Bring back Button Mashing. Or: a video game competition show like nick arcade, but where the people making it actually know things about video games so they can come up with interesting challenges.
Lots of good suggestions in here. One that hasn't been suggested yet is Soul Blazer, which is basically an action RPG where you rebuild towns as you progress through their corresponding dungeons. It's made by the same company as ActRaiser, but the town-building isn't like that game at all. Basically, you free people's souls from the dungeon and they appear back in town, and you make further progress from items/advice that they give you.
I was about to recommend Soul Blazer. Its "sequels" (they form sort of an unofficial trilogy) are good too - Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma. Terranigma never came out in the States, but it was released in Europe (in English I believe).
Super Adventure Island 2 always looked cool, idk.
Almost forgot Blizzard's early stuff. Rock 'N' Roll Racing, The Lost Vikings, and Blackthorne are all solid games.
Yeah the restraining order is looking real nice right now. The person in question is showing up in my driveway every couple of days being crazy, attempting to throw cops and lawyers at me for laws that don't exist and other absolutely insane things. They have also attempted to assault my mother, but I stopped them. I'm on less than "Friend" status with this person. I know just enough about them to know who they are. It's a real weird thing, and I'm considering feeding them to my 100 pound guard dog if they keep this insanity up. (That's a joke, don't go nuts)
Call the cops.
Right now.
This person sounds dangerous and you should get a restraining order. Like, today.
Not only because you're a great writer, but because you haven't let rage consume you with regards to this topic.
Honestly? I don't even talk about this kind of thing anymore. I feel like everyone has their viewpoint and they're not interested in a discussion or a conversation. They're only interested in being right and shouting down the other side.
That said, there's one thing I honestly never understood. Gamers threw a fit when Roger Ebert said that video games were not art, nor could they ever be. Yet when people start treating this medium like an art form and critiquing it (like they've been doing with literally every other art form for god knows how long now) Gamers throw a fit and pull a "they're just games" arguement, or feel like people are shittalking the things they love/trying to force it to be something it's not.
(Interesting side-note: as a white English major whose time in college has been spent reading numerous works by numerous marginalized people, I'd invite anyone who's white to go up to almost any other white person and try to discuss racial issues with them. They'll look at you like you just brought up fucking chemtrails).
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