I'm fine with the graphics of the Wii-U. I always wanted cell shaded and non realistic games for my Nintendo systems anyway. PS4 and X1 can do that stuff. I'm going to be perfectly happy playing Pikmin 3 and Zelda Wind Waker HD just as they are.
I remember wandering around Demon's Souls and opening a door which revealed a giant troll or something. It, of course, flayed me every which way. The surprise of that was pretty awesome. I love the environments in that game.
I was a little disappointed in Bioshock Infinite. I wanted to interact with that world a lot more and the game didn't let you. It seemed frozen to me. And that horde battle DLC didn't interest me at all. That's not what I play Bioshock for.
Borderlands 2 is definitely better designed that the first game, but I'm having the same problems with playing a sniper class as in the first one. The enemy always surrounds you and rushes you making it really difficult to keep back and snipe. It's incredibly frustrating and.I restarted the first game like three times, and I almost restarted this one too. It is a barrel of fun in co-op though despite that.
It's weird to have gone to arcades but then never seen some games. A lot of the Konami games in Xbox Live's Game Room were new to me like TwinBee and Finalizer. Front Line was done by Taito. I like that company's games a lot. Most of them I never played in the arcades.
Then it sounds just like Spy Hunter (Peter Gunn Theme)?
I have most of the DS games I want to try now like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, and Fighting Fantasy: Warlock of Firetop Mt. but I still don't have Chrono Trigger and the Golden Sun remake.
A neighbor of mine had Donkey Kong on Colecovision when I was a kid and I played it there. It was quite a thrill then seeing a good arcade port at home.
It was neat to go someplace just to play video games. Like going to the movies. Now there's only Dave 'N Busters and their choice of games doesn't interest me in the least.
Xevious is hard, but I always liked it. Probably because it was one of the first games to combine shooting and bombing. It gave you the idea you were flying high above the ground even though everything looked 2D.
Somehow I don't see Nintendo ditching their console. They want to control their first party IPs on their own hardware and make them exclusive to it. People will always want a Mario or Zelda or Metroid game and they're only going to get it on Nintendo devices. They make most of their money off these IPs. They don't need to diversify like MS and Sony because they have their core franchises that are such huge cash cows for them. They may seem about to become irrelevant, but those key franchises will keep them afloat every time... if Mario and Zelda become irrelevant, I don't want to be a gamer anymore.
