What would make you lose your faith in gaming?
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Video-games are software. Software is a tool. I can't lose faith in a tool or a section of media. I can lose faith in the current culture or players in the media, but not the medium itself. The medium and the message ARE different things. I might not like most programs I see on the TV, but that doesn't mean I throw out my TV. I don't like most games, that doesn't mean I throw out my consoles or handhelds or gaming PC.
If something DID make me stop playing games, it would be repetition and boredom. I'm growing sick of FPS games and most RPGs. I have to admit that I'm not playing games nearly as much as I used to either. I simply do not have enough time anymore. If I see another Modern-warfare themed shooter (COD: Black Ops, BF3, etc), odds are I'm not going to buy them. There's only so many ways you can ice a digital dude with a digital gun firing a digital bullet into his digital face, before you just grow bored. Okay, so sometimes you shoot a digital AK-47 and at other times you use a digital M16. It's still just click, boom, fake blood cloud, dead.
I only buy games for the story or if they have an interesting mechanic or setting or gameplay, or if I can't predict how the whole thing will go down before I start playing. So no more COD games, no more Pokemon games and certainly no more racing games.
If something DID make me stop playing games, it would be repetition and boredom. I'm growing sick of FPS games and most RPGs. I have to admit that I'm not playing games nearly as much as I used to either. I simply do not have enough time anymore. If I see another Modern-warfare themed shooter (COD: Black Ops, BF3, etc), odds are I'm not going to buy them. There's only so many ways you can ice a digital dude with a digital gun firing a digital bullet into his digital face, before you just grow bored. Okay, so sometimes you shoot a digital AK-47 and at other times you use a digital M16. It's still just click, boom, fake blood cloud, dead.
I only buy games for the story or if they have an interesting mechanic or setting or gameplay, or if I can't predict how the whole thing will go down before I start playing. So no more COD games, no more Pokemon games and certainly no more racing games.
The day there are no more indie developers is the day the industry is dead to me (I tend to like creativity).
When games become almost completely reliant on motion controls and online play. That is when I will scream, rip my hair out and run for the hills.
Nickel and Dime schemes. Having to pay for games that you've already paid $60 for to "unlock" a certain part of a game is intolerable for me.
BioWare, Blizzard, AND Valve all release bad games in one quarter. Then I would not only lose faith in gaming but life too
