Well, today's been fun, especially for all of you ****ers.

Gone. That's it. I'm gone. I'm sick of trying to make excuses that somehow another bunch of good games might come along. You ****ers are blinder than a drunk man in a club in the ghetto who hasn't had sex in 10 years; you just take anything you get, no, WORSE, you seem to go after whatever looks the worst.

The Primary people to blame are: NINTENDO, SquareEnix, Blizzard, Microsoft, and all the morons who decided to make PS3 (or in the case of Tenkaichi 2, PS2) games go cross-console with the others.

I feel sorry for Sony because they're probably in the same boat I am. "What happened? Did we get sucked into some inverse universe where Atari graphics are suddenly beautiful?"

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will likely be one of the last games I ever buy. Unless some rediculous new game comes out, most likely for PC (and by rediculous, I mean nothing below the standards of Phantom Crash or Shadow of the Colossus) then I will likely not be buying any new games, let alone consoles.

That being said, I do have to say that the XBox360 ended up not being as bad as I thought, after checking out the Gears of War trailers. Of course that places the blame squarely on retards like Rockstar and Capcom for making things like Dead Rising. I don't know. Maybe about a year down the track when the likes of Monster Hunter 3 and Fable 2 come out, I may return. But until then...

**** you all. Just... **** you. Have fun with your bull**** Wii with its unresponsive controls, and your Final Fantasy **** with its same storyline for 13 games in a row, and of course, your pathetic MMO with graphics so bad that I'd sooner be immersed in a ****ing bear trap.

Congratulations on ruining what had the potential to be the best medium since television... Oh, I guess you ruined it about as much as you ruined television too, didn't you? Nice job.

First thing's first, people keep asking me if I've seen the new footage for MGS4. Yes, I have, and I'm heavily dissapointed. It looks like the 360 now; wonderful.

No, this doesn't mean that the PS3 is crap, because White Knight was a Working Title. Which means it really will work like that. So, why does MGS4 look so bad? Quite frankly, I don't know. Luckily, even if MGS4 looks like crap, it'll still have a beautiful storyline since Kojima is a genius.

As for the Wii... Well, if you idiots still don't believe me, here's a couple of videos for you, of how it plays Tenkaichi 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-612cxxuI "Now move the controller down to fly down..." -Goku just flies straight forward... Girl waves the control again.-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdSEePjY9NA Hahahah! Look how many times the poor bastard tries to use Innocence Cannon and it just doesn't register! Oh yeah, I'd really love for Gallick Gun to just refuse to register in the middle of a battle with a Very Hard CPU. Yet more evidence that the Wii can never, ever be used for anything seriously.

This had me and my friend pissing ourselves for hours.

I also apologize for saying it didn't have infrared, ends up it does. They just chose not to use it in Red Steel, because they're idiots. However, these Tenkaichi2 videos fill in any gap that that fact may have left in my argument. What a laughing stock of a console.

(NOTE: Wow, this rant has gotten a surprisingly large amount of traffic. I figured I should update it since I wrote it quite a while ago. Most people who insult it like to skip over the entire argument, ignoring every single point I have, in favour of, say, picking on the fact that I accused the Wiimote of not having infrared, which I realized not long after writing this originally is wrong. I'm not re-writing this because my opinion has changed; it hasn't. I'm re-writing this because, thanks to small technical errors that I got wrong, people are ignoring the entire POINT of my opinion in favour of calling out technicalities and errors, as if not knowing the specs of the Wii makes my point any less potent. So, onwards.)

A lot of people have been taking the Wii with open arms because... To be honest, I have no freaking idea. People are so desperate these days to distance themselves from old stereotyes like masculinity and being shallow and, in this case, graphics being more important than gameplay, so much that people are doing everything they can to pretend that graphics don't matter, even going as far as, it seems in the case of the Wii, embracing BAD graphics. Kind of like how people refuse to admit Halo wasn't horrible. It wasn't great, sure, but it wasn't horrible. But no, people accuse it of being the worst game ever made just to distance themselves.

