So hard to give my favorite console & game. I’ll have to say the 360 & Halo 3. Long story short: My son beat Halo 1 by himself on easy at 3 & 1/2; my wife let him wait at 12am to buy Halo 2 at the age of 5 because he didn’t have pre-school the next day; I wait in a massive line to buy 2 Legendary copies of Halo 3, I could live without a second helmet but my now 6 year old daughter couldn’t. We play 3 player co-op all the damn time, a 6 year old daughter, 9 year old son, & me 40 year old dad: PRICELESS! All my consoles work except the 5200 because the attachment to the back of the tv is broken. Also, they’re all original machines.

Others: Atari 2600 Combat. NES Tecmo Bowl. SNES Contra 3 Alien Wars. Sega Genesis Streets of Rage. PS1 Tomb Raider. Dreamcast Speed Devils. I can go all day with the Atari games. My wife said those old games in the closet need to go, I said, “you go before the games go”!

@Warrior4,
You can attempt to smash me all you want, I learned how to predict markets in college, in a course called Consumer Behavior a 453 marketing course. Michael Pachter does the same thing, I’m just more accurate than he because video games is my hobby for life, he does it for a job, however, I love the guy. Its ok to think you’re right most of the times, if you don’t, who will? I hope you remember this debate Jan 1, 2010.

We had the same debates with the SNES & Genisis, Saturn & PS1. One of the greatest debates of ALL TIMES; was my cousin smashed me on Tomb Raider for the PS1 vs Tomb Raider for the Saturn. He called Laura Croft a Chicken McNugget when she turned into gold on my Saturn compared to the PS1 when she turned into “real gold”. It was over! My Saturn version got killed, it was the greatest debate EVER!

We even battled with the Atari 2600 & the Odyssey; 5200 & Intellivision, Sega Master System & NES; even Tecmo Bowl, Madden, & Joe Montana football. We even battled that Atari 2600 block football vs Intellivision football. Warrior4, this is going to go on forever, my boys have been at this long before you were thought of & it will continue. We have the most fun with it because we play everything.

Zinc, Im 28 and have been gaming since I was 4 years old. My first console was the atari 5200. Ive had damn near every console since then, Turbo graphics, Neo Geo, all four of segas consoles(sega master, genisis, CD, and Dreamcast), and almost everything in between. Never in my life have I seen numbers been discussed like this among gamers until this generation. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been gaming. True gamers talk about games, not how good they are selling. Unless you are a preferred stock holder then I could see why you would care. If not then just shut the hell up.

Believe me when I say that I will always smash you when I see a subject arise that is irrelevant to the cause. Its cool to have an opinion, but just try to keep it about the games. If you do that , then I promise you that I will keep it clean, but if not? Then I will be all over you like flies on shit. I will always be a thorn on your side.

BTW, You might have been gaming for a long time, but maybe you don’t realize yet that you aren’t hardcore. Thats like saying you used to be a player and got alot of pussy when you were young but now you are married. Your obviously not a player anymore man. There will be a time in your life when you realize it, and maybe even humble yourself and stop being so arrogant and say things like ” Im right the majority of the time”. Shit like that has to stop. People who say that are actually naive, and oblivious to the things that really matter. And that is how I percieve you. Till then, I will stay true to my word. But if you fuck with the bull, you WILL get the horns.

@ Haggs5tow

Dude Kieth Courage is one of my favorite games in the old days. No machine could match the ice effects as good as that game did till the N64 came out. Even then it was about the same. I would even give it a slight edge on the TG16. Bonks adventure was one of my favs as well.

This article is not about the sells of the game. Weapon does not say anything about a sell of the game. This article is about the quality of the games thats coming out on the PS3. You were the 1st to jump and say that it won’t be a November to Remember just because you think that they won’t be million seller games in a month. All 5 of those games are looking to be quality games and I agree with Weapon. What other month this generation do you know that 5 quality games (not million dollar selling games) comes out in the same month?

@Warrior, I’m not a real gamer, I date back to the start of all this, if I’m not a real gamer, there isn’t 1 gamer on any gaming site in the world! I know the business, & like Torrence said a few podcasts back, “buy the damn game” referring to Killzone2.

I’m still pissed there’s no Brute Force 2, I thought the game was good, 278k sold month 1. Not enough for the hype the game generated. This is why its taking so long for a Team ICO game to surface, the first 2 sold terribly for the hype surrounding it. This is also why you see a new madden game & COD game every year.

As I said earlier, MAG for example; it needs a single player or its going to the dogs, I don’t care how much its hyped. Everyone doesn’t play competitively online, that’s a mistake some of these developers are making today.

-Dedicated servers with new network architectures to help reduce lag
-Customize face, voice, armor
-8 players in a squad, 4 squads in a platoon, 4 platoons in a company
-Individual squads/platoons have missions/goals and secondary missions/goals
-Other game modes including Acquisition, Sabotage and Suppression

I mean as long as they show us some gameplay to go along with the things i listed above im stoked! Zipper has been running 256-player tests since Nov. 2008 and said they’re planning on having a beta. I’m not sure if it’s open or not but with a game like that they’ll need the beta to help for a smooth release.