How was it so soulful?

>>717099391 (OP)
>Fable, Halo, Mech Assault
Comfy

fuck off souls fag

>>717099391 (OP)
Biggest console, biggest controller, biggest games.

>>717099391 (OP)
it wasn't also you weren't born

>>717099391 (OP)
>inherited sega's bloodline
>microsoft giving creative minds blank checks
>capitalized on matrix aesthetic popular at the time
>hueg console, hueg controller

>>717099818
yes, it was

>>717099391 (OP)
Microsoft's market strategy is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
If their initial forays do not at least look enticing, then no one will bite the hook.
Everything they put out afterward sucks and only existed to push bad proprietary APIs like Xinput.

>>717099391 (OP)
I liked the way the OG Xbox smelled

>>717099490
>Morrowind, Blinx, Scaler, Gungriffin, Spiderman 2, Painkiller, Thief 3, Soul Calibur, Wolfenstein.
Memories.

Everything was soulful before normalfags flooded gaming and the internet after the mid 2000s

>>717101721
Dust and cigarettes?

>>717104082
No, kek- I can't describe it but all factory-fresh Xbox consoles smelled almost like a very light cologne mixed with rubber. Xbox consoles and accessories smelled like the future. I can't be the only one here who remembers the smell, right? You couldn't go into a GameStop without being blasted with it

>>717104364
I know what you mean, I still have the box and all the plastic bags, I just opened it and I could still smell it a little

>>717099391 (OP)
>can play dvds
>have to buy the remote and ir sensor to unlock that capability
i tolerated xbox because it had some great exclusives, but the cracks were already showing with the first console. i couldn't even imagine what went through the brains of people that bought a 360 or whatever came out after it

>>717100586
The 360 was great though and represented the right balance in a PC/Console enviroment.

>>717099391 (OP)
>Custom soundtracks whole playing games
This blew my mind as a kid

>>717104364
I've only ever owned used ones and they ALWAYS smell like cigarettes. Even after blowing the dust out of them the smell lingers.
I grew up in a smoke-free home so I associate that smell with the og xbox now.

>>717104890
it was cancer
360 is everything that is wrong with modern consoles, and more given the hardware has a shorter life than a stillborn child

https://youtu.be/R9wJ9tImv4c

>>717105049
cigarette smoke stains plastic
it's fucking horrible
t. guy that used to work in a local used vidya store

thank god weed smoke doesn't stain shit

>>717104741
The ps3 was overpriced and the wii was a waggle machine with gamecube graphics. The 360 was the logical choice for the average pimple-faced teen at the time.

>>717105108
I don't think I ever used a Xbox memory card

>>717105201
had more fun playing wii waggle games with other real-life homies in the same room than 360 (which was just a halo 3 machine)
granted, the entire gen was fucking dogshit

>>717105265
same, i dont even think i have ever met anyone who even bought one

It was soulful at first with a lot of creative and unique combined with Sega's great games. But then Halo 2 came out and Microsoft flipped the switch and turned it into a Halo machine. If that didn't happen I think a lot of revionist would be calling the Xbox the best console of the generation.

>>717099391 (OP)
it was an unofficial dreamcast 2 before the xbox became stereotyped as a dudebro brand with the 360. Panzer Dragoon Orta is a masterpiece and the standout highlight of the entire platform for me, alongside Ninja Gaiden Black

>>717099490
Xbox was great, and 360 pretty good too. It’s too bad Microdicks really turned into the biggest pieces of shit in gaming by gobbling up IP’s and doing absolutely nothing with them. Just sitting on them so nobody else can use them or compete with them and they don’t have to try. Killing gaming.

>>717104364
The smell of something good, the smell of fun on the horizon. Getting an Xbox as your first disc based and 3D based console because your parents never could afford a Saturn, N64, or PS1, but your dad got a good job and decided to give you and your siblings something to play besides the Xbox.
It was.
Amazing.

>>717105421
>Ninja Gaiden Black
>team ninja shits out the first ninja gaiden in like a year and a half and it's an 11/10
>proceeds to release the same game for the rest of time
i really wish they had pushed themselves and made more new games

>>717105080
>Offline
>Can install games to internal HDD
>Cheaper per performance than PC
>Arcade games
>XBL being unique and fun
>Best controller of all time

I really don't see the hate for the Xbox 360. It wasn't a PS2 or anything but during that gen it was the best way to play multiplats.

