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i have an xbox, and i think its graet.  there are many more good games out on the system, and xbox live is insane.

i have a gamecube, and a two, as well.  i think that the cube is just ok, and the ps2 is pretty fantastic. 

the xbox will run halo better than a mac with a 7000. 

the game that comes bundled with the xbox, jet set radio future, is one of the best games ive played in a long time.

Does anyone recall that Halo was orginally designed as a Mac game until Jobs brought out Bungie?

Does anyone recall that Halo was orginally designed as a Mac game until Jobs brought out Bungie?

yea it was designed as a mac game, but bungie has a lot more resources to help them make a better game.....like working directly with the xbox hardware development team, i mean their like in the same building.

I can also vouch bungie hasn't been throughly infected by microsoft, they are way off the main campus, and still seem to be the same company they were before the buy out.

youre right, bat.  actually, i remmber reading that th character models actaully are made up of less polys.  they are using lighting and bump   mapping to its fullest, and it looks insane.

My only reason for disliking X-Box: that god-forsaken controller. It drove me insane trying to play a first person shooter with that.... that.... thing they call a controller.
Playing Tony Hawk 4 on the X-Box was only challenging because the controller was so hard to use. On playstation 2 it was a blast.

the s-control is amazing.  and the normal control is fantastic with FPS.  the GCN control feels good, but if you paly it for a long time, its not very comfortable.  button placement sucks for non platformers, and the control sticks are all too small.  the PS control is neither good nor bad. unlike the xbox and cube control, it does nothing well.  it also does nothing poorly.

I agree about the Mouse issue, but that just wouldn't work well on a console.
What is the s-contoller? They make more than one kind of controller?

yeah, imo, the s cotrol is the most functional control out.

the GCN feels freat, b ut the control sticks are way too small, and the button layout is retardedly pointless

hah, have you played capcom v snk on the cube, or even timesplitters 2?  both games are worthless, becuase the controls are so bad.  i would know, i bought both, and returned them for the same reason.  how can you not hit all the buttons on the XBOX control?  clicking trigers is pretty worthless, imo, and the z button is pretty off too.  nintendos control is comfortable, but not remotely anything near usable.

My only reason for disliking X-Box: that god-forsaken controller. It drove me insane trying to play a first person shooter with that.... that.... thing they call a controller.
Playing Tony Hawk 4 on the X-Box was only challenging because the controller was so hard to use. On playstation 2 it was a blast.

I hated the controller at first too, but after playing Halo a good 4 hours i realized its the only consol controller that WORKS for FPS games. FPS on PS2 sucks....i wasnt too fond of the gamecube one either but i havnt played GCN for that long so..

I've been console gaming since the Atari 2600 and I have to say that the GC controller is the best controller I've ever had. It's completely comfortable and I don't have to contort my hand into any insane positions to reach all of the buttons. The Xbox controllers feel like trying to play a game with a brick. I didn't think that anything could cause as much pain as a Dreamcast controller, but those Buick-sized Xbox controllers take the cake.

Other than that, the Xbox is great for Halo and.... well, that's about it. Any other games worth playing are either on PS2 or GC.

Or a Mac. 

Awesome 

Yeah, I love the GC controller. The PS2 and xbox controllers feel like washing a car with dead fish.

I posted something like this last year but here goes: The GC controller is... shall we say... inadequate. Playing Time Splitters became a chore for me and my friends who own the system kept kicking my ass for a week. This is the Kate Moss of controllers: Thin, fragile, and lacking functionality. The Xbox controller (the regular one) is great for me 'cause my hands are kinda big, it has substance. It's the latina with the nice booty of the controllers. My friends and I agree that the PS2 controller is one of the best. Analog everything, small, but not too small, great for all genres (Xbox fails miserably for most fighting games and Tony Hawk). It is the Mia Kunis or Beyonce Knowles of the controllers, the crowd pleaser. Something for everyone. A while ago, I noticed that the Xbox and PS2 contollers have the same number of bottons, sticks, and pads... I wonder...