Why do many retro gamers hate on the Xbox?

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burningdoom:

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--- Quote from: badATchaos on December 05, 2017, 07:28:56 pm ---Its the first time I've ever seen someone call Fable, Knights of the Old Republic, Morrowind, or Stubbs the Zombie exclusive titles. I'll give you Jade Empire because it was a couple years until that was on PC.

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When you aren't a PC gamer, PC games don't matter.

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Yeah I just think its funny that people dismiss PC out right. And people say PC gamers have a superiority complex?

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I never said anything was superior, just that I don't play on PC.

badATchaos:
Naw I just mean in general. For a long time when I would say I'm a PC gamer they would just assume "Oh, you play World of Warcraft?" -as if its the only thing to be played.

hoshichiri:

--- Quote from: sworddude on December 06, 2017, 09:51:13 am ---The GTA and call of duty series are japanese yea sure ::) Pretty much all first person shooters are US

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Thank you for proving my point- you're not naming any games from before 1997. I did, after all, specify RETRO gamers. If you've spent the last decade or two playing systems from the 80s and early 90s, you've been playing almost exclusively Japanese machines with Japanese first party titles.

Unless you want to argue that GTA and Call of Duty are similar enough in feel and gameplay to Mario/Sonic/Zelda/etc. that it shouldn't phase anyone to switch?

Xbox was/is decidely more 'american' in tone for its library, focusing more on dark, gritty gun-based games than the light platformer fare on the Japanese systems that preceded it. It is not so strange to think that, now that it's just old enough to start really seeming 'retro', that people who don't keep tabs on modern gaming might be offput by it. I also imagine the stigma will fade as those who grew up in the 2000s playing these games naturally age into 'retro gamers'.

nastybagl:
Those are all good reasons. Part of it is probably is it's just what I grew up with and have never cared for Sony's controllers before the PS4. There are definitely more ps2 games, that's because it was vastly more successful, though the multiplats that did make it to the xbox were surperior visually and usually had more content. As for comparing the 360 and PS3, the PS3 is definitely more powerful, and was also more successful worldwide, though I prefer the 360 in this instance because it didn't require you to install data to play the game, and I personally think the controller was more comfortable. This generation, however, I'm completely with the PS4 because the controller is vastly improved, and the Xbox One has even less exclusives than its predecessors. Of course that no more used games shit they pulled at the beginning really turned me off. Basically I gravitate toward what is closest to what I'm looking for in a console, regardless of the company behind it.

nastybagl:
I suppose you could say it was made for more realistic "American titles" and the fact that even the OG xbox might not be considered retro yet that makes sense. But don't forget it helped SEGA out when the Dreamcast died. A lot of stuff in development for the Dreamcast ended up on the Xbox, that's another reason I like it. Also because it was the most powerful of that generation, didn't require memory cards, and while it did have a vastly smaller library than the PS2 because it wasn't as successful, the multiplats that did make their way there were usually the best versions, looking and running better and sometimes having more content. And keep in mind that if we're talking retro Sonic specifically, the Xbox version of Mega Collection Plus is one of the best and most convenient options for classic Sonic, of course this is just one game, but still.

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