To understand video games, a person has to think outside the box,be warped into a world that isn't anything like the real world and has to devote a lot of time if they want to finish. Video games these days are so complex that you almost do look into what is really not part of the real world and be able to read need a manual in order to figure out how to play. Shouldn't these video games be as easy as the classics( what really are the classics) but just like anything else electronic, the manufactures are always trying to make things more complex.
We study video games because they are so popular and they are addicting. Yes they are! Another reason we study video games is because how are we ever going to master the game we want and learn how to be better than someone else, just like in King of Kong.
I am studying video games because I am a mother of son that one day will want to play video games and I will need to understand them. Why is it that the video world has taken over the kids. The kids come home swearing and the teachers think that their parents say those words but most of the time the kids learn it from video games and television. Because video games have become so popular, we have to study them.
I think that the best person to study a video game is a new gamer because they take a different approach than the gamer that has been playing since video games where born. If you introduce a game to an old gamer they already have their opinions about the type of game it is, but a new gamer, being myself, would want to know what it was about.
Another factor in studying games if figuring out what is exciting and what is not. To most it would be a personal preference, or it could be what it is popular. I have heard a lot of talk about how video games are anti-social but if you look at the games of today they changed that factor. Their are so many games that you can play among others.My dad used to play a game on line with others all the time and that is very social.
One of the big problems in video games in the battle of the violence. I know if my son played video games he would not be allowed to play violent ones. Why do we need violence? