December 22, 2007

• After a month of playing Rock Band, I'm going to boldy say it now, I give up on the Guitar Hero franchise. That's right, I'm choosing a side, and it's Rock Band (created by Harmonix, ironically the ones who were behind Guitar Hero 1 & 2). I just can't see myself playing a guitar game that doesn't have drums or vocal functions, as it'll just feel like a rip-off. Rock Band is the complete package, and unless the inevitable Guitar Hero 4 comes in a budget price, I don't see myself pick it up.

  I'll also say this while I'm at it. After a year of release, the Nintendo Wii is more or less a failure of a gaming console. That's right, besides the fact that it is currently "king" of video game console sales, besides the fact that the demand for it is still higher than supply (that's another subject right there), this gaming console has been "collecting dust" a lot more than I hoped. There's hardly any games I really want to play on it! As much as the PlayStation3 has been billed as the console that has no games, that actually has more to offer gamers in terms of actual quality gaming than the Wii. So far, the real games that I really enjoyed on the Wii are Super Mario Galaxy, Wario-Ware Smooth Moves, Big Brain Academy, Wii Sports, and GameCube remakes like Resident Evil 4 or Zelda Twilight Princess. Even the vaunted Virtual Console feature is a little bit of a cheat, since I'm just re-playing old games that I've played a long time ago already. I'm spending more time with the "Everybody Votes" channel, than I'm actually playing games on it. The only reason I got the Wii was for Wii-Sports, and I'm guessing a lot of people had the same idea. That game is fun, but it can only last so long. I don't think there's much games on the horizon that I'm even looking forward to in the console's future. *sigh* at least I have the xbox 360 to keep me occupied as a gamer. Nintendo, you disappoint me.

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