Xbox or PS2

[spyder2323]

Ok....I have never played ASB. I have and like MVP for my ps2, but I am thinking of picking up the xbox.

My question is should I get ASB for the box or the deuce? Its probably a stupid question, but getting an xbox has always scared me because I don't want to deal with dirty disk errors?

Have those errors happened to people with ASB?
Thanks

[Stoud]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Xbox ASB05 has Custom Soundtracks.

Star Wars: Galaxies is coming out at Christmas for the Box, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is already out, and is God to boot. That was not a typo. G-O-D. Add on the many more than decent games the Xbox has besides this...Project Gotham, Morrowind, ect. Add on the fact that most multi-platform games usually have something more enticing for the Box....it's worth the $180 IMO.

I honestly believe I'll be playing some of these games on the Box 3 to 5 years from now. They're that good. When you can find games that good, and the system isn't notorious for breaking down (sorry, had to crack at the PS2), you should pay whatever it takes for the system. That's just my opinion though. I'm a rather casual gamer. It takes alot to get me to play a game, let alone own it for longer than 6 months. I'm hard to please. However, I love Star Wars, both the best Star Wars RPGs ever were coming out for the Box, I said "hell yeah" and picked it up.

I would say wait on it if you possibly can, though. I've heard some news going around about a Price Drop for the Xbox. It's either dropping to $150 or $130. Time for steals and deals gentlemen.

[Stoud]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Xbox ASB05 has Custom Soundtracks.

Star Wars: Galaxies is coming out at Christmas for the Box, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is already out, and is God to boot. That was not a typo. G-O-D. Add on the many more than decent games the Xbox has besides this...Project Gotham, Morrowind, ect. Add on the fact that most multi-platform games usually have something more enticing for the Box....it's worth the $180 IMO.

I honestly believe I'll be playing some of these games on the Box 3 to 5 years from now. They're that good. When you can find games that good, and the system isn't notorious for breaking down (sorry, had to crack at the PS2), you should pay whatever it takes for the system. That's just my opinion though. I'm a rather casual gamer. It takes alot to get me to play a game, let alone own it for longer than 6 months. I'm hard to please. However, I love Star Wars, both the best Star Wars RPGs ever were coming out for the Box, I said "hell yeah" and picked it up.

I would say wait on it if you possibly can, though. I've heard some news going around about a Price Drop for the Xbox. It's either dropping to $150 or $130. Time for steals and deals gentlemen.

[Stoud]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Xbox ASB05 has Custom Soundtracks.

Star Wars: Galaxies is coming out at Christmas for the Box, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is already out, and is God to boot. That was not a typo. G-O-D. Add on the many more than decent games the Xbox has besides this...Project Gotham, Morrowind, ect. Add on the fact that most multi-platform games usually have something more enticing for the Box....it's worth the $180 IMO.

I honestly believe I'll be playing some of these games on the Box 3 to 5 years from now. They're that good. When you can find games that good, and the system isn't notorious for breaking down (sorry, had to crack at the PS2), you should pay whatever it takes for the system. That's just my opinion though. I'm a rather casual gamer. It takes alot to get me to play a game, let alone own it for longer than 6 months. I'm hard to please. However, I love Star Wars, both the best Star Wars RPGs ever were coming out for the Box, I said "hell yeah" and picked it up.

I would say wait on it if you possibly can, though. I've heard some news going around about a Price Drop for the Xbox. It's either dropping to $150 or $130. Time for steals and deals gentlemen.

[snowmizer]

Re: Xbox or PS2

If you took the chance on buying a PS2, knowing their reliability issues, buying an Xbox is hardly a gamble in comparison.

And if you have both, the only reason why you'd pick up the PS2 version of ASB over the Xbox one is if you fall into the 'I just love the PS2 controller too much' category.

[snowmizer]

Re: Xbox or PS2

If you took the chance on buying a PS2, knowing their reliability issues, buying an Xbox is hardly a gamble in comparison.

And if you have both, the only reason why you'd pick up the PS2 version of ASB over the Xbox one is if you fall into the 'I just love the PS2 controller too much' category.

[snowmizer]

Re: Xbox or PS2

If you took the chance on buying a PS2, knowing their reliability issues, buying an Xbox is hardly a gamble in comparison.

And if you have both, the only reason why you'd pick up the PS2 version of ASB over the Xbox one is if you fall into the 'I just love the PS2 controller too much' category.

[Comp625]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Yeah I was reading in the news yesterday, the XBox will be dropped down to $150 in April. So you could either wait that long and buy an XBox or buy it for $180 from a place that allows price adjustments after the purchase.

