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Life After the Video Game Crash
codecasting writes "There's an interesting, very satirical story over at David Wong's Pointless Waste of Time where he makes a good case for the upcoming death of the video game industry. His key points include gaming platforms largely reaching a technological plateau, the aging of the 'Original Gamers' audience, and the slew of games that are just copies of the same game from last year, but with a new title and different cars/guns/bikinis/etc. An interesting and humorous read."
Is there anything that ISN'T dying these days???
Seriously, the media exaggerates EVERYthing because it makes for more entertaining reading.
Even if I am forced to play nothing but pong, I still will!
As soon as that puppy gets released cash out all video game stocks, because you know the end is nigh.
aw man - first C is declared dead and now video games are dead. If the next slashdot story is that pr0n is dead, I've lost my three favorite hobbies.
Okay, driving skills proficiency check! Roll 1d20 and... Whatever, character is female and female characters and driving proficiencies are mutually exclusive. The light post ( +1, +5 versus Lexus ) rolls a natural 20 and has a critical hit on the engine! Barbie's car ( Level 3, Chaotic Neutral Lexus SUV, 25 HP ) is dead...
Hate me!
were any of you guys chosen too?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
From the article:
Samus is a girl, dumbass.
Anonymous Luddite: "What do you think of the dehumanizing effects of the Internet?"
Andy Grove: "Not Much."
Ah, Prisoner's Dilemna strikes again. Damn you, Nash!
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
We've reached a plateau in pornographic image reproduction. There was a boom while we went from crappy low-res postage stamp sized pictures to full-screen high quality movies. But now, it's all the same. Always a naked woman and/or man, in a small variety of positions. There is no innovation! As this pioneering 30-something porn-viewing generation gets older, the porn industry will surely die.
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
The hell with that... Roll a 1d6 to see Barbie get on with Kelli and Skipper! That's creativity!!!
It's not that I don't get it. I don't want it. I think this comment alone is reason enough for me to finally leave slashdot. I'm not the nerd I thought I was.
but MMORPG and FPS are both of the Displaying information on a surface genre. So they are not original in anyway. The last truly original thing was when someone first painted on the wall of the cave.
"If all the games go massive multiplayer, won't those themes also be come standard and people will complain about seeing the new games all before, just with different places, guns, bikinis?"
Yep, we are going to have to to do something drastic to add novelty to games. Girls, I am afraid your going to have to lose the bikinis. Desperate geeks of the world unite!
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
A. Coward: I think this comment alone is reason enough for me to finally leave slashdot.
A. Coward: We'll miss you, Anonymous Coward! Good luck wherever you go!
Hey, am I talking to myself here, or what?
Eh, Beowulf is just a stale Gilgamesh retread.
I am an original gamer, raisen on the NES, I am 24 now
AAAARRGGHHH...
I must be pre-original... my console was a PDP/8 playing TREK in 1976....
and no silly comments about how you haven't really played tetris unless you played the original version on an abacus..
See? Even imdb has forgotten it!
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.