Let me start off by saying that the PlayStation 3 IS THE BEST SYSTEM EVER AND DESTROYS THE 360 WITH LARGE STICKS!!!
No wait.
THE XBOX 360 IS THE DEFINITIVE CONSOLE OF THE GENERATION AND MAKES PLAYSTATION 3 OWNERS WEEP WITH THE SLIGHTEST THOUGHT OF ITS AWESOMENESS!!!!!
No, that’s not what I wanted to say either. What was I thinking? Oh right. What I’m driving at is that IT DOESN’T MATTER!! PEOPLE SHOULD JUST GET OVER THIS WHOLE STUPID ARGUMENT, PLAY THE GREAT GAMES THAT BOTH SYSTEMS OFFER AND STOP ACTING LIKE SCHMUCKS!!!!!
Seriously people. We gotta knock this lame shit off. Think I’m an asshole? Fine. Think I should shut my mouth? Fair enough. It’s a free country. Think I might be onto something? Click the link and see where I go with this.
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Back in the days before computers, before even color television, there was a time of peace and tranquility, so to speak. Kids and adolescents played in the streets, opened fire hydrants and ran around, and many of them read books on rainy or dull days, or sometimes simply for the sake of reading a book and being entertained. However, today’s world has begun to see the extinction of reading for pleasure, and there are many different complex answers to this, what has since become an incredibly complicated and intricate question itself, “why don’t kids read?”
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At first I couldn’t actually believe that a game like this existed, then I remembered just how fucked up people in Japan can be. For those of you with a confused look on your face (of which there are a few I’m sure), Rapelay is a very involved and detailed fetish-based Japanese rape simulator. The rapist, or Chikan as they are known, has been arrested by police because of Aoi – a girl he had raped previously. As revenge, the Chikan vows to rape Aoi’s entire family. Chikan has to stalk, molest and rape Makna – the younger sister, Yuko – their mother, and finally Aoi herself.
Anyone who isn’t completely disgusted by now is a pervert beyond even myself.
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In case you didn’t know, the world is in the economic equivalent of a monkey shit fight in a sewer after Steve takes a dump. That’s not a good position to be in, trust me on that. In my humble opinion, this is exactly where Sony is residing, in that sewer. I know this is a bold, dangerous statement that will bring the fanboys and hate out of the woodwork and all over Loot-Ninja. I simply ask you bear with me on this and read on before all sorts of crap starts flying.
Lets start off by cutting Sony’s big pitch competitive edge down to size with a bit of reality. Blu-ray is not a massive selling point for every PS3 owner. Yes, it is helpful to close the sale in some cases but let’s be honest, most tech-savvy consumers are not 100% honest, they will download what they want to watch. It’s out there, on the internets, and it’s free. Why buy Blu-ray when you get the HD sex for free. I am a cynic if I say no one will pay, so I point to the services like Sky and Netflix which stream HD quality over the ever growing broadband connection base. Almost 60% of households have broadband in the UK and distribution electronically is a bit cheaper than shipping thousands of units all over the world. It is the way forward, not cheap plastic disks.
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If there’s one thing any writer hates, it’s having your original material ripped off by anyone else. It’s Ethics 101, don’t take someone else’s ideas and if you must, cite your sources properly. It seems that, as of late, ethics don’t matter to many so called gaming “journalists.” Over the past year, the cases of plagiarism have been growing rapidly and something needs to be done.
There are two main issues at play here. The first is flat out taking someone else’s original material and writing it as your own. If someone writes an editorial or conducts an exclusive interview, no one else should be publishing that material as their own. This leads to the second issue, which is proper citation of source material. If outlet A writes a story, which outlet B then covers, further coverage from outlet C should result in credit given to the original source, outlet A. Of course it’s great to cite outlet B, where you found the material, but citing the original source is a necessity. Too many times, this isn’t happening.
