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 Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:28 pm
Honestly, I don't know. Sega/Nintendo is good, but few of their games still hold true to me now. At the risk of being rude and upsetting you . . . Nintendo beats the dead horse of the same few properties, demanding that any variation in Mario carry a whole new system. For the Wii U, that seems to have reached a conclusion as 3rd party developers are not giving that new system any love at all.
I've been Sony bound since the old original playstation. In fact, I keep a copy of the first game I ever played on the PS. It is old, clunky, and honestly a bad game . . . but emotional value keeps it.
Currently, games like the Infamous series, God of War, Ratchet and Clank, and such keep me in Playstation's camp. I never was against the XBox, the XBox 360, or even the upcoming XBox One . . . but I'll be holding to my guns.
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:44 pm
No offense taken; I'm no foaming-mouthed fan of Nintendo. What I love most of Sega are their former titles, as I can subsist on older games quite easily.
I only have a Wii currently, and it's served well enough.
I don't have a problem w/ Sony, though I do hold ire for Microsoft.
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:08 pm
Is it because of their recent missteps? I know that their conference was nothing short of a nightmare for the company. I also know they recanted as fast as they could while Sony took rather cheap shots at their rival. I did not choose the Xbox because I thought it just another tendril of Microsoft into the world. They are the only force that can rival both Disney and walmart for global domination.
The 360 had so many errors (red ring of death), and so many bricks that should have been systems . . . and there were no games that made me desperate to have it. With so little disposable income to my name, I have to be cautious with large expenditures.
Why have ire for the unstoppable computer company?
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:44 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:16 pm
There are numerous reasons, not all of which are fair to Microsoft itself (Halo fans bother me a lot). In addition to the ones you mention, I really don't like the way Microsoft itself is run and its philosophy (regardless of their console endeavors).
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:06 pm
I can get behind those reasons.
Halo fans seem to be the elite of the rabid fans of the X-box series. Claiming utter superiority in a race that has been too close to call in matters of gameplay, graphics, sound, and all things that matter about a game aside from the most important one.
How fun it is.
If it is fun, then play it. If it's not fun, then no amount of shine will save the game. If that is the case of enough games, then the system is doomed. Look at Wii. It has less power, less graphics, less support, and yet managed to hold the market for a while. Why? It was fun. Now . . . not so much.
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:08 pm
Halo itself is a pretty fun game, and I don't usually care for FPSs on the whole.
Yes, I cannot proclaim how much I agree with you! The debates on matters like graphics and sound are easily dismissed, but many think endlessly arguing over Gameplay VS Story is the ultimate debate since fun is subjective... Or so they say, since claiming subjectivity as a scapegoat is a pretty weak defense when most things are a mix of objectivity and subjectivity to begin with.
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:06 pm
Agreed. What makes a game great is a set of etherial stats like story, writing, and experience. Different people like different things, so there will only be games that appeal to the most people- or games that excell at a specific demographic. Neither is a bad course.
As for FPS, very few of those have been ones I enjoyed. I truly loved Bioshock's series . . . but that is about it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:25 pm
I enjoy the Half Life series for its story and the Time Splitters series for its multiplayer. I sometimes don't count things like Half Life and BioShock when I say FPS, since I am generally referring to (but am clearly not specifying XD) the military shooters (which all seem to have zombie modes for some reason).
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:04 pm
Yeah, military shooters are not my thing. I figure, if I am not interested in doing it in life, why play something meant to be realistic? Same thing with sports. I don't play them, have no interest in watching them, and have a degree of difficulty in the concept of playing them virtually . . . Still, that does not discount others from enjoying them. Just not my thing.
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:06 pm
Yeah, I'm not much for the sports genre either. I play both FPSs and sports games if offered/requested, I just wouldn't own either myself.
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:36 pm
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm not sure what to say. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:11 pm
Me neither...
I'm not much of one for news, but this shutdown thing (just heard about it yesterday) is weird... Still, apparently one happened for 3 weeks back in '95.
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:15 pm
Ahhh yes, the government. Honestly, if it were possible to get away with it, I would just wash away the whole lot and restart. One party is blaming the other for the shutdown and nothing is fixed. The president does remarkably little to improve the lives of the country, and yet got re-elected. One of my facebook friends put up something about voting, and I quoted George Carlin for my view on voting in the current system.
George Carlin “I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The s**t they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a ******** thing. Secondly, I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around – they say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.”
Speaking of which, do you even have a facebook page? Seems that would be a faster way to chat . . .
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:08 pm
I've not looked much into it since I heard about it so recently (and I hate the ever-depressing nature of the media, anyway, hence why I avoid news mos of the time), but it seems to be a very stupid situation overall that could be solved if even 1 of the sides would stop being so stubborn and spiteful.
I don't blame you, honestly.
No, I'm not on social networking sites out of principle (and I was not able to access such sites while at college anyway). I know there's not a huge difference between a forum and FB, I'm just not comfortable with the intrusion putting your real name out there causes. I like anonymity on the internet, like in the old days. Zuckerberg's outright anti-privacy stance also irks me.
Sorry, I know it would be faster, though. I guess I'm kind of set in my ways... sweatdrop
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