Yeah... To be honest with you I've found the people on these forums quite refreshing since I've been to many forums, videogames or otherwise and there are always a few flamers, fanboys etc around. At least everyone here helps out and are honest with opinions... Mind you anyone who have spent £2k+ on a TV would voice their opinions if there was a fault anyway!
Plus I suppose most of you guys are over 20 anyway since loads of gaming forums (that I've been to) are full of kids that produce more hot air than facts and rational opinions.
Back on topic.. Previously Nintendo have been annoying with censorship alright (damn green blood in Mortal Kombat, strippers removed from Duke Nukem, religious issues removed in Final Fantasy...) but they have relaxed a lot of these issues as an attempt to gain a wider audience.
Plus the immortal president of Nintendo has FINALLY retired ::cheers of joy::. At last Nintendo won't be governed by one man and at last Nintendo could team up with Square again and other companies. The change of power won't be sudden but 3rd party support should grow since Nintendo were v.arrogant back in the N64 era.
I'm still going to buy an Xbox sooner rather than later though. Tekki has sparked up a fuss in Japan (is is a mecha game after all ^_^) and for me, Halo and Tekki will do nicely. IMO there should be more mecha games out, Virtua On on the dreamcast is ace and I've yet to play MechWarrior 4 on the PC... Gun Griffon is alright and Armored Core III is out soon in Japan. Other than that though theres little choice... Ah well, you can't have it all.
Actually before that I need to make a desk for all the consoles.. Its a bit of a mess atm >_< Good ol' NES, GB, SNES, GBA, SAT, PSX, N64, DC, PS2, GC and an Xbox would almost complete the collection. A Genesis would be nice if only for Contra IV and Gunstar Heroes as well. Heh would be nice if I still had my Amstrad CPC 464 as well just for nostalgic value. If anyone has any design suggestions it would be welcome ^_^