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Re: Pick One: Which Is Your Favourite Splinter Cell Xbox Game?

XxEvilAshxX

It's tough to say. Chaos Theory had the best over-all package, but Pandora Tomorrow offered some interesting twists (like staying IN the light to avoid the night-vision sniper, and the lightning flashes exposing you crossing an open area). Blacklist did a neat thing by combining different types of missions and giving Fisher better moves to counter certain enemies.

The series really did avoid cookie cutter sequels so its a shame its been so long (but its probably for the better considering Ubi's current direction).

Re: OG Xbox Creator: People Who Stood In Xbox's Way Are Now Lauding It

XxEvilAshxX

I didn't get an Xbox until about a year after it launched. The thought that Microsoft (not a hardware company at the time) wanted to release a console next to Sony and Nintendo was laughable. I bought one out of boredom, got Morrowind and Halo used, and experienced what it was like to have a hard drive in a console and built-in broadband. It's been my primary platform ever since. 20 years! (minus one lol).

The Xbox and Gamecube launched practically the same week, if not the same day, so of course I got the Gamecube, as Nintendo was the safe bet. I didn't regret my purchase, but I was looking at that Xbox a year later for a reason.

Re: Pick One: Which Is Your Favourite Ghost Recon Xbox Game?

XxEvilAshxX

As an old fart who has been a GR fan since the original on PC, it's my opinion that GR2: Summit Strike had the best MP in the series. In GR2 and GR2:SS you could play a mission with 16 players and permadeath. The more players that died, the harder it became to complete the mission. Couple that with the non-existence of party chat, and it would get quieter and quieter as you went further into the mission and more people died and got kicked back to the lobby. Everyone in the lobby could watch the rest of the match and could talk to each other but not the living players. Going back to the lobby after dying/finishing the mission would get you greeted with either cheers or boos, depending on the manner of your return. It was some of the best online gaming I've ever experienced. The early days of XBL.

GRAW and GRAW2 had co-op with completely broken A.I. and spawn triggers, and didn't even launch with actual co-op missions until way later (after the GR community complained enough). Even then they were broken messes due to the terrible enemy A.I. that knew where you were at all times and the scripted events that practically forced you to approach the situation exactly the same way each time.

I don't mean to sound elitist, but if you're a GR fan that didn't come around until GRAW or Future Soldier, you really can't understand why some of us older guys have been asking for "classic" GR for years now, to which we have been completely ignored and the series continues to veer further and further away from what made it great in the first place.

Re: Hot Wheels Unleashed's Retail Release Is Causing Confusion For Xbox Owners

XxEvilAshxX

This is MS's fault. I know they wanted to keep things copacetic but we're starting to get into territory where this is going to happen more and more. Series X only games are going to have to be differentiated by something other than a little box with a very similar word on it. All a mom is gonna see is a bunch of X's everywhere and not know what's what. Hell I would probably even grab one thinking they're all the same and not even realize there are two different versions.

Re: Best Original Xbox Games

XxEvilAshxX

With no disrespect to the PureXbox editorial team, that list looks like someone googled "great xbox games" and made a list out of it. Allow me to add a few of my own:

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Enclave
Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike
Flatout 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Re: Rumour: Xbox Is Getting A Cheaper 500GB Series X|S Expansion Card

XxEvilAshxX

At the same time, there are games that are "optimized for Series S/X" that really don't need to be. I have a standard external hooked up to my Series S for Xbox One games, but sometimes I download a game like Blaster Master Zero and it requires the internal SSD. Like, why? What could that dinky little 2D faux-retro Switch port possibly be doing with it?

Re: Talking Point: Is Xbox Missing Out By Leaving The Superheroes To PlayStation?

XxEvilAshxX

Honestly I don't even care if it's exclusive. If I could play X-Men Legends 3 or The Punisher on my xbox, I couldn't care less if Playstation gamers get to play it as well. That being said, I DO think MS is dropping the ball a bit on the comic IP's. Those are instantly recoginizeable IP's. I can guarantee there are people that are now considering a PS5 once they saw Wolverine.