I personally would love to see games that challenge me spiritually, philosophically and intellectually, rather than just banal shoot em ups. Not to say that shoot em ups are always bad (certainly some games that revolve around gun violence do delve into deeper themes such as the Metal Gear series)
I would like to see more games that push the boundaries of artistic expression and become living canvases that we can explore the details of.
I would like to see more games that deal with real human ideals and interactions, perhaps in coping with another characters disease in a realistic way in which you become emotionally connected to them.
I would like to see more games that educate about science and math, and allow you to play around with constructs in order to achieve new ways of problem solving, rather than timed escapes and keycard obtaining mazes.
The video game medium is exciting because of the ability to use your brain to manipulate images and items and to be able to even include other humans in these activities, certainly some of miyamato's games do help evolve the medium, I particularly like where he was going with the Pikmen series. There are lots of directions video games can take, and to me one of the biggest disappointments is that many recent american made games have gone in the direction of many recent american made movies. Rather than offering us worthwhile characters, things that really test consequenses etc, many of them have relied on flashy animated explosions, rapid, vapid pacing, and conclusions that wrap up way too neatly and unrealistically.
It is really disappointing to me the negative impact video games are currently having on movies but perhaps that is better discussed in another thread.
Young people all over have been turning into adolescent thugs and there have been real life violence due to the blood happy video game world and that is another thing perhaps better suited to another thread.
Ultimately as our culture progresses towards technology and away from knowledge and reason there has been over emphasis on the darker sides of human existance, and while it is ridiculous to deny these expressions altogether, as violence is indeed inherent in human beings, there are much more interesting and beautiful pursuits.
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