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Are video games getting better or worse as graphics, sound and gameplay complexity improve?

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The popular conception that mind-blowing sound and eye-exploding graphics are what make a game good, in my experience, is a rather shallow one. As the complexity of the ordinary video game increases and players are more immersed in the game play environment, the video game begins to become less of a video game, and more of a sort of lifestyle in some cases.

I can sit around and play Super Mario Bros. any day, for any period of time, and have all kinds of fun with the simplistic, side-scrolling, 8-bit action. But my friends will sit around and play MMORPGS (or Massively Multi player On-line Role Playing Games) and do nothing but be totally absorbed in said games and eat and sleep, and live for nothing but the games. To me, a video game is a game, and nothing more. The point of playing a game is to have fun. As the advent of greater technology and more advanced methods of absorbing the players entirely in game play rises, people stop having as much fun and start taking things seriously, and begin to become mixed between the realities of their video game world and the reality that they begin to shirk.

These more recent games with crazy graphics have hardly any replay value, and most of the time don't even hold my better interest, because all that they do is sit there and waste time and money out of your life. With the improvement of technology in video games always comes more money required to play the game, whether the gaming company needs the money or not. Need is not an issue to them, it's more greed on their part.

I have been playing Nintendo games for all of my life, and continue to, because I derive so much pleasure from them. These Nintendo games will not ever be anything more than a game to me, for I don't intend for them to be anything but just fun in my spare time. Nintendo games don't strive for the regular chanting of amazing graphics and such; they just try to reach out to the player and to make an all-around fun experience for the player and his/her friends. This is how I think that video games should always remain, simply a game, and nothing more.

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