Accidental Beginnings
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
Gamecube blatantly looks better than Playstation 2.
Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
Looks can be deceiving.
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
Not, I think, when you are enquiring as to the quality of the graphics.
Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
But the polished exterior hides an inferior machine.
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
Inferior in what way, pray? Surely consoles are simply looks. Any deeper quality can be achieved only through the developer's expertise in the production of a game; since consoles perform no other purpose than the playing of a game.
Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
You're right, the processing and graphical prowess of a machine do not make good games, take Netrek for example.
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
Exactly. So, if the graphical presentation of one console is better than another's then we can exclude the relevance of a statement such as "looks can be deceiving".
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English: Video game consoles of the sixth generati...Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
Unfortunately, yes.
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
And so we reach the end of our short discourse.
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CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
I sense counter-insurgence.
Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
Hmm, but wouldn't you agree that the superior hardware of a console increases the potential for original, 'ground breaking' games? Games that take the area of gaming into deeper realms?
CCTV Just Makes Me Scared, They're Watching Us Everywhere says:
Perhaps, but originality does not always present like-ability. Red Faction, for instance, proved that.
Frequencies From Planet Ten says:
But, if our hardware had not progressed technologically since the 1980's we would still be playing Pong rip...