Topic: The Best Console Ever?

[DocSavage]

Dunno what the best is, but my favorite is still the NES.

It's the console I had the most fun with.
 
Marathon runs of Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario 3 were awesome..  Marathon gaming sessions with friends were even better, in those games or ones like Contra, Mighty Ragar, Double Dragon 3...
 
The SNES was an awesome system, but it just couldn't recapture the magic.. No more matathan gaming sessions, and the excitement was never the same either..  Like comparing your first high to later ones. 

[Freakshow]

Does your favorite console make R2-D2 noises when it opens up?   

[DocSavage]

Does your favorite console make R2-D2 noises when it opens up?   

That Nintendo robot was a neat marketing gimmick, but I don't know anyone actually owning one, much less anyone that knows what it does.

[Beer_Baron]

That Nintendo robot was a neat marketing gimmick, but I don't know anyone actually owning one, much less anyone that knows what it does.

it had an air compressor in it that would blow on your cartridges for you, so that you didn't have to use your own moisture-ridden breath

[Handsome Padje]

The latest console.

[DocSavage]

The latest console.

The PS3?

[FATSEXY]

I think people saying NES or SNES are voting on nostalgia. I loved SNES games, it was a great history vote solely for being able to bring SF II to the home, my gosh the hours I wasted of my life playing that game.

But, if you're stuck with one console, are you really going to pick the SNES or NES? I wouldn't.

[SupTool]

I don't know man, personally with this generation's games, and maybe it's just me getting older, I just don't have much of an interest anymore in sitting for hours playing a game, I'm content playing a game of NCAA Football and being done with it.  But with the SNES, I could sit there playing games like Contra 4 or Super Mario World for as long as it took to beat the game.

[SupTool]

To add though, the one thing I do love about this current crop of systems, especially the PS3 and 360 is how integrated things are, like the combo Blu-Ray that's in PS3 and the network streaming abilities of both systems.

[DocSavage]

I don't know man, personally with this generation's games, and maybe it's just me getting older, I just don't have much of an interest anymore in sitting for hours playing a game, I'm content playing a game of NCAA Football and being done with it.  But with the SNES, I could sit there playing games like Contra 4 or Super Mario World for as long as it took to beat the game.

Same here.

And I can still play a 2d game for hours on end, so it's not just our age.  I think it's more a difference between 2d and 3d worlds..  Vast 3d worlds gives an information an overload effect, and can simply wear you down after awhile.

Although for some reason WoW doesn't have that effect, at least on me..

[FreebirdSTF]

I will do marathon sessions of NCAA Football, WWE games, Fallout or Metal Gear games.  They eat my soul.

[freud mayweather]

I think people saying NES or SNES are voting on nostalgia. I loved SNES games, it was a great history vote solely for being able to bring SF II to the home, my gosh the hours I wasted of my life playing that game.

But, if you're stuck with one console, are you really going to pick the SNES or NES? I wouldn't.

most definitely. i don't think new games are nearly as fun. games now are complicated and beautiful, but rarely as fun as or replayable as kung-fu, pro wrestling or mario on the nes.

[BigDaddy]

I have no problem playing Assassin's Creed for hours on end.  It's nice to immerse yourself in that world for a while and just randomly kill people.

[FATSEXY]

I could just ride my trusty horse, Patch, around in RDR without playing any of the missions. For hours. And hunting critters. And being a bounty hunter.

What I do miss about old games is how relentlessly they outright cheated like a fucking bastard assed cunt. The NES controller was damn near indestructible, and I know this because I used to throw it at dressers, walls, floors, the fucking TV itself once.

LIKE THE BITCH ASS CHEAP FUCK RAIDERS ON TECMO BOWL, IF YOU DIDN'T CALL THE RIGHT PLAY THEN FUCK IT, YOU'RE GONNA LOSE THAT SHIT.

[FATSEXY]

I can't think of any game on NES or SNES that I'd pick to play over, say, Knights of the Old Republic. Or RDR. Or any Halo game. Or Elder Scrolls. Talk about a game you can spend forever on, holy crap.

I did really, really like Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD. That game was so epic.

[DocSavage]

I can't think of any game on NES or SNES that I'd pick to play over, say, Knights of the Old Republic. Or RDR. Or any Halo game. Or Elder Scrolls. Talk about a game you can spend forever on, holy crap.

I did really, really like Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD. That game was so epic.

I'd play Link to the Past over any of those. 

Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, too.  And games like Ninja Gaiden, Double Dragon, Blaster Master all have more pick up and play appeal.  No major time investment needed, no overcomplicated plots or learning curves, just pick up and relax.

And that's something most modern games lack, the pick up and play factor.  It's like the difference between enjoying your AAA movie with stellar acting and plot that makes you think, and just kicking back  to Rambo or Steven Seagal kicking ass.