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Originally Posted by Orodinn
PS2 is probably the best choice moneywise for the casual gamer.
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...because it costs twice a Gamecube? Hm.
However, since you are looking at online play, Gamecube is out of the question. You can get a broadband adapter, but only to connect systems together... pretty stupid, if you ask me. Overall, in my opinion, PCs are the best for online gaming. Shooters are also the best on PC, and almost all of those can be played online. Depending on your taste, go with BF:Vietnam or UT2k4. They're both excellent games, just very different styles of play. Half-Life 2 is also coming out soon (maybe), but even failing that you can get Counter-Strike Source and others by "buying" Half-Life 2 off Steam. And for $200 you can get a nearly top of the line graphics card (Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro) that will run the shit out of any new games, so long as the rest of your system is decent.
So yeah, that's where I'd go.
If you'd prefer a console, I'd go X-Box. Not playing Halo isn't a great excuse for not playing Halo 2. You can get Halo new for about $20, if you really NEED to play it first, but I think that's unnecessary. You can also get Crimson Skies, which is supposedly excellent online, or Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, another fantastic game. And X-Box Live is a surprisingly good way of managing online games. You pay one monthly fee and everything works right. Plus, X-Box has fighters and racing games which, generally speaking, suck ASS on PC. Look at Soul Calibur 2 for an excellent fighter.