The only reason I would consider buying a PS3.

Looks amazing.

It will be the end of all things, it is so amazing.

Trailer has a few surprises as far as characters appearing. I think we might have even got a glimpse of Ozwell Spencer…the former head of Umbrella. Oh, and HUNK may have been there too.

So, yeah. I had Wolfgang in my blogroll back in the day, but he disappeared when I put up the new template (because I removed the non-posters).

His recent activity and ability to infuriate me with some of his comments has earned him a button, which shall arrive in the sidebar shortly.

This is the test of blogroll worthiness for me. You must infuriate me.

The secret is out. I hate you all. :P

Wolfgang, your post still represents the narrow mindedness of a fanboy. I stand by that. No one could possibly state the arguments that you make about one gaming company and ignore the same faults in their own company of choice if they weren’t a fanboy.

Second, it is extremely tactless to make a post of this nature and try to get this back and forth going immediately after I stated that I have an absurdly slow internet connection. In fact, you invited me to read your post in the comments of my post explaining my lousy internet connection.

The reason I have to make these responses into their own posts is because the internet here is - through some sort of strange online voodoo - preventing me from accessing comment feeds on Blogger.

I’m going to sum this up as succinctly as I can:

The gaming experience is subjective.

Regardless of the hardware capabilities of a system, it is the games that define a system, and it is the individual users who find enjoyment in the games. The reason has nothing to do with the graphics, or the processing speed. Powerful system specs does not automatically result in an enjoyable gaming experience. It has to do with something that is enjoyable. Enjoyment found in games transcends storylines and graphics. It is all about the experience and the gameplay. No one can enjoy a game simply because it looks good.

You argue that the Nintendo Wii will fail or die off. The damn thing is printing money. They still have supply shortages. One in every two households in Japan have a Nintendo DS in them, while one in five households in North America have one. You may throw all the fanboyish arguments you want at the Nintendo Wii, but your subjective opinion about the experience that the Nintendo Wii offers gamers is irrelevant because it appeals to a huge market who is going to keep buying it until Nintendo releases the next big thing.

The Nintendo Wii is successful. It will continue to be successful. And regardless of whether you think it will continue to be successful is irrelevant to its continued success.

You don’t think it can sustain itself in its little corner of the market? Its little corner is earning it huge piles of money. And the best part is, Sony and Microsoft don’t appeal to that little corner. So they will continue to make huge piles of money regardless of whether gamers like you are interested in the slightest by their product. Because that is their business model, and it is succeeding.

Don’t get me wrong Wolfgang. I respect you a great deal. You are a competent individual.

But comments like this: [quote]From my experience, they contain little to no valid story line (correct me if I’m wrong)[/quote]

are damaging to your image. I mean…what the hell is a valid story line? A valid storyline? How is the storyline to Halo 3 more valid than Metroid Prime 3? And which of those is more [i]valid[/i] then, say, Myst V: End of Ages? But perhaps they are all still less valid than Half-Life 2?

Storylines do not possess validity. They possess simple properties of entertainment. Either you like the story in Halo 3, or you don’t. You are either captivated by the Half-Life 2 universe, or you aren’t. You either enjoy exploring the Ages of Myst, or you do not. There is no valid.

You are trying to argue subjective statements regarding these games into facts. It cannot be done. Quit wasting your time and everyone elses, and stop the backwards slide into becoming some mindless forum occupant who sits there and says that the XBox 360 version of Resident Evil 5 is going to be more enjoyable than the PS3 version because you can make out the sweat on Chris Redfield’s forehead?

For Christs sake!

I only have an hour’s break a day between my 8:30 start time at work and my 9:00 pm conclusion of work, and I’ve spend half of it on this. I’m not going to make any more comments on this. Even this issue is subjective. Your arguments stem from your love of the experience that the XBox 360 provides. I am making my comments because I love all games, and if I had an infinite pot of money and an infinite amount of time, I would play them all again and again. And if Andreas were here, he’d be jumping right up to plate to defend the experience offered by the PS3.

We are all different. We all have different tastes. We will all continue to buy what makes us happy.

And so, following the sage advice of Binks, I’m going to stop participating in this discussion. Because, the fact of the matter is, we are both arguing opinions. Our opinions can not be applied to some grand scale of truth and falsehood. We are getting nowhere and we’re getting there fast, and the more I discuss the issue, the more I am frustrated by the barriers blogging/forum posting/talking through a computer creates. As I get frustrated, I get more insulting. And I am trying to curb that since I usually offend a lot of people when I get like this.

So, I’m clocking out. I’m going to use the rest of my half hour playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, or maybe get a bit further in Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Or, perhaps I’ll shoot for 100% completion in Yoshi’s Island for the Game Boy Advance. I don’t know. I think I’ll do whatever I find to be the most fun, and be done with it.

Cheers.

Read this.

Binks’ comment is the meat and potatoes of what needs to be said. So, read it too and be fulfilled.

All I have to say to Wolfgang is that his narrow mindedness regarding “gamer culture” is disheartening. It is beyond my understanding how gamers develop this paranoid fascination with the gamer culture.

Gaming is an industry.

Binks’ point is grounded deeply in the reality of the situation, and I think he is the best authority on this because Binks’ is not a fanboy by any means. He has dabbled in a bit of everything, but has never become so fanatically attached to a brand or a console to the point where it would cloud his judgment. And he makes an excellent point.

Gaming is not a culture. It is an industry. The industry caters to people with different needs, desires, and expectations for gaming. The “console wars” - so labeled by gamers who wish to give their pastime some level of console importance - are irrelevant because there is no definitive gaming experience. People find entertainment in different things.

Whether you are playing a heated first person shooter with some faceless strangers online or casually harvesting fruits with your girlfriend while you both play Animal Crossing: Wild World, gaming offers a vast assortment of experiences for everyone to enjoy. Not every experience appeals to everyone. Although first person shooters may be popular with the people you know, some ‘gamers’ like my girlfriend wouldn’t go near them. Yet, my girlfriend rocks as Princess Peach in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and was playing Civlizations and Alpha Centauri before a young Danger had introduced me to the genius of Sid Meier.

So, who can we call a gamer and who not a gamer? What can we call part of gaming culture? It is all bullshit! A complex system of naming things to assign importance to our hobbies. If people did this about coin collecting or book clubs, people would get laughed at. Gamers and the console war is a massive discussion over people’s favourite colours. How can you justify saying what is better and what is worse?

Anyway…yeah. The whole thing is completely subjective. I mean…you claim that things must be in HD graphics, but Mega Man 9 just came out purposefully made to look like an old school NES game, and it is the talk of the town. People get different experiences from different things. Myst, Riven, and Myst III are aging games, and yet I still love playing them. Graphics are meaningless. The experience, and the entertainment value we can get out of games is important.

So, as long as we’re all having a good time playing games, who gives a shit about anything else?

I’ve got stuff to post about, but the Internet here is so slow and I am always so busy that I rarely have time to do any leisure stuff. Any scrap of free time I have is usually spent reading because it is the only thing I can pick up and put down in tiny intervals (video games take too long, and I still haven’t unpacked my TV or Wii).

Anyway, I’ll try to put up a post soon. Okay. Maybe I wont try. But I’ll try to try.