Today, on 1up, I saw that a 250 gigabyte xbox 360 is availible.  Of course it’s for the new blockbuster, Call of Duty:  Modern Warfare 2, due out November 10th, 2009 (11/10/09…like a bomb, get it? right.)  Now I love the forward progression of technology, but I also hate the cost of that progression.  I believe it’s safe to say that everyone else feels the same way about that as well.  With that, here we go into another feature.

Why I love technological progression.

The world thrives on progression as it also thrives on technology.  These two things combined are like the reese’s peanut butter cup:  Amaaaazing.  Look at today’s technology:  We have the iPhone, the consoles, mini-laptops (I hate them, they’re not a real laptop, just like a chihuahua [HOLY COW I SPELLED THAT RIGHT ON THE FIRST TRY!] isn’t a dog.  Cute, but it’s a luppie, like a chihuahua is a puppie.), new phones that make what looked nice 2 years ago look dumb, and many other things.  With each progression, life has the option of becoming a little easier (though I will always want some activities, like driving cars and such).  The forward progression of technology, to me, is the monument of creativity of mankind, time infinitum.

Why I hate technological progression.

Do you remember when you were a kid and money grew on trees and you could get the pokemon games for each type of Game Boy?  Yeah, me too.  Turns out money doesn’t grow on trees.  The forward progression of technology is great, however the cost of moving forward also hurts the hobbyist and/or professional.  I can tell you for a fact I will not be able to get this 250GB HDD because I don’t have enough money, simply.  I probably won’t even be able to get Halo:  ODST right away (Insert Sad Face Here).  I know I’m not the only one, people are having to trim back, and it feels like a taunt towards those affected by the recession.

Short feature today, movie of the new system will be up right after this is posted.  as always, email me @ rune@runeofred.com as for me, it is now time for homework. Wait till you boys and girls see what I’ve been doing. heh.

What happened?

I’m reading today’s video game news, trying to find a speck of interest in anything, allow me to show you what I see.  From Kotaku I see the following headlines:  Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Review:  My Cup of Tea, Activision:  Courtney Love signed Cobain Contract for Guitar Hero 5, Adult Films push for presence on Gaming Consoles, Kotaku’s Fall Fashion Special, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Preview:  Me, Myself, and Pie., and The Secret World Revealed:  Factions, Progressions, and PVP.

Now, as the title says above, What happened?  I remember days where it was news of what developers were doing on their games, and out of all those headlines above, I only see one article that even sparks my interest (good job The Secret World, you are an interesting game).  It seems as of late any video game news has been in the form of screaming like tweens about the new Rock Band: Beatles or Guitar Hero 5 (that game genre either needs to tone it down on game releases or die, up to them), gossiping about controversy (Courtney Love and the Adult Industry in this case), or trying to appeal to specific crowds (the review, preview, and the ‘fashion special’….what the hell, kotaku?  REALLY?  a fashion special?)  Not to mention all the (insert name here)Cons or if you want to set yourself SOOOOOOOOO far apart from the crowd (*cough*PennyArcadeExpo*cough*).  I feel like I’m reading a Cosmo or People magazine when I’m reading these.  Is there nothing amazing (aside from Halo:  ODST, Marvel:  Ultimate Alliance 2, Assassins Creed 2 and Left 4 Dead 2…gah, yet another Feature to write…wonderful) coming?  Not one of these games save the few exceptions I said before even interest me.  I don’t want to hear what cos-players are wearing at these dumb conventions and I don’t want to hear how great you think a child’s game is, and I REALLY don’t even give a crap about Courtney Love, Guitar Hero 5, Fashion Specials, Adult Films, or Rock Band:  Beatles (Rock Band:  Beatles will be the worst thing to happen to music games ever, you wait and see).

Hey, Remember that one rant I just did about making another feature?  I’ll just include it here.

Have the ‘Bright’ imaginations of game developers across the world gone dim?  I’m all for putting out sequels and such, but the hit title list is a bit…bland.  Gears of War 2, Halo:  ODST (5, 4 if you don’t include Halo Wars), Call of Duty:  Modern Warfare 2 (6), Left 4 Dead 2, and so on.  I know that Gears Of War 2 is already released, but I’m including it for posterity’s sake.  I know there are many other games out there, and almost each of them is a sequel.  The last good new IP that I played was Prototype, and even then, that’s borrowing off of GTA: IV and quite a few other games, so I’ll go with Mirror’s Edge since it’s the most original game I’ve played that’s the most recently released.  I know I’m complaining on stupid things here, but it does irritate me to see no new (appealing) stories or genres being introduced.

I’m going to leave this one short.

The reason being?  because it’s the same all over the video game industry.  I may be wrong in some areas (in fact I know I’m wrong in some areas) but let this be known a venting of frustration with the lack of new commodity at the present moment.  This article like any other, does carry merit to it; don’t disregard it.  As always send your thoughts to me @ rune@runeofred.com