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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.
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!
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]
"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