Last week was quite the end of the year blowout debate. I threw my debate traps into the waters, cast out my anchor, and waited for a week to see what kind of things would wash up. A decent amount of fiddler trolls surfaced as expected, but for the most part our usual weekly intelligent debate continued as scheduled.
It wasn't quite as exciting as the whored out daily Discovery Channel documentaries, but I didn't grow a beard, lose an arm or earn a hundred grand, so I guess things even out. That being said, when I returned to the docks with that week's gains, Nintendo did not look pleased. Anyways, I'm off to bang Diane Lane. Here are the results:
- Best Console:
- Xbox 360 (79 votes) -- Winner!
- PS3 (53 votes)
- Wii (13 votes)
- Worst Console:
- Wii (85 votes) -- Loser!
- PS3 (34 votes)
- Xbox 360 (12 votes)
The sales don't lie, and Nintendo has plenty to be happy about. However, these numbers don't lie either, and I don't think a "bias community" complaint is enough to write-off these staggering results, so Nintendo also has plenty to be upset about.
This week we return to the odd debate tournaments that were temporarily paused after the end of the Gamecube brackets. We venture into the Xbox round of debates with two games that were both ambitious and more comparable by odd debate standards than usual. The settings were drastically different though, as were their approaches to nonlinear gameplay. What will be the deciding factor for you this week?
Which game do you think is better, and why? Give it some serious thought, get some Xbox friends to share their opinions as well, and check back next week for the winner.
Contest:
9:50 PM on 01.06.2009
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And also I've never played any games on today's debate.
Morrowind was just too confusing and kinda lame without those "sweet" mods.
That said, I'm gonna go with the playground, because you can mod Star Wars into it, but not vice versa.
Morrowind.
Because this is Destructoid where graphics mean more than gameplay.
Oh, and KOTOR.
I'm gonna have to go with Morrowind.
My vote goes to Knights of the Old Republic
However, I'm going to have to give my nod to Morrowind. My friends and I had an entire "Summer of Morrowind" where almost every day, we would all gather round some TVs and do whatever the hell we wanted. During that summer, I never did complete Morrowind. Only a few of us did. But it offered much more to me and my friends.
The story was more compelling, the combat more enjoyable for me, and good lord...LIGHTSABERS! Also, HK-47 is possibly the greatest robotic character our society has ever created.
The fun I had in Morrowind had nothing to do with the story. It was about sneaking around, stealing from people and stat boosting until I could run at 50 miles an hour and jump over buildings. So really, it was a Middle Earth Crackdown rather than an RPG.
Meatbag.
KOTOR I actually played all the way through and loved. Great story, great characters, great setting, etc.
So...KOTOR.
KOTOR is very fun (who doesn't want to be a powerful Jedi / Sith) and a great story for sure, but in the end it's linear and easy to play. You'd play through it twice at most?
Morrowind is also very fun, and allowed anyone who spent enough time in it to also become overpowered and rule the world so to speak. It was also a much harder and unforgiving game at times (not knowing where to go for quests, getting swarmed if you were careful), yet it's an incredible open ended / sandbox type game. You could play the game for weeks and not need to touch the main quest, walk where you shouldn't, take or safe the lives of those you encounter, even allowing you kill main plot NPCs leaving you forsaken / unable to complete the main quest line.
Placing the choice of morality in the players hands and freedom of Morrowind VS KOTORs pick option A/B gameplay wins hands down IMO. :D
KOTR was good...but I never got to play that much of it (Didn't own an xbox at the time)
KOTOR is very fun (who doesn't want to be a powerful Jedi / Sith) and a great story for sure, but in the end it's linear and easy to play. You'd play through it twice at most?
Morrowind is also very fun, and allowed anyone who spent enough time in it to also become overpowered and rule the world so to speak. It was also a much harder and unforgiving game at times (not knowing where to go for quests, getting swarmed if you were careful), yet it's an incredible open ended / sandbox type game. You could play the game for weeks and not need to touch the main quest, walk where you shouldn't, take or safe the lives of those you encounter, even allowing you kill main plot NPCs leaving you forsaken / unable to complete the main quest line.
Placing the choice of morality in the players hands and freedom of Morrowind VS KOTORs pick option A/B gameplay wins hands down IMO. :D
Oh yes, I typed it all out. I'm a rebel.
I also thought that Morrowind's environment was much more immersive, with deep, complex cultures, religion, political intrigue, and lore, which could all be participated in.
My vote goes to Morrowind.
Anyway, I loved both of these games. Really loved them. I didn't even really want to think about which one I preferred, but here I am. Doing just that.
I would have to say Morrowind on the basis of the sheer amounts of time I have invested in it. Oblivion by contrast feels like they dropped the ball in a lot of respects. Morrowind had the superior storyline, lots more skills, and hell I could go on a big long rant with things Morrowind did better than Oblivion. I'll not bother going there. Least not here and now.
Anyways, KotoR. I've just gotten confused and bored everytime I tried to play Morrowind. KotoR was actually playable and fun.
I love Bioware
In Morrowind I stole cups from farmers until I got armor made of glass.
Um, yeah. KOTOR.
I spent 300 hours playing Morrowind and never beat the main game or played any expansions. Oddly enough i'm borrowing my friend's game of the year edition now to do just that. I still LOVE KOTOR though.
My vote goes to Morrowind.
....also cocks.
...and to anyone that votes without playing both, I hope you are happy, you just made baby Jesus cry.
+Morrowind
Morrowind has an enormous amount of content. It has more freedom of choice than any game I can think of,whereas KOTOR felt like you where being led around like a child in a mostly linear fashion.