Console Wars

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by Turo602

I wasn't around for the console wars of the 1990s but I did experience a lot of those arguments during my time in school. I was never one to pick a side and act like I was any cooler for it. My arguments were more defensive, usually more towards Nintendo and Xbox because the usual notion was that Playstation was somehow the more "adult" and "hardcore" system with power and graphics being the focus of people's arguments. I never hated Playstation, I've always enjoyed what the current 3 companies have offered but kids back then really drove me to talk a lot of sh*t about Sony just to make a point.

I remember there was a kid who was bragging that the PS2 had GTA: San Andreas and the Xbox didn't and I told him that it would come to Xbox eventually just like the previous ones have and he told me that it was impossible because the Xbox doesn't have the same buttons... and that's not even the worst part. He bet me 50 bucks that it wouldn't happen and I agreed. He then snottily added that his uncle works at Gamestop and he's gonna tell him not to release it. Oh man how laughable that was. I never did get those 50 dollars.

In high school, it was the same story. Nintendo was torn to shreds for being kiddy and people talked trash about Xbox for the red ring of death, paid online, and not being as powerful as their PS Triple. I also had to endure the trash talking of Halo in favor of Call of Duty even though they would be playing Halo had it also been on the PS3. While I don't take the console war so seriously now, it was pretty irritating hearing a bunch of people with a limited taste and knowledge in video games acting like superior little dicks over which system they have and what games they play.

There was this one guy who I didn't even know that well, he was a friend of a friend, who kept bugging the hell out of me to play Halo 3 with him and at the time, I had been playing Sonic Unleashed and Batman: Arkham Asylum so I was trying to enjoy that but he'd constantly invite me to parties on Xbox with all his friends and kept telling me to get on and since I kept declining, he got butthurt and told me that I was lame for not playing Halo 3 and that I play kid games which annoyed the hell out of me because he wasn't even my friend so I didn't understand his obsession. In the end, I just started making fun of him at school because he'd talk sh*t about me to my friend, but he got the worst of it so he ignored me for the rest of high school. Wouldn't even make eye contact. After his obsession with Halo 3 had died down, he became a Call of Duty-tard and all I'd ever hear coming from his general direction was "kill streaks" and "you're lame for not joining my game."

lol Turo the hard-***