Here's a status update on everything I said in
my initial post, a bit under two years later:
FPS: I've got a few first-person shooters for 360 now, though one of them is console-exclusive and another was bought because my PC version is currently unplayable. I still massively prefer keyboard-and-mouse, and wish 360 games supported that control scheme, but I understand why they don't.
JRPGs: I own most of the English-release JRPGs on 360. I haven't played much of any of them.
Fighters: I own several fighting games for 360 (I just had one come out today, in fact). I use a fightpad right now, and I'm getting a fightstick once I've got the money for it.
Ports: Shoddy ports are still an issue, except...the problem version generally ends up being for PC. For a while the big thing was PC versions that were obviously ported from 360 partway through development (with prompts for 360 buttons and similar appearing in documentation and often even in-game), but now the issue is that PC versions will look massively superior to the console versions, but have massive technical issues like
not working on one of the major video card brands or
not taking advantage of more than 2GB of RAM.
Exclusives: Exclusive content (and exclusivity in general) is still a dumb problem that no one wants to solve despite it being a great way to cut your sales in half.
DLC: It's mostly just music games with the exorbitant post-release costs, though games like
Call of Duty ($60 worth of map packs per game) and Capcom fighters (on-disc costumes that cost money to unlock) are really bad about it as well.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is also a major offender here, as it would cost almost as much as a new retail game to buy that and all its DLC at full price.
Zombies:
Onechanbara,
Dead Rising, and
Dark Souls say hello.
Music games: I own
Guitar Hero II (my PS2 copy died),
Rock Band,
Rock Band 2,
Rock Band 3,
The Beatles: Rock Band, both
DJ Hero games, and
Boom Boom Rocket. My love for music games never waned, and having a system that allows for DLC (and being able to find a
Rock Band instrument set
sans keyboard for $60) rekindled my interest in some of the newer western games; I just have way too many other games to play as well.
Tacked-on modes: "Tacked-on" isn't really the right way to describe my issue with vestigial single-player and multiplayer modes, but they're still a problem. I don't know why I bother with story modes in fighting games, for example.
On-disc DLC: Biiiiiiig problem. Capcom.
Achievement whoring: I personally mitigate against this by playing games that are fun to play and that have achievements that are fun to earn, but there are still a lot of people who look at the latest licensed release as "easy 1000G" and buy crappy games on purpose for that reason.
RRoD/PS3 HAS NO GAMES: Slim = what RRoD? PS3 still doesn't have a lot of games I'm interested in, though, mainly because a lot of the ones I'd care about are multiplatform. (PS3 does have a few imports I'd get due to it being region-free.)
Price: Most of the games I've bought for my 360 have cost less than $20. I've also imported every region-free shmup except
Eschatos and
Bullet Soul, and I plan on getting both of those (same situation as with the fightstick).
Bans: I bought my 360 new, so it's not too big an issue, but I've got a friend selling a cheap 360, flashed to run Japanese stuff, that I would buy without a second thought, if not for it being banned from LIVE. Additionally, as mentioned before, this is still an issue for used consoles from eBay vendors or places like GameStop and pawn shops, as a lot of people won't tell you it's banned, and stores don't test things. And now it's a PS3 issue as well.
Mii knockoffs: Avatars are neat (I need to get my Wizard Score in
Pinball FX2 high enough that I can unlock the awesome wizard robe), but with Irem's death, Home is even more worthless to me.
Non-gaming stuff: Right now the non-gaming features on my 360 are only visible if I scroll to menus in my Dashboard that aren't Friends or My Xbox. I'll bet the December 6th update will change that, though, since they're supposed to be adding a lot of things of that sort. Either way, it's not too big a deal; now that I have good Internet, I'll probably use Netflix (especially since my parents want to get the Netflix Wii stuff), and I'm sure some of the services they're adding will have stuff I'm interested in.
Console wars are retarded.
One thing I will add that's become true since getting the 360: I'm
really sick of, when telling people why I got my 360, being told "the PS3 has those games too."
No, it doesn't, and constantly using this fallacious argument as a reason why I should've gotten a PS3 instead of a 360 just makes me want to delay that purchase even longer.
As an aside, I like how bobman and Lizard Dude accused me of wanting to pirate stuff on 360, and then I proceeded to buy over seventy games for the system within three months. I also like how the only proper English-release visual novel on the current-gen platforms is
Catherine.
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