So long XBox

Today marked the end of a failed experiment. I traded in my XBox and games at my local EB. The XBox was given to me as a birthday gift, and most of the games were either free or very cheap. So I can't feel too badly about my trade-in. I also hawked my increasingly unreliable PS2 and got a new, itty-bitty one.

So long, fucker.

The XBox was absolutely huge and monstrous, a bulky shitbox not unlike it's bulky shitbox controllers. But this was not really a problem and kind of gave the console some character, kind of a "wow, someone actually made something this hideous" which gives it a charm like Tom Waits or Steve Buscemi. Besides, that huge box is crammed with cutting-edge hardware and it's own internal hard drive (GREAT idea.) Unfortunately, consoles are all about the games they can play and this is where XBox didn't do jack shit for me. Fable was a fun little distraction. After a few hours the novelty wore off and underlying gameplay was pretty bland. And Fable stood head-and-shoulders above all the other games I played for XBox. I need more than sports games and shooters.

The only console I ever sold off before was my Turbo-Grafx 16 some 15 years ago or so. I still have my old NES, SNES and games bouncing around here somewhere. My Genesis withered and died, and I gave my PS1 (and FF7) to Tom when the PS2 came around. Hell, I even kept my wretched Nintendo 64 and a couple of must-have games. But after selling my unwanted and dying systems to EB, I walked out the store with a sleek new fully functional PS2, God of War, Devil May Cry 3 and Resident Evil 4 feeling good. I miss Blazing Lazers for TG-16. I miss nothing about the XBox other than quick load times and custom soundtracks. X-things sure do suck.