Hi all 
- used to be a addictive console player during many years till i discovered DaoC . Well anyways since last 2 days i been reading the posts in this forums and have to say , there is funny stuff.
People all days fighting about how the consoles are, which is better and blabla,Well objetivaly , Xbox is as machine the best console atm for videogames because of a better made processor, card gfx, etc but like you all know this doesnt matter really, because It happened back with Playstation and Nintendo 64, and it happened also with Dreamcast and Playstation 2 ( hope you all know as machine , Dreamcast is better in gfx , clock bus speed, etc etc than Playstation 2 and it was released away , 2 years before PS2 appeared , but it's not relevant, because it's the amount of users of a one console that makes it better and worse and not their power ).
About the typical fight btw which console has the best games, Well at one point all the consoles have the same amount of really good games, but with the time , demand, and how the industries goes, the third parties decide to program their games for other consoles , because they think it will report more cash and develop to them, so there is no really anything better cause of power of machine, One console is good because of the games.
Lets focus now in the really great games, that i think you all will be agree to compare each other
About the beat'em up games, we have the luck we can say the best of them it's multiplataform , and thing that it makes everyone happy i hope (Soul Calibur 2).But then now if you want really try new styles of that, you can find Tekken 4 / Virtua Fighter 4 , both for PS2 and can find also the saga Dead or Alive for Xbox, but sadly really cannot find anything in Game Cube.
So in my opinion the best consoles for fighting games are by far PS2 & Xbox, both with a high lvl of quality.
For Driving games : We all know which is the game who is the example for all others driving games and companys at the time to make a new game ( Gran Turismo ).Also we got all the rallies game etc , very well lead by the Colin Mcrae saga which has appeared in all the plataforms.Mainly the fight in this genre it's btw Gran Turismo and Project Gotham Racing,If you want a profesionalistic game, the decision should to be Gran Turismo, if you like more differents styles of gaming, could pick PGR 2,Away from those good games, we have also multi-plataform NFS:Underground 2 which it has proper quality.Maybe i have to be forced to name Mario Kart, but really i dont consider it very skilled and call attention game, ok it can be fun.
But then again from my point of view PS2 and Xbox are ahead in the racing genre, but my decision would be finally to pick PS2, cause i consider Gran Turismo is a "Game" and sure you all undertand what that means
Sport games : Here i hope everyone is agree, because there is no really much of discuss, All the consoles have the same good games , but by graphic quality of them it's better on Xbox, so my advice in this case would be Xbox as 1st line, and not only because the graphic quality , also cause of the Live! option because sports games are great to be played with more people at the same time of co-operative.
Adventure games : Here mainly we got in PS2 , Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid as main games , for Xbox we got also Sillent Hill, MGS , Fable and Shenmue 2 and finally for GC , we got Resident Evil 4 and Ethernal Darkness as more quality adventures.And the multi-plataform , Splinter Cell. All those games are great ones, and some of them would be the enough meaning to buy the console , example are Metal Gear Solid,Resident Evil 4,Shenmue 2 as more importants ones.
Here we go if you really like MGS and like to focus this style, would pick PS2 since you got MGS2 and 3,If you like the mainly the preshing genre and with difficult moments at the same time you find options and great view cuality, would pick Game Cube ( serious Resident Evil 4 is god xDD ) and for last if you really like differents styles of adventure, with all the styles, i would pick Xbox for the variability. Also the time to decide i would think Resident Evil 4 will be released for PS2,so It would balance a bit.
Arcade games : if this is your style, Game Cube, dont doubt it - Star Wars : Rogue Squadron is the best arcade game since loads of time .
Strategy : Here we got the multi-plataform Sims, and the versions of Xbox and PS2 of Comandos 2, which it makes it easy, Xbox or PS2 would be the decision.
RPG : Here mainly we got he classics of always and some adders who really has no skills . As main ideas, we got the saga Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest for PS2 , and Zelda for Game Cube ( because FF:Chronicles is a joke...).Xbox really lacks proper rpg games in my opinion. Here even if you are all surprised, my recomend would be Game Cube , because really the new FFs and DQs are really far away from why we used to love those games.After Playing games like secrets of mana/evermore,all ffs , specially 6/7/8 , dq saga, chrono tigger, you really poke playing those new games called RPG..
Anyways if you like RPG a lot, the catalogue of RPG from PS2 is big and have others possibilites that maybe you like.
Action games : Here we got the multiplataform Medal of Honor, the GTA saga for Xbox and PS2, the exclusives of Metroid for GC and GTA:San Andreas for PS2 but it will get released in Xbox later on.And the God shotters that sadly all are from Xbox or incomming to Xbox, cases of Halo/Halo2,Doom3,Half Life 2. By big far here,if i like action games, i would pick Xbox, wouldnt really think it
Plataform games : the multiplataform Prince of Persia, is really the best option.We really lack a proper Mario game here. So here would pick any console.
For final decision i will say , i wouldnt pick a Game Cube, because even counting with the great games this console has, it lacks a bigger catalogue with differents styles of gaming, Nintendo has wasted the effort of getting the best companies again for almost nothing. We have to count also with the high fame of PS2 in the world that it makes it be the 1st option for random buyers when getting 1st console.And Later we got Microsoft that counting with they were new in the consoles world, to be the 1st time, they have done it very well .
So to be honest with you all, just for Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo , Soul Calibur 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2, I would buy a Playstation 2. And would call it the best Console.
Hope you all liked this constructive post, i didnt want to critic anything - just get out my main idea of how is this now,GL.
