I think we need to remember that the gaming medium is still growing. We’re just starting to get youngster-digestible shovelware at a rapid pace. It really isn’t any different than the pile of shit Hollywood drops to cash in on that market. You know, the market of poor parents that are driven by the desire to shut their little pixiestick-addicted booger factories the fuck up? Yeah. That one.

That being said, when the dust settles and developers realize that we aren’t a bunch of blood-thirsty, porn-crazed hooligans, we’ll start to see less and less of Western developed games that involve gratuitous amounts of “badassery” and an increased amount of intelligent, story-driven content.

In regards to the Eastern front, us Westerners originally gravitated toward anime and Japanese games because they were radically different. Only problem is, the “difference” has now become generalized and mass-produced to high hell; this is where stuff like the “obligatory kid character” (or as I like to call it, That Fucking Kid), the “innocent damsel” and the “cute fantasy creature with wings” comes in.

Modern titles have become stale because no one wants to take chances, but it’s just a matter of time before the medium starts to find its equilibrium and devs start to realize we’re fucking tired of this shit already.

Original content will reign supreme, in the end.

Hopefully.