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Well, friends...this is it. I'm saying Goodbye. There's nothing left for me here at RFGeneration.
I've come to the harsh realization that no one reads this Blog of mine anymore, and that I have officially run out of ideas on what to write about. I've also noticed a lack of front-page updates and forum topics, which leads me to believe that no one visits this site anymore. (That, or I'm really oblivious.)
I've also come to the (extremely sad) realization that the Game Industry is dying, and once fine companies like Capcom and Square-Enix have been consumed by greed, wanting nothing but money, which hurts the quality of they're games. Let's face it. There's no such thing as a game made with Heart and Soul anymore. Even someone like me, who has grown up with Video Games, finds no joy in playing the crap released in this day and age. Dare I say it, even Nintendo has fallen. It's sad, but more than likely true.
I also believe that with the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3, there is absolutely no hope for the gaming industry, or it's fans. Not to mention that I think the failing economy is going to cause a second Video Game Crash.
Well, that's it. Goodbye everyone. I leave you all with this:
[img width=300 height=300]http://www.megamancartoon.com/images/mega-man-cartoon.jpg[/img]
This is ReddMcKnight, your friendly neighborhood Nintendo man, signing off!
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Is this blog for real?
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I think you might be slightly over reacting
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To think that I just jumped back into game collecting, and this wonderfully fun hobby is supposedly already a dead endeavor? I've had a ball. It's too bad that it is apparently all for naught. Should I not be enjoying it so much by this commentary, just because no one reads this person's blog?
Dude, the gaming industry is far stronger than it even has been! There is even a show on Spike TV devoted to gamers. How could this possibly show a death to the industry? To take two kids to a 2 hour movie: about $50. To buy a video game that could entertain for 100 hours or more: about $60. Do I not see something that you noticed?
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... I'm sorry, what did you say? I wasn't paying attention.
Seriously, this hobby (and often your personal blog, specifically on this website) are more about having fun than anything else. I mean, once I have some serious time (marriage+property^children/(work)(school)=no serious free time) I plan on bombarding my blog with the countless Old Computer Love articles that I've been working on for the past few months. Will anyone read them? Likely not, but that is not why I write (or collect) - I do it for personal satisfaction.
As for the gaming industry: Don't worry about it. Most of us have been alive long enough to know there will always tons of crap released on game platforms (especially those systems aimed towards younger games) and there is nothing more about it you can do except weather out the storm. There will always be times that we remember the most for great gaming releases, but try to remember that it usually doesn't happen more than once a gaming generation.
Something else you could do (whilst waiting out for the next group of great games to hit) is to look backwards. At some point I realized that I missed out on an entire genre of gaming hardware: computers. Discovering the treasure trove of old computer games that I've missed (19??-1997) will keep me going for at least another decade. Do you have any idea how long it takes to fully conquer Baldur's Gate II? At least 200 hours. For a man with my level of personal responsibilities, this could easy take a year.
So what have we learned? To have fun you first need to take off those jaded-pants (close the door, please!) and find that nice pair of fun-pants you seem to have lost. Or find a new pair (like I did). And stop reading the gaming news so closely. Instead, read old magazines (or new-old magazines, like Retrogamer). Might I recommend Computer Gaming World, whose old issues (they opened the mag back in'81) have been slowly scanned and released online for the world to enjoy.
I'm done.
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Just because you're getting little or no comments on your blogs, doesn't mean no one is reading them. I read every blog post, and I know others do as well. If I had went by the number of comments on my blogs, I wouldn't have made it past a couple Treasure Hunt Chronicles. For the first year or two I wrote that, I had 0-2 comments.
There haven't been many front page posts lately because there isn't much going on in the gaming world (as is the case every summer) and most of our staff is busy with a project. And it seems likely every community member blog I want to promote to the front page isn't allowed by its author.
And who cares what's going on with gaming companies these days? Is Capcom being a jerk somehow preventing you from playing your Virtual Boy?
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"I've also come to the (extremely sad) realization that the Game Industry is dying, and once fine companies like Capcom and Square-Enix have been consumed by greed, wanting nothing but money, which hurts the quality of they're games."
