I think I'm outgrowing this hobby... Well, at least the violent games. On XBox Live I've been called names more times than I could imagine in the past few weeks and this is all coming from zit-faced teenagers who shouldn't be playing M-rated games in the first place. The level of macho agression on the service is sickening. The moment I beat someone with Ken and am told the only reason I beat him was because I'm a cheating homosexual I decided its time to sell the XBox 360.

So I did!

I hardly used the thing anyway and the only reason I got it was being crazy and buying every game system.

I think that the Wii will begin a trend of only buying Nintendo consoles. I am starting to become sickened by violent games (they're much more mean spirited than they used to be), I don't care about graphics (even though I have an HDTV), and the only thing I really play is my DS, so why not?

Hell, every friend of mine loves my nintendo games and the only games I can get people to play on other systems are Gitaroo-Man, Rez, Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution. Most likely games like these will only be on the Wii next time around so I might as well save myself the embarrassment of explaining to girls why there's a giant xbox under my TV.

With my DS, there's never any embarrassment, even with the more nerdy games (Ouendan, Daigasso, ect) because they just look silly and fun. My girlfriend bought a japanese pink DS, Ouendan, Trauma Center, Pheonix Wright, Animal Crossing, Meteos and Tetris because they are all just silly and fun, and she hasn't played videogames since she was a little kid, but she still wouldn't ever be intereted in RPGs, war games or anything that takes itself seriously because those games just aren't as fun.

I think a huge problem with this next gen is that guys who play macho games are going to seperate themselves from other people who play games. These people actually IDENTIFY with the people they're controlling and thinking its cool to snap necks and shoot guys. They're all over the forums here and it makes me feel immature to even be playing games. It also makes them sound creepy as hell. I'd rather identify with the blocky guy playing tenis.