the new age of gaming.... it sucks

Originally this blog was just a place to post the Cheap ass gamer episodes and freeware gaming news, but you know what? it's a blog, I'm going to rant...

Well I've been gaming since the days of the commodore amiga and the snes. Games where simple then, they looked like something a 5 year old drew on paint and they where FUN! One could be a gamer on a reasonable budget. And best of all... the cool kids where too good for gaming! why is that good? because other then being told that gaming makes me a geek i wasnt being told what games to play!

Nowadays picking a new game is like a 17 year old girl picking a new boyfriend... all her friends have to approve... Games have to be cool, lets face it its not like the days of the snes where your games collection was so different to your best friends you'd go over to his place to play his games and he'd come to play yours... now everyone's games collection is more or less the same... if the game has a high rating, its in everyone's collection. And guess what... they are almost all first person shooters too... dont get me wrong I love first person shooters but i preferred it when not everyone else in the world did....

Anyway i'm going off topic as I have yet to touch on what actually got me ranting in the first place. Nowadays a game does not stand a chance unless it looks photo realistic and takes a computer that cost you atleast a months wages to buy. Nobody truly cares about the games... the GAMEPLAY anymore... all these idiots calling themselves hardcore gamers, and yes, if your one of them i just called you an idiot, insist that any game that doesnt need a supercomputer or ps3 to run, its shit. new gamers look at doom, one of the best games ever made, and will spew shit out like "graphics suck". Some people think of me as a nintendo fanboy, but they are wrong, i've been a fan of the playstation up to the ps2.. i never even looked at a gamecube... but this generation its all about bloody graphics, damn right i'm going to love nintendo, they are focusing on this long forgotten aspect of gaming... FUN!

In a forum topic regarding psps and dss someone said the ds is underpowered... remember the days when the BLACK AND WHITE (actually black and green) gameboy was the king of handhelds? it was awesome! now people expect handhelds to be as powerful as home consoles? what the fuck? we're talking about a console thats purpose in life is to make that busride home suck less...

someone once said, "a true gamer is somebody that can play just about anything, no matter how old it is, anyone who sticks to the latest hardware and graphically impressive games is not a gamer but simply a technology enthusiast" And the majority of hardcore gamers out there.. well you call yourself hardcore... yeah.. this applies to you people!!!

Anyway I support freeware and open source because it stands for everything i beleive in... these games dont make money, so they stand to lose nothing by taking risks and being original, and not having amazing graphics.. this is why i am cheap ass gamer, because you do NOT need a supercomputer to be a gamer, it does help, dont get me wrong, i'd love to get my hands on cod4 and some other high spec games (not crysis, played that, it sucks, all graphics, crap game) but i cant afford to as of yet, but that hardly makes me less of a gamer!

Anyway if you've read all this... then leave a comment please. wether its to tell me i'm an asshole and your a hardcore gamer... i welcome your stupid ignorance.. or if its to actually say something intelligent, then please :)