Zel-kun’s Words

Yesterday, I was playing Animal Crossing, an addicting game, for no real reason except to feed my OCD.  I borrowed the game from Paul, after not playing it for four years, and decided to finally finish up some things I was doing in the game at the time.

The game works in real-time, so its funny to return and see your town covered in weeds, and the townsfolk yelling at you for being gone so long.  So I began the mindless tasks of acquiring the golden axe, then proceeded to chop down most of the town’s trees to re-plant them in a neat grid.

As I said, its an OCD paradise in that game.

Anyhow, around 11:00 in the morning, I realized that I was pretty bored.  I needed to play something else.  I had a few games sitting on my computer, of the point-and-click variety that I’m pretty bored with at this point.  They’re good, but I’m just so burned out on them.

I needed a new game.  A new console game.  I put on my coat (even though it was almost 60 degrees), and walked into the Best Buy.  There were a few intriguing games for the DS, and I did consider buying a DS to play them, but my eyesight is bad enough without playing a game and reading text on a one inch screen.

There was Enchanted Arms for the 360, which almost makes me want to buy a 360.  Honestly, with that and a couple others, I’m seriously considering it.  That’s ironic, I used to hate the X-box, but they’re now releasing some very good-looking games.

I want to buy a Wii, but I look at my room, not exactly known for its wide-open spaces, and know that a Wii is an accident waiting to happen in there.

Then there’s the PS3.  Its like the let the boss’ retarded nephew run the company for a bit.  A $600 system.  Seriously, who has that kind of money to spend on the system?  I make a lot more money than I used to, and I STILL can’t justify that price.

So I look at the games being released for the GameCube and PS2, and there’s nothing even remotely interesting out.  There’s war games (not my thing), RPG’s with that active battle-system that I find annoying, all of it is garbage.  Its like the game companies got together and said, “Let there be suck!”

I bought Rogue Galaxy the week before last, which was supposed to be pretty promising.  I played it and thought it was fun.  But my gaming experience quickly turned into a grind-fest, battling hundreds of enemies just so I’d be of adequate level to survive.  The active battle system was surprisingly fluid, albeit annoying with this ‘action gauge.’  Yeah, let’s make your character unable to do anything for 5-10 seconds every few attacks.  That’s a good idea.

So the game is now sitting on my shelf.  Maybe I’ll come back to it one day, but I can’t say for certain.

I saw Dynasty Warriors 5 at the local GameStop, I went out later on to pick it up, but apparently the store closed at 5:00pm.  I blame daylight savings time.

I think I’m coming closer and closer to getting a 360.  And that is a frightening thought.

Zel-kun out.