Have Some People Lost Sight?

[Morsong]

Something has been on my mind for a while, and that something has been popping up more lately while watching PS2 videos and seeing some peoples reviews on PS2 coming out after the NDA dropping.

My question is this: Have some people lost the appreciation of playing an online game? Let me explain.

My first ever online multiplayer pc game was Starcraft. It boggled my mind. Being able to play with 5 other people on my 56k was incredible to me. It added so much depth and so much unpredictability being able to play with other human players. More importantly, it was so much damn fun.

During the years and up until now I have played many, many online games including many MMOs (Planetside one of my first). During this time I have come to notice that many people simply do not grasp or have the level of appreciation of what we once had.

After reading a lot of posts by some people it has made me a bit sad to see that some people have simply forgotten or haven't realized how amazing it is that we finally have this technology where we can have this much fun. Some people are so blinded by the little, scrutinizable things, that they have forgotten to look at the bigger picture.

All those years ago when the first Planetside came out it was amazing not only to me, but to everyone else that we had a virtual playground that large and that players could wreak havoc almost any way they pleased. The technology back then wasn't as good as what we have now, and it was just incredible. Today, it still is incredible to me.

The very fact that while in Planetside 2, that there are hundreds of human beings playing alongside/against you is incredible. The hundreds of bullets flying by you. The mosquito formation flying above your head. The tanks off to the right in warfare. The enemy squad galaxy dropping into your current base. The fact that this is all happening simultaneously and being caused by other human beings is just mind-boggling to me.

It seems to me that people have grown accustomed to todays technology, and rightfully they should. But somewhere during that time I have noticed that fewer people are appreciating how amazing this technology is.

I am not ranting, and I apologize for this wall of text, but I wanted to type this because I feel it is important to appreciate what this game is because it is a reflection on what we can and will accomplish. When you start to realize how amazing the scope of this game is, that alone I think will force people to really look past little things, and see everything as a whole. That alone will make PS2 and life itself, a bit more enjoyable.

So back to what my original question was: Do you see that as time goes on, more and more people are starting to expect things being handed to them, and losing the big picture of just how incredibly freakin amazing it is to play games like these? Or am I just talking out of my goofy little mouth?