>the hardware has a shorter life than a stillborn child

Mine is still kicking strong and works like a charm. Meanwhile you have to replace your thermal paste for the PS3 and remove the clock capacitor from the OG Xbox since the OG Xbox used cheap ones.

>>717104364
that's the formaldehyde and plasticizers off-gassing
real good shit for your health

>>717105620
>RRoD
>Pushing Kinect
These were the beginning of the end for Xbox

>>717105201
The Wii was severely underrated as a console but I don't think the gen was bad. The Kinect was fun but what killed it was needing 10ft of space and Star Wars. The Wii could be played almost anywhere.

>>717105620
I ended up having 6 360s because Microsoft Canada never asked me to return the replacment consoles they sent me while I waited for them to fix my 360. Maybe you have a newer model that was refined to avoid all the common but don't try to bulllshit us and act like these things didn't break down frequently.

>>717105620
near the end of the xbox 360's lifecycle is where it really started to become aids. like >>717105825
kinect really was the start of the xbox dark ages NOT E3, that was just a symptom of it

>>717105825
>RROD

Was fixed and the 360s ended up lasting longer than PS3s. Built better too

>Kinect

Kinect was fun if you had a large space and wasn't a lardass.

>>717105620
>>717105825
Before the Red Ring of Doom, the PS2 had a significantly higher failure rate, doesn't anyone remember this? We burned out our first PS2 the night we got it because we were playing all fucking night.

>>717105885
I'm saying they fixed it and most likely you bought older models. The S line was great and more solid than the PS3 Slim.

>>717105965
Kinect was fun if you weren't fat. It was more immersive than the Wii and offered voice saves for Skyrim.

>>717106134
Yea no one mentions the disc drive failure of the early PS2s. Yet it doesn't make it a bad console apparently.

>>717106171
nigger i had a kinect it fucking sucked most of the time because there was seriously a lack of games. the only one that was kinda entertaining was sonic free riders and even then it was a downgrade from the first game. metal sonic was a pain in the ass to unlock

>>717106345
I went through three PS2s, meanwhile I've got the same Xbox I've had on launch day, AV cables gone but thats fine, I've got a TV that still has AV output if I ever want to use it again.

>>717105108
$500 adjusted for inflation for a state of the art console that had the original halo. I miss when whites ran this country.

>>717106417
The games it had were fun. I really don't get the hate especially when the 360 was a multiplat machine.

>>717106489
Have you removed the clock capacitor yet?

>>717099391 (OP)
I got this gifted from a friend premodded with xbmc. This was a fucking great Media at a time where you either had to watch your movies on your PC, or use a dvd player.
Didn't play all that many games on it though

>>717105992
>>717106171
>lardass
>you weren't fat
The Kinect was terrible whenever you were fat or not. Nobody wanted that shit and then they started bundling it with consoles

>>717106506
>The games it had were fun.
which were? the pack in game was fun for like 5 minutes but got old after awhile, also fun fact that was the most sold game on the console

>>717106594
Should've specified, Xbox 360.*

>>717106651
Only out of shape people hated it. Just be honest.

>>717106489
we had broken ps2s up to the ceiling in my used vidya store
then again, most were easy to fix, and they were a dime a dozen
also, some models had better parts (it was mostly the laser diodes that would weaken over time)

>>717106708
Kinect Adventures and the Disney one were fun. Being able to save with your voice on Skyrim was fun.

Every Xboxfag I've met has been a fatherless jew.

>>717106771
I work at a video game shop in my town. Outside of NESes and PS4s, the PS2 is the one that fills our defective bin the most for so many damn reasons. Yeah we get Red Ringed xbox 360s in, but they're always the ancient launch day ones, just like mine. The rest? Never seen a slim or E model come through thats dead or inoperable.
There was a time my store used to fix things, but the owner, believing it was too much work to save something that probably can't be saved, decided to just cut the price to about a 1/5th-or-1/6th of what we price em at and sell them for anyone who wants to try and fix em.

