Thank you, Nintendo

I've been watching all of the coverage of E3 from my couch, since I'm not cool enough to go in person. There's a lot of freaking awesome stuff coming out, the trailers for Final Fantasy XIII are amazing, Metal Gear Solid 4 looks great, so many trailers just blow your mind (except the Halo 3 trailer which was inexplicably boring as hell).

But Nintendo has me excited... I'd damn near say GIDDY.

If you haven't seen it already, any of you who give a rat's ass about gaming, or just having fun in general need to download the Nintendo press conference from E3. I recommend getting it using bittorrent (if you don't know how to use bittorrent, just download Azureus, it's really easy) at this site:

http://www.titaniumtorrents.com/viewtopic.php?t=72

There's a lot of cool trailers at that site, so poke around if you like, but make sure you download that movie.

The gameplay looks AMAZING. There's two motion sensitive controllers, one of them has a speaker on it, which wasn't known until just now, so if you fire a bow and arrow in Zelda, you can hear the damn thing shoot from your hand into the target. You can have swordfights. You can play games like golf and tennis. You can play a first person shooter by AIMING YOUR HAND instead of fumbling around with your thumbs like we've been forced to do for years.

But most of all, while all these game developers have been screaming "We're going to light your balls on fire with ELEVENTY BILLION POLYGONS and PHOTOREALISTIC FACIAL PORES", Nintendo said "Fuck that, we're going to make it fun."

I've noticed lately that even though my Xbox 360 is 1000x more powerful, I've been playing my Nintendo DS way more. Because the games are fun. Hell, if there weren't achievements on the 360, I'd hardly play at all. Those just tickle my anal/competitive streak. But the DS is so damn fun. And with the new Super Mario Bros, they've just owned me for good.

At the end of the press conference, the freaking President of Nintendo calls up some dude from the audience and plays tennis with him, all of them jumping around on stage and swinging their controllers like a bunch of children. I got such a huge grin on my face from that. God bless those guys for keeping it fun.

So with all the games that are coming out, I'm excited about a lot of them, but the one that I'm genuinely sad I can't play yet is the Wii. I want one so badly. It just looks so damn fun.