What Is The Future Of Gaming?

[Seil]

Okay, I totally get that I used to make terrible yet enjoyable drunk posts every once in a while asking people to paint themselves in MSPaint, and that there was silly fun had by all except for Barrel who is determined to be a grumpy Gus. I get that I've gotten less drunk recently and I've since stopped making many enjoyable posts that promote silly fun. This must be rectified at some point, probably soon, where I will ass drunk off my the. However, in my recent days, I've stopped being a mopey, semi-suicidal alcoholioc (Yay!) and become a productive member of society. (Boo.)

But as a Citizen Of This Proud Earth (TM), I've ventured out of my cave and started doing stuff! Like playing the fiddle more, and reading great books, and checking out all the internet things. Okay, so I admit that's all stuff I do in my cave anyway. (Shut up.) But I exercise sometimes!

Anyway, I was watching Yahtz... Yhat... Zero Punctuation with that British twat, and he did a review of Kid Icarus. (Which reminds me, I need to do more HMRWS. Welp, I hope people might read the next one.) Anyway, in the beginning of the review, he remarked on his fascination with his comments fascinating on his relationship with Nintendo. (I spelled 'fascinating' without the spell checker, it must be wrong.)

It got me wondering... what's the future of gaming. (Whoo, topic starts four or five paragraphs in, a new record for me.) I mean, all of my favorite series have come to an end. With the promise of new games to come - Thief 4, ahem - but I remain doubtful. Here's the thing: everyone (game designers) seem to me, at least, to be concentrating on the hardware than the games. I might just be deaf to the new releases - Max Payne and Bioshock Infinite notwithstanding, but it seems like I'm less excited about the new releases line up every year.

What's up with that?

I mean that we're less excited about being fanboys in an inevitable upcoming console war (could just be that we're FUCK YEAH, NPF) but I remember the release of the Gamecube and the XBox. I remember it because it was during the 'Current Events' class that we were doing in middle school and we had to watch/talk about TV news stories. But I remember arguing with my friends and defending my games and console of choice. Whatever happened to the yesteryears? Where are the halcyon days that I sat my fat arse (I'm exercising now, mind you. It's less fat than it was. Ladies...) and played the MGS4 or Silent Hill Hom.... Orig... .... .... The Room?

All I'm saying is that it seems with motion capture in games, with motion controls, and all of the old series either wrapping up or being rebooted (God, I feel old. I'm 23, damn it! I shouldn't have to feel old until the hangover, when I'm stiff in the morning!) where is there left to go?

I'm not saying gaming is dying. I hope it's gonna stick around for another few hundred years, until we meet aliens and play Duke Nukem: Real Life, but it just seems as if we're at an apex now. We're, in the terms of fifth grade English, at the top of the Rising Events stair case and now we're due for a climax.

...Not the dirty kind.