What has become of gaming (check out this video)

SO true... Plus we get to buy good games for the current generation for dirt cheap.
I still say it's coming soon.

 

We have two ads for that Mercenairies game here in Canada. The one you described and another even stupder one where this woman goes "the only thing I have to think about is which building to blow up first....heck, I'll blow them both up" I nearly pissed myself watching it.

 

These games are the reason "the crash" won't happen - they're popular. Like tens of millions of dollars popular.

 

When i watched this, i really thought why do i love video game. is it to be associated with this?

i'm just waiting for the crash, really. it would so much good.

...still remember the better times when i was playing super mario bros and waited for my copy of the legend of zelda below the Christmas tree.

 

One of the funniest things i ever saw was fiddy being bottled off at the Reading Festival last year....

 

Any videos of that?

 

I dont have any, but theres probably a few floating around the web. After about 20 mins of bottles of piss, Plastic Glasses from the arena bars, and even a few chairs being thrown at him he left - heres what NME say about it -
http://www.nme.com/news/109703.htm

 

Because you know you have a choice not to play this shite unlike all the little wana be chav wiggers out there.

Yakumo

 

Heh, my sister was there, she said it was funny as fuck.

 

I would wet myself with utter glee were Giftpia to get an English translation. Apparently, Nintendo was considering it, and there are rumors we may hear something at this year's E3, but until then, we just have to hope for the best.

And the sad but true fact is that games today are market to our intellectually vacant, mongoloid pop-culture clones. Violence, illegal activities, big guns, explosions, and rappers are the things that are going to sell, because that's the culture of cool we have spent the last 10 or so years perfecting. It sortof makes you not want to ever have kids, knowing what an uphill battle it will be to get them to NOT turn out like this.

 

Once again, GSL, your mouth is absolutely full of reason and wisdom.
You have described my thoughts exactly, man.

Wouldn't all these "cloned" games with ultra similar non-risktaking commerciality eventually flood the market, and stuff?
That WOULD bring the crash, especially since the ROI of the 10 million dollar investments would dwindle along with the Y generation's attention span.

 

There'll always be the next 50 cent to base a sub-par game on. The reason the initial crash occurred was that there were far, far too many games on the market for stagnant hardware. The hardware now isn't stagnant and at the cost games take to produce today I doubt there'll be a massive influx suddenly. The economics of the situation is completely different, and includes long-established international companies who are used to controlling massive markets (unlike Atari in their explosion years). If their analysis told them that the market was reaching saturation point, they'd just refuse to license any more games.

Amen to that.