Guess what... I don't care as much as you think...

Missed me? Of course you have! Well, I'm back with another opinion piece. And my subject for today is... eenie meenie miney... 3D!

What's my stance on it? Well, and I'm gonna be honest with you... who needs it? I thought games were 3D enough when you started using polygons in them. Now you have game devs wanting to portray depth in them too? Uhhh, why? Other than a neat trick of the eye, what is it REALLY gonna add to the gaming experience? And how will it be implemented without hurting my friggin' eyes?

And to make matters worse... in MY opinion, remember that... this seems to be the new "bait" that the HDTV manufacturers are using to hook you. Bad enough they discontinue older model HDTVs before they become affordable, but now they're using this as an excuse to keep you from settling for "good enough at a reasonable price."

Add to this the upcoming PS3/XBox 360 games that now offer 3D graphics support... Wow. Now it looks like you could reach in the screen and smack your character like a red-headed stepchild when they screw up. And that adds what to the game, exactly? Once again, we're back to the whole "grapchics make the game"
mentality. But what does it change? They're still the same games, they just screw with your vision now. Plus, how much longer will games have to be in development to add 3D capabilities to it? In the end, will the game be better for it, or just neater to look at? With or without special glasses.

Now I have to confess something. Of all the upcoming 3D stuff coming in the future, there is one thing that HAS caught my attention for a moment. The Nintendo 3DS. Sure it's doing basically the same thing, so what pray tell, Enigma, makes it so special to you? Not much really, except the fact that they're cramming all that 3D capability... in a PORTABLE system. Somehow that's enough to keep me mildly interested in it. Oh, and there's the chance that this system might be a wee bit more powerful than this gen's DS. But I swear, I'm only into it for the 3D.

But other than that, it's just another gaming fad that ultimately I'll be able to pass on. I don't need my games to fool my eyes... I just need them to be good. I don't know about the rest of you, but that's all I ask of my games.