I heard about the shooting incident via Yahoo.
The thing I don't understand is that I've lusted after computer games, even some wargame supplements. But I've never gone bonkers over it.
To myself the desire is for the imaginaive content that the thing can provide... sort of like building a new system to play the next generation of computer games (which I may do in about a year... but maybe not).
But I think of the games available on the platforms, and they're typically not very deep. Sports, racing, FPS, and action-fighting games with the occasional adventure title. All the really good games, IMHO, are for the PC.
Example; after DOOM I got into Dark Forces (I skipped Quake, but did Q2). Once I was done with DF I felt a little high and dry, so I did a lot of the third party addons. Then people hacked into Dark Forces and started cranking out DF addons. An old SP game suddenly had new life, and people still crank out levels for it to this very day.
But the much anticipated sequel, Dark Forces II Jedi Knight, arguably the most anticipated game sequel for a game of the then burgeoning popular FPS genre, to one of the most (if not the most) succesful sci-fi franchise in history, didn't generate the kind of frenzy that's happened with Sony's PSIII.
I just don't understand. Heck, I bought a SEGA Genesis because I liked some of the sidescollers on the thing. It was years until I broke down and bought a Dreamcast, and even then I only bought a couple titles.
This Play Station thing has me baffled.
Hmmm... I wonder what kind of games are available in the Imperium? "Papers and Paycheques" where heros pretend they're 9 to 5 workaday people and/or students trying to get by in a world without high-tech nor superheros.
(I stole that last bit from an old gaming mag)