Your top favorite consoles

[VintageMike]

Without question the PS2 is my favorite console. Huge selection of emulated classic arcade games (some only seeing release on the PS2/Xbox) and PS1 backwards comparability. Sony really blew it IMO by not having the PS3 be backwards compatible with PS2 games. I would have easily picked a PS3 over the 360 if that had been the case.

[Werewolf]

Sony really blew it IMO by not having the PS3 be backwards compatible with PS2 games. I would have easily picked a PS3 over the 360 if that had been the case.

The first PS3s are backwards compatible with the PS2. That feature was later phased out.

[VintageMike]

The first PS3s are backwards compatible with the PS2. That feature was later phased out.

I'm not a a "Buy it at rollout" type. The systems are always improve (say increased storage) and the price goes down as time goes by. So by the time I was ready to pick between a PS3 or an Xbox360 the feature was long gone. Just seems ridiculous with the way technology has advanced that it was so hard to keep including it.

[Figuremod73]

i would find the ps3 more desireable if it played ps2 also...

[torgospizza]

That was very good. I also recommend Champions Return to Arms and Baldurs Gate.

I'm like 99% sure CoN was built on the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance engine (an excellent game in it's own right, as you said [Kromlech FTW!]), but I could be wrong. They were both by Snowblind, so probably so. As far as Champions: Return to Arms goes, I'd never been so excited waiting for a console game to come out, and was there waiting for the store to open on release day. There were some genius moments in it (importing your character via memory card, new classes and races), but I found the medal rounds could be insanely daunting and the quality of the drops seemed nerfed in comparison to the great gear I got in the first game.

Having said that, it was easy to hack w/ a Game Shark, and you could create your own gear with whatever stats you chose. I had a ring that would grow your health back literally faster than you could die from being one-shotted, and a lightning hammer with somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 damage. It's fun to play around with them, but it kills the fun after a bit, because there is no challenge. It's best to have two separate game saves for this: a legit one and the cheating one.

[Werewolf]

As far as Champions: Return to Arms goes, I'd never been so excited waiting for a console game to come out, and was there waiting for the store to open on release day. There were some genius moments in it (importing your character via memory card, new classes and races), but I found the medal rounds could be insanely daunting and the quality of the drops seemed nerfed in comparison to the great gear I got in the first game.

I agree Return to Arms wasn't as good as the first game. I personally didn't care for the portal zones. I liked having the one larger world like the first game. Still good, just thought the first one was a bit more fun. Same with Baldur's Gate. The second one was good but I still liked the first one better.

I wished Sony had continued the Norrath series onto the PS3. Untold Legends Dark Kingdom wasn't nearly as good. I still would have liked an improved sequel though. The two PSP ones were fun.

[Bruce Banner]

In no particular order:

SNES

ColecoVision

Intellivision

PS1 & PS2

GBA & DS

Dreamcast (a good console... went before its time.)

Xbox & Xbox 360

GameCube (a great machine! Nintendo dropped this little gem too early to concentrate on all that arm-waving nonsense. )

TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment Super System/PC Engine

[Figuremod73]

i have never owned an tubographx 16. i knew someone with the portable (turboexpress?) neat little machine. i liked that it used cards instead of cartridges. The Legendary Axe was the best game i played on it. Some good pinball games too.

[Werewolf]

The Turbo didn't have the biggest library but it did have some really neat games. I always liked Bonk and Neutopia.

[pmwasson]

I pulled out my turbographx recently and my son really liked it. We had fun playing the 2 Bonk games and Devil's Crush.