The Video Games

I decided that this generation of video game consoles(PS2, Gamecube, XBox) sucked up the place. I have my reasons. The Gamecube, didn't have the software developers that you would expect, so they didn't that many great games. PS2 took a dive with it improving the PS2 so many times that the old school PS2 disks don't play in the slim PS2. The XBox... well all it has is halo and ninja gaiden, and a great firstperson shooter controler. Fighting games suck to play with it. Racing games aren't much of an improvement. In general, it seems I'm seeing the same thing over and over again. It usually takes shape in a first person shooter. It seems that standards are set, and developers get to that standard, and don't push beyound that. For example, Burnout series comes out with Burnout 3. What do other game developers for racing games do? They make that standard of putting crashing in their racing games. Now it seems that new games, such as LA Rush, aren't doing anything new. For those of you who play sports games, is Maddan improving or is 06 very very similar to 05? I don't know. I haven't played any sport games for many years now. The last one I played was NHL Blitz 2002. Which was fun.

Don't get my wrong with any of this. There are some fun and great games out there, but is there anything really new? We had first person shooters back on the N64, we had hack and slashes for many decades, we had RPGs, we had racing games. Is there anything that's gonna be new? Graphics are gonna get better. Really, I think we milked everything dry. The only thing that's gonna change with the XBox 360 and the PS3 are the graphics and the number of people you can have on the screen at one time without the framerate slowing down. Which are alright, but nothing new. But what's this other console. There's a third. the Nintendo Revolution. It has a pretty cool controler concept. If you haven't heard about the controler, just search it on ther internet. You'll find it. But seriously, this thing has gyrotechnology, it is like a remote, so that could be fun for first person shooters, with being able to shoot at the screen, like a guncon. It also comes with an attachment for the controler that has a joystick on it, so that also adds to the FPS movement. Sword fighting will be intersting with gyrotechnology (for those of you who don't know, that is that it can sense the movement of the controler). Fishing... not looking forward to that, but a good idea. I wonder about racing games. We'll see what the software developers have in mind. I'd keep your eye on the Revolution. I think it's gonna be the hit, just because people are gonna go, "The 360 is just like an XBox, except with better graphics... this sucks." Or "the PS3... this sucks totally because it has a boomerang controler, and the game get's registered to the system, so it can't be played on any other system except on the system it's registered to." I don't know about the PS3 part. It's just a rumour. But if it is true, it's gonna suck.

So I'm not gonna be rushing to target or walmart or bestbuy to buy a 360, or a ps3 for that matter. I'll probably buy one when it drops in price, but not right away. I'll probably pay full price for the Revolution, just because it will be affordable. Nintendo has said that. 400 bucks is just too much for the same thing, except with better graphics(i'm talking about the 360). I'm gonna go now.