Day zero game reviews, just because I know you guys care.
OutRun 2: 10/10 - glorious cheese
Soul Calibur 2: 10/10 - button mashing perfection
Splinter Cell: n/a - it's a mod tool
Burnout Revenge: 1/10 - stop ripping me out of the race to show cutscenes
Sega GT: haven't played it yet
Jet Set Radio Future: 35/10 - this should just be all the games
(Believe it or not, this is a completely new system for me, never even played on one before! Although I've played the hell out of the original Soul Calibur & JSR.)
On that note, "The Duke" gigantic original controller: 10/10 - agreeable behemoth
liqmat wrote:[...] but the original Xbox has a great mod community for sure. I was big into the whole Steel Battalion thing when it was released. Still my favorite mech game to date by far.
The mad homebrew scene is why I grabbed one. I was originally thinking of getting a Wii so I could port my game to it, then I started looking into the huge modding scene on this thing instead and realized it made a billion times more sense. You can even convert a retail one to a dev kit with a little work. Plus, the Xbox's games library is just way more appealing to me - I was a Dreamcast kid back in the day, so awesome to have its spiritual successor.
Not to mention Xbox titles are diiiiiiirt cheap right now; the pawn & thrift shops are flooded with them. The most expensive one I got today (excepting Panzer Dragoon) was eight bucks.
That Steel Battalion controller setup looks mental! Would love to give it a try some day, but I so don't have room for one in my living room. 😜
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