when people do see it, they'll think to themselves, "why didn't anyone come up with such a brilliant idea?"

Mawy_Golomb

Err that probably wasn't the best quote but anyways...

From what I've read of you, I don't think you've experienced a vast variety of games yet. I say this because you play games like COD4 more than 2 times. Now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that but I spend roughly 70% of my days playing games and I still have an endless list of games to play not to mention a lack of time to revisit games that had some kind of replay value. It's been almost 5 years now and the list of games I plan to play grows faster than the list of games that I've played. So my point is that I still get surprised at how innovative some games are and I'm sure I've played at least 5 times more titles than you. (I don't know the exact number but I'd estimate that I've played 300 different games and beat 250 of them) Your very lack of knowledge in the field of co-op gaming already closed off a giant portion of excellent gaming experience.

Err... sorry I probably shouldn't have started cause now I'm too lazy to finish formulating my opinion lol.

Anyways, one very valuable thing in gaming is the ability to compare with other people who are playing the same game either co-opertively, competetively(directly through skills or through collection of items), or just conversationally. To experience what I'm trying to say here, play a Nippon-Ichi game on the playstation 2, Disgaea 2 is a good one. These games have a lot of depth and you can grind and collect items for thousands of hours (for instance a level cap of 9999). When I first come to the realization on how much time I can spend in this game, I got extremely excited. However, Once I finished the story and all the bonus stages, I no longer feel the motivation to keep training my characters. This goes back to the challenge vs reward mentioned earlier by someone else.

Yeah my opinions are quite inconclusive but I currently do no feel to formally formulating a well written response. I may return to finish what I've started here on some later occasion but who knows where life takes me lol.