Angry Cynical Rant About Today's Boring Games!!!

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

Finally, a chance to say in public how PISSED OFF I am at the current gaming market for producing so many (IMO) boring games!!

Seriously, I get angry when I read EGM and find that ALL they make anymore are stealth games and mafia games. THAT'S IT! THAT'S ALL THAT GETS MADE ANYMORE!!!! It drives me nuts.

It's not that I don't respect the originals, Metal Gear Solid and Grand Theft Auto are, in their own right great series. It's this endless legion of their clones that has completely ruined this whole generation of games. (except the Dreamcast, which (IMHO) was and is still the system with the best games ever. I miss the DC days )

Let's face it, Game Marketing is doing great, but gaming itself is dying!

I just get tired of EVERY game that comes out being either a MGS clone or a GTA clone. I liked it SO much better when it was all Street Fighter, and Mario clones, because I found them fun and interesting. I think the direction games REALLY need to go is backward! When I shop for old NES/SNES/Genesis games, I see so many wonderful options, but when I leaf through EGM, I see maybe ONE game I might want to play (2 out of three times it's for another console and I only own GC, cause I'm not rich enough to own all 3)

Anyway, I'm being a tad harsh, there are a handful of great games on the current systems(Devil May Cry, Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Oddworld, Final Fantasy,etc.), but one needs to have all three systems to have a decent amount of them, and I'm not a Rockefeller, those things are ungodly expensive. (I'll save the "why is every interesting game a console-exclusive" rant for another thread)

Anyway, thanks everybody for letting me vent. I've been keeping all that bottled up for a couple years now. And, if you disagree, go ahead. You're entitled too. Enjoy your games.

Now here's the good news. I'm gonna start making my own games. There is an easy PC game development kit called Game Maker, click here for the site. It's free!
It's PC only, but if you have a joypad you can make console-style games. I have a few in development that suit my own old-fashioned tastes. But, you "innovation fans" can try your on hands at it.
That way, if you can't buy a fun game, at least you can make one. You can even use the net to publish it, and give people something fun to play as console games sink into dullness.