Re:Disillusionment with current crop of games (Score 2, Insightful)

I disagree. Although many of today's titles are just rehashes of old ideas with up to date graphics, I think we're currently at the start of a whole new generation of gaming in one field in particular: the MMO genre.

The technology has now been developed which allows several thousand players to play simultaneously in a persistent world. Many people are already addicted to the current generation of MMORPG games, but RPGs are only the start: Sony released the world's first MMOFPS (Planetside last year, taking online tactical warfare to whole new levels. In a good team like the Renegade Legion the list of tactics you can deploy in the field is almost endless.

I think this is just the start. Bringing massive player cooperation into many different genres could add a whole new dimension to those games. We're riding the first wave of the MMO tide and I think it's going to be as revolutionary as the switch from offline multiplayer gaming to online gaming.