Nemphtis said:
Wet blanket, for sure. The 360 has a good dose of titles already and it's getting even bigger. The fact that you've claimed all it has is FPS and RPG's is the point where I said to myself "Yeah, he/she has lost it...". The 360 has barely any good RPG's at the moment but there are a lot of promising ones that are coming soon. The 360 is living up to it's potential even at this early stage, with Xbox Live leading the way in online console gaming it's just as thrilling as ever to play 360 titles such as Project Gotham Racing 3 online with friends. Consider the amount of crap the consoles go through and look at how well the 360 has picked up in such a short time after that awful release issue.
I think with all factors considered, Microsoft are leading the way in the industry at the moment, and don't give me statistics because that's not my point. I'm talking about how they treat developers, how they treat their community among other things. There are tons and tons of communities dedicated to the Xbox Live world such as Gamertag.com which is like an Xbox Live version of FacePic, 360Voice.com which is an automatic blog that records everything you do on Xbox Live everyday and writes out an entry for you etc. I'm going to be bold and assume you've never been subscribed to Xbox Live, which is why I imagine you can't appreciate the service fully.
PS. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but I like to give credit to any company when it's due. The 360 has busted it's ass to get this far and I dislike seeing people put down a console with an excuse like "it's just FPS and RPG's" when that couldn't be any further from the truth.
I've had fun playing the 360 but to be perfectly honest while I have had enjoyed myself I can't truly say that any game is "next-gen" yet. Kameo? Yup I loved it was fun to play.. but not as good as Rare's N64 outings and certainly not revolutionary. Same goes for Perfect Dark Zero. Just been playing Enchanted Arms.. I enjoyed it a lot great JRPG but again its merely a PS2 RPG with nicer graphics. Dead Or Alive 4, great beat em up, lots of fun (although I tend to lose at it a lot
) but Its just the same old same old looking prettier.
My main point is while there are games on the 360 that are fun, they haven't really progressed past the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube generation in terms of actual gameplay. I believe that in the future certain titles on all formats will finally make that jump, but they certainly haven't at the moment they just remain "fun but unoriginal"
As for Xbox Live it's certainly a good service.. can't really deny that. But again while it's a nice service it hasn't really brought much revolutionary to the table. I like playing games online on it occasionally sure lots of fun, but the PC has had online games avaliable on it for years that I enjoyed playing too. Xbox Live Arcade is certainly a great feature.. I love playing retro games from days gone by and play them a fair bit BUT, once again these are old games (or old gameplay) and while fun arent anything new.
And there is certainly an excessive amount of FPS on the 360, Melainy is right.
Theres quite a large bunch of RPG's on the horizon too but seeing as that's my favourite genre it's not as much of an issue to me, however to non RPG fans it evidently is. That said the PS2 is guilty of the "millions of RPG's" crime too
P.S The PS3 is certainly stupidly overpriced
