Hah! Finnaly an excu... err, I mean an OPPORTUNITY to ran... err, I mean TALK about consoles. So here goes:
I will not buy games for consoles that are available for the PC. Not Ever.
I think I will get a Wii sooner or later.
The Xbox 360 has some nice stuff, but probably not.
As for the PS3: Sorry, I´m not buying a 400€ console to play 1 game (Metal Gear Solid 4). Damn you Kojima Productions, DAMN YOU!!!
Frankly, there are precious few console games that are actually interesting enough to justify the investment (stuff like Zelda, Metroid, God of War, MGS, Geist, Eternal Darkness, a few others).
The rest are:
- The occasional action-adventure
- A lot of formulaic Japano-CRPGs
- A ton of absolutly braindead shooters/first-person-shooters
- 1 * 10^100000000000 sports/racing games
Not a lot of variety, is it?
Also, the action adventures are mostly hum-drum with a a few nice ones sneaked in between (Zelda, for example).
CRPGs are so formulaic that only the very best can distract me for even a short while from the fact that I have played the same game with different names a hundred times before
Almost all the Shooters/FPSs are braindead, give me Noone Lives Forever or System Shock 2 over Halo 3 any day! And to add insult to injury, they cannot even match the PC in the most important selling point for FPS: Eye candy. It will take at least 2 generations before consoles will even get close to Crysis. And the only explanation I can find for using two sticks and a gazillion buttons over the simple elegance of WASD + a mouse with 2 buttons and a wheel... Masochism!
Finnaly I simply dont like sports/racing games. Thus, looking through the shelves and seeing that 90% of the games fall into this category is a slap in the face.
I hope I have not bored and/or insulted anyone to much with my rantings. But I occasionally need to vent on consoles because they suck up the majority of production capital in the Software Entertainment business, while putting out maybe 1 or 2 games a year with any merit whatsoever (from my perspective), and even fewer that could not have been ported to the PC, were it not exclusiveness deals)
Worse, they often cause PC games to be dumbed down, both to adapt the gameplay to the inferior User-Interface possibilities, and to apeal more to the mythical "mass-market", which apparently consists exclusively of male american teenagers with attention spans that you´ld need an atomic clock to measure.
No I don´t really believe that. But the marketing departments of publishers for consoles do.
So for the love of whatever entities you worship, Lar, do NOT get involved with the console world in any way that would give them any influence, whatsoever, over your work.
