Kicking Knowledge

I want to start off by saying that I love video games.  For the most part I think they are great but, there seems to be a trend happening in video games that makes me want to put a stick in my eye.  The trend I speak of, is trying to make games “Ultra Realistic”.  Why the hell would you want to do that?  If I want something real I’ll go play in traffic.  When I play video games I want to do things I can’t do or get away with in real life.  I want big explosions, ruthless violence, huge car crashes, and completely unrealistic physics.  I don’t want to have to worry about my stamina level, my fuel gauge, or trying to pick a balanced weapon that can only hold a certain number bullets.  Gran Turismo and Metal Gear Solid 3 are perfect of examples of what I’m talking about.  Don’t get me wrong they are both finely produced games but, they try way too hard to be “Super realistic.”  I don’t want to race a Honda Civic around a track for days on end only to have to keep “pimping it out” like I’m some Jerk-off from the Fast and the Furious or some dolt who pops my hood up and chills at the Taco Bell parking lot.  I want the damn Dodge Viper or any other car that I can’t afford.  Then I want to jump the damn thing over 18 busses and into a bag full of kittens.  I don’t want to worry about whether my camoflauge matches the “Deep Jungle Area” that I’m running through or if I have enough anti-septic and bandages to make sure I survive.  Just put a damn health vile under a rock to heal me and give me gun that in no way can exist in the real world to blow out the ass-end of anything that gets in my way.  You may say “Well Jedi Swayze, what about sports games?”  Well, most of us tried NFL Blitz and yes I agree completely with the rest of you, We’ve all taken dumps better than that piece of crap but, let’s think about NBA Jam.  Anyone who says that a “NBA simulation” game is better than a NBA Jam type game is just saying to piss you off or just took some deep breathes into a bag of rubber cement.  So game developers let’s keep the body count high and arcade style game play and keep the realism where it should be, not in video games.

This is the place where I stop giving a Shit.

Jedi Swayze