- used to be a addictive console player during many years till i discovered DaoC . Well anyways since last 2 days i been reading the posts in this forums and have to say , there is funny stuff.People all days fighting about how the consoles are, which is better and blabla,Well objetivaly , Xbox is as machine the best console atm for videogames because of a better made processor, card gfx, etc but like you all know this doesnt matter really, because It happened back with Playstation and Nintendo 64, and it happened also with Dreamcast and Playstation 2 ( hope you all know as machine , Dreamcast is better in gfx , clock bus speed, etc etc than Playstation 2 and it was released away , 2 years before PS2 appeared , but it's not relevant, because it's the amount of users of a one console that makes it better and worse and not their power ).
About the typical fight btw which console has the best games, Well at one point all the consoles have the same amount of really good games, but with the time , demand, and how the industries goes, the third parties decide to program their games for other consoles , because they think it will report more cash and develop to them, so there is no really anything better cause of power of machine, One console is good because of the games.
Lets focus now in the really great games, that i think you all will be agree to compare each other
About the beat'em up games, we have the luck we can say the best of them it's multiplataform , and thing that it makes everyone happy i hope (Soul Calibur 2).But then now if you want really try new styles of that, you can find Tekken 4 / Virtua Fighter 4 , both for PS2 and can find also the saga Dead or Alive for Xbox, but sadly really cannot find anything in Game Cube.
So in my opinion the best consoles for fighting games are by far PS2 & Xbox, both with a high lvl of quality.
For Driving games : We all know which is the game who is the example for all others driving games and companys at the time to make a new game ( Gran Turismo ).Also we got all the rallies game etc , very well lead by the Colin Mcrae saga which has appeared in all the plataforms.Mainly the fight in this genre it's btw Gran Turismo and Project Gotham Racing,If you want a profesionalistic game, the decision should to be Gran Turismo, if you like more differents styles of gaming, could pick PGR 2,Away from those good games, we have also multi-plataform NFS:Underground 2 which it has proper quality.Maybe i have to be forced to name Mario Kart, but really i dont consider it very skilled and call attention game, ok it can be fun.
But then again from my point of view PS2 and Xbox are ahead in the racing genre, but my decision would be finally to pick PS2, cause i consider Gran Turismo is a "Game" and sure you all undertand what that means
Sport games : Here i hope everyone is agree, because there is no really much of discuss, All the consoles have the same good games , but by graphic quality of them it's better on Xbox, so my advice in this case would be Xbox as 1st line, and not only because the graphic quality , also cause of the Live! option because sports games are great to be played with more people at the same time of co-operative.
Adventure games : Here mainly we got in PS2 , Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid as main games , for Xbox we got also Sillent Hill, MGS , Fable and Shenmue 2 and finally for GC , we got Resident Evil 4 and Ethernal Darkness as more quality adventures.And the multi-plataform , Splinter Cell. All those games are great ones, and some of them would be the enough meaning to buy the console , example are Metal Gear Solid,Resident Evil 4,Shenmue 2 as more importants ones.
Here we go if you really like MGS and like to focus this style, would pick PS2 since you got MGS2 and 3,If you like the mainly the preshing genre and with difficult moments at the same time you find options and great view cuality, would pick Game Cube ( serious Resident Evil 4 is god xDD ) and for last if you really like differents styles of adventure, with all the styles, i would pick Xbox for the variability. Also the time to decide i would think Resident Evil 4 will be released for PS2,so It would balance a bit.
Arcade games : if this is your style, Game Cube, dont doubt it - Star Wars : Rogue Squadron is the best arcade game since loads of time .
Strategy : Here we got the multi-plataform Sims, and the versions of Xbox and PS2 of Comandos 2, which it makes it easy, Xbox or PS2 would be the decision.
RPG : Here mainly we got he classics of always and some adders who really has no skills . As main ideas, we got the saga Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest for PS2 , and Zelda for Game Cube ( because FF:Chronicles is a joke...).Xbox really lacks proper rpg games in my opinion. Here even if you are all surprised, my recomend would be Game Cube , because really the new FFs and DQs are really far away from why we used to love those games.After Playing games like secrets of mana/evermore,all ffs , specially 6/7/8 , dq saga, chrono tigger, you really poke playing those new games called RPG..
Anyways if you like RPG a lot, the catalogue of RPG from PS2 is big and have others possibilites that maybe you like.
Action games : Here we got the multiplataform Medal of Honor, the GTA saga for Xbox and PS2, the exclusives of Metroid for GC and GTA:San Andreas for PS2 but it will get released in Xbox later on.And the God shotters that sadly all are from Xbox or incomming to Xbox, cases of Halo/Halo2,Doom3,Half Life 2. By big far here,if i like action games, i would pick Xbox, wouldnt really think it
Plataform games : the multiplataform Prince of Persia, is really the best option.We really lack a proper Mario game here. So here would pick any console.
For final decision i will say , i wouldnt pick a Game Cube, because even counting with the great games this console has, it lacks a bigger catalogue with differents styles of gaming, Nintendo has wasted the effort of getting the best companies again for almost nothing. We have to count also with the high fame of PS2 in the world that it makes it be the 1st option for random buyers when getting 1st console.And Later we got Microsoft that counting with they were new in the consoles world, to be the 1st time, they have done it very well .
So to be honest with you all, just for Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo , Soul Calibur 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2, I would buy a Playstation 2. And would call it the best Console.
Hope you all liked this constructive post, i didnt want to critic anything
- just get out my main idea of how is this now,GL.
