I'm not a fan of national chain pizza, but if I had to chose one of those three... I'd have to say, Papa John's.  Good pricing, always fresh, good butter dipping sauce, sweet crust, not too greesy.

Pizza hut is too spongey and greesy.  Dominoes has a weird twang.

Ah, the mass aggration of marketing icons.

Isn't it great when companies can exploit nostalgia to replace quality, originality, and depth? 

Space Flight Sims, definately.

Avoiding objective and relative comments for the time being.  It's a shame to see that the market is dominated by low expectations and high consumer demand for products marketed explicitly to children and teens. 

I'll open up with full thoughts if we can get this off-topic thread moved to where it belongs (System Wars). 

its true...gaming is a waste of time...u get nothing except u might hurt your eye and waste your life looking at the screens, being away from the social (real) life...Kingmohd84

Maybe I've come to hate humans, but I don't see how 9/10 social occasions are more entertaining and meaningful than games.  Most social events I attend are full of people I hate, loaded with people who are only having fun because they're piss drunk, and cater to the most bland forms of mediocrity and anti-individuality concievable.  Social outings are great, once in a good while.  Games allow me to escape the world of boring service-industry workers I deal with every day and let me think and reflect on things by myself.  Music is just as corrupted by group-think, mass marketing, and worthless overtones as the gaming.  Hell, I like gaming more simply because it's more interactive.  Sitting back and listening to things tends to bore me rather quickly.

I love how people hate on video games for being "time-wasters" when this cirtcism could easily be applied to just about any other form of entertainment or leisure.  Unfortunately, people are still conditioned (and rightfully so, to an extent) to think of games as little more than a child's plaything.  Games will move beyond this sterotype, hopefully, and people will start to think and judge games as a valid form of entertainment.  People who move beyond games, as I almost did, fail to realize that we should not demand simplistic and carefree games -- as if they were the only things games are capable of being.  Instead, we should come to demand and expect games of the highest quality that live up to the incredible technological and intellectual capacity of our current generation.  There is nothing intrinsically childish or simple about the medium of gaming itself -- it only appeared so for a decade because technology could not handle anything beyond the most childish and simple ideas. 

I'm also tired of hearing this whole, "next-gen games are not the fun!  No drama or politics!"  No, sorry friends, I think games are just another form of entertainment, and like any other entertainment medium, we need games that are both highly dramatical, epic, and political in their nature and composition.  Our problem is that gaming has not really produced something of high-quality in this area yet.  I don't want to see games butchered and crippled to their most care-free, childish, and impotent state because the industry is too lazy and regressive to publish and support a meaningful game.

I'm going to abandon videogaming totally, instead I'm going to spend all my free time to play the guitar!

For me videogaming has been a big part of my life, but it's just so unimportant and it doesn't give you anything in return. It doesn't matter how good you are on playing Counter-Strike or what level your character have in WoW.  Videogaming just eats time that you never going to get back!  Reading books, playing music and write has so much more rewards then what videogames gives you in return.

To stop to play videogames is like coming out of the darkness 

This is just my thoughts on that.

FreddoX12

And the guitar and books will eat up the same amount of time and yield the same low returns.  I've tried the whole "embrace music" thing in the past, and it yielded just another form of mediocre entertainment (and, unfortunately, introduced me to a crowd of really special people.  My faction level toward humanity dropped by like 2 con levels, seriously).

I often ask myself this question. Why?

Tell me something, did Sony's dominance in the last two generations made you enjoy less the games you like in the systems you like.

I don't see the point in wanting one company to fail. I'm currently a Sony fan, i enjoy the game library it has to offer me more than what other companies have and that's it. In my right mind i would never want to see Nintendo or Microsoft fail.

More competition = better games for everybody.

Of course i could ask why cows want to see Nintendo and Microsoft fail, but i used Sony because it seems the most hated company nowadays.

Why do fanboys hate the companies they don't support? How about just enjoy the system you like the most and stop hating? Why not being a fan instead of a fanboy?

lusitanogamer

I'll make one point on an assumption that pains me everytime I read it.

"More competition = Better Games"

Wrong.  Terribly Wrong.  Competition between developers and genres of games for your money is what ensures the quality of paticular games.  Multible companies competeing from the perspective of "Exclusive" hardware actually harms, fragements, and hurts consumers in this industry.

I'm not a fan of Sony, but it is not the console that deserves our utmost hate and contempt this generation.  Sony tried to provide a truely next-gen machine, but could not provide it at a fair price.

Next gen is about becoming more mature? What a load of rubbish.

Though he is right about Halo 3 not being anything new.

Nintendo_Man

What rubbish?  Of course it seems rubbish.  Most companies in the industry wish nothing more than to perpetuate this low-tech "family-friendly" hell that they've come to embrace -- video games are not even a valid or meaningful form of entertainment compared to film or television because they are created solely around an artifical level of consumer demand that holds them to a much lower standard. 

I'm not a fan of the Halo franchise, both because of its gameplay and terrible storyline, and can understand the Haze dev's critcisms against the quality of the ideas within Halo.  Qualatatively, the Halo series amounts to little more than a late-night Sci-Fi channel made for TV movie (like most games).

Next-Gen should be all about pushing the frontiers of gaming in the most progressive and broad mean possible.  People need to come to view and embrace video games as something more than a childish plaything constructed upon reptitive, outlandish, and painfully naieve ideas.