Hi key did the xbox ruin console gaming or enhance it

[SymbolicOne09]

Ive been gaming since nes... there was something about console gaming that is just missing today. I think we reached the peak in 99-00 for console and pc gaming. They were 2 different but awesome experiences.

Consoles had a wide variety of piff in different genres... zelda mgs perfect dark mario ff7-9 tekken street fighter and the list goes on plus lesser known titles like snowboards kids tenchu busido blade...

Pc was a more advanced experience @ the time with online play and mods and custom maps for tribes counter strike , half life,quake, warcraft,starcraft,and unreal tournament it was a piff experience that you couldnt really get on consoles

Then comes 2001 xbox comes out and @ first seems like a regular console but the blockbuster hit halo comes. A pc like experience on console. At first it was cool you couldnt get this anywhere but on xbox (it came out eventually on pc later).
People where linking xboxes together and having lan partys and it was a new experience to alot of people.
Xbox live comes a year later and microsoft convinces people that you need to pay 50$ for p2p gaming.

More pc games come to consoles, more console niche titles disappear. More pc features disappear and that leads us to today.

Tldr
Microsoft convinced people into paying 50$ xbl
Microsoft started dlc
Because of dlc devolopers very few developers allow custom maps and mods.
Niche titles (atlus for example) are gone

 

[Leasy]

Are you serious right now? Everything that Sony does features and online comes from Xbox. Steam exist because of Xbox Live. Microsoft moved gaming forward because sure enough everything would be like the Nintendo

 

[SymbolicOne09]

Are you serious right now? Everything that Sony does features and online comes from Xbox. Steam exist because of Xbox Live. Microsoft moved gaming forward because sure enough everything would be like the Nintendo

to the bolded no.. microsoft moved console online gaming foward @ the cost of customization/freedom of content. And everything was not like nintendo sony was around as well and sega was still making games.

 

[5n0man]

Xbox definitely left a positive impact on gaming. The original Xbox was more influential than the ps2 and Sony was forced to follow Microsoft's lead going into the ps3 era.

Those niche titles still exist in the form of indie games, there's a huge variety of them.

It's sounds like you have rose tinted glasses when remembering the era before the internet, console gaming was always gonna go in this direction but Xbox made it happen a generation sooner.

 

[5n0man]

to the bolded no.. microsoft moved console online gaming foward @ the cost of customization/freedom of content. And everything was not like nintendo sony was around as well and sega was still making games.

How old are you?

 

[Mike809]

they moved it 1 step forward, 10 steps back.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

@Leasy why cant we have custom zombie maps for cod blackops or custom warzone maps?..
Why cant we have custom citys for forza horizon 4 or at least custom tracks.

Because they rather charge you 15 $ for dlc instead of letting one of the many talented creators create something special

 

[SymbolicOne09]

How old are you?

Old enough to experience the golden era

 

[Master Teacher]

nikka you're just old, those fond memories of gaming from child hood are just that child hood, all those games are trash nes was 90 percent trash, and so was genesis and ps1, and the majority of ps2, half the ps3 library is barely playable right now, games that last the test of time are few and far between

shyt is only getting better and will continue to get better

 

[Leasy]

to the bolded no.. microsoft moved console online gaming foward @ the cost of customization/freedom of content. And everything was not like nintendo sony was around as well and sega was still making games.

Sega had the idea and started it but Microsoft mastered it. In regards to online. I use to game on Seganet all the time with the keyboard..

they moved it 1 step forward, 10 steps back.

Are you going to add to the discussion or spit bullshyt like this

 

[5n0man]

Old enough to experience the golden era

I feel like you don't really remember how the "Golden era" was.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Nope they gave credibility to console fps and innovated online connectivity. Put indies on huge with Xbox arcade. Great controller design. They've done alot to move shyt forward.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

I feel like you don't really remember how the "Golden era" was.

How old are you

 

[Leasy]

Microsoft added

Voice Chat
Hard drives
Online Services which I think once Microsoft reach its Gamepass goal it will be free like PC
Gamepass
Achievements
DLC
Profiles
One of the best controllers especially for FPS
Big budget games such as Halo
Cloud Gaming
Xcloud remote play anywhere
Digital games
Movies and entertainment digitally
Multiple forms of controllers
Removable storage
Gamertags
Indie support
Gave some of these developers Activision with COD/Bethesda their first console audience

 

[5n0man]

@Leasy why cant we have custom zombie maps for cod blackops or custom warzone maps?..
Why cant we have custom citys for forza horizon 4 or at least custom tracks.

Because they rather charge you 15 $ for dlc instead of letting one of the many talented creators create something special

How is that Microsoft's fault? They didn't create the concept of dlc, they just introduced the idea to console gaming, which wasn't a bad thing until EA and Activision started taking advantage.

You couldn't do that shyt on a console before Xbox was ever a thing anyway, and I'm sure there's some custom mods on PC you can download if that's what you really wanna do.

Are you mad that consoles aren't as customizable as PCs?