[Comp625]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Yeah I was reading in the news yesterday, the XBox will be dropped down to $150 in April. So you could either wait that long and buy an XBox or buy it for $180 from a place that allows price adjustments after the purchase.

[Comp625]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Yeah I was reading in the news yesterday, the XBox will be dropped down to $150 in April. So you could either wait that long and buy an XBox or buy it for $180 from a place that allows price adjustments after the purchase.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Re: Xbox or PS2

A huge selling point for me is that ASB supports CS, and of course that's only on the Xbox. If the next Xbox doesn't support Xbox games or have custom soundtracks I probably won't trade in my Xbox.

There's no reason not to get the Xbox version over the PS2. You have a better online setup, CS, and no need for a memory card.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Re: Xbox or PS2

A huge selling point for me is that ASB supports CS, and of course that's only on the Xbox. If the next Xbox doesn't support Xbox games or have custom soundtracks I probably won't trade in my Xbox.

There's no reason not to get the Xbox version over the PS2. You have a better online setup, CS, and no need for a memory card.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Re: Xbox or PS2

A huge selling point for me is that ASB supports CS, and of course that's only on the Xbox. If the next Xbox doesn't support Xbox games or have custom soundtracks I probably won't trade in my Xbox.

There's no reason not to get the Xbox version over the PS2. You have a better online setup, CS, and no need for a memory card.

[Stoud]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Though it's off topic, I have to express my concerns on the matter. the next Xbox looks to be straying from the path, they pretty much announced that the next system would be as such:

1. No Hard-Drive

2. No Custom Soundtracks

3. Needing Memory Cards (supposedly special ones that hold more than you could ever need, but it's still a Memory Card, which doesn't bode well for the Custom Soundtrack features)

4. No Backwards Compatability. They changed the makers of their processors. All the present Xbox games have been created for a different processor completely, they'd be unbelieveably buggy if they added backwards compatibility, and as such they have pretty much abandoned it.

and with these steps, they lost me and many others as a prospective buyer. However, I will NEVER forget what the Box has done for the business in it's short time, and it has done quite a bit. Sony and Nintendo are doing the intelligent thing and picking up the Hard Drives and such. Custom Soundtracks may be in jeopardy for the future, but I'm hopeful that with their at least short lived success on the box that the other companies will pick up on that. I'm willing to bet that in 20 years, if and when Hard Drives on systems are all but nonexistant, there will still be some kind of small hard drive for CS. But yeah, all that Microsoft brought to the plate deserves to be remembered, even if it has been considered "the dark side" for so long. Years from now I'm sure it will be apparent that without the Xbox's development, alot of things in Gaming THEN would not have been. For that I'm thankful, for that I probably won't just throw my Box out the window. That and Star Wars RPGs....Project Gotham....and of course....ASB05....

LET'S ALL GIVE A HAND TO MICROSOFT AS THEIR CONSOLE DIVISION FACES IMMINENT AND UNDENIABLE DEATH!!

[Stoud]

Re: Xbox or PS2

Though it's off topic, I have to express my concerns on the matter. the next Xbox looks to be straying from the path, they pretty much announced that the next system would be as such:

1. No Hard-Drive

2. No Custom Soundtracks

3. Needing Memory Cards (supposedly special ones that hold more than you could ever need, but it's still a Memory Card, which doesn't bode well for the Custom Soundtrack features)

4. No Backwards Compatability. They changed the makers of their processors. All the present Xbox games have been created for a different processor completely, they'd be unbelieveably buggy if they added backwards compatibility, and as such they have pretty much abandoned it.

and with these steps, they lost me and many others as a prospective buyer. However, I will NEVER forget what the Box has done for the business in it's short time, and it has done quite a bit. Sony and Nintendo are doing the intelligent thing and picking up the Hard Drives and such. Custom Soundtracks may be in jeopardy for the future, but I'm hopeful that with their at least short lived success on the box that the other companies will pick up on that. I'm willing to bet that in 20 years, if and when Hard Drives on systems are all but nonexistant, there will still be some kind of small hard drive for CS. But yeah, all that Microsoft brought to the plate deserves to be remembered, even if it has been considered "the dark side" for so long. Years from now I'm sure it will be apparent that without the Xbox's development, alot of things in Gaming THEN would not have been. For that I'm thankful, for that I probably won't just throw my Box out the window. That and Star Wars RPGs....Project Gotham....and of course....ASB05....

LET'S ALL GIVE A HAND TO MICROSOFT AS THEIR CONSOLE DIVISION FACES IMMINENT AND UNDENIABLE DEATH!!