TeeKup
December 9th, 2010, 05:11 PM
Friend just showed me this, this may be old but I enjoyed it...and agree with it wholehearted.
http://www.bingegamer.net/2009/07/why-xbox-is-better-than-xbox-360/
Why the Xbox is better than the Xbox 360
I recently rejoined the Xbox 360 family and while I certainly love the 360 and all it has to offer me as both a gamer and a fan of “stuff” (Last.fm, Netflix, Windows Media Center syncing… you know, stuff), I’m also quickly reminded that while the Xbox 360 is the superior console in every measurable sense… I still love the original Xbox more.
Below I’ve listed several reasons why I think the Xbox is flat-out better than the Xbox 360. I AM NOT ARGUING TECHNICAL SUPERIORITY. It doesn’t matter how much Michael Collins I have in my system, I will never be dumb enough to say the Xbox is superior to the Xbox 360. The 360 has the superior library of games, a superior online service and, as I said before, offers a hell of a lot more “stuff” than the Xbox.
But just because something is technically superior than something else doesn’t mean that it’s “better”.
Xbox is a Beast, Xbox 360 is Shaped Suspiciously Like a Maxi Pad
Tampon 360Anybody who wants to argue this point will wind up in a puddle of liquid failure which tastes like warm Grapefruit Juice. The original Xbox was built like a tank. It was big. It was bulky. It was heavy as hell and could fuck your day if an earthquake or the bass from your Quiet Riot album knocked it off a shelf — but more on that later.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, looks like it’s built for maximum absorbency. It tries to be slim, but fails. It has a very unimpressive, minimalist outer shell which is just boring — especially when it sits next to the original black and green death machine. But you know what the worst thing about the Xbox 360 design is? It’s white.
Yeah, yeah, it also comes in black now — but it launched as a white console and that’s good enough for me.
I can’t stand video game consoles that are white (or gray, for that matter). For starters, I thought we learned from the Super Nintendo about why lighter-colored video game consoles don’t work — they never stay the same color! How many of you people reading this right now have a SNES that’s turned that nasty, dried vomit-brown? I’ve started to see first generation PlayStations (PSX) start to turn to that city water tinting, for Christ sake.
You’ll never see an Xbox go through plastic vitiligo.
No, your Xbox will sit proudly on the 3/4ths of the shelf that the beast occupies. Oh yes, it’s still on your shelf, too, isn’t it? Hell, you’re afraid to pick the damn thing up, aren’t you? Hey, I don’t blame you — I’m scared too. Any object that can be dropped from thigh-level and still break every bone in your foot should be both respected and feared.
Because if you fuck up, Xbox will fuck you up.
Manly Controllers for Manly Hands
If the Xbox 360 is your first experience with a Microsoft console, know this: The current controller is a slightly modified version of the Controller S that, eventually, was packaged with the Xbox. It’s small, easy to fit into your hands and, for all intents and purposes, is a well designed piece of equipment.
Lumberjack Commandos
The original Xbox controller, on the other hand, was designed for Lumberjacks and Deep Sea Fishermen; manly men with manly hands which they used to do manly things like strangling brown bears and reminding their wives why they should start dinner at 3:40pm instead of 4pm when they get home. Hell, the controller was even codenamed “Duke”, which is the manliest name a man can hope to have (next to “Roll Fizzlebeef“). Eventually crybaby mortals were able to bitch long and loud enough for Microsoft to replace this glorious controller with a smaller controller, called Controller S.
“S” for “Sissy”, maybe. I still use Duke — so what if I can’t throw grenades because I can’t press the black button.
Plays ALL Xbox Games
The Xbox 360′s backwards compatibility is a ruse, a clever sham — an outright lie, I would go so far to say. As it stands the Xbox 360 only runs about half of the Xbox library and yes, while these games technically run on the Xbox 360, good luck playing them. Most of the games suffer from framerate issues, audio or graphical glitches, or out and out crashes.
