... they were only for the Virtual Boy.

The Philips CD-i on the other hand was a $700 monstrosity (do I even dare to say that it was even more expensive in Europe) that wasn't even designed to be a gaming console to begin with. The CD-i was intended for use of "educational games", watching movies and "interactive encyclopedia applications".

When the sales began to swindle - they started to concentrate on what Philips call "games" or "interactive games" more likely. If you think quicktime events ('Simon Says'-events) are bad, this console had full length games that were nothing but an hour long quick-time event. The only way they could make notecable games was by filling the 600 MB discs with heavy movie-influenced games. We all know the legacy for those with the Sega CD. Some games though didn't use a lot of movies, and the graphics on those games were no better than the SNES graphics. Definetly worth your $700, eh?

Did I also mention that the controller was majorly unresponsive? I noticed when playing Space Ace that sometimes the controls where unresponsive and didn't properly respond to my button presses. I thought originally that there was something wrong with the game interpreting my buttonpresses - but no, it's the CD-i controller that is notorious for being one of the worst controllers ever. (yes, even worse than the Xbox brick)

Well, at least the CD-i had Zelda. .... oh... wait...

Funny how nobody has mentioned worst franchises so far.

I'll start with one: Call of Duty.

Okay, the first game was good. Not amazing, but cool for the time, and one of the first World War 2 shooters other than Medal of Honor to do a good job at capturing the intensity of the battlefield.

The second game was also good. Kind of limited and didn't really add anything new to the formula, though. The graphics were admittedly pretty for their time, and are even okay today, but the mechanics were starting to show their age, what with the infinitely respawning enemies and stuff. Still, it brought us the grenade indicator, so that's something.

The third game basically just copied the second game without adding anything new. In other words, boring.

The fourth game basically just copied the second game without adding anything new (again), but stuck it in modern times and added some more interesting set pieces. Yes, the multiplayer is fun, I get it. No, the game is not all that great. It uses the same gameplay mechanics that were tired and boring before the second game came out, aside from one or two parts it's as linear as you can possibly get, it's short, and focuses entirely on style over substance. Oh, did I mention that the AI is completely broken? The game is practically an interactive movie.

If one franchise needs a serious overhaul, it's this one. In fact, I'd prefer if they just didn't make any more. Give it a new setting, focus more on non-scripted gameplay (no fucking infinite enemy spawns until you reach the trigger point), and open up the environment beyond linear corridors. Everyone thought Call of Duty 4 would be better just because of the new setting, and it was, but they let presentation impress them too much. If they send the next game into the future, I want to have laser guns, mechs, open-ended stealth gameplay, freedom in how to approach objectives, etc. Please, just not the same awful slog through thousands of enemies while shrugging off hundreds of bullet wounds by hiding behind picket fences.

haveyouseen_mywallet:
the original gamegear, i had one of the ac adapters that never fit correctly which meant it never charged, also to a 6 year old kid the thing felt like it was 40 pounds. it was like a cinderblock with buttons.

man I loved the game gear....