But that's social commentary and is irrelevant to why I hate the Wii. So! Moving on.

The Wii is... Horrible. To sum it up effectively, it's anti-complexity, and pro-simplicity. Its entire marketting ploy is to appeal to 'everyone'. It's kind of the console variant of Mario Kart or Smash Bros. It wants anyone to be able to pick it up and, within a minute, be able to play it easily. It then wants anyone who's been playing for 10 minutes to be able to beat anyone who's been playing for any amount of time. Skill? No, that's a way of the past; the future is skill being irrelevant because people want to win.

Perhaps in that regard it's popular for the same reason as WoW. People don't want to spend all this effort getting good at a game; they want to be able to pick it up and win, much like how so many people who play WoW only do so because you need equipment and levels, instead of reflexes and strategy, to succeed. In that way, the Wii appealed to a big chunk of the gaming market; those that just, pure and simple, want to win. This is not me.

The other people are those that are desperate to escape not only the graphics rush, but also the gameplay rush. Apparently all games play the same (As opposed to the Wii, which TOTALLY isn't a library of 30 games, wherein each of which 60-70% of the game's function is achieved by waving the control left to right and vice versa). You know, now that they mention it, they're SO right. Halo and God of War played COMPLETELY the same. F-Zero may as well've been called Final Fantasy XIV. Yup.

Just to point out, the above was sarcasm. I dunno if Wii fans understand what irony is, since apparently they don't see the humour in calling Nintendo, the company responsible for 238 Mario games, innovative. Yes, I counted.

So, apparently waving your arm back and forth is innovative and fresh. Well, yeah, it is, but it's also stupid. "I'm too tired of clothes all looking the same, I'm going to wear a garbage bag because it's innovative." It's a mis-use of the word. While DIFFERENT, it is not a step FORWARD, and is thus not innovative.

Me? I'm a competetive gamer. My ideal game is something that takes as much skill as possible, is very difficult to play in general, has a big learning curve, and lots of really technical things that you need to remember. Such as Guilty Gear. My ideal scenario in a game is either:

1) Fighting some regular old "I want to win" type gamer who thinks he's God because he's gone online and found out who the strongest character is, and picked him. He has no idea about the game, and ****-talks incessantly because he uses the strongest character. Because the game is unforgiving and doesn't take that crap, I annihilate him and he goes away sulking.

or 2) Fighting someone who's worked just as hard as me to get just as good as me. We have a fair fight where neither of us uses any stupid cheap tactics, just pure skill. I don't care who wins, because if I lose, I've lost to a better player. Good on him. If I win, I hope it's a close fight. If it's not, I'll probably give him some advice after the match for him to improve, because he's a good player and I'm happy to share my knowledge.

I just put that in to make sure you were all aware that, no, being a competetive gamer doesn't mean that winning is my only motive. I know PLENTY of people who're like that, and I'm not one of them.

Want to know my absolute biggest NIGHTMARE of a scenario?

-I'm in first place by miles because I'm the better player. Sensing this 'unfair advantage' of skill and hard work that I have, the computer gives my opponent, who is in dead-last,a power-up of some kind which he proceeds to beat the crap out of me with.

Where have I heard this scenario before, hmm? That'll be happening a lot on the Wii, I can absolutely promise it. Because it's a family-based console.

Currently, there is only one good game slated for the Wii; that game is Guilty Gear X2: Accent Core. Possibly my favourite game of all time, while this game will make use of the remote, it'll mainly be using the standard controls.

So, people will be making normal games for the Wii, right? I should still get one even if I don't like the remote, right?

Nope. Obviously, without the remote, you have two choices; the weird-ass, tiny, pathetic control shipped for the Wii, or using an old Gamecube control, which is just as horrible and uncomfortable. The fact that the entire right side of the control REVOLVES around the A button is testament to how simplistic Nintendo like their games. Not only that but they wear easily, the analogue stick is horrible, there's a lack of accessible buttons compared to the PS3 and X360... You can't dignify the Wii with the Gamecube control because it's not even that much better.

Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it's still uncomfortable as hell.

But why put Accent Core on the Wii? Why not put it on other consoles? Well, it's on the PS2, I guess that's a start. But the point of fighting games is multiplayer. Guess which console is the best for multiplayer? The 360, of course. A fast-as-hell Online service could just turn Guilty Gear on its head and 100% refresh the game. Maybe even get it out of its niche audience. But, no. Because the Japanese are nationalistic idiots, they refuse to even ACKNOWLEDGE either of Microsoft's consoles. Damn morons.

(Note: Since writing this, Japan are GRADUALLY beginning to TEST the 360. As much as I loathe Squaresoft, with any luck them releasing FFXIII on the 360 will help Japan recognize the 360 as well, and maybe actually put some of the few good Japanese games that come out on it. Like Disgaea.)

One of the major problems of games has always been giving the player access to everything they need to be able to access, at once. Often this has meant frequent menu screens, switching movelists mid-battle, and having to go through a lot of awkward menus in the heat of a rough fight that could end up losing you the duel. This is one of the most frustrating things for a gamer, because it reminds us that we're playing a game. We haven't lost because we missed with that critical last bullet, or because we tried a risky attack and left ourselves wide open for retaliation; we've lost because we pressed the wrong button, went into the wrong menu, and had to get out again, all the while trying to dodge the onslaught of the opponent, or because the only half-translucent menu gave us a big glaring blind spot. Oh yeah, Perfect Dark was great, but that gigantic Weapon Select screen that came up when you held the button, which then took you precious seconds to find the weapon you actually want to use, all the while with about 10 orange boxes floating around the screen? Yeah. That wasn't great.

The Playstation 2 control had 10 buttons, as did the XBox control. Many more technical games made full use of the entire control.

Phantom Crash comes to mind:

-Left Weapon

-Right Weapon

-Left Shoulder Weapon

-Right Shoulder Weapon

-Optic Camo

-Jump

-Dash Left

-Dash Right

-Reset Reticle

-Instant Run

Not having any one of these would have led to a weapon menu, OC being in the pause menu, or any other number of stupid things. Being unable to reset the aiming reticle would have cost me many deaths, and the lack of instant-run would have made jumping in the game useless. Changing the acceleration mechanics to make instant-run unecessary would have greatly changed the way the game played.

So how in the hell are you going to play a game as beautiful and complex as Phantom Crash using only what is effectively two analogues, two buttons and a D-pad? The simple answer is that you WON'T. All of the games on the Wii are going to be simple. Basic. And in the end, while I can enjoy the occasional simple game, I'll always prefer a complicated one. Budokai3 is one of my favourite fighting games, but not AS a fighting game. To me, Budokai3 is just a way of re-enacting the awesome style of DBZ fighting that, where others have tried to rip off, they've all failed. I could never take it seriously because there's just too many exploits, abuses, and bugs. The hitboxing is horrible, there's far too many invincibility periods in it, half the cast is either ridiculously overpowered (Broly, SS4 Gogeta, etc) or depressingly underpowered (everyone else) and if I try to take it seriously it just ends up frustrating me.

And that pretty much just summed up the Wii. It might be fun as a gimmick, but if you try to take it seriously at all, it'll just frustrate you.

But no, that's not all I have against the Wii. If the Wii was just another DS, I could deal with it just fine. Some dumb gimmick that I'll never really go near.

Unfortunately, due to the whole 'anti-stereotypes' thing I was talking about before (what's so wrong about a male being MALE anyway, you damn emos?), the Wii has... Sky-rocketted in popularity.

It's barely been out long at all, and has already sold half as many consoles as the 360.

As of my update of this blog entry, it's actually sold quite a few more units than the 360.

Every moron who, even after the Gamecube, still isn't convinced that Nintendo can't make consoles anymore, is getting one.

And every idiot who just wants to seem open-minded and deep, is getting one.

