Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26198742-20190930185919/@comment-39775068-20200109005550

DYMallday wrote: While this argument is mostly graphics focused and ignoring other important factors, I do agree that the PS2 had it's full potential realized much more than the other consoles. The GameCube really only had Factor 5 pushing the hardware to its limit by using more obscure features in the Rogue Squadron games, while the most impressive things on the Xbox are PC ports like Half Life 2 and Doom 3, which aren't as crazy impressive with the Xbox's PC like architecture. The PS2 had crazy stuff happening from many devs, from MGS3, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 1 and 2, the aforementioned Gran Turismo games, and the Ace Combat series.

I did say there was other things I could mention when explaining how PS2 was the best, but I'd be there all day. I wasn't ignoring them, just thought I'd be there typing for hours if I mentioned them. To name a few though, the (arguably) better launch, much more fun exclusives (God of War, Gran Turismo, and especially Twisted Metal Black and a small Japanese game known as Road Trip Adventure among others), DVD support, better online, an arguably less toxic player base and the title of the best selling console of all time. Also can't forget about backwards compatibility (something the other two couldn't pull off for obvious reasons) and HDMI support, even though I believe Xbox had it and that it only supported 4 games, two of which were Gran Turismo games (technically 1, the other one was GT4 with bikes). Many could argue that it's overrated, but at the end of the day it's clear that some gamers take it for granted now. Sucks too, because if a current generation game has bad graphics everyone throws the PS2 in there as an insult or joke, when the PS2 was far from bad graphically. Hell, I'm one of the people who defends Sonic Heroes on the system, and that it's not that glitchy and ugly.

And before anyone asks, I do love the GameCube, and it's inclusion on the Switch's Retro Console line-up is the whole reason I want a Switch so bad. Mario Kart Double Dash and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker are two of my most loved games of all time. As for the Xbox, I knew the system had many flaws, and I rank it as one of my least favourite consoles ever.