Games are not real, just what kid of 'ludonarrative' does mario brothers 1 have Most of the best games in gaming history have been seriously light on any kind of storytelling and seriously heavy on interactivity/action/dungeon crawling/shooting. We play games to have things to do and explore worlds, storytelling is ...
It's all about the money. Lets face it... after world of warcraft and other MMO's success blizz wants to make every game have an MMO front end and milk gamers for all they can get from them while treating them like absolute garbage.
The real issue is the amount of work the extra hardware power has produced for human beings. The human hardware can't keep up with technological advancement. In the past games you had more time to mess around because of a lower level of detail. One can go back and look ...
Having the skills to make a game is not the same as having the skills to understand what makes a great gaming experience. The industry gets this messed up all the time and we see it in it's output.
