Best Console?

[Hobo Xiphas]

It takes a troll to counter a troll ;) . In that case, allow me to counter: YS BOOK I & II FOR TGCD IS BY FAR THE BEST VERSION!

Counter-Troll: Ys is a stupid game where you walk into enemies to kill them because the art department was too lazy to make an attacking animation.

[Joe Redifer]

Please don't call the art department lazy.  They were sick that day and they kept having to take turns in the bathroom to release massive diarrhea.

[Keranu]

It takes a troll to counter a troll ;) . In that case, allow me to counter: YS BOOK I & II FOR TGCD IS BY FAR THE BEST VERSION!

Counter-Troll: Ys is a stupid game where you walk into enemies to kill them because the art department was too lazy to make an attacking animation.

Counter-counter-troll: It takes a stupid person to get stuck in the mines in Ys I ;) .

[Hobo Xiphas]

Counter-counter-troll: It takes a stupid person to get stuck in the mines in Ys I ;) .

Counter-counter-counter-troll: At least I can get past the second level in Military Madness. 

[Keranu]

Counter-counter-troll: It takes a stupid person to get stuck in the mines in Ys I ;) .

Counter-counter-counter-troll: At least I can get past the second level in Military Madness. 

Hey now, I've gotten past that since I learned how to use something!

P.S.-troll: I've beaten Dragon Force .

[Kitsunexus]

SNES > TG16.

Supernova Omnislash Troll.

[Joe Redifer]

P.S.-troll: I've beaten Dragon Force

Jeez.  I own the game and can't really figure it out.  I guess I could try and read the manual, but I am illiterate!

[Keranu]

P.S.-troll: I've beaten Dragon Force

Jeez.  I own the game and can't really figure it out.  I guess I could try and read the manual, but I am illiterate!

I just resorted to Xiphas teaching me how to play it.

[Hobo Xiphas]

It's honestly not that hard, it's actually pretty easy. 

I've beaten it with every character, even the useless ones.  Yes, I'm looking at you Gongos and Teiris!

[Joe Redifer]

I just select a whole bunch of commands and then my people run around aimlessly for 5 minutes and then it is game over.  Surely there is more to the game than this?  It's not really "pick up and play".  Surely it is damn hilarious, though, since the world's top comedian Vic Ireland wrote much of the script.  Right?  Right?

[Hobo Xiphas]

Surely it is damn hilarious, though, since the world's top comedian Vic Ireland wrote much of the script.  Right?  Right?

You know it!  More Christie Love and poop jokes than you can shake a stick at!

I just select a whole bunch of commands and then my people run around aimlessly for 5 minutes and then it is game over.

You just suck, Joe.  Sorry.  Although to be fair, the hardest part of the game is the very beginning and the very end.

[Joe Redifer]

So you're saying I should pay attention to what I select in the menus?  Who the hell is Christy Love?

[Hobo Xiphas]

I had no idea until I looked it up.

It is a blaxploitation movie.  The reference is constantly made by a black guy character.  Oh, Victor!

[Keranu]

The hard part about Dragon Force was learning how to play the game! After that, it's pretty easy . I wonder if Mahjong is like that too?

[guyjin]

Again, why the hell would I care about a company that I don't own?

Okay, the troll has gone away for the time being, so I feel like I can reply without encouraging the little shit.

The reason you should care about a company you do not own is simple:

you do not live in a vacuum.

I'll explain. Imagine you like comics. At first, you go to the obvious, nearest comic book store. Let's say, hypothetically^*, Ground Zero comics. The manager is named, hypothetically, Dave.
Dave is a dick. Frequently. he pulls the old "this isn't a library"; he sells prizes intended to be given away to customers; he steals stuff and blames employees; but mostly it's just bad customer service, because he's a dick.
So you start going to other comic book stores. None are perfect, of course, but some are better than others.
One, hypothetically, is called tenthpenny, run by a hypothetical guy, Mark, who is awesome.
Sadly, people didn't go to his store enough; people didn't talk up his store enough; people didn't care enough.
And it went away.

That is why you should care about companies you don't own. If you don't, things they have, make, or do will not be there anymore, and you'll have little choice but to go to the bad old places again.

^*_{by 'hypothetically' I mean 'absolutely true story.'}

[Turbo D]

The dudes at the comic book store know better than to be a dick to me. I'll change into my super hero form and destroy them 

[Kitsunexus]

So hypothetically, could they trace it if you put a nailbomb on Dave's doorstep?

[CrackTiger]

I just select a whole bunch of commands and then my people run around aimlessly for 5 minutes and then it is game over.  Surely there is more to the game than this?  It's not really "pick up and play".  Surely it is damn hilarious, though, since the world's top comedian Vic Ireland wrote much of the script.  Right?  Right?

I got about as far as you Joe. My brother loved it through and has been naming his character in games Goldark ever since.

[Hobo Xiphas]

Jeez, if Dragon Force is too hard for you guys I'd like to see you play something like Victoria. 

[Joe Redifer]

Never heard of it.  Must suck.

[Hobo Xiphas]

You mean you don't like a complex simulation about colonialism, economics, and industrialization in the 19th century?

For shame!  Any game that lets you play as the United States of Central America is okay in my book. 

[Kitsunexus]

You mean you don't like a complex simulation about colonialism, economics, and industrialization in the 19th century?

Just make some maps for the Settlers series...

[OceanBlueKirby]

I just thought I would bring this up for Tatsujin:

Since two weeks have passed now since the poll was first initiated, the tallying of points now needs to be done. Is the "head-to-head" battle topic against the top 10 consoles currently being initiated ?