i posted a nice lengthy comment in someone's blog, then i realized that the post was 2 years old. i was pretty satisfied with what i said so i'm putting it here. It's basically me talking about the death of shooters

of course the genre will always be adored by the hardcore fans and a company will always cater to them. I think that the introduction of save systems in certain shooters will help revive the genre because casual gamers just don't sit down to finish a game in one sitting anymore. especially in the ADD generation, more shooters need this feature.

shooters are hard, no question, people don't want that anymore, which is a shame. the time of high scores is dead, which is a shame, 2D is dead, which is a shame.. however that is the way our industry has moved. maybe we should just throw up our hands and let it happen. like movies, video games are rapidly becoming the marketing giants of hollow intention. shleco mentioned RPG's and it's a good thing that they're still popular today, even among the casual gamers because without them, I'd declare the video game community a rotten world. Even nintendo is stabbing video games in the back with their relentless nostalgia and "innovation" which in my opinion is destroying the video game community. Shigeru Miyamoto forsook the image of a child sitting in front of a television in a dark room playing games. To me that is video games. We are in for a big shift in video games, and those in charge are ready to alienate and starve those who have always been faithful.

Even the handheld market is turning to crap. The psp is an abomination. Sony is telling their consumer base that they want to play lame ports of their console games, fighting the impossible fight of approximating the console experience. There is no "on-the-go" console gamer, that is a myth. Handheld games have existed to provide a different type of gameplay experience, which we're seeing happen on the DS. However nintendo's current cash cow is also ready to help explode the genre, by force feeding us more innovation and assimilating the kind of hopeless console emulation at times

Tthere was a time that everyone played video games, like pre nintendo arcade era. then video games went to sleep for a while, and shooters thrived with the hardcore. now that home consoles have grown to the point where everyone is playing again, it's harder for companies to notice the niche markets. maybe the only way to truly revive the genre is to kill the market again. if that's true, look forward to hunting down a copy of radiant silvergun and a saturn and accepting that we will never see another great shooter

 edit: i wanted to stick in a comma and change the color

playing iridion II for gba, i like it alot, i started this morning  and i've gotten to the epsilon galaxy (last galaxy, i think)

it isn't too hard, but i die alot, maybe i suck at shooters (most likely) but they are my fav. genre  and one day i will be good at them

please donate to me a dreamcast w/ giga wing 2, mars matrix, and ikaruga, as well as any other capcom/treasure shooters that might exist

also i want raiden project for psx

EDIT: oh and a saturn w/ radiant silvergun, and megaman 8, also megaman 8 for psx and all the megaman X for psx

EDIT (again): oh and i WILL NOT play pkmn myster dungeon for ds or gba (well maybe gba eventually)

they pushed back the release date for contact and nobody told me! don't GS updates include information of this nature?

now i'm forced to play pokemon mystery dungeon and catch up on my back catalog of mmz games.

in other news i found a copy of rollcage stage II at my local gamestop. i was ecstatic, for 3USD i got one of the best psx games that you can play in a CD player. the MSX soundtrack is classic stuff, i'm pretty lucky to come across such a great find

oh well, maybe i'll get shadow of the collosus

well i finished mario and luigi partners in time, absolutely fantastic game. one of my recent favorites, it got just about everything an adventure game should have right. I would give it a five out of five but gamespot has a retarded 100 point scale so i cant (yes 100 points because it has decimals, no 5/5 does not equal 10/10)

lego star wars II on the other hand did not fair so well. The first episode you play through will be pretty entertaining, but after that it loses it's novelty, which is bad news because what's under that is some pretty fluff, not much substance. the character creation mode is fun however and is at least motivating me to finish so i can buy most of the characters and then re-use their pieces

anyways playing  megaman ZX right now and i think it's a good concept. I love metroid, and i love megaman, so adding them together is a good idea to me

Up next: contact

i need to hurry my black a$$ and finish one of these games, MORE LIKE BOTH

up next: megaman ZX and contact

playing the PC lego star wars II

cute,... and funny. but alot of the gameplay can be frustrating. like losing 20,000 whatevers because you have no clue whats going on w/ 40 stormtroopers and at-st's all over the place

also playing the second mario & luigi game, the one with the babies, also CUTE i don't know what's wrong w/ me. but when luigi says "Baabiiieess" i lose all self-control and end up repeating it for a few days. if you've played it, you know what the F^C# i'm talking about

it's been a long week and with bleak prospects for the next i'm forced to play imports as new US release won't start to hit around the 12th.

i should get back to playing kingdom hearts II but sitting in front of a TV to play a game in our dump of a living room dosen't sound like much fun, plus the TV is too small and i'm clausterphobic, along with having many other irrational fears, so the clutter in there deters me from entering.

Anyways I've been playing the Rose Colored Rupee Land import (Mogitate something or other) and don't bother pestering Ninty for this one in the states, it's OKAY but not fantastic. The wario-esque stuff is somewhat entertaining, but playing it in *** only heightens that surrealness so if you want a good laugh import that, or import rhythm tengoku (from the warioware people) for the same humor

You know who's hot right now? Capcom, Holy F*. So is Atlus. I didn't know Capcom was behind Okami, I'm glad there's gonna be a last hurrah for sixth gen consoles (super paper mario, okami, etc.) And man, Atlus is busy too, Rule of Rose looks BRILLIANT. I think it's funny that Second Opinion is a remake of a game that's like only 2 years old, THAT THEY MADE

i'm getting tired of handheld games. I do not feel like playing Windwaker again. I can't really get a 360 (even tho i want one bad) and a ps3 is like out of the question, and I have my doubts about the kindof game experience the Wii will provide. So anyways I'm thinking about getting into PC games. But I'm not used to fps or strategy really. maybe i'll settle down with one of the good mmorpg's. i do want to play f.e.a.r. and halflife2. who knows, maybe the new mystery dungeon will cheer me up, or maybe ff3, or even contact or megaman

you may look at my avatar and say "hey that kid likes starfox". Correct, I like Starfox games. Starfox is a f@g jerk tho. Anyways I've played to all but three SFC endings so far and here's waht i have to say:

The turn-based strategy is really fun, but the monotonous combat is a dissapointment.

The games depth is fantastic, but I wish it had been a return to it's rail shooter roots.

Sometimes the game is somewhat difficult, the rest of the time it is stupid easy.

Anyways I think crystal is better off w/ panther even though that guy talks like a jerk-off