Nearly every single gamer is getting one, and a lot of people who aren't gamers are getting one. Hospitals buy them for patients. Primary Schools buy them to reward kids who're done with their work early, while of course making sure to have only the educational or fitness games on there.

This, alone, would annoy me greatly.

Unfortunately, Microsoft and Sony are large companies and will do whatever they think will get more people interested/make more money. Don't get me wrong, I actually like Microsoft as a company, I'm a big supporter of them, but they're a business, and the point of any business is to make money. Let's go back to some Basic Mathematics here.

Unpopular Company + Stupid Gimmick Console = Popular.

Popular company + Stupid Gimmick Console = $$$$$$$.

(Note: Before anyone calls me out on this one, yes, I did say unpopular company. People were ready to dump Nintendo on their ass after the Wii flopped so badly, and each and every one of you knows it. The Gamecube was barely even popular in JAPAN. That's saying something.)

Do you see what I'm getting at, yet? If the Wii keeps this crap up and emerges in blatant victory of this generation's console wars, Sony and Microsoft will follow suit, and make stupid gimmick consoles.

Nintendo are on the precipice of absolutely destroying gaming.

In a way, this upsets me deeply. But in another, it doesn't.

Games have the potential to be an incredible media. Over the years they've steadily built up a reputation, from being 'just for kids' to now being for anyone of any age. Originally they were only about stupid plumbers and fast, talking animals. Now? Now games can be about anything from building and racing your own cars to fishing to being a citizen in medieval times. Simulations to fighting games to futuristic racers to re-enactments of history. Some of the more experimental developers have produced games purely based around storylines. Others have made games attempting to convey political or philosophical messages.

Gaming had almost become serious, almost been looked at as as much of a normal media as movies or music, where you can make a game about absolutely anything, provided you have the money to make it happen.

And now, Nintendo is proving that gaming isn't ready for that. That we should keep making games about plumbers and hedgehogs and stupid androgynous emo idiots.

The main thing, the final, main thing I hate about the Wii, is that it very much has the potential to ruin the progress that gaming has made over the last 15+ years. To turn it from the completely open media outlet that it was so close to becoming, back into a toy made only for children. When I first heard about the Wii, I half expected to see it not in the electronics department of a store, but instead among the RC cars and Tamagochi clones.

By the sound of things though, when the PS4 rocks up, ALL consoles will be out of the Electronics department.

And to all the people ranting about 'virtual reality': Not only is the Wii about as close to virtual reality as thePoint Blank arcade game, but if anything, it'll SLOW the production of actual VR because developers are too busy adjusting to all these stupid other gimmicks.

... Does it help that the Wii's graphics are just an overclocked Gamecube? Of course not. Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is due out on the PS3 and Wii. If Atari weren't retarded and/or the Wii wasn't popular, it would be on the PS3 and maybe 360, and it would have nice, shiney new graphics. (This point is a bit null since Burst Limit was released and Atari managed to make it suck arse.) Yes, graphics aren't everything, but they are most definately something no matter how much you clowns argue. And if anyone pulls that "You wouldn't know what graphics could do if the companies hadn't told you" crap on me again I'll scream, because it's stupid. It's like saying technology should halt because if we halt, we'll always be at the front. As far as I'm concerned, until graphics are so good that the Unreal Engine allows you to easily create a photo-realistic game, then we're most definately not at the top.

I'm not against casual games. I think hospitals being able to buy fun, silly stuff for patients, to give them something to do, that even the young and elderly can have fun with, is a pretty good idea. Charity foundations buying consoles for the less fortunate, just to give them that bit of cheer. All good ideas. But there's no reason they can't do this with the 360 or PS3. They both have plenty of silly casual games, and buying an Xbox 360 Arcade edition along with one of those dumb karaoke or webcam games is almost as cheap as the Wii. It might actually be cheaper, I dunno. Either way it's cheap, and it has the upside of not being a console that you absolutely can't play more serious or hardcore games on, and it doesn't have terrible graphics for the games that actually need them.

