Interest Fading

After all of these years, I think it has finally become safe to say that I have hit the proverbial wall. Upon looking at the future landscape of gaming, what is there left to accomplish? What is there left to prove? Video games, for me, have lost their charm and I feel like I am reverting back to my PS2 days, when everything felt empty and dead and I just didn't give a shit to pick up and play anything.

But you know what else is starting to change my mind? The pricing of games and the equipment required to use them. Obviously the prices of these can only go one way really and that is all uphill from here. I mean even Nintendo with their 3DS is going to be $250, with their games going about $40-$50 as I've read it. What is sad to me is their biggest games that I've seen hyped are all old games! Are they going to follow the path of the PSP? I surely hope not. And on the subject of Sony's handheld, what about the NGP? What is that going to cost this time? An arm and a leg? Maybe you have to take a mortgage out for it?

It is pure insanity.

Even my list of games that I am looking forward to this year is dropping down in size and variety. As it goes, I am looking towards LittleBigPlanet 2, Gears of War 3, Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Dragon Age II and Hyperdimension Neptunia.

To be honest, I only just begun to read and look into (mere minutes ago really) Hyperdimension Neptunia and I am intrigued that it is an RPG. Maybe that is because I haven't really played an RPG in a while (Persona 3 kind of disappeared around my house. Maybe a ghost?) and I am looking for something, hell ANYTHING that might actually be fun in that genre. But it does at least look promising and it It certainly looks and sounds interesting to me. But I can't help but wonder just how good this game actually is?

Another one of interest is Deus Ex Human Revolution, which I see is dubbed a first-person RPG. Again, from the videos that I've seen and the little I've read about this game, it sounds promising and maybe this will be a good one. I still have some hope in Square-Enix, so maybe this will be the start of redemption for FFXIII...

Oh and a small mention about DC Universe Online: My interest in the game kind of fell off pretty quickly after the first week. I played less and less and I believe my villain is still around level 10. There just doesn't seem to be enough engaging quests or fights to do. I suppose I could have found a group and done a couple of alerts, but meh...