PixlBit

PS3 got off to an ugly start for sure, and that was disappointing. The PS1 and PS2 were two of my favorite consoles. The PS1 was heaven for RPG fans, the PS2 brought action games back into style.

However, to Sony's credit, they eventually got it turned around through sheer balls. My PS3 is my main console, and it's still coming out with fantastic games. The last 360 game I bought was 3 years ago, and I only use it for Tales of Vesperia and the Mistwalker RPGs.

To be fair to Microsoft, what killed the original Xbox so abruptly was a pissing contest between Microsoft and Nvidia, which made the Xbox's GPU. Microsoft's choices were either settle with Nvidia or discontinue the Xbox, and I'm sure they chose the latter because it was less pricey to just pull the plug on a system that wasn't selling that well anyway and put out the 360 as the first "next-gen" system. Of course, doing this gave them a different set of headaches, namely the RRoD and the E74 that were the result of Microsoft's shoddy workmanship. as they tried to rush the 360 to market.

I've never been a fan of Microsoft or the Xbox brand, but I did get a 360 before I got a PS3. This was mostly because at the time I bought my 360, which was in 2007, the PS3 was super-expensive and didn't have any games I wanted other than Virtua Fighter 5. The PS3's VF5 did not support online play. Frankly, it's a miracle that the PS3 did as well as it did given how badly its launch was bungled. For me, the PS3's killer app was Valkyria Chronicles, which didn't come out in 2008, and by that time I'd soured on the 360 after the headaches I'd experienced with the E74 failure I was hit with.

Most of what I did like about the 360 came early in its life-cycle, stuff like Tales of Vesperia, so that was still less incentive for me to stick with the 360 over the PS3, which had more of what I really wanted by that point.

Got the Collectors' Edition preordered and paid for. August 6 can't get here quickly enough.

The tank game you're talking about sounds a little like Battlezone, the old arcade game. It did have a IBM-PC port in the mid-80s with CGA graphics, and I've played it.

You might search Abandonia for those games.

Pixlbit shoudl really consider putting a link to these forums in its main toolbar.

LOL. I'm sure the Xbone fans who have been defending the Xbox 180 like crazy are looking for any excuse, however insignificant, to pick at the PS4 now.

I can understand about depression, but one of the things you have to deal with if you're selling yourself in public is that the world isn't always a nice place, and you have to be somewhat thick-skinned. Trust me when I say that from experience. And Fish didn't do himself any favors with his public behavior. Nobody's stopping him from having his opinions, but he's got to be able to take it as well as dish it out. When you're combative on a public forum like Twitter, you're going to have plenty of people to take up that gauntlet you've thrown down.

I can kind of relate to this. After all, after 10 years of being a loyal PlayStation gamer, I temporarily defected to Xbox 360 because of Sony's terrible handling of the PS3 and a few 360 games I wanted that the PS3 lacked. Of course, in my case, it turned out to be a brief affair with Microsoft, who promptly proceeded to drive me away with the same abusive behavior I got out of them with Windows and Sony getting its act together and begging me to take them back. For me, the decision is crystal clear this go-round. PS4 all the way, and I don't have to deal wih MS's BS drama.

Pffft. This just made me even more interested in Killer Is Dead. I really enjoyed the campy aesthetic of Lollipop Chainsaw. These folks need to get lives. I've seen far worse stuff in movies and on TV.

I still kind of wonder if this is some publicity stunt for Fez 2 that's building off of Fish's reputation for being an arrogant asshole.