Capcom, Square, and Enix (and every other game company you can think of) never wanted anything more than your money. They are businesses, and businesses exist to make money. If they could do that by stealing candy from your baby, they would. Heck, the only reason we haven't yet seen Stealing Candy From Your Babies, Inc., is that companies engaged in blatantly immoral practices tend to have a hard time retaining employees and attracting customers.
Don't worry, the games industry isn't dying just because you have realized this.
"There's no such thing as a game made with Heart and Soul anymore."
Don't be silly. The Good Old Days never existed. The fact is that game companies always worked for profit, and if they have employees who wanted to make awesome games, well, that was something they had to deal with. (There was an interview with Miyamoto somewhere about how Nintendo investors really only want more Brain Training, which costs little and brings in a lot of money. It's only Miyamoto's standing in the company that brought us Super Mario Galaxy...and Wii Music.)
If you look back at old games, you'll see there's always been tons of lousy licensed titles and awful ports. Crazy, game-breaking bugs routinely made it to production (just read up on Bulbapedia's entries on the early Pokemon bugs). The terrible translation of games like FFIII for the SNES was not just due to technical limitations, but also due to the gaming industry's contempt for its consumers (why budget money and time for a proper translation when games are "just for kids"?)
If anything, today there is a much greater chance of finding a so-called "Heart and Soul" game because game makers aren't necessarily at the mercy of game publishers. It's no longer necessary to pay a small fortune to Nintendo or Sega just for the right to spend another small fortune to produce a game for their system (see Game Informer 219 about EA reverse engineering the Sega Genesis, it's pretty awesome/awful). You or I could easily learn Flash and create our own game, hosting it on a paid domain for a relatively modest sum of money. If we were actually good at it, we could enter the game into any number of homebrew or indie game competitions, where we might catch the attention of a publisher--maybe get it on XBLA, Steam, or the App store. Or we could use any number of homebrew tools to create a game for a retro or current-gen system. Gaming is much, much more open than it used to be.
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So I guess this means no more Power Glove stories?
Well that's just swell; now I'll have all this spare time that I've absolutely no idea what to do with.
If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. ;p
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@Techie413:
You...make a surprisingly good point. 
@NES_Rules:
Busy with a project, eh? I guess I understand then, although I failed to understand your last sentence. 
@pdrydia:
The good old days never existed? That's none too reassuring.
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Just want you to know that I read nearly every blog here, even though I don't always comment.
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Heh, I know I'm not that prominent a member of the site but the reason I haven't been around is cuz my girlfriend broke up with me and I just haven't felt like it. I'll probably be completely back reading 90% of the site again in a month or so. I remember reading your previous blogs many times. They were interesting I never felt the need to comment though because I never had anything interesting to say. There seem to be a lot of people on this site who read/lurk but don't comment.
Its possible that you may need to do what I do. Every 4 months or so (whenever activity on the site dies down and I get bored) I take a break from this site for about a month and do something else. This break has been a bit longer but I'll be back soon. I'm pretty much caught up reading the manga I had on my "to read" list (thats what I've been doing on my break)
As for the video game industry dying I don't believe that's true. there's tons of shovelware out there but imagine if this was during the video game crashes of 1977 or 1983. At those times there were so many crap titles and so few good titles out there that many people completely stopped buying video games. I don't think any system has as high a percentage of shovelware as the Atari 2600. Idk about you but I can always walk into a store and find a game for each of the current systems that I don't own, would like to play, and wouldn't consider shovelware. Its sometimes harder on wii because I hate motion controllers but that's a personal problem XP.
If you want games truly made with heart and soul then look to indie games. You can be more sure that there's more heart and soul in games that have less chance of earning money for the creators. I've never really gotten into indie games but I've yet to run out of good games to play.
Also, I feel that I need to mention that Baldur's Gate II is my favorite game of all time. That is 200 hours well spent bombatomba. I've easily put that much into that game as well. If you want a fantastic Computer RPG look no further
Also, @NES_Rules: Is this an exciting project? O.o
Basically, don't worry. I'll bet that within a month everything on this site will be back to normal and there will be a game coming out that you can look forward to. Good Luck to you whatever you decide.
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