I wish more games imitated bad television

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Woody Allen once wrote that life doesn't imitate art, it just imitates bad television. (Astonishingly, I believe he realised this before he married his girlfriend's daughter.) I was thinking about this quote the other day when I was watching Storage Hunters on catch-up. I suddenly thought, "Hey, I wish more games imitated bad television too."
Crucially, though, I want them to imitate the right kind of bad TV. Not the 24 knock-offs that are forever clogging up the schedules. Jack Bauer and all those other neck-breakers are already well catered for in the realms of the cover-based and the QTE-driven.
No, I reckon games could think a little cheaper.
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