PS3 vs X-box 360

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Which machine will be the best?

  • Playstation 3

    Votes: 184 80.3%

  • X-box 360

    Votes: 11 4.8%

  • They will be just as good as each other

    Votes: 34 14.8%
  • Total voters
    229
C'mon guys, stop dissing S Club 7, they're talented! :crazy:
 
Well alot of people like using the thumb stick to accelerate...but how would you "left foot brake" with a gas/accel on the same axis?

You can't....

Now on 360..from the looks of it, there are both triggers and shoulder buttons..

Meaning..Trigger for accel..trigger for brake..

shoulder 1 for upshift..shoulder 2 for downshift,
 
You can because you also have a button assigned to brake as well, you can use that. I don't mind the trigers, it's the sterring that I prefer on the DS2, the stick on the XB pad is in a bad place imo.
 
James2097
If you did a poll over the entire world population that plays racing games, the GT series would get a hell of a lot more support among players than Forza. My point isn't mute.

Sure there are folks who like Forza more for one reason or another, but overall, GT does it for far more people.
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Far more people own PS2's than XB's so thats bound to happen, if you ask PS2 owners which they like most out of the two they arn't going to say Forza when they've probably never played it. If you just asked the people that owned both you'd probably get a very close result.
 
code_kev
Racing games!!!! 2 words man, deep triggers. For this reason alone, the xbox pads will pwn ps2 pads in racing games. For fighting games though, the xbox pad is pretty duff.
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Driving for pro owns any triggers and thats the only reason i prefer Enthusia over Forza. TOCA Racer dirver 2 for PS2 is the better version because of the fully custimizable DFP support, Midnight Club 3 feels so much better and is more fun with the DFP. The trggiers are not anymore satisfying than using the DS2 to me. And shifting with the face buttons feels odd and always has. If you are a big time racing game fan a wheel is a big deal if you can aford one and have a place to use it. Ask any PC gamer if using a keyboard or a controller is the best way to experience a racing game. Xbox does not have a decent wheel for its racing games that compare to the DFP. So yeah PS2 is the best way for racing games if you consider getting the most out of it.

Xbox how ever does feel better with FPS games but thats pretty much it, everything esle is even except fighting games. Splinter cell did not have any real control issues the problem was the lack of moves he could do and the shooting stunk, nothing to do with hardware or controller.

Obilivion looks good and the XB360 version will rock the pc verison graphically but the animations look very poor still like in morrowind.
 
code_kev
Oblivion is a pc port, but it IS a next gen game. You will notice that in all next gen games don't bring THAT much new stuff to gaming, just builds upon what's been done.

And gears of war isn't an FPS. It's third person, and doesn't really look anything like doom 3. Well much like doom 3. Ish.

Black looks next gen?

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1297/1125323677.jpg

No way, you obviously havn't played Fear, Far Cry and Half Life 2, current generation games that obliterate that. Games like Ghost recon 3, Prey, MGS 4 etc make black look like abit of a joke if you ask me.

Splinter cell unresponse? Was okay for me.
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I have seen the above mentioned games and even played Far Cry: Instincts. Yes, it's graphics are pretty tightly done, but it still suffers from 2-dimensional vegetation and some obvious graphical similarities to other FPSs. HL2 I haven't yet played not having a super-fast computer--or my Xbox half the time (long story, and it's my little brother's anyway).

As for the PS3 being more flexible, it's CPU isn't designed for just gaming. You don't see the Xbox 360s chip being put in TVs etc. I think the Cell will offer just as much flexibility for gaming as it will for other enterprises. Hopefully Sony won't have the OS dictate what each SPE does.

That picture is pretty much moot. I could take ANY of PD:Zeros and it would be put to shame by current gen games but it's still a next-gen game.. The one you found was a horrible example of Black. All other pictures I've seen are extremely detailed and darkly colored. That looks almost like an entirely different game. True, it may have come from Black, but most likely a beta or maybe even earlier.

I didn't know about GOW being a THIRD-person shooter. Excuse me for getting the camera wrong. :dopey:

See? My posts DO make sense if you actually read what is said, not what is (or is not) implied.
 
Oh, yeah, as far as controllers go for racing games:

Steering wheels own all others. ;)

And Splinter Cell may have been an off-luck thing. It wasn't the controller or the Xbox itself since they work well with most other games. It could be the copy or the game itself. But if that's the case--poor programming, even using the UT2k3 engine!
 
I have seen the above mentioned games and even played Far Cry: Instincts. Yes, it's graphics are pretty tightly done, but it still suffers from 2-dimensional vegetation and some obvious graphical similarities to other FPSs.
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Well come on man, you can't expect every blade of grass to be fully 3D, not unless you want the game to run at 1 frame per day. Lets also remember that farcry is a couple of years old now, yet still looks awesome.

You don't see the Xbox 360s chip being put in TVs etc.
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That's because it would be pointless. The fact that the chip has other uses doesn't really make any difference tbh. You don't exactly explain what difference this would make to gaming. As I said before, I stand by the "everything will look nicer" thing I said earlier.