Additionally, I don’t think a system can say it has backwards compatibility unless a minimum of 90% of the previous console’s games can run on the damn thing. Also, on a personal note: I liked Deus Ex 2 to want to play it. Again.
The Dashboard Was Bad Ass
I’ve never been a fan of the Xbox 360 dashboard. The first one was a little too convoluted to navigate efficiently. Now we have NXE, which is just… I’m not a fan. There. Yeah, it has some cool features but it all seems way too family friendly with the pastel coloring and that damnable Mii Avatar looking into your soul with it’s judgmental, empty eyes. It’s trying to do too much, frankly. I long for the days where all you had to deal with was your system settings, internet connection and deciding whether or not the console would boot to the dashboard or begin playing the game right away.
Xbox Dash - Borg
You know, like the freakin’ XBOX (and Dreamcast). The original Xbox dashboard was the pinnacle of both ease of use and badass appearance. The black and green was easy on the eyes and looked bitchin’. Additionally, you only had four options you had to deal with:
* Memory
* Music
* Settings
* Xbox LIVE
You would have to be some kind of stupid to not be able to figure that out.
And one more advantage the Xbox has over the 360? Brand recognition. Yeah, the Xbox 360 logo is on the NXE dashboard, but it’s tiny and in the lower right-hand corner. You have to actually look for that little bastard. With Xbox, you never had that problem because the Xbox X logo took up the entire left half of your fucking screen!
Seemingly Unlimited Memory
By today’s standards, the Xbox’s meager 10GB hard drive doesn’t sound like a whole hell of a lot. But you show me one person who filled that hard drive and I’ll show you somebody who ripped way too much music to their console. I’ve had my Xbox since November 2002 and my system STILL reads “50000+ Blocks Available”.
It’s enough to spoil you. Now you have systems like the Xbox 360 and PS3 with massive hard drives and people are STILL having problems managing their space.
Inline Release “Warning”
I’m going to be honest: this entire feature was contrived for the sole purpose of being able to share this with you people. Let me quote from page 7 of the Xbox Instruction Manual:
Inline Release
Each Xbox controller cord has an inline release. This is a safety feature designed to reduce the chance of the Xbox console falling when the cord is pulled. If the Xbox console falls and hits someone, especially a small child, it could cause serious injury. To reduce the risk of such injuries or of damage to the Xbox console, it is important to properly use the Xbox controllers and the inline release.
Translation: “Hey, if we didn’t include a break-away controller this behemoth could fall on your child and KILL THEM!”
Now I ask you: How many other video game consoles can say that they could potentially have a body count attached to them? You think the Xbox 360 is killin’ kids? Hell no! At best the 360 may make your kid cry when the Red Ring of Death claims another console before it’s time. Which leads me to my final point…
Xbox is Immortal
After several tests and going seven years without hearing a single story of an Xbox dying, I have come to the ultra-scientific conclusion that the original Microsoft Xbox is made out of Furbys and powered by the innocent souls of orphans. I guess when you have an inch-thick bulletproof outer shell that protects the gooey innards of Cerebro, a few raging fanboys aren’t much of a problem.
A far cry from the reported 68% failure rate of the Xbox 360, don’t you think?
End of an Era
To me the Xbox signifies the end of an era in video games, as it was the last of the true gaming systems. Yes, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are both designed with gaming in mind, but you could make a reasonable, logical argument that both platforms are multimedia devices that just happen to also play games.
The Xbox? It stands alongside the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast as being the last of the true gaming consoles. Yes, they might have played DVDs and music, but when people bought them they were buying a video game machine that, in a pinch, could stand in for a DVD player. The Xbox and other consoles of the last generation were video game systems meant to sit beside the DVD and VHS players of the day. Now people are buying 360s and especially PS3s to replace the DVD player.
And while it’s the natural progression of home entertainment, it’s still kind of depressing. At least, from my standpoint.
