I've been playing video games for some 33-34 years now (yes, I'm an old-schooler). However, these days I find my gaming time spent more playing adventure or strategy board-games (First edition Descent: Journeys in the Dark (I own all the expansions, and it's out-of-print, now), Arkham Horror, Munchkin Quest, Eclipse, Rex, etc.) and pen-and-paper RPGs with friends. More fun, less bullshit. However, to be fair, many of the negative aspects of the gaming industry that Jim stands at his podium to sermonize over seem to be isolated to the AAA market-space of video games. Once you exit from that realm, things are much, much brighter. Pretty much, the Triple-A segment needs either a serious enema, or it needs to be out to pasture and shot for it's own sake to put it out of our misery.
ADDENDUM: Indirectly, what I'm saying is the same thing I always say (and will continue to say until people finally get it): just stop buying it. Companies only ever hear and understand two sounds, the creak of your wallet opening and the slap of your wallet closing. All other sounds are considered noise to be ignored. As long as the gaming community continues to reward the bad practices of publishers and developers with a showering of money as soon as they announce the next shiny-graphics calculator engine disguised as a game, they will continue with those bad practices and push the edge of how much they can get away with. Vote with your dollars and just stop buying it. If the industry must collapse to flush out the crap, then so be it, but, at some point, a line must be drawn.