Just curious. Out of all game councils in the universe, and history, what do you think is the Best one?

Feel free to have fun with this, make up your own council if you want on the site and describe how that's the best. Or the worst.. XP

What is the best game for that best council in foreverness?

How could the best be even better?

^^ and... have fun.

Here's a few choices.

Original Atari system(s). The grandaddy of them all, where would we be without the classics like Pong? Their last console, the Jaguar, was pretty much a failure and they seem now to be mostly involved with only games.

Gameboy. It's design may have changed over the years, ultimately getting not just another facelift, but upgrades including the latest currently released with the Gameboy name, Gameboy Advance (and Advance SP). However the original Gameboy (and it's many colours and facelifts) was around for years and years, back during the days of NES through SuperFamiCom/SNES and onto the Playstation era. I would even guess there's still people playing with original Gameboys or their slimmed down versions. Talk about staying power.

The next great system(s) though? Next gen's next gen?
Think Ghost in the Shell like tech, not only do I think an interface through the body would be an ingenious way of playing games, it would save space and possibly, once understood well enough, save on costs making considerable profits for it's creators (better give me primo profits on a regular basis for the idea though. Gotta get my fair cut =P).

No controller, no screen, you see the game through your eyes directly as if you were actually in the games universe, your thoughts and impulses control your character, perhaps even your environment adjusting safety (so when your character dies you somehow won't) as well depending on how stressed your body is by the experiance.
Games will undoubtedly take advantage of this, potentially allowing much more freedom (depending on how well the programs are written).

Picture this, an RPG where when you start playing the weather adjusts to your mood, during tough boss battles as you get more and more pumped the music and sounds grow stronger, more forceful to a fevered pitch..Or you've leveled up a lot and that boss is a piece of cake and the music is much lighter, perhaps playful as you may toy with the boss with status attacks blinding it, or whatever. Or your character is married and...well you can guess, maybe, say you tick your spouse off, you get one of those movie-like slaps to the face (which you could really feel).Maybe you shouldn't have given your mate that bowling ball for your anniversary? Oop...what was in that food they gave you? Drats, poisoned, better fetch an antidote or try to beg forgiveness and have your spouse give you the antidote..
Say your character happens to be a theif, ninja or assasin, you creep up on an enemy to attack but they sense you, you reactively jump onto a nearby roof or duck behind a building, whatever..all to varrying succes (be more sure of yourself and you might have a higher success rate at whatever skills you employ to even little actions). The possibilities are certainly something, all kinds of games are possible. Really feel like you're behind the wheel of some supercar, from the stomach churning powerslides and donuts to the jolt of being bumped by another vehicle or feel the freedom of flying a plane or even have your hand at being a superhero flying through the atmosphere off to save some poor hapless helpless citizen (or maybe you decide midway "Screw this hero buisness, let's wreak some havoc. Rarw! Bye bye Metropolis").

The drawback though, as I see it, is that if done well enough (like I imagine it anyway), it could become highly -highly- addictive and in some cases even preferable to a gamers' real life. I know I lose track of time as it is with current games, but with something that totally imerses you in it's world? You could really over do it. One thing would have to be included for sure for the really long open games, when your character sleeps so would you for X hours, carried even further for the highly addicted an I.V. and other such things might have to be an option (that is unless there's GitS like "prosthetic"/cybernetic bodies and possibly no need for using the bathroom, etc). So it could be the best and the worst for obvious reasons. Just my wild and crazy thoughts though.

SNES or PS2 would be my favorites.

SNES because it had some of the best RPG games ever on it, along with tons of other cool games. Good controller, not too complicated, not too few buttons, just right I think. Good graphics for the time.

PS2 because it can play both PS1 and PS2 games, not to mention a lot of the good Final Fantasies were rereleased onto the PS1. The PS2 has a lot of good RPGs in it's own right. Good controller here, too. Decent graphics for the time, though this system has lasted for many years, longer than most.

The custom-built computer is, and always will be, the best game consel out there ever. Why is that? Because you can make a computer anything with the right hardware settings and emulation software....its every gaming platform combined into one. How can it lose?

I gotta agree with Rancor. You can make your PC do almost anything.. including emulate all the other systems.

As far as the ultimate game only consloe, it has to be GameBoy for all the reasons RM said. And I mean.. I can still play my old games on my new SP.. that is pimp.


Enough of that is popular and what is powerful.. i have a real love for one system:

The modded Xbox. It can play any arcade game, gameboy games, play .avi files.. whatever. Modded Xboxes are the heat... especialy with a 200Gig external linked to it.

I've always wanted to pick up an X-box just because I hear its a sweet system to mod out. I watch a little show called The Broken, and on it they showed just some of the things that a modded X-box can do. Being able to burn games to the HD, being able to accelerate the speed with some new RAM, being able to play and send all those movie files....it just makes me wanna grab a X-box. Only problem being I havent actually done it yet, because I dont have the money....

But yeah, after I saw that episode of The Broken....I'm impressed with modded X-boxs. They just rock on many, many levels.

(modded x-boxes are awesome... I've seen a third-party one that's 1.4 ghz, which is roughly double the processing speed in the original)

I'd have to say that I have to side with sony (I love the gameboy and it would get my vote... but it's not a console guys. It's a handheld.) and their playstations. The original was quite ahead of its time and made the eventual release of the N64 (I owned one and I've got to tell it like it is) look like a caveman trying to drive a car. If you played a title that was available on both consoles it would look and play better on the PS. My favorite example is the arcade classic Gauntlet: Legends; if you play it on the PS the graphics are good and the opening scenematics look like the graphics on the arcade game. Trying it on the N64 the in-game graphics are just slightly worse, but with far more frame rate drops... the real problem lied in the opening scenematic though. On the N64, the black fiery demon who was supposed to look fierce, forboding, and like he was made of hardend, but still hot, magma... was purple and blocky. The first time I saw it at a friend's house (I'd only rented gauntlets for my PS) I just started laughing... and my friend didn't understand. The systems that were around during the PS's reign, the saturn, SNES (it's final days at least), and the N64; simply paled to the original PS. And when they released the mini PSone which is compatable with a nice 4" VGA screen... they made so much money they're making a small PS2. The games on it were great... and I have to say that FF7 will forever cast a doubtful shadow on every rpg I have played since then and will play long into the future.

> (I love the gameboy and it would get my vote... but it's not a console guys. It's a handheld.) <

You raise an excellent point (which I obviously neglected to think of at the time...need more sleep or something obviously), however with people mentioning PCs (desktop gaming) might as well include the Gameboy. =P

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