Soulmaster, where the hell were you these past 1 and a half years? You knew about the Video Game Forums. In fact, you were the one to tell me the night it came out. Why didn't you join the fun? I must have seen a post from you in there only two or three times.
So you'll be waiting until the Wii costs around 65-70$ and the PS3 is 100$? They've had price drops, you know. But if you have a 360, your best choice is the Wii, because the PS3 has the same games, just with added Metal Gear and Ratchet&Clank. Just saying.
I don't think I need to tell you that the consoles of old are available for hundreds of dollars because of how rare they are. It's a huge waste of money. It's great you love video games, but you need to turn that love into something else. You don't have to find solace in the past. There are good games out there. Games for every gamer. With Virtual Console, PSN, and XBLA, you could get yourself past games for FAIR prices.
You don't have to do this! I have been following gaming my whole life, I've had my doubts, I've been dissapointed before by games that were supposed to be good, but I've kept my hopes for the industry. I knew the companies who were in this to make games (Nintendo, Capcom, Kojima) still work hard on each masterpiece, even if they take a while to get out.
And motion sensing? You know that it's not that bad. In most games you just have to flick your wrist. Sure, you may be pissed that the 2010 Wii Zelda game might have the Wii Motion Plus which requires actual movements, but Nintendo knows that some fans won't want that. I bet they'll have it so you could play with the buttons, or a Gamecube Controller.
The rush of FPS games is due to the newer companies making a quick buck on the newest fashion. Some I actually enjoyed very much, but others just had a generic story and you played as a character who never said a word. But those aren't the only games out there. I rely on Nintendo to take me away from that. But then I realize they don't take games seriously yet either. So I go to Metal Gear Solid or Resident Evil. Great series'. Metal Gear with it's amazing storyline, and Resident Evil with it's lovable characters, enemies, and situations.
I don't know what to tell you. I don't know how I can change your mind. So if you really want this, then go ahead. Don't start whining when one of the many possible problems occurs with your new games and systems.
Gustavos
Ok, but you'll wake up tomorrow and ask yourself what were you under the influence of, and why your left eye is itchy.
So is that what happened this morning?
Well shit, I have to say that that is a very, very bad idea unless you happen to be rich with nothing better to spend money on. If I had the money to do this I would bring it over to Child'sPlay Charity. A charity that brings books, toys, and video games to kids in the hospital. How awesome would it be to take away some pain with some good old WiiSports (which comes with the Wii)? Or hell, there are plenty of cool charities to spread the love.
I don't know. I'm a child who followed the new games once he got tired of his older classics (which I still play, I just no longer drool over them). I have no interest in obtaining old consoles with games nobody ever heard of. I'm fine with the Virtual Console and PS1 titles available on PSN. Oh, and the Sega Genesis Collection for PS3 which includes 40 classic Genesis games on one disc for 30$. Kickass.
I just think you should rethink what you want to do with your money in your future. Pipe dreams never turn out the way you wanted them. Just enjoy AVGN as he lasts, and buy yourself a newer console.
If you truly have a passion for video games. Perhaps to bring the greatness of the older generations to newer games, then work on a future of helping make video games. Be a programmer, designer, director, animator, or tester. I myself hope my flashwork gets me a step closer to an animator for say, the next Mario or Zelda game. I want to help Nintendo take their games seriously. Cinematics is not their strong point. I wouldn't mind also working on the next Metal Gear or Resident Evil game (two series' that I'm a BIG fan of), but Nintendo needs help.
Eventually, I could work my way up through the ranks to Lead Animator. I tell a group of "Yes Men" what I want everything to be like. Kickass...
What? Oh-err, yeah you should definitely think twice about this dream of yours.
Or at least...
That's what I think...
SoulMaster71
By now you, if anyone, should know better than to try to talk me out of something like this. Have you forgotten 2007? I'm not interested in so much as touching a PS3 or a Wii, not until they're about a third of their current price. Actually, in the Wii case, I'll probably never play again after playing Mario Baseball or whatever that was with one of my cousins. When I was a child, I didn't play no damn gimmick motion-sensitive system with shitty games!
I already have a 360, and you know what? I still play my old games a lot more and haven't touched the 360 since January, because the 360 fucking sucks. The games are all graphics and little or no storyline or gameplay. Assassin's Creed, for example, lacks replay value, but guess what games still have replay value? If you answered "the oldies", you're correct! But the gaming public has just changed too damn much to enjoy my kinds of games, so no company would make them now. That's why I have to take refuge in the old games and systems: other than me, gamers now just want guns and explosions, and possibly multiplayer competition. It's too bad that the Wii, with a few games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and (of course) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that offer something a lot better than just "graphics and guns and grenades AND 10-PLAYER ONLINE ACTION!!!", is cursed with that motion-sensing gimmick and armies of shitty games like Wii Sports and such made just for the gimmick.
AVGN was just a trigger. It's been in my mind, in some form or another, since my cousin, the one who got me started on gaming, sold his Genesis in 2001 or so. It was dormant, sleeping, buried, but eventually it came back, as it inevitably would. I certainly like the videos, they're hilarious (am I still so immature that, at age 20, I still laugh at shit jokes and vulgar language?!), but it would only have been delayed without AVGN.
I've already ordered a Genesis from eBay, including some of the earliest games I played (by which I mean Sonic 2 and the first two Mortal Kombat games). Might as well start where I did the first time, eh? I might not finish the plan before leaving the physical world behind me, but hey, every man has his recreation, and mine is playing good games which understand that there's more to games than appealing to hardcore FPS players who cut their teeth at Doom LAN parties or non-gamers who haven't touched a game since the first Pac-Man at the latest. Too bad most of them are from when games couldn't produce realistic graphics.