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Post #339937

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Gaffer Tape
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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18-Dec-2008, 1:04 PM

I have to agree with that.  While the first two iterations of the PlayStation (especially the first) broke down constantly, I haven't heard anything bad about PS3s while 360s you seem to hear breaking down all the time.  However, Nintendo has always had consistently reliable products, and I can still play all my old systems to this day, even though my NES will be 20 years old next year. 

While I haven't been keeping up with the libraries of the other consoles, nothing I have heard about has grabbed me.  I've had Final Fantasy XII for two years now, and I have yet to play it, and XIII has yet to interest me in the least.  I've been a huge FF fanboy for years, but now I just don't care anymore about the new directions, especially since all the great names have moved on.  I also didn't really care much about playing GTA4.  I got 2, 3, and Vice City, but after that, I just got tired of that too.  I didn't even bother with San Andreas, so the fact that 4 didn't come to Wii didn't really bother me all that much.  I never liked Halo, as I don't like first-person shooters that much to begin with (Perfect Dark was one of the few I didn't mind).  I'm a bit sad that Wii will be getting a different version of the Ghostbusters game than the other consoles, and that's probably the only regret that I have.

Meanwhile, Wii hasn't put out that many games recently that I want.  After two years, my library is still pretty small.  But all the games I have, I love:  Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, and Mario Kart Wii.  Sigh, yes, all of them are Mario and Zelda titles, and, like I said, it's not very much, but it's more than 360 or PS3 has done to interest me.  And I also have SMB2 (J), Sonic 2, Zelda II, and Mega Man 9 for the Virtual Console, so I can't complain about that either.  While my Wii does spend some time (quite a bit of time on occasion) collecting dust, it never really bothers me.  In fact, I jump back to my old consoles so frequently that I probably wouldn't have noticed anything out of the ordinary if you guys hadn't pointed it out.