[Harry]

Originally posted by Weapon_XZ84

Well I said id report if I had problems with my X Box so here it is. I was playing Shenmue 2 yesterday. I was playing for about a good hour, to an hour and a half and it froze . Pissed me off because I was hitting it big on the one hit stands and had quite a bit of money built up. Is this a universal problem with the X Box (I know its not the games because this is the second time it has happened sense I bought it and the first time was with a brand new game (Jet Set Radio Future). Any ways is it a universal problem with all X Box systems or should I return mine for a new one before its too late ?. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Also to continue the original subject........ Id just like to point out to Spank-A-Thon that as fair as the good people at this forum are, it IS STILL a PS2 forum. Your not going to see many people agree with me necessarily about Sonys downfalls such as the controllers being rather cheaply made in comparison to X Box's because I think most of us here are pretty big Sony fans. Im still a Sony fan myself im just trying something new for a while. (If I had the money id buy both of them but ive got other costs to tend to on a small budget) Also yes Sonys online strategy is very different from Microsoft's but that doesn't change the fact that Live is more enjoyable (Opinion) due to Sony's online servers (Controlled by game developers) being absolutely pathetic in most cases. My argument is just that Sony made a bad choice in forcing game developers to deal with online play. Because clearly they are not up to the task (Ahem....Zipper for the most part. Madden online seems allright to me, i applaud EA Sports for that). Also as for the controller abuse issue. Ill admit thier were times when I should have controlled my temper but ive seen shows on how companies decide on controller design and abuse such as throwing is something they are supposed to test and compensate for. Sony knows people are going to throw controllers a bit, hell the kid playing SOCOM in the commercial throws his controller. And I think it puts X Box in a better light because they made their controllers sturdier, not a big thing, just a positive I was pointing out. Thats all. And to deny that is to be a fool, If you think sonys are made just a s sturdy, or that they are better made than have clearly never held an X Box controller

I unfortunately have no time to write a long answer, and I see many answered finely to your thread...

I'll just say that on my Xbox I got many serious problems with Morrowind (mostly software related) and it froze on any game I played at least once - including Splinter Cell, Halo and Shenmue II. We had similar problems on a PAL Xbox.

I do believe all these issues are caused by the same weaknesses that's easy to notice playing a game on a good "IBM" PC running any version of Windows. So, Weapon, you should just get used to save often

P.s. I couldn't resist saying something about your last statement. I sincerely consider the Xbox's controller awful - stupidly big (but with the same number of buttons of the Dual Shock), stupidly heavy, stupidly designed : I really don't know how they could release a console with that kind of official controller. It's good you like it, but sincerely, the Dual Shock is one of the greatest gifts ever made to the gaming community.