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« on: February 24, 2014, 02:17:46 am »
For me this was a sad sad generation to be a gamer. To me it ushered in the beginning of the end of video games as I know and love them. Soon, very soon we will live in an all digital world and it's just not a world I care to game in. Sure its fine for Indie games, but even those I find difficult to purchase at rock bottom prices because I can't actually OWN them.
Game developers are becoming so stagnant and afraid to take any chances because of the bottom line. $$$$. You know, I haven't listened to new music (with a few exceptions) and movies literally do nothing for me since the 90s. So stale and tired. They just bore me to tears. Every time I watch a movie I can't help but think I've seen all of this before. Its just the same stuff rehashed over and over and over again.
Now I see games headed down the same path and It saddens me greatly. At the same time, I totally get why the younger generation thinks this generation was great. My son is 11 and he loves him some xbox 360 and PS3. If I hadn't lived through the prime of the NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, TG-16, Sega Saturn generation I prolly Would've loved this gen too.
Lastly, Although I was certainly no huge fan of the wii, if nintendo dies soon gaming will truly be dire. I hear all of this hate on Nintendo lately, some of it warranted some of it not. Just know this, nintendo's death would be a true tragedy for the gaming industry, one that I think eventually may bring the whole console industry down. I still love nintendo. It seems like they're the only company that knows how to make a video game any more. NOT a interactive movie, or a game that takes itself way too seriously, or a gritty war shooter, but a video game. The type of game that makes me feel like a kid again............A link between worlds was a masterpiece IMO........Sigh.
Any how thats my 2 cents, sorry it was so depressing.........
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