I couldn't agree more and I was thinking you should be writer until you said you wrote a paper on it once haha. I was just generalising the COD/MW type games of this world and the way the industry still hasn't quite got it's old spark. It's more just hidden gems now which saddens me. Legacy of Kain was Dreamcast era anyway, it's only current gen PS3 and XBox360 that have gone a bit sour in my eyes (FPS and simulation like games saturate them both). Although both XBox and Playstation have always been that way inclined really and that's how they made their money, who can blame developers.