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This is a rant about games and being that it is a rant in nature there will be things that people don't agree with. Be that as it might and it may you will not sway my opinion and calling me names only confirms all my rants issues (and your iq points). You may discuss the rant or put in an honest, well thought out, opinion and I may reply. Trolls and the like will be ignored.

I will try to make my rant as sensible and put it in points that you may read at your leisure. Once again understand that this is a rant and what may offend you is not intended as an attack and will not attack specific people but items. This is not about any one video game or council so I won't be naming any here. Don't like, don't read.

Now on to the actual rant:

My question is, why are video games going to hell? Anyone with answers, feel free to reply. I will now point out why I think video games are going to hell.

1. Everyone cares about graphics.
I agree in the fact that awesome graphics are pretty to look at but that's about it. I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't turn my brain off and just look at all the shiny things in the background and totally ignore blazingly bad voice acting, dialog, plot, flat characters and the list goes on. If you can't make a good video game because all you have is filler, no substance then don't make video games. There are enough out in the market that we certainly don't need your little piece of stuff out there too.

2. Controls
Now I think the new counsels' control are certainly...unique but that doesn't mean they've upgraded. Some of them have, as it's not fair to put all games on the same level, but in the course of trying to be 'next gen' something vital was lost. Fun.

If a video games controls are so absolutely difficult to use that you'll spend hours screaming at the screen as your characters die then that's not fun, it stressful. Aren't games suppose to be a stress free thing or something you do to unwind? While some games in the past were fairly difficult to do and took quite some skill, there were also a lot that were far easier and could be made easy for people who, you know, don't have every waking hour to get good at it. Now these games are none to non existent. This is very frustrating.

3. Plot
Or there for lack of. Where did our meaningful and thought provoking plots and dialog go? Why were they replaced with emo kids who are all crying about their tragic past? Why does everyone, including the dog, have a tragic past? If you're a game character are you doomed to have a life of everybody you love dying? That's...kinda pathetic. Let's not even get started on bad voice acting. Everyone seems to think a good story is a bunch of kids with tragic pasts trying to save the world. No, no it's not and it hurts to see such a previously glorious medium boggled down with emo want-a-be's making emo characters who somehow save the world through their tragic tears. No, stop and stop making video games if this is all you're capable of.
4. Games are not an art form!
Okay, at least half of you will disagree with that statement and that's fine, I don't care. Here's my argument on this; games are now getting more ridiculous in their character designs, art forms, backgrounds and general ...form. I like that there are more then just saving the princess games, I really do but please, leave the Picasso-esk art and that general insanity to modern artist who can't draw but somehow manage to convince the 'hip people' that their s**t (literally) on white canvass is art. It's not a good idea in the art world, why the hell would it be a good idea here?

5. P.W.P. (Also see substance)
Also known as plot, what plot? We have blood/big tits/emo characters. This is more of a subsection of plot and graphics but whatever. So now what replaces the dialog, plot, controls, anything that use to make a good video game? Large tits and lots of them. Now we know that in video games, which was once largely dominated by men, there has always been large chested ladies running around. Whatever, I don't care about that but alas I can, once again, not be simply distracted by the large chests that every woman who pops onto the screen has and ignore all the gapping holes I have previously mentioned.

Don't like tits? What are you a girl? Oh, you are, well lets distract you with other things. Sorry, whether its be it tits, hot guys, more blood then the red cross blood donation has, if a game sucks, it sucks and that's all there is to it.

6. Side note and conclusion.
Now I know that not all games suck and lots have been released that that rock out loud (they don't do emo, awesome plots, etc), but there are even more that suck. This includes what use to be big titles. Moral of my rant is, if these once great companies can't make good games or keep focusing on random stupid things that don't matter and ignoring the basics of what makes a game good, then there will not be any good games.

Thank you for allowing me to indulge in my rant and once again if I offended you that was not my intention, I was making a ranty observation.