I hate RPGs. They are so boring, and once you beat them, you may never want to play them again. I liked Pokemon, but I didn't like any of the other games. They felt like chores, and they were really, really slow. I don't even like Pokemon anymore, so that just put the last nail in the coffin.

What intellectual value do Wii Sports and Wii Play have? While I agree that generic FPSs are getting stale, I don't see how games like Wii Play are any better/mature. Of course, they increase the number of people that play games, but other than that, they're just overly simplistic games.

In response to above (I am not gonna quote a whole list of that stuff): Simplicity is the greatest common denominator.

The begin said, I want more improvements in the following order of importance (this is an opinion, I don't want to get flamed for this): 1. Gameplay Mechanic 2. Artificial Intelligence (For the record, I prefer games I have a real challenge to just survive instead of mowing down a billion brainless generic enemies) 3. Diversity/Games (Particularly Original Ideas) 4. I don't remember

Yeah, get your game on, homophobe. KILL THOSE FAGS. As a heterosexual male who loves sports, movies, and spends much of his free time motorcycling and restoring cars, I want to punch you in the face.

You are what ruins forums like these, you shallow, pathetic, f***tard.

Apologies to the mods for this post.

Wait, wait, wait.... I think that the new genres emerging wil vary the market, but there is nothing wrong with a little Xenaziombie Killing either. You don't like those games you don't have to play them. There are plenty of games for all to enjoy... unless you are an Alien, Nazi, or Zombie, but nobody is sticking up for them.

I like Puzzle league AND Call of Duty. I like Action Movies, Chick Flicks, and Dramas. You don't have to polarize large segmants as good or bad, just take it as it comes. Even the less than stellar, or the out of your genre can have redeeming qualities.

(Edit: I used the term chick flick, not to demean women.  I meant it as a movie marketed to women through broad generalizations about what mostly male dominated movie studios think women want, I find some of these movies have entertaining out-look on society.  I added in this, not to avoid offending anyone, to demonstrate the depth of variety that we see.  They make a game like Nintendog to get girls gaming, but there are many males that play it, most companies don't get it.  Nintendo stumble opon it by accident with their "girl game" and older gamer experiments: They are games for everyone. I don't think many homemakers are playing Cooking Mama.)

Didn't I just explain this? I said that it doesn't, but it's a step in the right direction. If we want games to become an intellectually complicated art form, we have to attract adults in the first place. Simplest evidence: the games people most frequently hail as "art" on the Playstation -- Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, and Okami -- had mediocre, very poor, and god awful sales, respectively. What this suggests: if we create artistic games in the current atmosphere, they will not or cannot attract an audience.

So again, we need adults to be playing in the first place before we can expect artistic games to take flight. Wii Sports is that first step.

I totally agree, I'm not asking these games to go away. I just wish they didn't totally dominate the market, as they do now. What are the games that "hardcore" playstation fans hail as the best in PS2 history? The most frequently listed names are God of War, Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, and Final Fantasy; hopefully, you can see the dominance of young males in those choices. Racing, swords, and guns, through and through.

Using the movie analogy, I'm not asking for violent, action packed movies to go away, I just want art house flicks and chick flicks and comedies and everything else to have their chance. The utter domination of the market by these types of games is a little depressing, that's all. 

I think it is more the online community and the gaming mags. I tried to star a casual/alternative gaming blog a while back, and could't get people on it. I start one of hardcore wii stuff (like 900,000 other sites) and I get (what I think is) a solid 50 hits a day. Go figure.

 I'm more optimistic about the games industry, myself. The lifetime sales numbers for VgChartz database show that shooters and war simulations have never dominated sales charts. The numbers are overwhelmingly with good old Nintendo, platformers, the Mario franchise, and of course RPGs.

And don't forget, Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear, for all their superficial violence, were smash hits because they had tremendous storylines, memorable characters and believable game-worlds. Even a violent game like God of War II isn't mindless about violence - it has a deeply tragic storyline, some amazing voice-acting and characters. The Atlas sequence alone was worth the price of admission. Vastly superior to any action film Hollywood produced during the last 3 years, and at a fraction of their budget.