There's nothing the Wii can do that the Xbox360 can't do. The Wii just has more games with silly, simplistic minigames. There is, however, a crap of a lot that the XBox can do that the Wii can't. Good luck getting Bioshock working on the Wii.

If you buy the Wii, as far as I'm concerned you may as well be the Osama Bin Laden of the gaming world... Only, retarded. You're ruining the art and I hope you're proud.

Okay, I've gotten way too many people accusing me of being a console fanboy recently, so I'm going to clear this up once and for all.

I DO NOT PREFER ANY SPECIFIC COMPANY.

I DO NOT THINK THAT THE 360 IS A WASTE OF SPACE.

What I do think is that the 360 is a piece of inferior technology, and that it was released much sooner than it should have been. FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN OF ITS #1 TITLES (Dead Rising, Saints Row, etc) it looks absolutely shocking. Horrible. Disgraceful.

A lot of people have been creditting this to the fact that most of the games currently on the 360 were MEANT to be on the original XBox, but got delayed and the devs ended up saying, "Screw it, let's wait." without actually fixing them up to look next-gen, only taking advantage of the basic things HD offers, such as all-around improoved textures, shadows, lighting, etc.

Now, most 360 fans have seen the trailer for Halo3. Yes, it does look very, very nice. But I'm 99% sure that is not a WORKING TITLE. What this means is that these FMVs have been rendered for a PC in a professional design program, and haven't actually been put onto the 360 yet.

There's still that 1% chance I'm wrong.

Then I look at White Knight, my current Example For the PS3, and I just think, "... Wow. What the HELL are Microsoft DOING?"

I do not WANT the PS3 to be rediculously better. Competition is good because it keeps developers on their toes.

I am not a Sony fanboy. In fact, Sony is the last company I accepted. I was a Nintendo fanboy for most of my gaming time, and only got over that about 3 years ago and accepted that the Gamecube was a failure, and came to the conclusion that I preferred the XBox to the PS2, mostly because of games like Midnight Club 3 which really put the PS2's hardware to shame. The PS2 still had awesome games (Monster Hunter, anyone?) but I just preferred the Xbox.

I learnt from my mistakes with Nintendo. I currently don't have a PS2 OR Xbox, because I don't have enough money to get one if I still want a PS3, since I wasted the money on the Gamecube. I didn't want to make another mistake like that, so I now don't have any bias to any company. I was rooting for the 360 until I saw the screens for it and compared it to the PS3.

Again, do I want the PS3 to just completely rape the console wars? No, I do not.

Do I want people to instantly abandon the 360? No. Well, mostly no.

What I do want people to do is to shut up, stop being fanboys, and just LOOK and ADMIT that Microsoft made a STUPID, STUPID MOVE by releasing the console so early and with such inferiority.

The same goes for Nintendo. Just because they have their stupid gimmick, I might consider respecting it even a tiny bit, if it didn't look like they'd taken the graphics of the Gamecube, then actually removed some of the rendering engines and turned it into PS2 graphics. (Yes, while the GC was a failure, its hardware was superior to the PS2, and only just below the XBox. See? No bias.)

Fable 2 is, in all probability, going to make me wish one of my friends had a 360. Halo3 will be fun for what it is (a mindless FPS with a semi-interesting story), and if they make a Phantom Crash 2 (a PROPER one) then I'll actually go onto the street and make friends with a 360 owner, just to play it.

But no matter how good some of the games on it are, if you can not admit that compared to the PS3 it looks like it should have been released 3-4 years ago, then you are deluded, completely in denial, and in all probability you have some issues with your sight that you should consult an optomitrist (sp) about.

I do not have bias for the PS3. I'm just sick of people turning a blind eye to Microsoft's huge, glaring mistake.

And for all the people whining that graphics aren't important, the hell they aren't. Graphics = Immersion, and immersion is one of the single most important part about any game. It's immersion that makes a -good- (keyword, good) MMO, it's immersion that makes you think you're in the frontlines of vietnam, it's immersion that makes you think you're slaying a freaking 10-story-tall dragon. And if you suddenly notice something like "Hey, the leaves on that tree are 2D" or "Hey, my shadow is glitching!" then that just destroys the immersion.

