The first time you saw XBOX was coming out, did you think it was a joke?

[Golgo13]

I really thought it was some kind of prank the EGM magazine was playing when I first read about it.  Im not saying this to be funny because I really did not believe it was a real system. 

For 3 reasons.

It was Shaped like a Box

It had the word "Box" in the title, and at the time I thought that was such a ridiculous idea it couldn't be true.

The controller looked absolutely insane.


Am I alone in this?  Please share your first impressions

[Kitsunexus]

Yeah, but Microsoft was why I thought it was a joke.



And let's face it, the first XBox WAS a joke, albeit not a very funny one.

[nat]

I'm still in disbelief that anyone actually bought it up and that it somehow became popular. Ugh.

[Golgo13]

Never under estimate Johnny American Meathead and Joe SiX pack with a credit card.

[Golgo13]

"Hey guys, did you play the new Madden"

[FM-77]

I definitely thought it was a joke, and I was honestly SHOCKED when a friend of mine actually bought one. I just couldn't take him seriously for a rather long while after that.

I was also pissed to see that Micro-penis-soft bought Bungie and f*cking dropped the Mac/PC release of Halo and ported it to the X-tra large box instead. At least they ported it BACK to PC again later... too bad they went that route though, as it probably would've been a lot better graphically if they never had ported it to the Xbox.

[Kitsunexus]

Halo would have been a better third person game than a FPS.

[FM-77]

Massive disagreement.

[Kitsunexus]

Anybody remember that shit Azurik game the XBOX launched with? Anybody remember how the press practically orgasmed over Munch's Odyssey?

More importantly, anybody remember the "tech demo" ? 

[Necromancer]

I didn't think that it was a prank for three reasons.

1)  It looked like a box, but the PS2 was shaped like a rectangular box.  The PS3 is a 12% bigger curvy box.  So what?
2)  I got over the 'PlayStation' name so 'box' didn't really phase me.  Of course, I'm preferential towards boxes anyway.
3)  The controller wasn't that bad, and PS2 controllers left a lot to be desired too.  The Xbox surely didn't compete with the craptasticness of the CD-I or Jaguar controllers.

The Xbox wasn't too bad for a first stab at a game console, and the online support easily surpassed any other offerings.

Halo would have been a better third person game than a FPS.

Absolutely stunning comment.  You're right, Halo was shit, and the millions of sales were all due to dumb US NASCAR fans who didn't know any better.

[Kitsunexus]

Absolutely stunning comment.  You're right, Halo was shit, and the millions of sales were all due to dumb US NASCAR fans who didn't know any better.

You say this in jest of course, but compare a gathering of NASCAR fans to a gathering of Halo fans.

Halo is the NASCAR of the gaming industry, and I'm not afraid to say that.

I'm an Unreal Tournament fan until I die.

[Necromancer]

It was what I like to call 'sarcasm'.  The NASCAR thing was in response Golgo13's assessment of Xbox owners.

[Kitsunexus]

I think the best thing about the XBOX was all the jokes and Photoshops people made about it's size and weight. It truly was the "ugly fat chick" of the console wars. 

[Golgo13]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xbox_suckit  I think he does a pretty solid analysis of this game system.

[Kitsunexus]

ROFL! Too bad I'm anti-conformist, and hate him.