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Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry
oskard writes "John C. Dvorak recently posted a PCMag.com rant trashing the gaming industry, predicting a complete market-meltdown in the near future. Titled 'Doom 4: End of the Game Industry?', it was interesting to see how the 3D Realms Forums reacted to the article. He claims that 'games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter.' His kids have obviously showed him too much Halo 2, and not enough Half-Life 2." From the article: "The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making game players buy newer and newer machines. Computer gaming has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?"
If I had a dollar for every dire prediction this blow hard made, I'd be a millionaire.
Warning flamable material below. Its about time you console gamers pulled your slow, inaccturate, and ineffective gamepads out of your ritch-daddies butt and face the fact that its very rear that ANYTHING innovative hit'x the console market these days. Every single feature you have named has been in existance the respective mod came out in Quake1 (~1996). This post almost made me laugh as hard as when my console loving buddies thought playing there beloved FPS (halo 1) with >4 players was a sign of the second coming. They'd lay eggs if they could see todays MMOGs, that is if there heads wernt lodged up there backsides.
If you're going to RAISE your voice like that you should at least check your SPELLING.