The FIRST soulless videogame console

>>717042353 (OP)
It was Dreamcast 2.0, if anything it was the last soulful console.

>t. missed out on early xbox live

>dude X toy
>its so much more mature than "play" or "game"

>>717042353 (OP)
trvke. xbox killed console gaming.
>>717042716
>dood i just LOVE LOVE LOVE making accounts for everything!!

>>717042353 (OP)
Deboonked

>>717042426
this is true

If you think the N-Gage had a soul you're a zoomer

>>717042353 (OP)
>arcade games galore
>excellent graphics
>functional online
>burning your music to the system and playing your own music in-game
>using a HDD instead of memory cards, unless you really wanted them
>controller was comfy af
>best multiplats
>Bill Gates encouraged modding the damn console
Nope

>>717042353 (OP)
Nah thats the shitcube
>worst first-party output of any home Nintendo console
>barely any third-party support (no FF, Silent Hill, GTA, Burnout, etc.)
>no online support besides one flopped paid MMO from the Dreamcast when the PS2 and Xbox had hundreds of games with network support
>no HDD slot
>draconian DRM through its little gay discs
>no DVD/CD playback
>no backwards compatibility with the 5th gen; enjoy buying OOT and trAnimal Crossing again
The shitcube is a literal, unironic, and objective scam.
Do you know why objectively bad games like Smelee and Sunshit attract so many groomers and trannies who treat this shovelware as some kind of professional speedrunning career? Because that's literally all cubies had to play for months at a time when the Shitcube was relevant; you bought Smelee in 2001, you weren't getting another first party or good third party for at least 8 months. Their brains have been turned into HRT-addicted mush due to having NOTHING to play except shovelware party games and licensed cartoon platformers by themselves in a musty corner of their childhood bedroom.

>>717042353 (OP)
This thing walked so that the 360 could run

>>717042353 (OP)
As a millennial who lived through those times, the SOVL factor in that generation was the following:
Xbox >> Gamecube >>>>>> PS2

>>717043468
into the ground

>>717042353 (OP)
that's not an atari

I'm having a hard time thinking of a console that didn't have at least a little soul prior to PS4/Xbone.

>>717043375
The backwards compatibility can be forgiven since reworking a disc based console to play cartridge based games would be a pain in the ass. Also it wasn’t just melee in 2001, you also had wave race, pikmin, Luigi’s mansion, rouge squadron 2 and cubivore. GameCube also mogs the other two in local multiplayer.

>>717043558
Screw you i liked it, it had all the best games in that era of gaming

>>717042945
this faggot nigga missed out LOL

>>717043732
>paying for your internet twice
lmao xcucks really did that shit.

>>717042353 (OP)
Nah, the OG Xbox had SOUL. Xbox Live was ahead of the curve and it had some cool exclusives like HALO and Fable.

>>717043226
>Bill Gates encouraged modding the damn console
source? i don't think bill would like people to bypass the drm

>>717042426
Wrong. Gamecube is the Dreamcast 2 full of soulful and colorful arcadey games. It's genuinely an insult to compare the Dreamcast to the desaturated, brown indian train station that was the Xbox.

>>717042353 (OP)
Not the first.

>>717044715
what a funny image because only one of those games is even close to being considered good.

>>717045261
who raped you?

>>717043375
Careful anon you upset the kids who stagnated on the Cube because the Wii abandoned its direction.

>>717042426
this

>>717045348
I buck broke him

>>717043584
>literally unlimited content creation

You can't get any more soulful. You could do LITERALLY anything you wanted with it, no one could tell you otherwise.

>>717045261
I looked at that image for less than a second and saw 2 good games straight away. I'm not even a big fan of RE4 but come on dude.

>>717045898
RE4 ruined the fucking franchise so if you're implying that's one of the good ones I can safely discard your opinion

>>717044713
Perhaps not encouraged, but when asked about his opinion of people modding the console, he more or less said "I think it's pretty cool"

>>717045898
Some people just have higher standards than you so they aren't capable of enjoying all the things you enjoy, it's that simple.

>>717043375

The GC had the strongest top 5 games in video games history so no one cares

>>717042353 (OP)
Ah the best Box. Huge, online, big controller, and incredible games too. For some reason it has become the object of cubeseethe, which isn't very surprising as they don't have enough games to keep themselves entertained.

