mass effect can fit adventure and rpg categories for you.

CaseyWegner

WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY? I mean seriously, I have been lacking a good adventure this gen, and don't tell me Twilight Princess, AKA the letdown of the century. RPG has been at least somewhat taken care of, I did like Fallout 3. But when I think RPG, like it or not, I think Final Fantasy, Persona, Chrono Trigger. Call em boring but I miss turn based, lengthy RPGs. I won't miss Blue Dragon though. Plus platformers have been pushed away too. And don't say Super Mario Galaxy, AKA the second biggest letdown of the century. Maybe I'm just caught with my pants down here, not that that expression really fits here at all, but I mean just imagine a game as epic as Shadow of the Colossus or OoT with PS3 graphics, I mean THINK ABOUT IT! Damn I'm pumped already. So can someone please shut me up and direct me to the nearest mindblowing game of epic proportions please? Or will I just have to wait for Team Ico to cook up another masterpiece.

A lot of people think gaming is an inferior art form to movies, but in my opinion gaming has already surpassed movies in so many ways. I love them both, but it recently hit me that there is one sad truth to today's gamers' future. Movies are conserved in a much more reasonable way, easily converted and passed on. Anyone can go out and rent a copy of 2001 or The Shining or Psycho despite them being rather old. Hell, my history class just finished watching a silent film from 1918.

The sad truth I've come to realize is that in the near future, not even 10-15 years from now, if we haven't conserved our own systems and games, our favorite games will be for the most part unavailable.

It's only been ten years or less and I'm looking back to older games like Planescape, Xenogears, Grim Fandango, FF7, and Ico and their are impossible to find in stores and ridiculously priced online. Ten years from now these games will have basically vanished, kept only by those who have managed to preserve them.

But even preservation won't keep most games alive for one lifetime. The games will eventually break or come to some unfortunate end, and there won't be any way to replace it.

I know people are trying to keep certain games alive for the next generation through things like the PS3 and 360's ability to play past generation's games and the Wii's virtual console even reaches back to the SNES and N64 eras, but I fear this will only be useful for so long. Does anyone think that older hits and non-popular games are soon to be endangered?

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I'm in an upstart band and we are in the naming phase. The band is going for a experimental, alt-rock feel with many keyboard, piano, and possibly violin elements with a dark spacey feel to it with many lighter elements in between. We are basically gonna be all over the place, except for in the screamo/metal territory. So which of these names sounds best?

Airport Security
Depot
Krane
Ink Jam
Reckoner
Rewind
REdistribution
Mooch
Lýnk
Entrance Recon
Land/Ocean Recon (either one)
Salival Discourse
Sprite
LCD
Tempest
HD Security
LCDHDTV
Bed of Nails
Rasputin
City of God
Cloud
Frisk
HD Security
Prism
Prism Prison
Backyard Artillery
Sleepcrest

Choose!

All the LCD and HD stuff is lame. Bed of Nails, Backyard Artillery, and Tempest sound metaly, which apparently is not what you want. The first four sound like punk bands. Stay away from those.

Rasputin and Sleepcrest are my favorites. Sleepcrest would be awesome if you were doing a Pink Floyd kind of sound.