Gaming has changed.

It's no longer about ideas, stories, or experiences.
It's an endless series of market battles fought by CEOs and publishers.
Gaming - and its consumption of fun - has become a well-oiled money machine.
Gaming has changed.
"Gamers" carry warped tastes forged by the paid media, use consoles that milk them for every last penny possible.
"Journalists" like those at IGN and G4 enhance and regulate their ignorance.
Developer control. Information control. Emotion control. Market control.
Everything is monitored and kept under control.
Gaming has changed.
The age of gaming has become the age of control...
...all in the name of creating mass amounts of profits.
And he who controls the profits...controls gaming.
Gaming...has changed.
When gaming is under total control, money grubbing becomes routine.

Yeah, I miss the eighties too.

Gaming...
Gaming never changes..

Since the dawn of neckbeards, when our ancestors first discovered the Pen and Paper RPG, tears have been spilled in the name of everything, from consoles, to pc's, to simple psychotic butthurtness.

In the year 2010, after years of online conflict, the destructive nature of manchildren could substain itself no longer. The internet was plunged into an abyss of flames, and trolls.

But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the internet. Instead, the apocalypse was just the prologue to another sex-less chapter of neckbeard history. For neckbeards, had succeeded in destroying the internet..

But gaming...
Gaming never changes...

Wii fit is da best game eva!!!!!11!!!!!

>>4
Wrong, the best game ever is your mother.
Thing is, I can't start hard mode with it.

>>5
You sir are the king of comedy.

>>5
Not to steal your joke, but after ten playthroughs you can't play hard anymore.

http://deranged-lunatics.com/index.html troll

Ok OP, do what I do. Play old games and new sequels of old games. Most new games are shit, kids talking about their shitty Xbox crap like Halos and Mass Effects and Gears of Wars or their shitty Playstation games, way too many to count. Then there are the PC idiots who are stuck on the orange box because they have nothing else.

I don't see anything significant about this generation besides gaming continuing to become shittier.

Everything's been in a downward fall since Dreamcast died.

>>10
Dreamcast
underageb& detected
Gaming has been dead since the SNES/Genesis were replaced by 3D bullshit favoring graphics over gameplay.

>>11
Gaming has been dead since the SNES/Genesis were replaced by 3D bullshit favoring graphics over gameplay.
Silly goose detected.

Gaming's the same as it has been since the 2600, 90% of games are shit. You're just nostalgic and you forget about all the shit games of old.

>>13
Wrong, Sonic and Mega Man's prime was back in the 90s/early 2000s. Now look at them, just a shadow of their former glory. If you know anything about these series you can't disagree. This isn't just the case with them, it's happening with games in general.

Back then, developers would try harder because gaming was smaller, so a better game would mean more cash. Now they don't have to worry, just make any generic RPG/shooter and wait for the money to roll in.

If they had a game where you can just walk around a city and go in wherever you want, jackoff in someone's house, whatever, that would be good.  I don't feel like shooting dudes so I don't care about games.

>>14
Yeah, Sonic and Mega Man suck now, the old releases were part of the 10% of good games, the new ones aren't. And you act like generic games are new, come on, it's always been that way. It's always been about money, it's always been expensive to develop and produce games so of course companies are mostly going to stick to ripping off successful games.

Look at the NES, how many games came out for that? 1,000? Being extremely generous, there's maybe 100 good ones. The rest are shitty clones, shitty games based on movies or other franchises and shitty ass sports games.

>>16
Shovelware should not be associated with a console's library, crap like that exists in all forms of media, not just games. I'm talking about what people consider to be the top games, which are generic. Back then you had blue hedgehogs, italian plumbers, bears and birds, foxes flying space ships, and so on. Now the popular games all look the same, 90% of them involve some guy with a gun. so there is definitely a difference.

And of course it's always been about money, I never said it wasn't. I said back then they tried harder to get more money by making something good, since it will sell better. Now it's all about whatever the next big shooting game is, and how they can cheat you out of your money by making you pay to unlock content on the disc you already bought.

Honestly, this is like this with almost everything.