by Sean “rothbart” Workman

Okay, I’m spotting a growing trend in videogames that makes me wonder exactly where we’re headed. For many years it seems the racing game genre has pioneered the art of giving you replays of your gaming session. While I’ll admit on rare occasions I’ve watched these and even a couple of those times I had a good laugh at a great move or two (but usually just the hilarity of my own screw ups). But I have to ask what’s with all these upcoming games promising to redefine replays, recordings, movies, uploading of videos, etc?

Burnout Revenge for the 360 seems like a great example of this being forced on us… with the craptastic Xbox Live implementation EA squeezed out for that game the only way they could get people to give a damn about the replays was to tag achievements onto not only posting a video, but referring one, and having a top referred one. Come on guys, if you have to resort to the achievement whores to get your feature used, is it really a well thought out feature?

Newer games seem to be touting enhanced movie and replay support as if it’s somehow going to revolutionize gaming. My thought on this is that any time spent away from gaming is, well, time not spent gaming. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground and Halo 3 seem to be the latest champions for this frivolous technology. They tell us we need it. Bungie goes so far as to tell us how we can use it to analyze matches and formulate new battle plans based on past failures. I see it as an upcoming source of some drain-clogging crap that’s going to thrown in our faces so many times we’ll feel like Jane Goodall witnessing an epic monkey poo fight deep in the Amazon.

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