I've been a fan of the Metroid series from its infancy. The original Metroid was the first great NES game I played after The Legend of Zelda, way back in the 1980s, while Super Metroid is one of my favorite games of all time to this day. I still have my SNES version of it as well as the downloadable version on my Wii U.
Of the 3-D Metroids, my favorites are Other M and Prime 1.
The Capcom hub looks cool, but I have the Capcom Classics Collection for PS2, and since I have a 60-gigger PS3 I can play it on that. 1943 and Ghosts'n'Goblins are probably my favorite games from that batch. Capcom was a lot more awesome in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s.
Anybody passionate about anything - hobbies, TV shows, religions, politics - is prone to acting like this. Back in the 1950s you'd see people insulting each other over their choice of car, TV, or washing machine. You should see Android partisans arguing with Apple partisans. Makes the video game industry look downright mature by comparison.
With the Xbox One announcement, Microsoft has finally closed the deal with me.
I'm getting a PS4!
At this moment I am leaning heavily towards the PS4. The Xbox One did not impress me in the least, and I've pretty much abandoned my 360 over the past 3 years to focus on PS3, so Sony has the momentum in that regard.
A box of dog turds is just as stackable. :)
I'm taking the Xbox conference with a grain of salt myself, Brian. I'm already leaning more towards the PS4, but who knows. Maybe MS will have some kind of hidden surprise.
I am also looking forward to this summer of games. Tales of Xillia and Dragon's Crown are at the top of my personal list of must-haves.
Can't wait for the first REAL new GG in 10 years.
As others have said, I have a huge library of games. I have over 200 games I have yet to complete. It doesn't bother me, because I have forever to play them in, LOL, and if the PS4 and Xbox WhateverTheHellThey'reCallingIt turn out to shitty pieces of fuck, I have my retro-gaming bunker stockpiled to keep me through a gaming nuclear winter. :) Also, a lot of my games are rare gems, like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Suikoden, and the Lunar games, and I'm going to part with them when they're pried from my dead hands. :)
I am glad to see the Online Pass gone. Although I'm still not a fan of EA's portfolio and am not inclined to buy from them, given the company's size and influence, I hope this discourages companies whose products I do like from going with online passes. Still, the cynic in me wonders if the online pass is being replaced with the terrible always-online that SimCity was saddled with.
