Irony!

Maybe it's just because I listen to way too many gaming podcasts, but I cannot stand hearing about Game Dev Story anymore. The first time I heard it mentioned, it was intriguing enough: you play this sim where you're this developer trying to make it. The big draw of the game, beyond the sim aspect, seems to be the ability to give your games weird titles and one-up your friends.

So yeah, I've never played the game but I feel I did it justive in two sentences.

Well, every single podcast I listen to has had at least one person going on and on for at least 15 minutes about this game, over-explaining it and just giggling at the titles he or others came up with. After the 3rd time or so, unless my hands were busy doing something else, I would reach for the fast forward button as quickly as I could when I heard the game being mentioned.

Good lord. I think all these games journalists follow each other on Twitter (or maybe Neogaf, makes me glad I don't have the habit of lurking there) and then when one of them starts praising a certain game, everyone else will latch on to this "discovery" and want to share it with everyone else. It's pretty damn annoying, actually. Find your own obscure games to talk about, god damn it.

So... anyone else? There's a chance I may be the only one with this "problem", since it's my own fault if I subject myself to over half a dozen gaming podcasts...

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Here are the games that annoy me the most:

-Call of Duty anything
-Assassin's Creed anything
-Donkey Kong Country Returns like it's the best game EVAR!!! Move along already.
-Aeon anything
-Angry Birds
-any FPS, iPhone, or online multiplayer game in general

Going by the PSN demo, Mass Effect 2 deserves any praise that it gets and RDR seems interesting, but not interesting enough for me to go out of my way and play it anytime soon, if ever.

I'm annoyed at how many people I know who think Kinect is the greatest invention ever.

But Microsoft must be doing something right. According to my cousin, his in-laws went out and bought a 360 and Kinect after playing his Kinect dance game. They are not gamers, mind you. Reminds so much of the impact Wii had on non-gamers after people tried out Wii Sports. Will Kinect continue to have the same impact? I doubt it.

While I have no interest in Kinect (not in its current state, with no "hardcore" games whatsoever), it does seem to make more sense that it would succeed where Move doesn't seem to have done so, considering Move is in many ways just the same thing one gets with the Wii.