What the fuck is this bullshit?

It's not just the lack of gameplay content, with newer releases going at $50 a pop you can probably get a hooker for a longer time than it takes to play through the game. Everything from the user interface to animations is done half-assed. For example, look at the nice still-renders from Oblivion. Sweet, huh? Now watch your character 'jump' - ...and this is just the surface, which is perfectly visible to the common customer. Imagine taking a look at the source-code architecture, through a programmers viewpoint. It's spaghetti, and you don't want to poke your fork into it - while pasta may taste good, spaghetti-source will only drain your system resources, all for nothing. And you actually *pay* for this crap?

The suckage doesn't come from badly animated knights in glass-armour though, nor does it come from badly optimized code eating your megahurtz, and not even from an estimated playing-time of two hours - as ludicrous as it sounds. All of this I could even stand, but when game studios don't even touch new innovative ideas (sure, there's Spore, I'll give you that) because of the fear of financial failure, it makes me lose faith in the entire industry.

Where have all the real game-developers gone off to? Why does anyone actually buy games anymore? Since when did candy-coating the old one(half-assedly, mind you) make a brand new game, by anyones standards? But most importantly, what the fuck is this bullshit?

No, it's not all games...games are just getting into the same hollywood mentality...sell more of what already sells until the 'next thing' comes along...there's plenty of nice 'indie' games out there that actually try something new, just as movies have 'indie' films which are good...don't lose faith...btw, #18, what would you suggest instead?  watching mtv cribs?  posting on a message board?  i'm not following...