I hate Microsoft

This isn’t some anti-M$ rant. Hell in the Mac-PC wars I am PC all the way but look at this story from Kotaku. Crecente sez:

And of course there will be Wii updates for the news and weather channels and PS3 updates for backward compatibility issues. Welcome to the next-gen friends, it’s all about unfinished products and micro-transactions.

Aside from console games telling better stories than PC games, I am a console gamer first because it’s easy. You pop in the game, you interact in a fantastic Japanese story. Sorry Americans, except for a chosen few of us we tell shitty stories. You Brits, you’ve got Tolkien, but you also have Rowling so I guess that ends up as a wash. But you’ve also got Russell T. Davies (well maybe not, he’s Welsh) and Alan Moore so you’re fine.

So anyhow, now they have made us all into PC gamers, who buy badly made games and then have to wait on company forebearance to download patches that fix those issues only to create new ones paying $65 a pop and too stupid to give it up.

Update: I was reminded by a commentator that Americans do indeed have a few more really really good writers. But you’ll note that most of my authors were modern pop-writers as opposed to you know, classic novelist type authors. Even Tolkien though I love the man’s works didn’t write novels, he wrote medeival-style (for lack of a better term) romances. I just felt they were a better comparisson to video game writing which except for a few stories such as FFVII or Metal Gear Solid 1 and 3 don’t often rise to the level of classic literature.