A new year...of the same old same old

                       

 Before this Post starts up I have a couple of questions to ask you:

1. Do you have a ps2? (if you don't.........shit i didn't plan that far ahead)

Alright lets stop with the stupid question and answer session. I want you to go play Persona 4 

(or 3....hell if you have 2 I'll buy it off you).   Why play a ps2 game? cause it's one of the best installments of a great series that deserves every RPG gamers attention at least once.

How the hell is the human race supposed to evolve if all we do is play Final fantasy? However one really can't blame Sqaure Enix for making cash-in games like Dissidia when that's all you bastards want. 

Square tried the whole "innovation" thing with the world ends with you, sure the game had it's flaws...but at least I actually cared about the plot and finishing the damn game. That's more than I can say about FF12.

I'm ranting too much here, the heart of this post is quite simple. The video game industry is powered by consumer dollars. The consumer is, because of this in many ways the moderator of the industry. Lord of the rings must sell enough if it warrants EA to have pandemic make a Star Wars battlefront knockoff

I can only think of one game I want this winter (jan-feb) that isn't a sequel. (For those of you caring it's Damnation a third person wild-west steam punk shooter).

This is a call to arms because I played Valkyria Chronicles and really enjoyed it. Then I shed a tear on the inside when no one knew what i was talking about. More and more games are becoming to expenseive to make and experiment with. A developer can't have a game that doesn't sell well if they want to stay a float. I fear the days of the PS2 and the niche games that the system gave birth to have vanished in the face of a Studio System that values quick cash-ins  above most everything, including fun.

 The next time you are in your local game store give some thought to games you wouldn't normally play. Look around and on-line and expand your horizons...........Or you can just go fuck yourself and buy another shitty movie tie-in game or another halo map pack cause MASTER CHEIF IS THE xXxPWNAGExXx!!! and bungie loves releasing rehashed halo 2 maps.     (more power to ya if you really like halo that much...and i spelled master chief like that on purpose)