I'm replying to the topic title only.
I bored of most game companies. I'm 34 and been playing games since Coleco, Atari, Intellivision, Vectrix and heck even on some Pong machines. I'm BORED of most developers. I've shot thousands of bad guys in FPS/TPS. A change in the map does not make a new game. That's why most developers are so focused on Story. Because most of the time that's all i'm interested in. The game is done over so often that only the story drives a sale for me.
I love RPG I love them to death. For the life of me I'm so bored of most games I'm done. For those of you who aren't bored. I'm glad your not, but someday your going to be sitting with me as an old man who's bored.
However. Some games do draw me in. EBA, Layton, Phoenix Wright.... game that are new experiences tend to draw me back or games that are at least fun. I've logged in around 200 hrs in MHFU even with it's repation. I lost my main focus to play FPS with Rise of the Triad. I've played a few since then, but by then they were all the same game with new weapons and maps that it was pretty dull.
/rant
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
