Time.

Anyone miss the old days of gaming? Where people made fucking -games- and didn't worry about pumping it full of shitty features no one cares about, or making it for a certain demographic? Anyone miss actual stories? Anyone miss -fun-?

I think you do, I think you're with me when I say that games nowadays are lacking the fun element.

My first console was a sega genesis, then I moved on to PC gaming and got consoles on the side. Back then, no one gave a shit. People made games, people took their ideas, and they made them. They didn't worry about pleasing people. Once marketing gets in a medium, it becomes a people pleasing operation. Just like movies are today. So many movies are terrible, it's hard to find good ones. I think I've seen one good movie out of 30 over the past year.

A good game shouldn't be able to be compared to other games. You shouldn't be able to say 'Like GTA, but...' I'm sick of clones, I'm sick of the same old crap being churned out over and over again. I'm sick of games being dumbed down so that people with no patience and mental power can play them (Take oblivion for example. Remember how awesome morrowind was? Remember how cheap oblivion felt? Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about)

Spore's a good one. Spore's been in production for forever. It's a rather genius idea really, a game where you play god in a very literal aspect. You start off with a single cell organism, which eventually evolves, over many stages, to a complex, sentient creature which is capable of civilization. Then, you continue to develop the creatures society and planet until it masters space travel. The game just continues to zoom out from there, making it more and more complex, with each level being possible to revisit.

Ofcourse, it would be that awesome, if EA wasn't fucking producing it. Poor Will Wright can't get his idea out exactly as he wants it, because EA's gotta get its greedy fucking paws in it. Spore can't just come out on the PC, it's gotta come out on the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, Cell Phone, Pocket PC, DS, and Conventional Oven.

That's not to say there aren't good games out there. Every once in a while, someone'll make something that -isn't- hyped to shit (See: Two Worlds, Mass Effect), and -is- worth playing. This usually happens when heaps and mounds of money aren't involved (See: Audio Surf, Shadow of the Colossus, Decimation). I've always like independent or hobbyist developers. I've always had more fun with mods than actual games.

There are only two massive electronic companies I trust, one of which being a game company. Valve, and Google.

Share your views. Are there good games out there that are new? Are we forever going to spiral into crap, and turn into what the movie industry is now? Does your conventional oven have the right specs to play Spore?




------------------------------------------- Personal Shit \/\/\/\/\/

Time seems to be catching up on me, and by catching up, I mean cornering me in an alley and punching me in the gut a few times before taking my walet and maxing out my credit card.

School's coming to a close, and I'm already getting ready to move again. I'll be off to Warren, which is just street after street of strip malls. The town has no culture, nothing exciting. Atleast it's close to every -other- city.

I'm in danger of failing highschool. I've got correspondence courses to do, and I have to take an adult ed class of some sort if I'm to get my highschool diploma. Everyone's slipping by me, opportunities are missed left and right.

Take Erica for example. Beautiful girl, absolutely wonderful to talk to. Creative, goofy, and incredibly kind. I've known her for 3 years, we've always been close, but I've never had the balls to take her. She always ends up with bad, or mediocre boyfriends.. and now I'm moving away and I won't see her again. Either I harden the fuck up, or I lose her. I think I'm gonna harden the fuck up, who cares if she's got a boyfriend.

But even then. There's this girl Sammy. My friend Peter is setting us up on a sort of date (I honestly don't know what to call it). We'll see how it goes. Who knows, maybe she's great! I've talked to her over the phone, she's fun, but I don't know. There are some things that just don't match up well, but that just could be because we're over the phone, and we're both trying to impress each other, or something. Well, it won't hurt to try. What I fear though, is that this'll actually be more about Peter, like.. she'll be way more interested in her than she would be to me, leaving me to be the awkward man out again. I envy Peter's smoothness, I'll have to give it to him, he's pretty good. She doesn't know me as well as Peter, and they both have this weird off and on relationship that's never serious, but always affectionate, and they're always joking with each other. This may be a trap, I may require the guidance of Admiral Ackbar, who is good at detecting traps. My ex says to avoid her, as she beleives Sammy to be an evil name, and that I'll have nothing in common with her. She's also being fingered aggresively by a jew right now.

I've got girls left and right who are all 'Could be's' or 'Maybe's', I just can't fucking decide. It's been like that for as long as I can remember.

Gotta keep my connections strong, going to have to call some old friends, get in touch with them.

Anyways yeah

. Protest is coming up.

If the last protest taught us anything, it's that we're growing. We thought we'd have less of a tournout, when we actually doubled. People seem to be flooding in left and right. It's both good and bad. When there's that many people, it just sounds like an angry beehive. Hard to get your message across.

It's hard to get these assholes to spread out though, they seem to like all stick on one bunch. It'll be hard when there's 240 of us though, I'll get them to spread out this time.