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Last night Chris and I went out half-hartedly looking for a Wii. Really, i wasn't too into it, even though I liked the test that we did at the Game Stop in the mall. The controller really is quite different, and really, it's the stupid, complicated controller that keeps me away from a lot of games.
We checked out Best Buy twice. It seemed like they were going to do a midnight special, so we went and grabbed a coupon Chris has had for the newest Zelda game since March of last year. Apparently people have been waiting for a year and a half for this game to come out, and when it does, it's on a totally different system than it was before.
When we got back to Best Buy we noticed that all the employees were gone and what was left was a line of folding chairs with some 20 people in them. We asked when they would be giving the Wiis out, and they replied "9am" Uhm, no. I certainly wasn't going to camp out all night, and Chris wasn't either.
We ran over to Wal*Mart, which already is a place I hate, and there's a line of 40 people already, snaked outside of the garden center. Chris decided to give it a go, so I went into the store to shop. Twenty minutes later, about ten minutes to midnight, Chris comes over and said they had already pulled the twenty people who would actually be getting the console. I was disappointed for him, and maybe a little sad myself, because I was kind of interested, but I was sure as hell ready to get out of Wal*Mart.
I really am not much of a gamer. About the only game I play online is Soduko, and that's a one person deal. Games became much to complicated for me many, many years ago, and I've never had the co-ordination to really make all of those buttons, keypads and joysticks work together. Really, the last game i actually enjoyed was Katamari Damancy, and I wasn't that good at that.
A favorite game of mine was Yar's Revenge, which used the single joystick and one fire button. That's good Atari 2600 stuff. Somewhere I have an Activision Classics disk for the Playstation 2 that I guess I should try, but I'm not sure I could play Kaboom! without a paddle controller.
Chris is a good gamer. He can do all these things, and come up with these combinations and such. I think it's crazy. I end up watching him play games, just because some have a decent storyline. I've seen most of Kameo, Kingdom Hearts II and Legend of Zelda:Windwalker. Some are better than others. I look forward to seeing more of Dead Rising because the zombies bite it in such unusual ways.
Still, Chris is trying to involve me more. What he really wants is for me to start playing World of Warcraft. look, he says, it's available for Mac, and it's already installed on your system! Still, I watch him play and I can't think of a more pointless thing than this game. I just don't understand why people think this is any fun.
I used to like Sim City, but then it got far, far to complicated. All I want to do is build a city. I don't want to have to figure out taxes and budgets and other realistic details that take away from the feeling that you have a cool set of Legos. Perhaps they just need a Lego town set - build, destroy, and still have time to watch Ugly Betty.
Seriously, i'll pass on Warcraft, but the truck game for the Wii was kind of fun, and some of the sports games look interesting as well. it's all about that controller, though, and the different possibilities. I'll be happy if we get a Wii in the house. If Chris wants to get a Playstation 3 sometime, he's all on his own there.
We checked out Best Buy twice. It seemed like they were going to do a midnight special, so we went and grabbed a coupon Chris has had for the newest Zelda game since March of last year. Apparently people have been waiting for a year and a half for this game to come out, and when it does, it's on a totally different system than it was before.
When we got back to Best Buy we noticed that all the employees were gone and what was left was a line of folding chairs with some 20 people in them. We asked when they would be giving the Wiis out, and they replied "9am" Uhm, no. I certainly wasn't going to camp out all night, and Chris wasn't either.
We ran over to Wal*Mart, which already is a place I hate, and there's a line of 40 people already, snaked outside of the garden center. Chris decided to give it a go, so I went into the store to shop. Twenty minutes later, about ten minutes to midnight, Chris comes over and said they had already pulled the twenty people who would actually be getting the console. I was disappointed for him, and maybe a little sad myself, because I was kind of interested, but I was sure as hell ready to get out of Wal*Mart.
I really am not much of a gamer. About the only game I play online is Soduko, and that's a one person deal. Games became much to complicated for me many, many years ago, and I've never had the co-ordination to really make all of those buttons, keypads and joysticks work together. Really, the last game i actually enjoyed was Katamari Damancy, and I wasn't that good at that.
A favorite game of mine was Yar's Revenge, which used the single joystick and one fire button. That's good Atari 2600 stuff. Somewhere I have an Activision Classics disk for the Playstation 2 that I guess I should try, but I'm not sure I could play Kaboom! without a paddle controller.
Chris is a good gamer. He can do all these things, and come up with these combinations and such. I think it's crazy. I end up watching him play games, just because some have a decent storyline. I've seen most of Kameo, Kingdom Hearts II and Legend of Zelda:Windwalker. Some are better than others. I look forward to seeing more of Dead Rising because the zombies bite it in such unusual ways.
Still, Chris is trying to involve me more. What he really wants is for me to start playing World of Warcraft. look, he says, it's available for Mac, and it's already installed on your system! Still, I watch him play and I can't think of a more pointless thing than this game. I just don't understand why people think this is any fun.
I used to like Sim City, but then it got far, far to complicated. All I want to do is build a city. I don't want to have to figure out taxes and budgets and other realistic details that take away from the feeling that you have a cool set of Legos. Perhaps they just need a Lego town set - build, destroy, and still have time to watch Ugly Betty.
Seriously, i'll pass on Warcraft, but the truck game for the Wii was kind of fun, and some of the sports games look interesting as well. it's all about that controller, though, and the different possibilities. I'll be happy if we get a Wii in the house. If Chris wants to get a Playstation 3 sometime, he's all on his own there.