Go on, people. Tell me why I’m wrong.
http://www.bingegamer.net/2009/07/why-xbox-is-better-than-xbox-360/
Why the Xbox is better than the Xbox 360
I recently rejoined the Xbox 360 family and while I certainly love the 360 and all it has to offer me as both a gamer and a fan of “stuff” (Last.fm, Netflix, Windows Media Center syncing… you know, stuff), I’m also quickly reminded that while the Xbox 360 is the superior console in every measurable sense… I still love the original Xbox more.
Below I’ve listed several reasons why I think the Xbox is flat-out better than the Xbox 360. I AM NOT ARGUING TECHNICAL SUPERIORITY. It doesn’t matter how much Michael Collins I have in my system, I will never be dumb enough to say the Xbox is superior to the Xbox 360. The 360 has the superior library of games, a superior online service and, as I said before, offers a hell of a lot more “stuff” than the Xbox.
But just because something is technically superior than something else doesn’t mean that it’s “better”.
Xbox is a Beast, Xbox 360 is Shaped Suspiciously Like a Maxi Pad
Tampon 360Anybody who wants to argue this point will wind up in a puddle of liquid failure which tastes like warm Grapefruit Juice. The original Xbox was built like a tank. It was big. It was bulky. It was heavy as hell and could fuck your day if an earthquake or the bass from your Quiet Riot album knocked it off a shelf — but more on that later.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, looks like it’s built for maximum absorbency. It tries to be slim, but fails. It has a very unimpressive, minimalist outer shell which is just boring — especially when it sits next to the original black and green death machine. But you know what the worst thing about the Xbox 360 design is? It’s white.
Yeah, yeah, it also comes in black now — but it launched as a white console and that’s good enough for me.
I can’t stand video game consoles that are white (or gray, for that matter). For starters, I thought we learned from the Super Nintendo about why lighter-colored video game consoles don’t work — they never stay the same color! How many of you people reading this right now have a SNES that’s turned that nasty, dried vomit-brown? I’ve started to see first generation PlayStations (PSX) start to turn to that city water tinting, for Christ sake.
You’ll never see an Xbox go through plastic vitiligo.
No, your Xbox will sit proudly on the 3/4ths of the shelf that the beast occupies. Oh yes, it’s still on your shelf, too, isn’t it? Hell, you’re afraid to pick the damn thing up, aren’t you? Hey, I don’t blame you — I’m scared too. Any object that can be dropped from thigh-level and still break every bone in your foot should be both respected and feared.
Because if you fuck up, Xbox will fuck you up.
Manly Controllers for Manly Hands
If the Xbox 360 is your first experience with a Microsoft console, know this: The current controller is a slightly modified version of the Controller S that, eventually, was packaged with the Xbox. It’s small, easy to fit into your hands and, for all intents and purposes, is a well designed piece of equipment.
Lumberjack Commandos
The original Xbox controller, on the other hand, was designed for Lumberjacks and Deep Sea Fishermen; manly men with manly hands which they used to do manly things like strangling brown bears and reminding their wives why they should start dinner at 3:40pm instead of 4pm when they get home. Hell, the controller was even codenamed “Duke”, which is the manliest name a man can hope to have (next to “Roll Fizzlebeef“). Eventually crybaby mortals were able to bitch long and loud enough for Microsoft to replace this glorious controller with a smaller controller, called Controller S.
“S” for “Sissy”, maybe. I still use Duke — so what if I can’t throw grenades because I can’t press the black button.
Plays ALL Xbox Games
The Xbox 360′s backwards compatibility is a ruse, a clever sham — an outright lie, I would go so far to say. As it stands the Xbox 360 only runs about half of the Xbox library and yes, while these games technically run on the Xbox 360, good luck playing them. Most of the games suffer from framerate issues, audio or graphical glitches, or out and out crashes.
