Emob78: Soul. That's what's missing from most new games. Technically, video games have never been better looking with more shiny window dressing and bells and whistles. But under the hood, there's just fiber optic wires and some overheating CPUs. The pioneering psychos who built the industry have all gone off to do other things or just got stupid rich from their success and retired to Florida. Their replacements were burned out IT guys and snot nosed nerds with a bachelor's in programming. You replace Yoda with a college intern and then you show me a highly skilled room full of jedi. Ain't gonna happen.

I think sometimes gamers tend to look at things from a particular angle, depending largely on the specific game, network, client, or other technical thing is being analyzed. Sometimes they/we tend to overlook the more subtle truths of creative power and the minds behind it... the history of it. Humans are getting increasingly better and more skilled and figuring HOW to do something, but less and less able to ask themselves (and each other) WHY they do something.