I still haven't figured out what game I want to play next, but I need to get this off my chest:

I'm sick and tired of these jerk-off graphics whores.  Some gamers (which many call casuals) only play a game because it looks pretty and HAVE to look adult.   You can't be caught dead playing something that's cartoony, regardless of the system.  You people are missing out on some great games!  Who cares how it looks.  Is it fun?  Then that is all that matters!  I'd rather play Legend of Zelda from 1987 than play Final Fantasy X.  Why?  because Zelda is fun!  FFX is a linear movie that got really slow really fast.  It's the only game that I have started and have yet to finish it.  I read reviews about people bashing a game because "it looks like something from the 1990's".  Maybe we need stuff that looks like games from the 90's.  I miss those games.  We jumped into the 3D world and I feel like we lost site of how great the side-scroller is.  All of a sudden we get these kids that like the eye candy and make us real gamers be subjected to your garbage.  It's even worse when the people who work for places like this and IGN are in agreement with these graphics whores!  You aught to be ashamed of yourselves!

I'm also sick of those exact same twerps because they are also gamers who only play games rated M (they're usually 12), and have caused the industry to release tons of CRAP like 50 Cent Bullet-Proof.  Why would I want to play a video game about being on the streets and beating people up or what not?  Why would I want to play a game like GTA where I steal cars, beat up cops and score with chics?  I can respect that but it seems boring to me to want to do something that's illegal to do in real life.  You could say the same thing about fighting zombies and shooting them up in Devil May Cry.  Here is the difference:  You cannot shoot up zombies in real life.  It's fantasy folks and that's all video games should be.  This is why stupid kids do dumb stuff and blame video games.  It ends up making the rest of us look really bad. 

I guess I'm just sick and tired of all the idiotic reviews of kids (and I know they are mostly kids) who give things bad reviews because they are not GTA.  RPG's get crappier reviews, Nintendo games get crappier reviews (save Zelda and Metroid), anything that's not all "masculine" gets a bad rep in people's minds.  Ugh!!!

I feel like I'm the only person that plays games for the sake of exploring fantasy worlds and do things I could never do in real life, like roll up the sun or turn into a Racoon from taking a magic leaf.  I want to expand my imagination and creativity.  I just want to play good games and I don't care about graphics!!!!

BTW, not to burst people's bubbles, but the 360 games don't look that much better than current gen games, so there!