Additionally, I don’t think a system can say it has backwards compatibility unless a minimum of 90% of the previous console’s games can run on the damn thing. Also, on a personal note: I liked Deus Ex 2 to want to play it. Again.
The Dashboard Was Bad Ass
I’ve never been a fan of the Xbox 360 dashboard. The first one was a little too convoluted to navigate efficiently. Now we have NXE, which is just… I’m not a fan. There. Yeah, it has some cool features but it all seems way too family friendly with the pastel coloring and that damnable Mii Avatar looking into your soul with it’s judgmental, empty eyes. It’s trying to do too much, frankly. I long for the days where all you had to deal with was your system settings, internet connection and deciding whether or not the console would boot to the dashboard or begin playing the game right away.
Xbox Dash - Borg
You know, like the freakin’ XBOX (and Dreamcast). The original Xbox dashboard was the pinnacle of both ease of use and badass appearance. The black and green was easy on the eyes and looked bitchin’. Additionally, you only had four options you had to deal with:
* Memory
* Music
* Settings
* Xbox LIVE
You would have to be some kind of stupid to not be able to figure that out.
And one more advantage the Xbox has over the 360? Brand recognition. Yeah, the Xbox 360 logo is on the NXE dashboard, but it’s tiny and in the lower right-hand corner. You have to actually look for that little bastard. With Xbox, you never had that problem because the Xbox X logo took up the entire left half of your fucking screen!
Seemingly Unlimited Memory
By today’s standards, the Xbox’s meager 10GB hard drive doesn’t sound like a whole hell of a lot. But you show me one person who filled that hard drive and I’ll show you somebody who ripped way too much music to their console. I’ve had my Xbox since November 2002 and my system STILL reads “50000+ Blocks Available”.
It’s enough to spoil you. Now you have systems like the Xbox 360 and PS3 with massive hard drives and people are STILL having problems managing their space.
Inline Release “Warning”
I’m going to be honest: this entire feature was contrived for the sole purpose of being able to share this with you people. Let me quote from page 7 of the Xbox Instruction Manual:
Inline Release
Each Xbox controller cord has an inline release. This is a safety feature designed to reduce the chance of the Xbox console falling when the cord is pulled. If the Xbox console falls and hits someone, especially a small child, it could cause serious injury. To reduce the risk of such injuries or of damage to the Xbox console, it is important to properly use the Xbox controllers and the inline release.
Translation: “Hey, if we didn’t include a break-away controller this behemoth could fall on your child and KILL THEM!”
Now I ask you: How many other video game consoles can say that they could potentially have a body count attached to them? You think the Xbox 360 is killin’ kids? Hell no! At best the 360 may make your kid cry when the Red Ring of Death claims another console before it’s time. Which leads me to my final point…
Xbox is Immortal
After several tests and going seven years without hearing a single story of an Xbox dying, I have come to the ultra-scientific conclusion that the original Microsoft Xbox is made out of Furbys and powered by the innocent souls of orphans. I guess when you have an inch-thick bulletproof outer shell that protects the gooey innards of Cerebro, a few raging fanboys aren’t much of a problem.
A far cry from the reported 68% failure rate of the Xbox 360, don’t you think?
End of an Era
To me the Xbox signifies the end of an era in video games, as it was the last of the true gaming systems. Yes, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are both designed with gaming in mind, but you could make a reasonable, logical argument that both platforms are multimedia devices that just happen to also play games.
The Xbox? It stands alongside the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast as being the last of the true gaming consoles. Yes, they might have played DVDs and music, but when people bought them they were buying a video game machine that, in a pinch, could stand in for a DVD player. The Xbox and other consoles of the last generation were video game systems meant to sit beside the DVD and VHS players of the day. Now people are buying 360s and especially PS3s to replace the DVD player.
And while it’s the natural progression of home entertainment, it’s still kind of depressing. At least, from my standpoint.
Go on, people. Tell me why I’m wrong.