No, the 360 won't have flaws this big, but when I look at the trailer for White Knight, I think I might physically drool a little. The thought of Fable with those graphics... Well, it makes me drool more.

And the idea that Fable is going to be ruined because of Microsoft's glaring mistake, and it may end up looking like a slightly revamped Fable 1 with slightly better shadows and slightly more pixels (things I won't actually notice unless I'm told), then it's just going to be a shame, pure and simple.

There's a chance I'm wrong. Maybe it is just that for some reason, all the titles for the 360 in the last 6 months or however long it's been out, have just been **** the developers are hopeless and have no idea what they're doing and overall it's as if it wasn't even released.

I hope that's true. I was going to write, 'There'd be a lot of people I'd have to apologize to about being wrong,' but you morons still argue that even **** like Saint's Row has as good graphics as the PS3, so I owe you absolutely nothing, other than maybe a kick in the spine.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=13330&type=mov

I already knew the PS3 was technologically superior, but this has just given me final evidence. This video right here, is final, absolute, undeniable proof that the XBox360 isn't even worthy of the title 'next gen'. Compare Saints Row or Dead Rising, something that looks like it should have been on the XBox and even then wouldn't have even looked much better than GTA3 (and still looked worse than Halo2), to this above movie.

Either anyone who reads this has just rushed the hell to the local game store to sell their 360 while demand is still high, or you're still a moron in denial. Take your pick.

And now to blatantly rip off Something*Positive.

'Dear Games,

I'm sorry... I really am. You know I love you. Well, not all of you... There are parts of you I really hate. There are parts of you that make me so angry my blood boils and I'll probably develop a bloodpressure issue when I'm in my late thirties.

But you know for the most part, I love you. I love it when I find new areas of you, or gems of goodness that've been hidden under layers of crap. And those areas... Well, you know you enjoy it just as much as I do, Games.

I know you have to make everyone else happy. I know you can't only be made for me. I'm the jealous type, so it's hard. But I try. So give me another chance. I'll even play my Gamecube if you want. I'm not playing that Naruto game, though. I'm still mad at Anime.'

That's it. That's just... It.

I've had it. I'm sick of it. I'm DONE with it. I've had it up to HERE with you morons.

So I retire.

From what?

From games, from anime, from j-rock... From everything I held dear only a good year ago, I now retire from. And it's all thanks to the Morons.

The XBox360 has horrible graphics. I don't care what games it may have, I simply don't give a rat's. If you morons hadn't have just eaten what was fed to you, Microsoft may've done a smart move liked recalled it to work on it more and bring it back when it was even in league with the PS3.

Thanks to blatant Fanboyism, most of the best games on PS3 have gone cross-console with the 360, and have effectively been ruined. I hate you all.

The Wii? I noticed something when looking at the Red Steel trailer. See, it's not actually anything to do with infrared. It has no cursor, no aiming; it's not like the old guns you could purchase for shooting games that actually aimed at the screen. No, the Wii is on an actual axis of its own because it only uses weight sensors. This means that it doesn't actually aim where you aim; it just moves down when you do.

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Well done. As if Nintendo didn't do a stupid thing by bringing out a poor-man's virtual reality about 10 years before it was ready, they couldn't even do the poor-man's version right. It's not just a poor man's VR, it's like someone made a poor-man's VR then Nintendo made a poor-man's version of that.

Horrible.

Final Fantasy? I still hate you. I still hate you and your horrible plots, your boring characters and your blatant fanservice. I hate how you go along with people like Gackt, encouraging homosexuality yet quelling heterosexuality.

Let me just clarify this; I have nothing against homosexuals. Zip. Nada. But I don't want to see prettyboys masquerading around with overcompensating swords as much as it is. Sure, make a few games with it, but **** the ONLY masculine hero I can think of right now is Solid Snake. ONE. I don't care if you make androgynous heroes, but BALANCE IT OUT. It's been FAR too long since a decent Rambo or Sam Fisher came along, and even then, all those games seem to do poorly in the shadows of heroes like Dante and Cloud.