>>717044715
Gamecube fags will say anything to keep their gay little square relevant. All the good Sega games went to Xbox and PS2. Cube got (bad) Dreamcast ports of kiddie games that Nintendo autists took to like nigs and crack cocaine.

>tfw no remakester

>>717047716
oh man i gotta see this
post the top 5
i cant fucking wait to see melee, gx and a bunch of multiplatform games that only eternal children like

but it has one of the best startups and UI in console history!

>>717042426
>It was Dreamcast 2.0
This is the biggest load of BS i've ever heard and you guys keep repeating it for some reason.

Xbox was the console to get if you wanted dudebro military shooters/licensed sports/licensed racing games.

>>717049439
Dreamcast had a shitton of licensed sports and racing games too, and halo wasn’t even devoid of color or levity.

Nah 360 was pretty soulless though even if there was some solid games

>>717049439
>dudebro military shooters/licensed sports/licenses racing games
You realize what console generation we're talking about right? Those games where on EVERY console back then.
You either never owned an original xbox or you had no games for it.

>>717049439
What the fuck is dudebro about blinx, shenmue 3 and jet set radio future you fuckin idiot

>>717050387
Shenmue 3? You mean shenmue 2?

>>717045020
The 7800 has soul. Its basically just a 2600 on steroids in terms of library.

>>717047716
SNES and N64 had a better top 5 than the gaycube

>atari 5200 and 7800
>panasonic 3do
>phillips cd-i
>turbografx 16
you don't know soulless

>>717049936
Honestly pretty crazy how fun that era was. Yeah it was dudebrah shooters but there was some great social energy if someone had a 360 and some controllers. Felt like GTAV and last of us were the party killers end of an era type shit. 2013 was really a dark year where the 00s ended could've swore it aligned with smartphones becoming a common thing in society.

>>717050890
Don’t disrespect the king of hyrule like that motherfucker.

>>717051009
I WONDER WHAT'S FOR DINNER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owpeYR6azTA
how come consoles don't have cool menus anymore?

>>717051491
It's undefeated.

>>717042353 (OP)
The Duke was soul...

>>717051491
because who cares about effort when consumers are more retarded than ever

>>717051652
PVRE SOVL

>>717042353 (OP)
nah that was the ps4. it removed music playback through cd, had a soulles main menu and nothing but ports/remakes

>>717044715
take me back, this image alone has more soul than the last two gaming generations

>>717042353 (OP)
xbox had some exclusives actually worth playing, like 'lo, ninja gaiden, and dead or alive
the 360 was nothing but digshit, tho

>>717051652
How can you see this and say og xbox was soulless baka

>>717042353 (OP)
>soulless
Not with that menu. https://youtu.be/nm6XchTak40

I won't even console war with the other consoles of its generation. True soullessness came in the next generation.

>>717042353 (OP)
kek stupid zoomer
the original XBOX was literally OOZING with SOVL.

Look how fucking FAT it is. You know why the original XBOX is so fucking FAT? Because SOVL. It's so fucking packed with SOVL. You're stupid zoomer mind cannot even comprehend it.

We played HALO for hours. Couch co op. Split screen multiplayer. You pathetic isolated zoomers will never know these feelings.

>>717042353 (OP)
I remember you could burn cds onto it
During a time when EVERYONE had cds
Stored tens of thousands of tracks AND still had space for every game.

>>717051964
Everything was so fun back then.

>>717049439
>you guys keep repeating it for some reason
Because xbox is soulless.

>>717048159
Melee
Fzero
Custom robo
Kirby Air ride
Uhhh.........................
Oh yeah wind waker

>>717042353 (OP)
Gen 6 was the last soulful gen. Period.
There wasn't many issues from a gamer's standpoint
It was 7 onward that was/ continues to be the issue
>>717042989
I had this for gc and xb. I loved my childhood/ teenage years so much

Why did everything have to get all minimalistic and lifeless? Do normalfags actually prefer things that way?

>>717042353 (OP)
The huge was nothing but sovl

>>717047975
there's a game i'd love to see revived

>>717052385
how does this affect you personally?
that is their line of thinking

360 and ps3 still had plenty of soul, even if it was slowly sucked away over the years. the 360 had its ui before >>>>metro and the ps3 was basically the ultimate snoy machine before they bucked under the sheer cost of its production. the latter was ken kutaragi's passion project before he left and took playstation with him and doomed it to california for fuck's sake, and the 360 had the weirdest fucking lineup of exclusives for the longest time. even today, it still holds shit like blue dragon hostage, and a bunch of other jp exclusive games that you can't play unless you hack your console or import one from japan

>>717051960
I can play battlefront 2 online with other players on the original xbox right this second.

