I love videogaming. It’s one of my true passions as far as hobbies go. I’ve bought pretty much every major videogame system that’s come out since the NES and several systems prior to that like Atari 2600, Atari 7800 (I played the 5200, but never bought it), Colecovision, etc. I was one of the sorry suckers who ponied up for the 3D0 (Trip Hawkins, you bastard!) when it came out and costed some $600 USD! Atari Jaguar? Been there, done that. And of course all those various “systems” that came out from Sega (Sega CD, 32-X, Dreamcast) before they gave up and just started making games for their competitors. So I think this amount of videogaming as a fan, customer, etc more than entitles me to call the developers out:

Stop making systems and games which are in love with technology! Please! I’m tired of games with a zillion shaded polygons that aren’t fun. Go back to the drawing board and dig up the brilliant minds that are trying to make games fun and addictive. Enough of these movie license games, where most of them just plain suck. Make videogames fun. I used to look forward to new games coming out and buying new games and I still have a subscription to EGM, but I can honestly say that 99% of the games that come out today I’ve already seen. What console video games are out that are worth playing over and over until your fingers hurt today? Grand Theft Auto Vice City sort of got me excited, but that’s the last notable game I can think of. Brute Force? C’mon. It’s no wonder there was a 9% drop in video games according to articles like this one, besides the fact that it is summer and just too darn hot to be inside playing games. Do you like videogames? Do you wish they were more fun? I do. Really. Hmm

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