Thursday, August 16, 2007

XBOX & New Age Gaming

I would love to purchase and XBOX 360, but there are so many horror stories online of them crashing and having problems that I'm scared to buy one! Whatever happened to the generation of systems that didn't have problems? In the age after NES, game systems rarely had problems, except for add-ons, such as Sega CD and Sega 32X.

I truly miss that generations of great gaming. Not only did the systems have little problems, but in that age, so many games that came out were landmark games. Today, video games cater to children in mindless, unproductive entertainment experiences. I speak of these games based on children's movies, such as Cars and A Bug's Life. I'm not a parent, but should I become one someday, I refuse to spend $400 for a video game system and $50 per game to entertain my child in a brain-melting, imagination-killing experience.

1 comments:

Bentok said...

I agree, new age gaming is not concerned with a good product. The games are awesome, but the hardware is horrible. My 360 has caused me much heart ache.

On the other hand, there is the Wii. A beautifully made system that works like a charm. It's the cheapest, most innovative, and most well made of all of the new age systems. But unlike the crappy systems, there is few good games for it. :(