@Oniyide, I really appreciate the constructive feedback. I mean this thread in general has given me a lot of time to think this whole topic over. I'll have to let it stir a bit more but I think some excellent points are being brought up. I try to be as knowleadgable as I can about a variety games, but unfortunately I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be (that's half to blame on money, and half to blame on having more hobbies than I used to). That's not to say I haven't heard of all the titles you've mentioned though. It may very well be a simple matter, like you said, of having the recent CoD wave blur my vision.
I feel like I don't know the potential of the music genre for the very fact that it was unnaturally burnt out by businessmen. If it naturally evolves, like FPS did, then maybe we would have more creative offshoots. The problem is it is hard to visualize what those offshoots could possibly have been since they are "outside of the box" as they say. But on that point I mention Wii Music, which yes I did hate like hell as well as many other hopefuls who tried it. But even though it sucked it at least showed there was something outside the box.
But I do agree on the instinctive notion that there is something "fishy" about music being a natural theme for a video game...in that they are like two seperate art forms all on there own (best I can put it).
