Intelligent Mature Gaming
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I was ranting onto my wife in the very same way a couple of days ago, although to her credit she wasnt really listening, just not talking about anything herself while I was talking..
Almost all the the games Ive ever seen anyone play are 'childish', I think someone on here took offence to me saying that here a few weeks ago, and by childish I mean they're just technological ways of playing the games that prepubscent and teenage boys played before there were video games - fighting sims, 'fantasy' quests with liquid rule structures and mythical/vaguely theological backstories, or same-as-life driving games.
Im sure there are some other exceptions, sims/2nd life type ideas that actually use the medium in a new way, but they themselves are just 'playing house'...
There just aren't that many new ideas for actual gameplay that deviate from these basic themes, its really a case of 'seen 10, seen-them-all', so I for one have never been interested in even picking up a controller to play.
My first computer was a ZX81, that had just shy of 1k of ram, slightly less than 1 page of code, and if anyone can find anything thats as remotely fun as trying to squeeze something like gameplay out of that, I've yet to find it.
Oh the fun I had steering the inverse V around the sets of semi-colons before an 'out of memory 4/1' error informed me I had completed the course. SSDD.