Games Industry Things We Should Leave Behind in '07

MTV's Multiplayer blog has a list of nine videogame concepts we should be 'leaving behind', left to rot in the now-passed year of 2007. From the countdown clocks to Halo 3, their snarky list leaves no stone unturned: "The Phrase 'Next-Gen' - Ladies and gentlemen, 'next-gen' is now. Everyone from PR firms to development studios are still using this phrase. Please, I beg of you, stop using "next-gen" until the PS4, Xbox 4000, and the Nintendo Super Wii are slated for release. Those consoles will officially be 'next-gen.' The PS3, Wii, and 360 are the current generation of games. Now is the time to accept it."

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Next-Gen

[ticklejw]

But if we stop using Next-Gen now, we won't have the opportunity to call things Post-Next-Gen in a few years :-(

Re:Can we leave "Top # $THINGS" lists?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would also include women being allowed to vote, drive and hold jobs in fields other than food service, secretary, nurse, schoolteacher, and flight attendant.

Re:Misogyny

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean girls don't actually look like they do in video games or anime!? Pics please. I don't believe you.

Number Ten

[Anonymous Coward]

Jack Thompson

Re:Things I would love to see gone...

[Anonymous Coward]

Same experience, but you don't make real gamers sit through cutscenes... When I buy a game, I intend to buy a fucking GAME... Totally, I feel the same way about nouns in books. Who needs 'em? I bought the book for the fucking VERBS. I wish they would stop making real readers sit through all this noun, pronoun, preposition, conjunction bullshit.

Re:WEP is pointless

[Vermifax]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:Can we leave "Top # $THINGS" lists?

[PFI_Optix]

You forgot "stripper" and "prostitute". It'd be a sad, sad world when only men did those jobs.

Re:It's pronounced:

[Dogtanian]

You'd have the occasional eye-rolling when someone said their shibboleth differently (for instance, I grew up around Super NES kids, and the ess-ness and--god forbid!--ess-en-ee-ess kids were laughed at), but that was how things went. Sness. snez It's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove", and that's an end to it.