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Regarding those "original" video games.
Backspace529 | 10:06 PM on 01.16.2008 1 comments


You don't mean what you say!

Yes, I'm talking to you.

You people and your idea of "original" gaming.

Remember the last time that happened? We got this vomited up piece of donkey shit...

Space Giraffe



Or even worse... THIS!



Now, now. Don't get me wrong. Original games should always be something we seek.
But don't become cynical about the games we have that may not be original, but are well thought-out, and immensely fun.

Bioshock comes to mind. Add one part Atlas Shrugged, and one part SystemShock, thats what you get, Bioshock. Not original, but a truly brilliant piece of art.

Original games are an eventuality. They will happen. Weather you ask for them, or not.

I'm saying this because I feel bad for all those hard working, intelligent, creative game designers that are constantly hearing from us, that their games are not good enough. Are not, how you say, "original" enough.

It's VERY difficult to be original! Very very. I bet you can't think of anything, a single fucking thing, that someone hasn't already designed, packaged and sold a hundred times over.

So don't pretend that there are tons and tons of new ideas everywhere you look. These game designers we know, and love so very much. Have to work hard, for months and years to come up with new ideas. Don't pretend they are just being lazy, while you sit at home and wonder, "why are there not there tons of original games coming out all the time?".

Mario is rehashed all the time, because its fucking fun! Madden keeps selling 80 billion copies a year, because 80 billion morons like football, and remakes keep being remade because we ask for them, and we sure as hell buy them!

Yeah! Thats right! We buy them! We buy them over and over, and then complain about why they keep making them. FTW!

So shut the fuck up, and enjoy what they give you. They work hard for those games, harder than you've ever worked for anything.

So please, don't act like spoiled children, and bite the hand that feeds you. Those lowly game designers need our praise, and our love. For without them we would have nothing.

"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
-Voltaire







P.S.
Which reminds me... Square Enix... please stop the teasing and remake FF7. For the love of god! I will buy a PS3 for it. If you want a logical reason to make it, here it is... money. Tons and tons of money. You will double your profits! Ill buy 4 copies. As far as I'm concerned, I'll never buy a shitty post FF7 Square Enix game anyways. So you will be reaching out to people who don't play your other shitty, melodramatic games thats are full of gender confused, whiny, shemales. Well... just think about it.



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I too am sick of everyone complaining about current games. Not 1 game has come out in the past year that people haven't complained about. Except for Portal, apparently Portal is perfect in every way.

Anywho, I've bought most new games for PC, Kane and Lynch, Blacksite Area 51, Stranglehold, World in Conflict etc etc and they are fucking sweet games. No they are no perfect and they do have some stupid flaws, but for fucks sake nothing is perfect. People need to get down off their 30 foot horse and realize that not being 100% perfect is OK.


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