| oniyide said: why do people need to reassure themselves that they made the "right" choice?? In the age of insta-information one should be able to make a educated decesion on whay console they get without worrying about what the competition has and doesnt |
No one really goes through the painstaking effort to thoroughly do research before they buy though. Even if you go youtube playthrough footage of every single game that looks good, sometimes you can't truly get a feel for whether you'd enjoy the game or not until you're actually playing it yourself. And using Metacritic as a "shortcut" is not a good idea. At least in my experience. I know I got a PS3 because everyone kept hyping it up on here as having all these must-play exclusives and the exclusives got good metacritic ratings. When I actually sat down and played them, I was unimpressed. I love Heavy Rain though (I wish that was the very first PS3 game I played, not God of War III). One of my favorite games of 2010. But yeah I really feel like it wasn't that worth it to own both a Xbox 360 and a PS3 (I'm probably not going to do that next gen. But who knows). They are too similar to each other and while being able to play on PSN with PSN friends and XBL with XBL friends is nice the appeal of online gaming didn't really stick. I haven't played online in like 3 months. Honestly I think the Wii is more my style than anything (as far as home consoles go. DS is my favorite system period). Maybe it's because I'm one of those old-school "lapsed gamers" that Malstrom talks about (I certainly don't agree with everything he says though). I pretty much went on hiatus from console gaming in the 6th Gen. I certainly enjoyed a number of HD games but I find that I don't tend to enjoy a lot of the same HD games (especially the AAA blockbusters) that people on these gaming forums do. So when I go check these games out (luckily I have a rental subscription so I don't lose much for trying), I run into dissapointments. Call me crazy but I think NSMB is more fun than Halo or God of War.
