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Gah! I dunno how much longer I can stand of this, but it doesn't look like Nintendo's ever going to pull themselves outta that hole they dug themselves into. Sure enough, even Sony and Microsoft think they're something big, just because they have their values set on being big, bad, and powerful, and people are going to flock only to them to play their games. I, personally, would much rather sit down to a good old-fashioned platformer or party game, typical of something Nintendo would release to their die-hard fans. But therein lies the problem. It can't be company and their conservative ways; the people, the gamers themselves are the ones to blame.
Well, duh.
As if that's new news. It seems the thrill-seeking F-Zero-frenzied gamers have turned into some sort of monster that can only be satisfied by gobbling up the latest war and reality games. Hell, if I wanted to go around shooting things, I could get the FULL experience by picking up a set of Berettas and driving down to my local shooting range. But oh no... not the gamers. They appear to be too afraid of the noise. Apparantly sitting there learning half a million button combinations is a lot more fun than feeling your teeth grind together with the reverberations of your gun from a fired bullet. The feeling of using senses other than your vision and hearing, which are the ones you'd normally use when sitting in front of a television holding a controller. Boo-hoo. I don't know what the games that involve killing actual people have to say about the players who play them, but if they don't mind doing it in real life, who's to say what sorts of thoughts they might be harboring in their classes or jobs? If you're mad at something or someone, take it out on a punching bag or something. There's no need to shoot at people in a game and later throw your controller at a wall when you lose and get even more frustrated.
Nevertheless, the video games of today are rocketing toward being pretty little things made for eye candy that have no storyline whatsoever, along with an idea so shallow your average message from a fortune cookie will leave you with more to think about. Jesus, so much for companies spending so much time on becoming bigger, better, and more powerful. Ooooh, powerful. It just sends shivers down your spine thinking about how powerful that new Xbox will be. But what happened to spending all your time on those Metroid games? Or how about remembering the first time you played Mario? Aren't those memories worth savoring, more worth holding onto than shelling out $400 bucks to buy a system that can't even make toast? Tell me something isn't right, here.
Even so, I look forward to playing a prettier Zelda that lasts longer, just as much as I'd like to play a newer Final Fantasy that will send my imagination to it furthest limits. But sooner or later we're all going to look back at our most cherished video game memories... the ones where our best friends gathered around the local Nintendo 64 playing Mario Kart all throughout the night, fighting each other to see who could jump over the wall and get ahead first in Wario's Stadium (you know the trick I'm talking about, don't try to hide it). Then we'll think, you know, maybe Nintendo was onto something, and maybe they were about to give us more of that, but then Sony and Microsoft came into play. Sony, who originally worked with Nintendo and was even saved by them at one point (don't quite me on that, it might have been Square). And Microsoft, who... damn it, isn't Bill Gates rich enough?
Anyway, I'm not here to bash conflicting systems, I'm just trying to relocate that old seed of a dream Nintendo planted in our minds not too long ago. But right now, I'm just hoping that their new Revolution will give us all something new to think back on, to remember that Nintendo was, in fact, there for us and our entertainment. I still believe they're the ones who are going to survive throughout the ages and be known as the the company who made the greatest games, not one of the companies. But I suppose only time will tell whether or not it will come to that.
Zeldana · Fri Jul 22, 2005 @ 01:22am · 2 Comments |
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