>>717105108
i loved that nfl fever series, was always better than madden. same with the NBA version by the same company, inside drive. good times

>>717105879
The wii was a great system. I can get the hate at its time, because many people are going to pick one console for a generation. But there was so much overlap between ps3 and 360, both appealing to the same demographic and sharing many multiplats. The wii being underpowered and having a gimmick gave it its own whole set of games, and we got a much more diverse library in the seventh gen than we would have had it been a similar console to the competition.

Also anyone who complains about having to flick their wrist or point at the screen is a lardass.

>>717107271
fixing a ps2 pretty much comes down to adjusting either the dvd or cd laser diode's potentiometer with a screw driver by a quarter turn
of course, if you turn it the wrong way, you'd likely kill the laser
but the fix takes a couple minutes if you know what you're doing and would make you an easy $40 (at the time)

>>717106861
like i said most of the games felt like tech demos to me, cant say anything really on the disney one since i never had it, but for $150 it was really a shit deal. i also remember using it for skype and i mean it worked but this is a video game console we're talking about not a pc

>get bored with games
>ask brother if he wants to co op Outskirts in Halo 2

Shit was always so fun

>>717108398
i got to borrow this from my store for a night
the controller had so much potential, but it seemed under-utilized in the very game it was designed for
still, flipping a bunch of switches one after the other in a row while powering up the mech felt amazing

>>717099391 (OP)
Flicker filter.
It just did things right.

If it came with windows everyone would have gotten one. It's specs were far better than the PCs most had. Most PCs didn't have a 3D accelerator. Essentially no GPU.

>>717107271
>>717107513
I had no idea about these problems. I got my PS2 a year after release and the only problem I had was that the PSU failed, swapped it out and so far it is still working. Do you guys think it might have something to do with the people that owned these consoles? Just storing them in the worst ways possible?

>>717099391 (OP)
is there a reason to own one of these anymore if the Series X can play most of its library from the disc?

>never got to play MechAssault or Crimson Skies online
>Microsoft will continue to sit on the IP's and just let them rot until they're completely forgotten
>we'll likely never even get a re-release pack similar to the Rare Collection (with Blood Wake and Wreckless thrown in for good measure) to reinvigorate interest

>>717110058
no, several revisions of the ps2 were notorious for crapping out
then again, some revisions are still going strong (i have one of them)

>>717105080
>given the hardware has a shorter life than a stillborn child
360 lasted for nearly a decade. Absolute king of consoles.

>>717099391 (OP)
I really like the original Duke despite never touching one nor owning an original Xbox.

>xbox thread
reminder: burger

>>717099391 (OP)
No one has nostalgia for it except for:
>muh halo, muh mountain dew and doritos with the bros...
>"btw, my mom sold my xbox and my game collection at a garage sale for only $20."
Disgusting console.

>Chad hardware
>Native 4 player

king.

>>717100034
>inherited sega's bloodline
explain? didn't this thing fucking shit itself to death in japan?

>>717110143
>MechAssault
one of my favorite pieces of personal gaming lore was in mechassault 1, they released a new game mode right during christmas break, i must have been idk 4th grade or whatever, and i played like 24/7 while on break and got up to #2 in the leaderboards. ran into the #1 guy a few times who recognized me and we'd chat, was fun
anyway the second school started back up and i couldn't play all day i disappeared off the leaderboards. but it was fun while it lasted, and mechassault was a great game

>>717100419
I'm beginning to fear that I will see ios 7 for the rest of my life

>>717111630
It got a lot of love from good exclusive love from Sega. Some of their best games

>>717111927
Dammit, I should proofread my shit

>>Chad hardware
>>Native 4 player
>king.

>>717111170
>comparing ps3 with og xbox
No shit, compare it with ps2 which was the same gen and see who comes out on top

It sucks that JSRF is forever jailed on this thing

>>717105172
i grew up with cigarette smoking parents, so i always smoke my weed outside or in my mostly cement basement out of fear of lingering stench. i have washed walls in houses that had a full millimeter thick brown coating of tar

This was a surprisingly good and soulful port. Miss the days where it was consoles occasionally porting pc releases and not the other way it is now

>>717106769
>>717106506
>>717106861
Kinect sucked nigger dick. Cope.

