Let's end the Console Wars Once and For All

[Armion]

After seeing the countless posts on video game sites and even company sites, Ive come to the conclusion that all gamers are slowly converting to become bitter shells that are the mindless drones of the system they own.
I will not let this happen. To me, it doesn't matter what system it is. It doesn't matter who made it. The sales figures are meaningless, as are the graphics. Have we all been blinded? Have the lights on our systems hypnotized us to become blithering drooling idiots?! I ask you what have gamers become? I'm starting to be ashamed each time I see the idiocy of others. I thought to myself, how much time do I have left if everyone around me is losing it.
I knew it started to go to far when I sat at a table in a park and listen to this guy I knew for a long time blab on about his console and start bashing others. I lost it for that one moment. For some reason all the things I knew just flew out of my mouth. I began hitting him specifications, statements, and configurations, all of which he never understood. He just stared at me and asked why? This guy was my classmate for 7 years of school. I taught him the raging demon for akuma, and who made Mario RPG. I even took him to E3 with me on occasion. He was a brother to me. As I explained to him what a gamer truly is, it flowed into my head, that I was beginning to become what I hate. I started to lose myself as a gamer, and become a fanboy. All the gaming experience, all the fun I had, all the times, all this and so much more I had forgotten. For that one moment, I knew what I had to do. I went home, turned on my oldest video game, and played it and all the others, from atari to virtual boy, from genesis to N64, from Game Boy to Game boy Advance SP. I realized what I had begun to forget. It was all a game, meant for my enjoyment. It wasn't a necessity. It was a lifestyle. I know now, that I am a gamer, and what many have forgotten is that it is only a game. We gamers have been blinded by add ons, fancy commercials, big names, naughty situations, graphics, and stories that seem to repeat and repeat and repeat with glossied up imagery. We have forgotten what it means to game. We've turned our backs on one another. What was once a brotherhood has now become the console wars? Whether its the power of X, the cubed vision, or the PS2's world, its had some affect on our gaming prowess, making us into gangs who have a rivalry about which is better. I refuse to allow the brotherhood to be broken and for us gamers to lose what we all have. I'm asking you all to forget the faux console war, and remember what gaming is supposed to be. Fun.

Reply to this post if you want the gaming brotherhod to return. If not, then don't post. You've already been consumed, and there's no easy way to turn back.



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[ABDUR101]

Hell too, I'll take my Ranger X, Master Blaster, Super Black Bass, Metal Warriors, Street Fighter and Contra....shite...now I want to play them. =

But yeah, it's not exactly all of the current gamers, or those who have been around long enough to know the enjoyment of buying an NES and locking up your Atari, or nearly pissing yourself to open up your SNES or Genesis box, it's more so the younger generation of gamers who brag to each other at school and at each other's houses without knowing what the hell they're talking about.

Back "in the day", someone could brag that they had an NES and a ton of games, even though their current system was an SNES or Genesis, and everyone would be in awe, today, someone says they have a Gameboy(not color, not Advance) with a ton of games, and everyone looks at them like "...what the fuck...where the hell have you been? *smack* "

In effect, I just think the new generation of gamers don't stop to think that the beauty of a game isn't all about pixels and polygon counts. Shit, anyone who played Atari for hours on end knows what I'm talking about.

Sure, you get all these nicely defined curved characters, with eyelashes and individual hairs, games are already defined. Waay back, the pixelation gave us a chance to use our imagination to an extent atleast.

Honestly, anyone who's played games "way back" then, in memory they seem alot more detailed, but when you go and play them today, you're like "Holy shit..what happened, I thought it looked better than this."

But in the end, I don't care. I still miss the days of 2D. Yeah, 3D kicks ass, but you can only pump out so much before you go "...meh..".

And it's not even so much the big companies or specs that everyone looks at, it's more so just petty "My system is better than your system because I say so". Or "The controllers for your system sucks, thus, your system sucks", "It looks stupid/it's bulky/it's childish/whatever". It's ok to not like something, but just let that be your reason, it's a helluva lot better than giving one of the above, by far.

