Don’t worry, I’m not gonna phi­los­o­phize about real­ity. At least, not this time. It’s more a short text about wak­ing up in a deceiv­ing world. As some of you know, I like games and I like to play. No mat­ter what kind of game you’re relat­ing to, I’m inter­ested. Fur­ther­most, I like play­ing com­puter games and I want them to be chal­leng­ing. My favorite type of games are sneak­ers, adven­tures and plat­form­ing games, like Thief, Bro­ken Sword or Prince of Per­sia. I also like to play first per­son shoot­ers and strat­egy games. You see, I’m quite open-minded as far as com­puter games are concerned.

Cur­rently, I’m play­ing the fourth install­ment of the Bro­ken Sword series which seems like one of those old-fashioned point-and-click adven­tures again. I really like that style and the chal­lenge it poses, namely think­ing in a lat­eral way. When I went to check out my favorite sites today, I dis­cov­ered an arti­cle called Read Any Good Games Lately? over at The Escapist. It’s a really good read you shouldn’t miss (If you’re not into com­puter games see this arti­cle about Uwe Boll instead – you won’t rue it either, I promise.).

Now, where was I? Ah, yeah, good games. Have you seen, played or heard of such a game as of lately? Don’t bother with ads like those for Gears of War – they don’t count. Over the last few months I’ve played some titles which weren’t chal­leng­ing at all. I only bought or bor­rowed them because I know the fran­chise. As of lately, such games have become really bad. I don’t wanna wait for months until – finally, with the sixth patch – I can play them. I don’t wanna play games that just don’t live up to the hype or the fran­chise. For instance, ever more games based on suc­cess­ful movies and TV shows are pro­duced. Most def­i­nitely these games aren’t chips of the old block.

These games exist only to gen­er­ate an addi­tional source of rev­enue. They’re not here to enter­tain because they sim­ply suck. Of course, there are excep­tions – not every game mod­eled after a suc­cess­ful fran­chise is made to merely gen­er­ate money. There are some games out there really try­ing to enter­tain their audi­ence instead of just show­ing off some awe­some graph­ics. There are games you can busy your­self with for dozens of hours instead of being only good enough for a mere seven hours expe­ri­ence. Hope­fully, peo­ple will con­sider this while devel­op­ing future titles. I know that many gamers are think­ing the same way …