>>717112995
i've only encountered one (1) house that was stained with weed smoke, and it was my high school drug dealer, and her house was a drug den
still, good for you for taking that outside (but it's nice to know toking inside won't ruin your place and property)

>>717113242
that's condition zero

>>717113293
microdick also bought up all the depth camera companies at the time and shut them down to corner the market
the only thing the kinect was good for was research (i know this from first hand experience), the games made for it were unplayable

>>717099737
In retrospect, it wasn't that hueg

>>717115684
Crazy its still better looking than the PS5

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>>717115684
Peak 2000's kino vs le minimalist slop

>>717099391 (OP)
My console ownership went from Atari 800 to original Gameboy to original Xbox so I don't fucking know. Sat around playing Xbox at a buddy's house and had enough fun couch gaming I got one myself and loaded up on local multiplayer like the BG Dark Alliance games and Halo and shit

>>717105335
There are literally 100+ "classic games" from 7th gen. Unfortunately it did give us Dark Souls.

>>717116286
It isn't, it looks tacky as fuck.

>>717117761
>symmetrical
>utilitarian
>consistent theme
>inputs made just for their controllers
nah its far better imo

>>717116890
>fun couch gaming I got one myself and loaded up on local multiplayer
We need to bring it back but they cant monetize you being offline so the greedy fucks wont do it

>>717099391 (OP)
It's still crazy how the 360 era is what started most of what's wrong with the game market, then the ONE went full swing into scum. Microsoft essentially appeared out of nowhere in gaming, earned out trust for some years, began ruining the platform, bought out the competition (game companies), only to axe them completely, and now they're on the verge of leaving due to how bad their current console is doing.

>>717120195
they really screwed the pooch and deserve to fail sad to say

>>717120274
It just sucks that they took us down with them. They introduced paid online, their practices helped usher in CODs day one DLC as the norm, etc.

>>717099391 (OP)
>How was it so soulful?
games, plenty of games

>>717099391 (OP)
>thing I grew up with = soul

>>717120660
>thing I didnt grew up with = slop

>>717120660
But they did have more soul back then ie personality/unique than modern consoles now.

>>717106134
i've read that 1/20 of all shipped launch PS2 systems (Q1+2 2000) had to be sent back to Sony for repairs, maybe that's where the extra few million units sony discovered came from lol.

>>717111680
that's awesome. I remember seeing an advert for Xbox Live showing off 'mechs jump jetting around and going critical. it looked like an absolute blast.

>>717120389
Very weak list
It's no wonder it sold 130 million fewer units than the only Soulful sixth-generation console.
People want variety, not broken pc ports and dudebro trash games.

>>717099391 (OP)

It was perhaps the last time Microsoft tried to make something genuinely cool. Everything afterwards has been a string of "minimum viable product" scams where they just check what they can get away with.

>>717104082
This is the only OG xbox smell I know. Used PS2s always smell like weed.

>>717111170
the audio in the Xbox version is still the best one to this day.

>>717121796
Microsoft is the industry's Trojan horse.
Everything wrong with the industry today is due to Microsoft opening the gates to normalize predatory greedy monetization

>>717099391 (OP)
A local store was selling these demo discs for a dollar each so I grabbed all of them. I don't need these because I already own/pirated all of the games featured here, but it's been pretty cool looking through their contents and seeing what subscribers would have gotten in their mailboxes every month. The videos are in pretty good quality too, if I had a capture card I'd upload them to youtube.
Yes I have the xbox keyboard and mouse because I was due for a replacement. No they don't work on the real OG Xbox, at least my brook adapter doesn't support them. It does feel good to use compared to the redragon crap I've had since 2015.

>>717099391 (OP)
greatest menu design ever

>>717109003
A few years ago someone rigged up a hacky way to make the games work with a 360 controller with the chatpad. Unfortunately it requires a modchip install (a different type of modchip from the ones used to hack consoles) and a 360 controller with the chatpad, which by now are either in complete garbage condition or rotting in a landfill.

>>717099737
God i loved the game cases

>>717111630
Let's say there's a good reason why the Duke is a 6-button controller, and Xbox overall inherits Sega's face button nomenclature.

>>717123882
It's not a convincing 6-button experience desu