meandering pace
I passed through a games shop last week and saw boxed copies of Blazblue and the Klonoa Wiimake on sale for the first time. This is the world's way of telling me I can't put off buying modern systems any longer.
I have a habit of waiting a few years before buying new systems. Besides the obvious advantages of lower price and more games to choose from what I'm usually waiting for is a 'personal killer app', which is a game other people may or may not care about. In the past these have been; Secret of Mana for the SNES, Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1, being able to play Guilty Gear X in English on the PS2 (after I'd already done the whole thing in Japanese on the Dreamcast - yes I used to be that crazy over the series), Metroid Prime for the Gamecube, Panzer Dragoon Orta for the Xbox and now Klonoa for the Wii. Blazblue was my motive for getting a 360 even though the PS3 has it as well. The 360 was cheaper, had exclusives I wanted (GG2 Overture and Crackdown) and played most of the same games. I wasn't interested in getting a PS3 until recently when Ico 3: A Boy and his Giant Baby Gryphon finally made a very compelling reason to own one. I realise the choice isn't really that simple as all the current machines have online capabilities and downloadable content but I won't be able to get my head around that until I've actually used it so I'm just going to judge them the old-fashioned way, on the merits of their games.
My mother asked me three years ago if I wanted a Wii as a birthday present and I said no because I didn't see the need for one yet.
I told her more recently I'd take that offer now. Wii gets priority because of Klonoa, new NiGHTS, new Metroids and A Boy and His Blob, which recently made a big jump up my most-wanted list. See, a blob isn't quite as impressive as a giant baby gryphon, so the developers of the new ABaHB must have figured they needed to offer something major to compete with The Last Guardian. So they added a button for hugging the blob.
I'm going to use this button a lot
I have a habit of waiting a few years before buying new systems. Besides the obvious advantages of lower price and more games to choose from what I'm usually waiting for is a 'personal killer app', which is a game other people may or may not care about. In the past these have been; Secret of Mana for the SNES, Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1, being able to play Guilty Gear X in English on the PS2 (after I'd already done the whole thing in Japanese on the Dreamcast - yes I used to be that crazy over the series), Metroid Prime for the Gamecube, Panzer Dragoon Orta for the Xbox and now Klonoa for the Wii. Blazblue was my motive for getting a 360 even though the PS3 has it as well. The 360 was cheaper, had exclusives I wanted (GG2 Overture and Crackdown) and played most of the same games. I wasn't interested in getting a PS3 until recently when Ico 3: A Boy and his Giant Baby Gryphon finally made a very compelling reason to own one. I realise the choice isn't really that simple as all the current machines have online capabilities and downloadable content but I won't be able to get my head around that until I've actually used it so I'm just going to judge them the old-fashioned way, on the merits of their games.
My mother asked me three years ago if I wanted a Wii as a birthday present and I said no because I didn't see the need for one yet.
I told her more recently I'd take that offer now. Wii gets priority because of Klonoa, new NiGHTS, new Metroids and A Boy and His Blob, which recently made a big jump up my most-wanted list. See, a blob isn't quite as impressive as a giant baby gryphon, so the developers of the new ABaHB must have figured they needed to offer something major to compete with The Last Guardian. So they added a button for hugging the blob.
I'm going to use this button a lot