[Rant] What's Wrong with Video Games These Days?

I think what's crippling a lot of games nowadays is not so much the overflow of mediocre games but the constant re-release of older titles on newer systems just to have them on a new system. What's worse is that even I'M guilty of this. Why do I need two copies of Ikaruga, damnit? I already have it on the Dreamcast!

See, we get all these ports for old games to newer game systems and it's becoming a pain in the ass to sift through old stuff that, quite frankly, I already have on other systems. It's not that I think that distribution platforms like Steam, Live Arcade or Wii Virtual Console are a nuisance. In fact, it's quite the opposite. We just have such a downpour of such old games that have seen releases and re-releases over the past few years that it's hard to see the incentive for bedroom coders to develop truly great games when people are just going to spend their money on yet another version of Frogger, Pac-Man and Sonic 2; you know, in case you missed those on the GameBoy, PSOne, PSP or their original platforms and shit. Sure, we get absolutely amazing and mindblowing titles like Braid once in a while, but those are few and far between.

That and an endless stream of WWII FPS games. Seriously guys, we know it was "The Necessary War™" but how many different ways can Easy Company take center stage in a game?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Tails

You can never own enough copies of Ikaruga.

I can if it's a game that I will NEVER BE ABLE TO BEAT.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Shin

It is roleplaying though, provided the role you want to play is that of a brain damaged guy with a big sword who doesn't speak much and wants to save the world by visiting each town on the planet one at a time in a set order.

Plus his homie kills the flower girl. Man, fuck those idiot savants.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.