And splinter cell is not poorly programmed.
 
Young_Warrior
THE ONLY REASON I GOT A PS2 IS CAUSE OF GRAN TURISMO
onlyr reason i got xbox was forza.

GT is a better sim than forza.
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Erm, this is the PS3 vs Xbox 360 thread? Your reply has nothing to do with it, no?

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code_kev
Your point being what exactly?
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Exactly.
 
live4speed
Far more people own PS2's than XB's so thats bound to happen, if you ask PS2 owners which they like most out of the two they arn't going to say Forza when they've probably never played it. If you just asked the people that owned both you'd probably get a very close result.
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Now insert here what I said above.
 
G.T
Erm, this is the PS3 vs Xbox 360 thread? Your reply has nothing to do with it, no?

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Exactly.
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I'm not that sure about it, and I agree with Young_Warrior: What makes a console are the games , not the technology ( who will be at the same level for both consoles ) nor the marketing bull.
When it'll time to upgrade my console I'll make the following list:
GranTurismo5
Forza2
Enthusia2
Richard Burns rally 2
Colin McRae xx
WRC xx
Toca xx
Pro Evolution Soccer xx

( I put some x because I don't know at what version level those games will be when PS3 will be released )

And I'll just get the console that can play the more games on that list.
 
The technology draws you in the games keep you going. Sega's games alone were not enough to compete with PS2's hardware. Many DC games were in fact better than most of ps2 launch titles.

For new consoles especially next gen. somehting new technology wise is important. Other than graphics pretty much everything you can do on Xbox360 you can do on Xbox.
 
I'm not saying grass has to be 3d, I'm saying having really big 2d objects as bushes is lame. It makes sniping a real chore sometimes because you can't move the branches out of your view. I must say, however, that it's water effects are the third best I've seen, Resident Evil 4 and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (for console) taking second and first respectively.

Chips: again, the tech-ish edge. The Xbox is taking something old and rehashing it as "new and improved" it seems. The Cell is, in fact, new and improved technology. As such, I have more respect for it.

Splinter Cell: possible defective copy of the game. Wouldn't know for sure since, as I mentioned, 90% of the time my Xbox isn't even at my own house. I really don't care either, even with my PS2 dead. R.I.P. Poor thing fell/was kicked by a certain someone--and it wasn't me.
 
MGS is the best game series ever, and I mean it, it's better than any other game series I can think of.
 
MGS games are okay, but more in terms of style, rather then actual game play. Compared to games such as the half life series, they are quite weak if you ask me.

If you ask me, Splinter Cell pwned MGS.
 
Well sure, if you took away the plot lines then they probably wouldn't be the best. I wouldn't compareMGS to halflife, because I'm not a HL fan. As an experience, no other game gets me as into it as MGS, the character development, the story, the multiple ways to do things. MGS3 is THE best game on PS2 imo, it's THE best game made so far imo as well. Sure the actualy gamplay mechanics arn't the best, they're not bad, but they arn't the best, overall, I find them better entertainment than any other game I've played and at the end of the day, style, storey and graphics ect are alpart of the game, so if they create the bettergame combined, then it's a better game. Ofcourse, not everyone ill agree with me thatthe MGS series s the best serier ever but hey, I agree with me and thats all I care about :lol:.

As for Splinter cell, again, didn't think that much of it, I didn't like the storey as much as any of the MGS games, and the controls wern' as fluid, again not a bad game, but not above MGS in anyway imo, again, not everyone will agree (infact I know more than just you that wont) but again, I don't care, and why should I.
 
I love MGS and all, but in terms of replay...Splinter is a better game. I mean, MGS is GREAT, great story, great graphics...but..it is getting kind of repetative, and really isn't THAT challenging..It's got it's moments, but seriously.
I'll still probably rent it though.
 
Like I said, each to their own, I don't like Splinter Cell half as much as I like MGS. I'd play Splinter Cell once and only once all the way through, I can play the MGS game over and over and over. They arn't hard hard, but play MGS3 on expert, and it's not easy. Imo, MGS3 is the best game I've ever played.
 
^^^ You have to remember when you talk to Driftster that he can beat any game on the hardest difficulty and it'll always be easy to him, no matter what.

What he REALLY needs to do is play MGS like it was intended to be played. NOT being seen, and not killing anyone. Then if you throw the extreme difficulty into the mix, it get's even harder.



IMO, MGS is vastly superior to Splinter cell for many reasons, accuracy being one of them. Splinter Cell is a Tom Clancy game, so automatically it takes a hit for having inaccurate info etc. Being in the military, I suppose I notice this more, but all Splinter Cell tries to do as a series it top MGS IMO, and it's one of the reasons I cannot enjoy it as much.

For instance, MGS2 was one of the greatest games I'd ever played where use of environment played such a great role if you wanted to have fun or distract the enemy.

Another thing that Splinter Cell fails to do is build tension during key moments like MGS.

