User blog comment:Heatedpete/The fight begins.../@comment-3326681-20110516232223/@comment-28584497-20110522010432

Nemo, videogames are a form of media, just like movies, TV, radio, and books. I'm getting tired of the people saying that companies are "taking themselves too seriously", or whatever the hell else. I suggest you play Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, and then play Operation Flashpoint or ARMA. MoHPA is vastly superior (as I say many times) to many modern games in a lot of aspects -- its singleplayer on the whole was better than MW1 and MW2's entire suite combined, and will continue to be better than MW3 combined with MW1 and 2 --, while retaining a helluvalot of realism. Meanwhile, Operation Flashpoint (both Cold War Crisis and Dragon Rising) and ARMA are MilSims, and show you exactly how possible it is for a videogame to accurately portray real-life conflict.

If we want to make the most out of videogames, we need to EXPAND and REFINE their singleplayer, not disregard it. Else, videogames become a fad and a refuge of the mindless -- a path toward which all these "triple-A" games are marching.

After all, do you think it would slide were all authors or directors told they need to make their books/movies/TV shows more fun and less serious? I can imagine it; "Hey, Spielburg, don't make Saving Private Ryan so serious. It's a movie, it's supposed to be fun! If people want to experience combat, they can just join the army." It's just symptomatic of the degredation of human society as a whole.