VidGameKing said:
I dont know if another "crash" is in order or not, I cant think of any other game that hasnt been tryed already though. I think the rut we are in right now is because of a lack of ability to find somthing new. if you think about it, when the 2600 was king, it was also breaking new territory, there was so many games that had never even been concepted before, but now, if you dont look to your past, for re-hashes of extremly old games, you cannot find any creativity. I mean, WHAT ELSE COULD SOMEONE DESIGN A GAME AFTER!?! if you design a game after a book or a movie it'll be a RGP or FPS, sports games are obviously sports games, and have a limited ability for creativity, (with the exception of XXX BMX) and then there are the "other" games that are werid, because they are uniqe, and every once and a while they become anoyingly popular (pokemon) but as for those "other" games, I think that pretty much the've allready been there, done that, and did it again but this time with a 3D environment. so what are we going to do? it's not like a crash is going to help, aside from taking games away from us so we appreciate them a bit more when they come back!! what d you guys think?
I get very confused when everyone says there are more crap games out there now and we need another crash

Hate to break it to everyone but there have always been more crap games than good ones

Nobody really can say the 2600 library was full of all good games and few crap ones, same with the NES, PS, and now these. If you buy what you wanna play then crap games won't exist to you and you don't need to worry about it

Difference is now you can rent a game, check out info online, read a magazine, download a trailer, etc..back in the day, you could check out the box art and and a wee little screenshot on the back of the box to see if a game was good or not. Maybe every so often a store would have a kiosk set up so you could play a game first, but that wasn't too likely to happen back then. Think about it, if the crash solved all of the problems, then why is everyone still saying there are crappy games right now?