>>717051652
>>717051960
That's a custom frontend, though I'd understand if you thought that's what the real OG Xbox menu was since it's heavily based on it.

>>717052863
It's a modified MSDash.

>>717052674
It will NEVER not be funny to me how MS pay out big bucks for exclusive rights to a couple JRPGs early on in a really short attempt to try and get that 2000's weeb audience that the Playstation held firmly last gen,

>>717052898
for me, it's the fact that senko no ronde rev.x was the only game to escape japan until they tried again with senko 2

>>717052207
>child games
as it was foretold
the others you posted aren't even the best ones in their respective series

>>717044715
>Gamecube is the Dreamcast 2 full of soulful and colorful arcadey games
THE XBOX HAD OUTRUN 2
THE GAMECUBE DID NOT

You may now go ahead and kill yourself. Go on, hurry up.

>>717042353 (OP)
PS3 locking its backward compatibility to certain models was much worse and was the true start of soulless console generations.

>>717053254
Man youre not wrong, can the PS5 even play a fucking CD? Granted it has a disc drive installed? Playstation really did end with 3

>>717053432
>can the PS5 even play a fucking CD?
No, it doesn't. You'd figure the fucking music powerhouse that Sony was would support CD playback, but...

Soulless came with ps4/xbox one

>>717053193
>muh arcade tablescraps
Shhhhhh
Sonic Adventure DX/2 Battle and Skies of Arcadia Legends, Gamecube exclusive ;)

>>717053630
Holy fuck, that's actually sad wow, I remember reading that some early PS1 models had an amazing Sony manufactured almost-audiophile grade chip built into it that some enthusiasts would buy it as a cheap alternative to expensive high grade CD players back then. Now the fucking latest iteration can't even do the most basic shit like play a CD.

That whole gen was pure soul

>>717042353 (OP)
It literally had the best versions of games for that gen.

Sorry not sorry Xbox killed Sega Dreamcast bc it was too weak and couldn't catch up.

>>717054006
>Sonic Adventure DX/2 Battle and Skies of Arcadia Legends, Gamecube exclusive
>posting dreamcast games
you best be joking, nigger
you genuinely didn't beat soa either

>>717047975
>tfw no good WoD games have been made

>>717054006
>Gamecube was colorful and arcadey!
>no, the Xbox was the one that got the same colorful arcade ports as the Dreamcast
>UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BUHHHHHHHHHH GUHHHHHHHHHHHH ARCADE GAMES ACTUALLY DON'T MATTER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess the N in GCN stands for NIGGERS, you fucking spearchucker

>>717053630
and just one console before that, this was what put the nail in the coffin for xbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
only for them to go
>nah, cds are retarded, digital only, we reserve the right to take your game from you whenever we want.

>>717051652
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlS1AQ4YpFg

It feels like I'm cruising the cosmos in a spaceship

>this isn't soul
get the fuck out of here

>>717047792

I can't find the Hyperkin Duke controller on Amazon!

What do I do?!

>>717054764
Get the duchess if it's out yet, it has hall sticks unlike the duke

>>717053130
Shut up.

I actually think Xbox was one of the most soulful consoles ever. Halo CE, KotoR, Fable, Jade Empire. There was a definite Xbox aesthetic going on. And also Morrowind, which I know was PC first, but still. When I think Xbox I think of those early 2000s games and a really distinct graphical style. And you gotta love the menu and presentation of the console. I think Xbox just had a beauty to it that PS2 or Gamecube didn't.

>>717055486
Xbox has a lot of interesting games that didn't really exist before it and were never replicated after. I can't think of a single game built around high speed boat action like Bloodwake, for example.

>>717055693
Unflattering screenshot, the game looks much better than that.

>>717042353 (OP)
The problem with OG Xbox is it trounced the 360 so bad

I didn’t even get a Xbox One until it was given to me ten years later and then I sold it for weed. Xbox went to shit in 2005.

PC literally took its wing with the 8800 GT which made GPU’s accessible to anyone

Nvidia is an asshole capitalist monopoly rack these days forget I even mentioned them

OG Xbox RIP. 4 amazing years LIVE was the shit you sorry fucks are so lost