To be honest, none of the new systems interest me at all -- I'm mainly basing my rating off of XBox Live Arcade. And, also, 360 has DeathSmiles.

Emulating stuff on PS3 would be the only reason I'd get one, if I found it used for $30 or something. I mean, I'm sure there are a couple random Atlus games worth getting, and Disgaea 3, but eh.

I really can't think of a single game this generation that interest me in the least (besides the Live Arcade/WiiWare/etc stuff) besides Children of Eden (Rez sequel) and BlazBlue. Console gaming is so bland.

Only thing that makes me happy is that the DS is the best selling system of all time -- and the Wii is the 2nd best selling of all time. Even though I think the Wii is absolute garbage, I hope Nintendo completely takes over the video game industry, which I'm sure they will with Dragon Quest X (the only reason I'll end up getting a Wii) and the 3DS. Nintendo actually cares about the integrity of games and not just making things shiney. I really think HALO, for example, is one of the worst games I've ever played in my life, it's so boring and bland and lifeless. Just a joke. So, for Nintendo to actually somewhat care about gameplay -- even if they still almost exclusively release baby games for babies, at least on the Wii -- inspires a little bit of hope in me. Maybe NEXT-gen (not this-gen), I'll care again.

Ehhh...Blazblu is a bit overrated in my book. After I started playing it a bit more...I got bored.

and well...about nextgen gaming...uh....yeh...it sucks and I can't blame anyone who lost faith. It's hard to push gaming forward when the plan is to make as much money as you possibly can....

I've never played Blaz, I'm just a huge Guilty Gear fan. Wouldn't be surprised if it's absolute garbage.

I wouldn't call it complete garbage...cause I know there's a few characters who are really in depth. but it seems They tried to balance it out with characters that can win a match with one button....and well....yeh.

damn I was considering buying an x files game, cause I am at season 7 now, and after finishing I am out of stuff. but I also remembered them as not being good

i've never played the newer x-files game. but i remember playing the very first one for playstation. i liked it.

i'm a huge enough x-files to enjoy ANYTHING x-files. even a crappy video game

the new gen systems are largely crap. fps after fps.

portal is worth playing. and the multiplayer in l4d2 is good.

also amnesia - the dark descent pc is excellent. i urge everyone to pay for a copy because the developers are small and actually care about what they are doing and put a lot of effort in.

the 2 latest zeldas, windwalker and twilight dissapointed me so i have lost hope in nintendo.

dont understand why anyone would need a console. just use emulators - you can buy all the console controllers for your pc. so buy an pc n64 controller and use it for goldeneye. in fact use it for psx games, would be better than the dpad

At this point, I think Goldeneye was probably the only good FPS ever made.

you're wrong.

as for what i'm playing, i've installed Risen yesterday and I'm happy.

Goldeneye was one of few video games I ever enjoyed.

Wind Waker is one of the best Zelda's of all time, so not sure what n'ik is getting at. PLUS, Wii isn't all FPS's. Although I will say I enjoy the hell out of the Wii lightgun rail shooters. House Of The Dead Overkill is a bloody masterpiece.

wind walker is crap. maybe crap +1.

ocarina/majora = win all.
wind walker is just an unnecessary detour. it has none of the mood or atmosphere that ocarina or majora had. i dont care about the actual button bashing of the game itself, and even that isnt any better than oc or maj.

twilight went back to the right style but just rehased elements of ocarina. it was ok but it lacked the zelda charm. it just wasnt good enough considering the leap forward it could have been. but by the time of twilight nintendo had ceased innovating and just stuck to remaking their old games over and over.

i will not accept either of those games from nintendo because they are just not good enough. twilight is playable but there is nothing in it that makes you want to keep going after youve completed it. you have no urge to do any of the side quests or things. and i dont care about that rat thing or turning into a rat. but i did care about the characters in ocarina and was gripped the plot and suspense of majora.

i mean by 2006 i was not expecting a simple remake of the n64 ocarina engine. i wanted a NEW game. as in totally new innovations that we hadn't seen before. not the same basic gameplay style only with less charm.

yr out of yr f'ing ming man. Wind Waker is like a 3D version of Link To The Past. It's so beautiful with its cell-shaded graphics and its got so much charm. I don't know what game you were playing.

Occarina is really over rated. SO many gamers S that one's D. Honestly, yeah it was the first 3D Zelda. Yeah it pulled it off instead of sucking like it could have. But the camera sucked and the polygons are ugly. Link LOOKS ugly in it.

Now the story is great. ANd yeah the story in Majora's could even be somewhat better you could argue.

But Wind Waker is a frickin' masterpiece and I'm not sure how you could see it any other way. It to me is the closest to the naive-exploration aesthetic that the orignal Zelda was meant to convey.

ugly ocarina polygons are infinitely preferable to cutesy wind walker cell shading.

in fact i'd uglify the polygons even more y'all if i could.

more blocks. more picasso esque down syndrome faces. yes. chunky n64 ploygons, swinging the camera round so its a wrong angle and you are seeing the blackness off the level. its hot.

wind walker had the niaevity but it wasn't able to contrast this with any sense of looming danger or threat. plus the plot and characters were just crap. there was just nothing new in it that remotely wowed me or tugged at my heart strings. it felt like a massive regression. maybe the bit were you see that massive castle under the sea from the old times was ok. but thats not enough to make up for the whole game. im sure a young kid whose like 6 years old could enjoy it but not me.

now majora - that was a fucking game. i wonder if anyone will make a game that weird ever again ffs. the fact that it was originally japanese and they translated it into english made it even better. it was simply a moody and weird game. not a game with moody and weird elements. it was great.

seriously show me a game like majora and i'll play it. but i stopped playing rpgs at all after zelda. dont care about final fantasy. dont have the time. and have yet to see another rpg that doesnt look STUPID but not stupid in a way thats part of the charm, stupid in that overblown pompous spirit dragon way that rpgs are.

UGLIFY THE POLYGONS Y'ALL!!!!!!!!!!1111

 

 

 

 

yeah, ugly.

Wind Waker looks amazing.

Who cares about graphics?

OK, here's my attempt at a defense of the current gen. I think a lot of the complaining about it sounds the same as people who say there's no good music/movies/books being made nowadays. It takes time to weed out the abundance of shit in the present to find the stuff that will be "timeless".

There's tons of cool stuff happening right now.

Weird, innovative downloadable games: Flower, Journey, Braid, Project Dust (Eric Chahi's new game), Noby Noby Boy, etc. These are kind of a refreshing reaction to the big-budget bro shooters that are ubiquitous.

Wipeout HD.

Crazy shit from Japan: Bayonetta and Vanquish (from people who made Resident Evil, DMC, Viewtiful Joe, etc.), Disgaea 4 (this looks extremely promisig), Child of Eden, El Shaddai, Trico, Suda 51 is working on a horror game and a shmup, Demon's Souls, etc.

Bioshock.

Certain games are just refinements of what's happened before, but taken to a whole new level. Straight-up fun: Uncharted 2, Street Fighter 4,

ERm its getting busy at work gotta go!

p.s.-evolghost glad yr making progress! Game rules hard.

I do and I don't. What I mean is, I think 16bit graphics look better than 32bit graphics... but if we're going to do a 3D Zelda game, I prefer the cell shaded cartoon look over the let's-try-to-make-this-shit-look-dark-and-grown-up look.