Having next to no games coming out this year that i want has it's good and bad.

Good is that I will finally sit down and work on all those old games i still need to play and review, since after more than 100 reviews I feel like somewhat of a critic. Last year I purchased around thirty games that released in 2010, not including those that released before that year. This year only eight games have been added so far. With only four others im even thinking about for the rest of the year as of this writing.

Bad is that, to me, the industry has long passed the point of stagnation. EA and Activision continue to milk their franchises into the ground, yet they sell tens of millions. As Ive said before, this comes from a general lack of good RPG games both J and W. I realize that Dragon Age 2 and Two Worlds 2 have come and gone, but neither of them caught my eye.

I want new things, not endless sequels and ripoffs. Companies are afraid to try new things, but it's this very reason why things are going the way they are. We have dozens of- to quote Yahtzee- "utterly generic brown FPS that any compitent developer could have farted out in a year or so." the last several GameInformers have shown almost nothing but these endless games with guns. And it is only because a subcription comes with the Gamestop Rewards Card that I havent cancelled already.

Anyway, if anyone does pay attention to my blog, these are mostly the same sentiments about the industry ive had for a couple years now. It's getting harder and harder to impress me, relatively few RPG games in a sea of brown FPS games, and a general lack of innovation.

I bought a Kinect last year and had good fun with Kinectimals and Adrenalin Misfits (though both were not critically successful), and just barely bought the third game with a purple box. Microsoft marketed this thing like another console, now where are the games to back it up? Dont get me started on the Move. It's a wii remote with a glowing ball on top. Move Heroes looked like the game to finally make me get the glowing wand, but it's just a minigame collection and an insult to the first party characters starring in it.

The 3DS was impressive to me when i tried a floor model, but where are the games that are not sequels or remakes with 3D tacked on?

So this became a bigger ranty post than I wanted. Back to enjoying the games I need to play!