In MGS3, it was just TOO good when you had to go through the Sniper Battle the first time, and you were searching for him, and you can hear him talking to you when he's going to shoot you. It just made everything seem so great. Or when you had to beat the Boss, and they set your time limit, and the music picks up and changes when time get's closer to the deat line, that was just a great moment.

Hell, even the Cammo feature in MGS3 pwns splinter cell in it's own right, because it's so fucntional and has such wide uses for different terrain. It was a great thing, and I really loved it, sadly it probably won't return.

MGS3: Subsistence will be great, and for those who think it's "easy" maybe we'll just have to test your "skill" online...don't get scared, get owned.
 
What he REALLY needs to do is play MGS like it was intended to be played. NOT being seen, and not killing anyone. Then if you throw the extreme difficulty into the mix, it get's even harder.
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But all the time it seems abit...silly, abit anime, Splinter Cell is grittier, more down to Earth.

IMO, MGS is vastly superior to Splinter cell for many reasons, accuracy being one of them.
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WHAT!!!! Robots, stealth suits, mechs, bosses, that's accuracy?

Splinter Cell is a Tom Clancy game, so automatically it takes a hit for having inaccurate info etc. Being in the military, I suppose I notice this more, but all Splinter Cell tries to do as a series it top MGS IMO, and it's one of the reasons I cannot enjoy it as much.
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The Splinter Cell games have a more believible reality then the one presented in MGS.

For instance, MGS2 was one of the greatest games I'd ever played where use of environment played such a great role if you wanted to have fun or distract the enemy.
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If tapping on walls is that amazing, I guess so, but the shadows in MGS 2 are poorly implemented at best. Splinter Cell did all this, along with giving your character cooler moves, better Stealth, and a higher reliance on light and shadow.

Another thing that Splinter Cell fails to do is build tension during key moments like MGS.
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Disagree. Splinter Cell is more dynamic, key moments make them selves.

In MGS3, it was just TOO good when you had to go through the Sniper Battle the first time, and you were searching for him, and you can hear him talking to you when he's going to shoot you. It just made everything seem so great. Or when you had to beat the Boss, and they set your time limit, and the music picks up and changes when time get's closer to the deat line, that was just a great moment.
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Having not played MGS 3 that much, I can't comment, but I agree that the MGS games have some awesome bits in em, and some cool details.

Hell, even the Cammo feature in MGS3 pwns splinter cell in it's own right, because it's so fucntional and has such wide uses for different terrain. It was a great thing, and I really loved it, sadly it probably won't return.
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Come off it, you know as well as I do that MGS has allways been abit...simple when it comes to Stealth. Splinter Cell doesn't have camo, except for the standard suit he allways wears anyway, which is black. The lighting system in Splinter Cell makes an utter joke of MGS. And please, if you wanna play dress up, that's fine. I prefer proper stealth, hiding in shadows etc, not seeing if abit more green on the face adds 1% to my stealth rating, or if killing a croc gives me more health packs then a snake.

I do like MGS, but it's all abit silly and anime, compared to the seriousness of the Splinter Cell titles.

MGS3: Subsistence will be great, and for those who think it's "easy" maybe we'll just have to test your "skill" online...don't get scared, get owned.
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Who knows. MGS3 has online multiplayer? As good as Splinter Cells is it?

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Screens like this pretty much sum up why I prefer Splinter Cell.
 
I like both splintercell and MGS. I think MGS's strong points has always been a very interesting story and cool characters.

Overall the gameplay is more realistic in splintercell. I've never played mgs3 online so i cant compare multiplayer... but the multiplayer for Splintercell 3 is awsome 👍

Even though i like the gameplay for splintercell more than the last two mgs games, i will still buy MGS4 over Splintercell 4, just for the story alone and the gameplay should be good too.

Anyone who tries to argue that mgs has more realistic gameplay is a blind Kojima Nuthugger.


Its so much fun in splintercell stalking people as a spy or hunting down spies as a merc. Planting boobie traps... taunting people. etc. teaming up to take down the enemy or get the objective. 👍
 
Code, don't even begin to debate with me, I've been in the military for 4 years, and as far as acronyms, technology, movement, and authenticity of weapons and how he uses them, it's much more accurate than Splinter Cell is.

Metal Gear is more accurate in THOSE terms, not in terms of story or the mechs etc, that's just the fun stuff. But as far as tactical movement, etc, it's just better.

Also, since you haven't played MGS3, I don't want to hear you say anything about it, period. :) Since you can't comment, and you admit that yourself, yet you do anyway.

MGS3: Subsistence, to be released, not MGS3.

And I can promise anyone here who say's it's "easy" is going to get owned by me personally, so they better practice while they can, lol.
 
I actually perfer to play Splinter Cell or MGS, I've never really cared for MGS because frankly its just boring at points. Splinter Cell has that eeriee element, I guess due to the shadows. I guess its personal preferance though.
 
Is eeriee a word? What does it mean?

Ah, and I prefer MGS over SC, but both are good games.
 

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