You should really watch (if you speak French), one of the last episodes of "Plein Ecran", a french Tech show on TV and on the web. Great summary of what's going on in the gaming world, a market at 35b$, expected to grow to $59B in a couple of years. Huge.
I've never been much of a gamer, getting really bored and impatient when I had to set up a character in Dungeons and Dragons about 25 years ago, and any modern incarnation of that. Hence I've been a very casual gamer with simple games such as FrozenBubble (one of my favorites), or Lights Out (on the iPhone). Tetris, Blackjack, or Block escape are other of my favourites. I don't really like the others such as Deminer, Solitaire...
Hence, I've never really played console games (except for Mario Kart on the Nintendo Game Cube - market cap = those of Vivendi + Peugeot PSA ??? !!!, or Avalanche 1080°).
A couple of weeks ago I tried 2 nights at WoW, and got to level 9. At some point game play seemed boring to me : kill more of the same or more powerful enemies, and get more experience. Get a barter currency, and get more gear, energy, medecine, you name it. Boring.
I do sense some really interesting aspects in playing WITH other people in order to defeat enemies or solve puzzles. But my 10 day trial account expired, and I'm not really in the mood of buying an account for that.
Watching the LCI episode above, I discovered the newer generation of games and consoles. One really caught my attention, in terms of realism, graphics, story, gameplay. Still not available on PC (on a Mac one day ?), but already for sale since November on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Watch the trailer : (updated from original file, quality on youtube was low)
and a demo of the gameplay:
What do you think ?
