I'm not going to lie, I hate some companies less than others but they all piss me off. At least their consoles do but anyway, I'm extremely bored and there's not much to talk about in the gaming world at the moment, so I'm going to rant about why I hate the the big three and their consoles.
I'll start with Microsoft:
I love paying for online service! Especially when every other game of Halo I play lags like hell and I'm forced to quit and lose XP. Not only do I lose XP but the next time I try to join matchmaking it wastes another 5 minutes of my precious time. I also love it takes two or three logins for me to connect to one of Xbox live's premium 50 dollars a year servers. I definitely feel like I'm getting my money's worth! I get great features but they're all fucking useless if I can't login and play my damn games online which is the entire point! It's also great how they charge me if I want to change my gamer-tag. That's another story, but my main gripe with them is the hardware. I got my xbox for free. Let's just say my Uncle has connections. So my launch console lasts about, I'd say... a little over a year. And it died in the perfect manner and time too! I don't get the three red rings of death, I get the four red rings of death. The three year warranty only covers the three red rings of death. Other wise it's one year. I find an article about my situation and the thing was shot to hell so I didn't feel like bothering with they're stupid repair program. I've read articles about how they send it back with the exact same problems claiming there was never one in the first place. So I have fun selling it at school to some idiot for 100$ after telling him it didn't work so I then proceed to moving on to a new xbox elite I have to buy with my own money. One last thing.. every fps is under 7 hours. Someone kindly explain to me why I should spend 60$ on a normal dvd with a game on it that's 7 hours. It's BS.
Now Sony, It's your turn:
Once again I get my launch console for free and once again it breaks down only this time almost immediately after I bought it. It had a defective cooling system and I had to send it back. I call up Sony and it takes a painful hour and a half to give the asshole on the phone all of the information and I finally get the thing back after a few weeks. Ever since it came back I have played and only enjoyed 2 games: Resistance: Fall of man and Ratchet and Clank: Future Tools of Destruction. Both are made by insomniac the Jesus of video game developers. But think about it; a year and a half out on the market and I've found two games that appeal to me. That's just pathetic. I also love the fact that sony thought it would be a good idea for the system to only have 256mb of Ram. In their commercials they would always brag about the fact that you can create all of the worlds that are going to come to life with tone of things going on but you can't do shit with that tiny amount. That number basically hinders the entire system. Finally, the delays. Everything and everyone delays stuff for the PS3 whether it's first party or not and the only one's that don't are insomniac games because they're gods. Let's see... Home: DELAYED, Killzone II: DELAYED, Haze: DELAYED... you get the point.
And last but not least, Nintendo:
Innovation is great and I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for it but Nintendo's defies simple logic that's part of gaming. When I'm playing videogame's I don't want to stand up and flail around like an idiot. I want to sit, relax and unwind. But with most games, that is if I want to be good at them, don't allow me to sit. For instance: If I'm playing Madden '08 or whatever today's most popular generic sports title is, I have to make the throwing motion with my arm. At this point I might as well go outside and throw a real football around instead of wasting my time. Hell, if some people spent half of their time playing real football as oppose to Madden they could actually become the next Brett Farve or something. The same goes for any wii sports game. You could become Mike Tyson and eat children or Tiger Woods... damn honkey... The most fun thing about the wii is how you can laugh at how stupid you and your friends look while playing it. If you're not playing sports games the wii controls are usually just gimmicky. In Super Mario galaxy you have to wave the controller to make him spin. Now both you and Mario can look like flamboyant douches. My idea of fun! The very worst thing about the wii after the retarded name of coarse is how popular it is. The controls are so successful that Sony and Microsoft are copying them and I have this feeling that most games after this generation will appeal mainly to casuals and will all incorporate this new style of play and boy am I thrilled. Oh yea one last word: shovelware.
Well, I think I've said enough. I hope I didn't offend anyone. After getting put on probation for soccer I needed some way to vent.
Peace out...
LongLiveTheBeatles
