Gaming seems to be moving into a trend where as consumers the companies are trying to milk us out of as much money as possible; we have day-one DLC, so much extra DLC that to buy it all it would be the cost of the game over again on top of the original purchase, and general price ripping off and jacking up costs for no reason for that extra content.

Another thing Im seeing is the lack of originality of the overall games available. They are all ripping off each other in some form without thought to how us, the players feel about it. And why the hell is almost every GameInformer these days full of nothing but shooter previews. Honestly how many more dang games where you hold a gun, point at something and shoot it do we need?

I dont mind the occasional shooter, but seeing this huge pile of gun-games makes me wonder what his happening to the industry. My overall dissatisfaction with gaming this gen can be stemmed from the fact that THERE ARE NEXT TO NO GOOD RPGS. Of course if things were reversed and we were having mountains of role-playing games come out the people who arent really into them would be sharing these sentiments.

Almost nothing new is coming out either, we continue to be force-fed these yearly sequels, rehashes, re-releases, remakes, ports, ripoffs and what is worse is PEOPLE KEEP BUYING THEM. We cant expect the companies to change and stop releasing half-baked games that took them all of a month to make unless more people start voting with their wallets. Most people dont see a game that you can only get 5-8 hours out of (unless you go for multiplayer) for 60$ a ripoff it seems. And before you flame me keep in mind that if sequels were made every 2-3 years it wouldnt be a bad thing. It's this endless stream of rehashing the same game every year that makes me scratch my head.

And when something relatively new comes out, it does poor commercially compared to the millions of sales anything with 'Call of Duty' in the name will do regardless of how much crap Activision packs into the game box.

Kotick and his army I predict will bring about the video game crash of 201X. 60$ isnt enough for games, 10$ isnt enough for DLC. Three Call of Duty games a year isnt enough. Then all these analysts come along and whine and gasp and wonder why game sales are tanking into the negative double digits. Honestly it doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that more people are being conservative with their money. hopefully more people will get sick of the current state things are going.

Realism seems to be the only thing that matters anymore too. The majority of games of this gen are so concerned with trying to push as many polygons as possible that the quality of gameplay suffers. I dont care about how realistic a game looks. I want art, I want quality gameplay, I want a game you can get more than 8 hours of enjoyment from. If I want realism I will turn my head to look at the bedroom or out the window to see it. When I game I want to be blasted with art and color, with feeling, with emotion from a good story. Not this endless brown most games employ. If I wanted that I would wipe mud over the TV screen.