Last year I came to the conclusion that I did not enjoy consoles. I sold my PS2 and Xbox and started calling myself a PC gamer, as opposed to just a gamer. I did not get excited at all about this recent round of consoles. I thought that the PS3 looked like the coolest of the consoles, but it didn't matter much to me because I was not planning on getting any of them.
Today I stopped by gamespot and decided to try out the PS3 and the Wii out of curiosity. First I picked up the PS3 and played some racing game (forget the name). It was like any other racing game I have ever played. The graphics were slightly fancier but nothing that impressed me having played with graphics on par in many of my PC games. I got bored and put down the controller in a few min.
Then I picked up the Wii-mote. The demo on the console was Excite Truck. "Oh great", I thought "another lame racing game. I hate racing games." I started playing and immediately realized this was something different. I always knew that innovative games were more fun in an industry plagued by sequels and knock offs, but because I had written off consoles I had never given the Wii a seconds thought. This game was fun, lots of fun. Not since F-Zero X on N64 had I enjoyed a single racing game. I was blown away. Nintendo had pulled off the impossible: Create a console that a die hard PC gamer like myself would enjoy (playing a racing game no less).
I will be asking for a Wii for Christmas.
2006-11-30, 09:43 PM
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