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Over the past couple weeks, I have begun to lose some slight respect for Sony and have since gained respect for Nintendo and the Wii. As we all know by now, Kaz Hirai bashed Microsoft, and sincerely bashed the Wii stating, “It’s difficult to talk about Nintendo because we don’t look at their console as being competitors.” I don’t care what kind of esoteric meaning or different ways you can read into this statement because it’s ridiculous. Last time I checked, the Wii sold more systems that both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 combined and the DS outsells the PSP. Business has nothing to do with who has the best product, because we can say all we want that the Wii isn’t the best system on the market but it sells head and shoulders above its competition. How can a company whose sole purpose is to sell video games, consoles, and handhelds, not be considered competitors to companies who also are in the market to sell video games, handhelds and consoles?
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The current generation of consoles has been on the market for a few years, but looking back at sales data and Neilson ratings for 2008, I began to wonder how much graphics really matter to the average gamer. You have to consider the fact that today’s average gamer is not the hardcore guy playing the latest games all day long. The hardcore, which all of us here are certainly a part of, is very much a minority in the grand scheme of things. And the average or casual gamer isn’t looking for bleeding edge graphics.
The global success of the Wii goes to show that you don’t need to have the latest hardware to push product. While I will agree that many Wii games are gimmicky, there is plenty there to suffice for the average gamer. Games and systems are flying off the shelves. Also, Sony recently revealed that the PlayStation 2 has sold over 50 million units in North America. Their last generation console is still selling at an exceptional rate. These are currently the two best selling consoles, neither of which is in high definition.
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I’ve been a fan of the first-person shooter since 1992 and id Software’s ever-popular Wolfenstein 3D (some would consider that a late start). And while any good FPS has a storyline that would be it’s own reward, there has always been that little extra something waiting for the patient gamer.
But as things on the ever-changing gamescape go about their natural course, I notice another disturbing trend emerging. And considering the focus that has been placed on online multiplayer and taken off the single player story, it makes people who really enjoy their single story experience with all the trimmings such as myself feel a little slighted. What I’m really trying to ask here is:
WHERE THE F**K IS MY GOD MODE?!!
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Matt posted an article the other day about getting his wife into gaming. I’ve had a similar situation trying to get my girlfriend into gaming. She’s always on the train playing some blocks game on her mobile so I see this as an opening, a gateway into my world of video games. I try to introduce her into Castle Crashers, Braid, and to games that are storyline driven to try to capture her attention. The response I would get from her is “I’m not a gamer!”.
For a while I let it slide, but I drew the line with these shenanigans when she delivered her standard “I don’t play video games!” as she grabbed my Nintendo DS. Not a gamer, yet I can’t get my DS back? When I get to turn my DS on, the battery is low! Finding all the secrets in the New Super Mario Bros. before I do is a bit gamer like. As is beating me in Mario Kart (once, only once). I declare shenanigans on this non-gamer status! You cannot avoid the designation of a gamer when you play games on your mobile or DS. You are playing video games, than you are a gamer. You may not be a hardcore gamer, but you are gamer. Admit it. Now welcome to our world. I declare thee Bridge Gamer.
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Man, money’s great, isn’t it? Especially in today’s current economic environment. You know what’s great besides money itself? Money for doing what you love. Imagine that? The opportunity to do something that you would do anyways – except that there is someone out there giving you money because they believe in your product. Sounds awesome, doesn’t it?
Now imagine that someone constantly looking over your shoulder telling you how to do that thing you love, even if it makes no sense. And you let them because they’re the one giving you all that money. Kind of changes things, huh?
Now apply that theory to video game development. How much product gets thrown out the door half finished simply because the corporate money has set the release date based on their need to adhere to projected quarterly earnings? And the quality is screwed because the same corporate money has its own ideas about how the game should be developed, even though they’re in the business of making money – not video games. Ever play a game that seems to be doing several things at the same time, but none of it works, like it’s been just thrown together? Well sometimes, corporate ‘reasoning’ is the cause.
Never thought about that, huh? Yeah. It sucks.
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