I'd like to begin with a quote I've found online in reference to surveys taken on gamers and gaming.
"In 2008, the average American gamer has been playing for 12 years, and is now, on average, 35 years of age."
If you fit into this group, as i do, i want to ask you a question.
Are you bored?
I, for one, am. The video game market is mirroring the movie market, which ironically enough... is mimicking the video game market. What i mean by that is that this is an era of remakes and sequels. Our Protagonists today are almost always one of two things. Suave, or ripped. They are either Phoenix from Gears of war, or Drake from Uncharted, apologies if i get the names wrong, I've played very little of either.
But i know you get my gist, because its been said before. Big men, big appeal, big armor, big guns, big swords. And that's ok, on a certain level. Most women in games are shaped like coke bottles, ones pinched in the middle, so of course the men of games might as well be build like stone idols.
But i for one am bored. I am 20, not 35 like my quote states, and have been gaming since i got an old used NES. I loved, starfox for the N64, and where the hell has a game like that gone? I loved Jet Force Gemini, when you could play as a dog who would later be settled in a jet boosting tank frame. Where is he?
There are no foxes and dogs. There are no flawed Protagonists. Not on the multi million billion dollar front at least.
So i propose these questions to you, the readers, the gamers.
Are you bored?
And if you are, what games on the horizon do you pray will break the monotony?
My answer is red dead redemption.
Months ago i posted my thoughts on why the gaming industry needed this western to be one of the more kickass things to be created in years, and today i stand by that point. You can find the original post here.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.114525-Do-we-NEED-Red-Dead-Redemption
And i think most view points expressed therein are still legit, especially those spoken by Russ Pitts.
So what do you pray for? what do we need? speak it up, because i think it's important.
"In 2008, the average American gamer has been playing for 12 years, and is now, on average, 35 years of age."
If you fit into this group, as i do, i want to ask you a question.
Are you bored?
I, for one, am. The video game market is mirroring the movie market, which ironically enough... is mimicking the video game market. What i mean by that is that this is an era of remakes and sequels. Our Protagonists today are almost always one of two things. Suave, or ripped. They are either Phoenix from Gears of war, or Drake from Uncharted, apologies if i get the names wrong, I've played very little of either.
But i know you get my gist, because its been said before. Big men, big appeal, big armor, big guns, big swords. And that's ok, on a certain level. Most women in games are shaped like coke bottles, ones pinched in the middle, so of course the men of games might as well be build like stone idols.
But i for one am bored. I am 20, not 35 like my quote states, and have been gaming since i got an old used NES. I loved, starfox for the N64, and where the hell has a game like that gone? I loved Jet Force Gemini, when you could play as a dog who would later be settled in a jet boosting tank frame. Where is he?
There are no foxes and dogs. There are no flawed Protagonists. Not on the multi million billion dollar front at least.
So i propose these questions to you, the readers, the gamers.
Are you bored?
And if you are, what games on the horizon do you pray will break the monotony?
My answer is red dead redemption.
Months ago i posted my thoughts on why the gaming industry needed this western to be one of the more kickass things to be created in years, and today i stand by that point. You can find the original post here.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.114525-Do-we-NEED-Red-Dead-Redemption
And i think most view points expressed therein are still legit, especially those spoken by Russ Pitts.
So what do you pray for? what do we need? speak it up, because i think it's important.