And with that, we go off to Rants. =)

*moves to appropriate forum*

[Scriptor]

2D cropped up there somewhere- i just gotta chirrp up about Shining Force 2, a 2D RPG from Sega for Mega Drive. i mean hell, i used to friggin worship that game and even downloaded a emulator and rom reccently and played thru again. so yeah, i gotta say some old games do have the goods on new stuff in some ways. and yeah, there never used to be all that console rivalry crap. but then- there never used to be online...or so many gamers. i dunno about no "brotherhood", but theres somethin to be said for 'old school' games. but not all of em- some muppets just jump on the friggin band waggon and start talkin about space invaders and shit so that they sound unique or some crap- i find that more annoyin that ppl who argue about consoles and the like. anyways, u better get used to it (whoever started the thread, i forget) - things r gonna change and u can bet ur bottom dollar things wont go back to how they were, just continue to change. so if there was a brotherhood and its dead- it aint comin back.

[Armion]

Ye of little belief. After my intitial post, I went online, and I was amazed how many that 2 people saw my post. They too, remembered the brotherhood gamers had, and longed for it to return. Even if it's a small few, I'm just glad to see that some gamers are willing to regain the brotherhood's standards. Oh, yes. I can say that the gaming brotherhood is reviving. I copied my post on another site, and believe or not, more people remembered. My faith in Gamers has be restored. I appreciate the two posts that I got here, although negative, they were still posts. I used them as examples in my post. well, like I said, the gaming brotherhood isn't dead. There are gamers out there, and I'm glad to be one of them.

[Scriptor]

...u make it sound like some obscure religeon or somethin...*heheh*...

[Ness]

The problem here is fanboys. If we get rid of all the fanboys and leave the people who know how to enjoy their console without ruining someone else's, thee we would be all good.

[ancutcho]

i love console war. its fun argueing which system is the best and seeing all the gc fans dont know much cause all they say is that u gotta pay for xbox live and pso which doubles the price and that xbox is HEAVY. LOL there funny. while the xbox fans always do the math and compare both the xbox and gamecube and xbox ends up alittle cheaper. but the prices are not a big difference so its your decision on which system to get it on. if you want to play alot of online games then go with xbox and if u dont play on playing alot of online games and or dont have boardband connection then go with the gamecube.

[NeoMusicMaker]

Woah, i see this line of peole discussing gaming, and then another guy who actually talks about the differences and stuff?? thats rather odd... but anyways, my all time favorite game is Punch-out for NES. if given the choice i would play Punch-Out over PSO.... i think.... i dunno, hard choice there.
But oh, there is a brotherhood in this area. me and a few friends, all the time, playing new games, playing them together, and playing all the systems. I heard about Phantasy star not to long ago, and the first one i played was an old one from genesis. let me tell you that all the early Phantasy Stars were great games and if you look past graphics then you have a hard choice to pick a best.
I have PSOX and friend has GameCube. you think we care?? HECK NO!! i have a few characters on his GC and he has a few on my Xbox. There still is a true brotherhood, all hope is NOT lost.

[Armion]

The brotherhood lives on. And no its not a religion. That would be a cult. The brotherhood is like what the knights of the round table were. It's our bond to each other. It's a shoalin monks relationship with another.
Okay maybe not monks. Man you enjoy making my posts look stupid don't you? Whether or not you know about the brothership or understand is pretty obvious to me. Next, jealously is indeed one of reasons behind the console wars, but not the only.

It's funny to me how I started this post in a positive light, but everybody is complaining about it.

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[Scriptor]

...now u breakin out the monks?!?...deary me...u say it aint like a religeon but- the word monk, means some1 who is a student of religeon ( i believe) ...so....err kinda self-defeating but i do get ya...i think. but on pso, i bet it wont be long before it detieorates into what it was like on DC after 22 months or so....which can be described in 1 word- shite.