Fuck you Nintendo, really, look what you've done! You have opened up Pandora’s Box and consequently screwed the rest of the console gaming community. Video games are now ruined.
Microsoft has just unveiled their newest product for the Xbox 360; a straight out copy of the Nintendo Wii, a controller-less console.
The Wii console was specifically designed to tap into the uncharted market of non-gaming people, those who never were interested in real video games and probably never will be. It exists solely to please a family of non-gamers, and has gained Nintendo (a fading company, unable to compete with past triumphs of Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy) overwhelming attention and revenue.
To keep up with the competition Nintendo and their Wii is delivering; Microsoft has now too conformed to the “Gaming is for everyone!” claim. So, now us gamers are left with something of a problem.
Over time I have gradually seen the influx of companies releasing the infamous ‘play once’ games, and I thought to myself; “Hey, don’t worry. The industry will eventually stop and come around.” Nice try but wrong, douche bag! This Xbox conformity is only further proven by Lionhead releasing “Fable 2”, which introduces a duel gaming experience UI. People who had never picked up a control before could command the game just as easily as a veteran gamer, and, you guessed it, widened the target market to the community of jock arsehole posers whom seem to think that because they can get to the easily-achievable end, they are suddenly experts in all things electronic and can lecture me about how great the Wii interface is!
There are many types of gamers, and different consoles cater to their various tastes; Xbox 360 & PS3 were designed for the serious hardcore gamers, with their only issues being the RRoD and overwhelming price respectively. PC is for the truly hardcore gamers and I respect and commend anyone who seriously games online. Before the invention of the Wii, these were the only 2 real categories of gaming, but then Nintendo crossed a boundary and instantaneously gaming is for everyone. Now I have to listen to Freddy Fuckstick telling me that I’m a noob because he killed me after fragging him 60 times, getting bored and stabbing him.
I think it’s time I move onto the realm of online PC gaming, now that my once-underground community of console gamers has become infected with the ‘main steam’ virus. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, and it is time to move on.
And to anyone who has just discovered consoles, stay with it, don’t follow me. I’m joining the last line of defence against mainstream; AKA computer gaming.
RIP Herachio, you will be missed.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Nice blog, I have to admit I am not a gamer, I do love flight sim, have done since it's very early versions when I used to sneak into universities to play it on the then latest machines (lucky to have a refresh rate of 3fps) which were in those days unavailable in the standard household, early 80's era.
ReplyDeleteWhere are flight simulators in the console arena ?, too specialized, not game enough ? if it was on Wii I dare say you would have to flap your wings to keep flying.
Like hardcore gamers have seen the games become a joke on consoles via the gaming is for everyone I expect if flight sims were on consoles they would be turned into a object of mass appeal, maybe see how many skyscrapers you can ram before being shot down by US fighter jets.
Now there's a game.
i think they have that game on nintendo 64, its called Rampage world tour, you're one of 4 monsters and you have to go round the world killing shit, its great
ReplyDelete