I don't want to see your crap, and I'm sure gay people don't want to see Dead or Alive, which I'm strictly against, thank you.

On that same note, for those curious as to why I 'quit' anime, it's for the same reason. The local Anime festival over here, 'MAnifest', is actually having a Yaoi Art Seminar. If you asked them to have a hentai art seminar they'd probably kick you out. For the sake of political correctness, gay sexual themes are becoming more accepted than hetereosexual themes.

I don't want to hear about it.

If you're going to let gay people go around with porn-in-hand, and let people like Gackt practically give his band blowjobs on stage, then the straight people should be allowed to do it too.

If the straight people can't, then the gay people shouldn't be able to either, because guess what, we're ALL PEOPLE. Surprise eh?

So I give up. I'm sick of hoping for another Evangelion to come around, I'm sick of hoping for Blizzard to magically blow up. I'll still play the odd games, but I refuse to any longer class myself as a Gamer. In fact, I've realized I've become quite ashamed of it.

One of my friends suggested I was growing up. No. I still think the same, it's not me who's grown up, it's games that've grown down.

Now I'm going to go read some more books because, guess what, they have something called a PLOT. Something you damned Square morons couldn't even dream of comprehending.

I hate you all and I hope every last one of you die.

Okay. I just read that Assassin's Creed has been confirmed for the X360.

I want any X360 fans to, for the moment, completely disregard the fact that the XBox was the best console of the three. Because it was. It hands down had the best graphics (since the Gamecube doesn't count as a console), it had the best games by a small margin (see: rare gems like Phantom Crash) and it had an unrivaled online feature. The PS2 had a ton of good games, don't get me wrong, but the XBox just overall won.

So let's disregard that.

Now that your mind is (hopefully) devoid of any kind of bias, go and look at a screenshot for any game on the PS3 except for Fatal Intertia, since for no good reason that game's graphics are hopeless, then go look at the graphics for any X360 game. And no, the previews for Halo3 don't count because they aren't actually on the 360 yet and they will never, in a billion years, look that good, unlike games like MGS4 and Heavy Rain which are already partially coded into the PS3 and really will look like that.

Okay? Now do you see that, even though the 360 may end up having a few good games, and will almost certainly have the better online, its graphics are horrific?

Good.

If you still don't believe me, you can go check out the Beta screens for Oblivion, then check out what they looked like after Microsoft told Bathesda not to humiliate the 360.

The point of the matter is, no matter how good any rare gems for the 360 may be, no one with any kind of sane, rational mind can deny that the 360 has horrible graphics, and horrible reliability. That thing crashes like a TVR.

So now you might just understand my distress that Assassin's Creed, the Prince of Persia/Thief fusion in a sandbox engine combined with the kickassery of Free Running that was almost destined to rock my world thanks to the assurance that is Ubisoft... Will now be pushed onto the 360 and will hence have to have, well, -everything-, toned down?

I'm really not trying to flame the 360. I understand that Xbox Live is pure genius and it might, like the original Xbox, have a lot of gem-type games. But even a diehard fan should be able to admit flaws with his medium (such as how I can admit that the combat and endgame detail in EQ2 is horrible), and 360 fans should be able to admit that it's horrifically unstable and is technologically radically inferior to the PS3.

Oh, and my friend made me read out the Monster Hunter Gameshark codes to him, since I don't have a printer. Do you have any idea how long those things are? I figure since this is a blog I may as well whine as much as possible. Plus I jokingly said I would -que emo voice- "write a blog about it." So I did.

I doubt I'll be updating this unless something stupid or funny happens. However, something funny/annoying happened.

Gamespot and their crazy American rubbish decided to interpret my birthdate as the 5th of the 10th. It's actually the 10th of the 5th. Now, it thinks I'm 16, and won't let me join the Dark Messiah beta.

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... Nice one, geniuses.