Old School Games Are Better

I thought I would play video games until the day that I died. Lately I'm not so sure about that anymore. All the good strategy and role play games have long been boring for me. I don't even have much of a desire to PvP. These days in MMO's the PvP isn't even fun anyway. For the most part the "battleground" style of combat just two anonymous armies human waving each other until one side wins. The Arena match up systems are better but the simple fact is winning is usually about lack of class balance or superior gear. Sure there is something to be said for spending a lot of time to acquire gear, but when this becomes the end all outcome of the video game I decide to opt out. I feel a little bit bad for the younger generation, they don't realize that MMOs in general are nowhere near as fun as they used to be. I am going to theorize on the reasons I think MMO gaming will either die off or change drastically to save itself.

The gear grind isn't worth it. It sucks that the video game industry is so unpredictable. New game developers don't want to take risks, it's pretty much an all or nothing situation. So they play it safe and maybe their games limp along for a few years. Maybe they even go on forever, but what's the point if the majority have long since moved on. When I think of MMO's of the future I think of what Meridian 59 was back in the day. I'm thinking of an MMO with real social and community mechanics that matter. I want to play a game that is like Facebook, Meridian 59, and WOW all built into one. I think the market is dying for something revolutionary like that. A persistent world that isn't just fluff and filler mechanics. The fluff works though, the kids are eating free MMOs up. Eventually they will be like me, 28 years old and wondering why MMOs haven't really changed in 10 years. Developers and publishers are clearly going to beat this formula into the ground, and possibly bring the whole gaming industry down with them.

I just want to see the gaming industry take another leap forward. Instead games will continue to play like the same games from 10 years ago. Consumerism is what this country is all about.

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