Favourite Gaming Platform

[LordKAT]

A table and a deck of cards, or a pool table.  Both can be played with other people, and frequently with people who will give you money for playing well.  Winning money - cold, hard cash - beats 'welcome to the next level' every time.

How is it that you can be so cynical and so right as often as you  are?  Board games aren't bad either. My kids called monopoly family game.

[Jasmine.m]

I've always loved Nintendo, so I had to vote Wii. I love it! Bring on the Zelda, Mario and Metriod!! Although these days, it's all about Guitar Hero.  😀

[Jester]

Actually yeah, Tekla.  I play lots of video games, I've always had the odd poker game, and sometimes if I feel like spending eight hours and losing friends, I'll play a board game.

Risk is always a great time.  Sure, I'm terrible and make the worst strategic decisions of all time, but still.

[Wolf Man]

Most people are going new, new, new!

While the moniority is claiming the REAL consoles. NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Sega Genesis, etc. These are naming the few that I truly adore, but there are many other systems out there to be recognized pre-2000.

So I chose "Other" to represent that.

I feel like I'm turning into James with my adoration of the Nintendo lineage.    😀

[Silver]

Risk is always a great time.

Haha, yeah. It's fun. But I've never finished a game of Risk.

[Jester]

The last game I played, it was a power struggle between me and my friend, with my brother very quickly dying, and my girlfriend doing suspiciously nothing.  I had an alliance with my friend, but my girlfriend convinced me that I had the strength to take him out, and I really wanted North America.  While we waged a war of attrition with rapidly dwindling forces, my girlfriend came out of New Zealand, where she had been amassing bonuses for having all of Oceania and swept the board clean.

I found out after the game that she played Risk all the time and was an absolute pro.

[Alexis6]

I voted other, as a child of the 1980's I was brought up on the Commodore Amiga. Still have every one of them I ever had apart from the A600 which broke.
Got: A1200, A1500, A2000HD, A2500, A4000 EC/030. Could sell them for a mint but they mean more to me to keep em, plus I love the classics like Zool, Dennis, Team Yankee, Desert Strike etc 

Although I do also have: PS1 (2 of), PS2 (2 of), PS3 (2 of, one 80GB and one 250GB slim), PSP3000 (2 of). The PS3 is a very good games console but I don't play it as much as I played my PS1, I use the PS3's mainly for blu-ray and for Playstation Home, it's like a virtual world and you can make a 3D version of yourself, mine is very much a woman and has BRIGHT red hair xD 

[Jester]

My god you have a lot of systems.....

[AmySmiles]

Oooh I was thinking only of current consoles when I answered.  My favorite will always be SNES because of all the great RPGs back then.  7th Saga, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Earthbound, Final Fantasy 4/6 (2/3 USA), Breath of Fire 1/2, and more.  I keep an emulator on my PC to play them when I'm feeling nostalgic.

[Fenrir]

Call me odd, but I like massive pixels and sidescrollers. 😛 Can't be dealing with this 360-degree view!
I suppose my favourite console I've ever played on is the Sega Megadrive, then, because I'm too young to have encountered any of the proper old-school Atari or Commodore systems or whatever. Which is a shame. Maybe one day... Alexis6, can I come to your house?  😀

[kyle_lawrence]

Were stuck about 10 years the past in my house, between my PS1 and my brothers Nintendo 64. I've been playing a lot of FF8 and Crash Bandicoot lately.  A PS3 is on the list of things I want as soon as I have money though, although its going to be a while.

[Jam]

SEGA DREAMCAST   

sadly due to it being 2AM and my own stupidity i clicked xbox 360 instead of 'other'.

Still i love the 360 its my 2nd favourite at least.

[Jester]

Megaman 8 bit represent.

[Iceprincess]

Well, I had an N64 (Great console back in the day!), but I had to sell it, so meh. I have a PS2 and my gaming rig.

Definitely I <3 PC gaming, but the problem us PC gamers are facing right now is that most of the released games are just console ports that don't even have the quality a PC game deserves (e.g. Grand Theft Auto 4, NFS Shift, NFS Undercover, etc.) or the developers add too much DRM, therefore, turning something we enjoy, into a nightmare (Like Ubisoft and their latest online-based DRM system in Assassin's Creed II) so the main problem with PC gaming is, that we're spending just too much on our rigs, and we're getting the same gaming experience as a console gamer, which means that we'd be better if we only played in consoles like the Xbox 360.

I don't know, maybe with my transition I'll have to say goodbye to PC gaming and focus on other things so w/e. However, I can't deny that I love videogames so, maybe when I'm done with this I'll build a new high end computer 😛

[JessieMH]

Bah so many mods are reaching the same levels of game play and visuals of full retail games, Black Mesa Source, Lost Hope, and Raindrop on the Source engine alone, not counting all the Cry2, unity and UDK mods.  That alone makes the PC worth it I think.  Then you have GOOD games being put out by studios like Valve, Bioware, Blizzard and smaller places like Telltale Games (Sam & Max) Raven (Wolfenstien, Upcoming title Singularity) and many, many more.

[Iceprincess]

What I complain about is, that these big developers have the money to make quality productions, that can become great games and they just don't deliver, whether it's on PC or any other platform... and it's becoming more obvious these days...

I mean, look at MW2... the storyline didn't make ANY sense at all! and Activision had billionaire sales! they didn't even add dedicated servers on PC and activision fired many of the developers of the game >.<

[Flan]

they didn't even add dedicated servers on PC and activision fired many of the developers of the game >.<

then sued them, way to go activision

[Iceprincess]

good luck to them...

Activision has some good lawyers... and tons of money

[JessieMH]

then sued them, way to go activision

The law suites will fail, just pointless arm waving for investors.

[VeryGnawty]

The lack of dedicated servers was intentional.  A deal was signed with Steam to let them host the multiplayer aspect of the game.  Steam did not put in support for dedicated servers.

Yet one more reason Steam was the worst thing to ever happen to the PC.