What's your favorite Video Game Console

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SNES
Great days

I've got a PS2.

Xenogears fell apart once you got to CD 2. Not that it was that great to begin with, due to it's unbalanced character selection, a sloppy mecha combat system, and so much boring text I had to wade through for eternity.

Silent Hill<Resident Evil<Alone in the Dark. Static camera/cheap scares ("let me guess, a creature will jump through the window...HERE!")/crappy movie based off it? I'll pass.

Fire away!

Xbox and N64

But I don't really play video games much. I like the XBOX the best, although I don't really care to buy the 360, as I rarely play video games much. But If I do buy it, it will be for the next MechAssault game, MechAssault games are awesome.

Out of the olde systems, my favorite would be N64.

I currently have an Xbox.

Used to have a PS2 which was I really liked.

I hate the PS2.

It's way too overrated, and besides that I just don't like the thing.

i lkike a few game conoles and have good memories laying on all of them...

i started off when i was litle playing on my brothers game console... it was like a small computer and it had a keyboard. i think it may have been called ATARI but anyway i remember playing a game called ghosts and ghoulies and i got frustrated when i couldetn make the big jump... but it was funny.... i think it only used 3 or 2 colours (yellow and green and white) on a black background.....

i also have fond memories playing the N64 the goldeneye game i took a particular liking to playing 2 or 4 multiplayer.

also SONIC 2 and the lion king, on sega megadrive

mario games on the SNESurnout 2
south park chefs luv shack on the PS1
andi like a few games i have for the PS2 including a dogs life, burnout 2, tony hawks (bmx and skateboards)

have to say though my favorite games are on the gameboy sp... i had a gameboy for years, and i have 5 of them now lol.. (the origional grey gameboy with green screen (x2).... gameboy color, gameboy advance and gameboy advance SP.

ninja taro
tetris
tetris attack
zelda
pokemon red
donkey kong
toxic crusaders
pokemon yellow
pokemon gold
super mario 2
sonic
sonic 2
sonic 3
who wants to be a millionaire
super mario 3
super mario advance
crash nitro kart
crash bandicoot 2
medal of honor underground
007 nightfire
pokemon leaf green
pokemon ruby

is my games for my gameboy gonna go on ebay see what esle i can get

ok your points are valid for the most part, atleast for xenogears (though I did rather enjoy the cutscenes as long as they were). The Silent Hill criticism was fairly vague. Yes, there are a few "jump out" scares, but many of the scares rely on an immersive disturbing backround. For instance, the school and hospital alternate backrounds scare the hell out of me. The grated rust covered wall of the school covering cloaked bodies that almost seem alive, it's terrifying (well it was atleast when I last played, about 3 years ago). A few of the scares wern't instant. For example the little things in the game kinda get to you, such as the environment subtley changing (the 4 button in the hospital elevator appearing out of no where). Anyway, yeah, I agree with what you are saying about the boo scares. Okay, I will add a few games for you.

Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV
Legend of Dragoon (very underrated)
Final Fantasy VII (Bet you couldn't see that one coming, yes I agree, it is overrated, but good nonetheless)
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor Underground (Both were alot of fun for the time with advanced hit detection atleast for console shooters, though they were far from realistic games)

I was very vague with Silent Hill/Fear Effect/Clock Tower/Resident Evil/etc. because frankly, they all seem to simply blur into one another...as it stands, the only game meant to scare that I've truly enjoyed was System Shock 2 for the PC (I was never able to find a copy of the first game).

OK then:

Medal of Honor was decent but not worth getting a console for; the fact of the matter is that consoles never should have attempted to do FPS games (while Goldeneye was truly revolutionary for FPS games, it's controller limited its full potential) especially as when MOH came out, the PC already had Half-Life. The series would then lose its credibility after the remake, and the many add-ons.

The only Final Fantasy I ever liked was VI, and even that doesn't cut it, what with it's ability to cop out of boss fights with the invisibility/doom combo. Though I hear FFXII got a perfect score over at Famitsu...as for 7, Popeye graphics, emotionally one-dimensional characters (I remember when one girl who played the game said "Aeris is a slut."), and it's Captain-Planet story of saving the Lifestream was snore-inducing; plus you must remember that FFVII's popularity would be milked to death (Ehrgeiz anybody)? Oh well, despite his cross-dressing fetish, Mrs. Cloud is nowhere as gay as covergirl Squall Leonheart.
Final Fantasy Tactics was decent. Unbalanced character classes (The Mathematician) and insanely easy power-leveling make this game inferior to games like Shining Force III, Wachenroder, Soldernschild, etc. If you want a true traditional RPG, the Saturn had Grandia, Lunar, (note, I am not mentioning the inferior translations to Playstation, as Working Designs had lost most of their credibility after Dragon Force), and Panzer Dragoon Saga among many others.

Tried playing through the first two Breath of Fire and found them more or less forgettable; unless III and IV are VASTLY better, I'm not sure whether I should play them.

Metal Gear Solid was a bad stealth game. Compare it to something like Splinter Cell or even Thief: The Dark Project, and it's woefully unplayable.

Symphony of the Night suffers from powerleveling (mainly as the enemies don't scale in difficulty enough for them to be a threat; one can plow through the endstages with little effort), and overall feels inferior to the great of the series: Dracula X for the Turbo-CD.

Ape Escape and Spyro I didn't like due to their emphasis on collecting stuff. These "scavenger" hunts were not compelling with Donkey Kong, and they aren't compelling now. So throw your Spyro, your Crash, your Blinx, etc. away in the trash where they belong. The true platformers are your Mario 64s (where collecting was limited to coins and stars), your Prince of Persias, etc.

The fighting games, your Street Fighter Alphas and X-men vs. Street Fighters, etc. were better-done on Saturn anyway (especially when you threw the RAM cartridges into the fray). 3d fighters were generally better. Who needed crap like Toshinden and Tekken when Fighters Megamix was the ultimate 32-bit fighter? As for 2d fighters, nothing comes even close to Guardian Heroes on the Saturn, so the Playstation should just stop trying.

...fighting games....

Soul Caliber...Dead or Alive 2...

Wasted alot of time with those two.

OLD: Super Nintendo

NEW: Nintendo DS Lite

Thank You! Finally, someone who actually recognizes what masterpieces the system shock games were [especially the second one, the first game was really cool but not all that freaky]. All my friends thought they sucked and discarded them after the first 2 minutes. I love nothing more than a game that is difficult enough [without being near-impossible, this is important] to make me frantically scramble for cover when a monster walks around the corner unexpectedly. That is why I just shake my head and mourn for the people who didn't like Halo; When played on legendary, Halo provided a tight, fast-paced play experience that rewarded intelligent, decisive agression and had exquisite weapon balance. OMG I loved Halo so much.

To answer the main thread question, I have a ps2 with HDLoader and an 80GB HDD hooked up to a Panasonic LCD projector [118 inches of gaming glory ] It pretty much blows me away every time I fire it up and it's far and away the greatest system I have ever had.

gamecube: love the name, love the look, love the controller.
besides it has some pretty desent games but it isn't perfect because of lack of kingdom hearts with that game it would be perfect.

System Shock II is amazing; excellent sound design. Those midwives scare the hell out of me.

I like the ZXSpectrum emulator on my computer. OK, it's not a true console, just behaves like one. But the games are really simple and fun at the same time.

I would have to say the xbox because I like Microsoft products