What happened?
A few years ago, I was the worlds biggest gamer. I owned a few consoles, played games in ALL my free time, and every cent of my money went to videogames or videogame magazines. I was limited to a $10 week pocket money, but owned about sixteen cartridges and four crates of mags.
I walked into an EB the other day, and found that nothing interested me. I have the cahs now to have walked out with any game I wanted and not even cared. Thing is, if they had been free, I wouldn't have bothered. None of those games seemed worth my time, letalone my money,
I'm currently playing Painkiller, which is kidna fun, an ok shooter. The Tribes Vengence demo is also cool, and I liked the demo of Evil Genius, but I wouldn't buy either of those games. I play my Gamecube occasionlly, but more for virtual tourism and relaxation and nostalgia than actual games. Also, I play old SNES games. And Nethack.
Furthermore, while I was in the store, I felt the odd one out. When I walk into my comic store, I feel I've entered a nerd sanctuary, a place where I can let it be known I am a nerd and not be thought less of for it. In this game store, I felt like hiding it. It was full of popular type people. The guy behind the counter talked as though casual gamign was the norm.
When did Gaming die, and why? What have these people done to my precious hobby?