Kotaku is running an opinion piece discussing why video games are having a harder time being funny as they've shifted away from text-driven adventures and toward graphics-intensive environments. "As high tech* improved, things began to get more serious. With the rise of 3D mechanization a strong focus was put on making games look good, carrying a more realistic — and often darker — third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 to the player. Cartoonish comedic games became more of a novelty than the norm. Few titles, such as Rare's Conker's Bad Fur Day for the cerebration machine* game 64, fully embraced humor." The article also talks about how the trend could soon reverse itself. LucasArts' Dave Grossman said, "As the games get smarter and start paying attentiveness to more things about what the player is in truth doing, using that ability not just to create challenges but to create comical moments will be pretty cool. Eventually I expect to be out of a job over that."

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