lol lubba I wonder why you didnt single ally us earlier.. :P Adding you to the allly list now

To each his own,I'd say. But I do agree with you.I've played military shooters,but they're not the kind of games I enjoy most. The way I see it now,these games are popular because they are extremely accessible. It's all about the gameplay,no complicated storylines,no moral dillemas,no real goal of any kind(other than "kill the other bastard before he kills you"). Casual gamers are taking over(and they don't play games for the story), and the corporations want their money too. And,of course,there is the mob mentality. 20 million people buy something,the rest usually assume it's a quality product. Monkey see,monkey do. I have no problems with shooters in general,since it would be stupid of me to discard an entire genre based on a few similar games.
I've been a gamer since I was very little.Between the ages of 6 and ~15 gaming,reading,fixing problems and thinking occupied most of my time.I owe much of my actual education to videogames,so it pains me to see games becoming easy,repetitive and dumbed down in order to cater to the masses. There was a time where games didn't help you win,and you actually had to use your intelligence in order to have any chance of progressing. Friendly fire was on,your teammate's actions could actually hurt you.If you got shot,you stayed shot.If your teammate didn't cooperate,you both lost.
Maybe I'm missing something,but I seriously doubt a grown man's 8 bullet wounds would heal if he just stood still for 20 seconds.Not without a healing factor.If you're going to make a realistic game,make it f*ckin realistic. Otherwise,just don't make it.But come on,developers ... let me look down and see my body and legs.I really want to shoot myself in the foot. I really,really want to. I also want to know what kind of material is my enemy hiding behind,since it withstood a vast ammount of bullets without moving.I'm planning to use it as body armor in real life.I shall be invincible.
To me,video games are about experiencing another world(just like well-written books). They are like blank pages. You can do a great many things with pages. You can create a wonderful setting and atmosphere in them using words,you can paint a masterpiece on them, you can write a symphony on them,you can make paper planes or origami by using them. The only limit is your imagination and physical well-being. Abilities and skills can be attained. In short, I don't like realism in games much,seeing as how I'm a realist in real life.They provide a necessary escape to a better(albeit virtual) place,At least for a while.

P.S: Considering how f*cked up my reality is,I'm having a relatively good time recently.I even had some free time while I was out of town.Caught up on reading books and Final Fantasy VII.And since I run out of quality books really quickly,can you guys tell me some of your favorites ? Any genre not involving poorly written romance drama would do just fine

i enjoy reading horror books, and my #1 Author is Darren Shan, he has 2 different series of books, the Demonata, and the vampire series. they are quite short compared to others, the vampire series books usually have about 150-200.
why'll the demonata series have 200-350. they are quite enjoyable books, you just have to pay a lot of attention, so you dont forget what just happened ;]

imo, the Demonata has a much better story line and all that than the vampire series.

You guys write to much, I read the first 5 words then started typing this. LOL

The last book I've enjoyed reading was Metro 2033. It was quite awesome even though the end was a bit strange.

@lordtiger : If you want new novels then I recomend Vellette, Great expectations, Tai-Pan, and books regarding Greek history and mythology. Vellette is one of my favorites , old english , wounderful description and the history behind the Bronte sisters is highly recomended to read about . Newer books are nice to read , but if you look for novels dating back before the 1920's , it bring you to a world that has been forgoten by this generation .

like me.
can't read even one of LTs posts.

I'm going to be inactive for a while, at my cousins.

do you already know how long you'll be inactive?

disagreed with that :P Who really needs novels and that sort of stuff when we got threads full of LT's posts. I actually like reading them but when I start to reply and have written like 10 rows of text, I get the "nah not worth saying" feeling and just delete all I have done so far :P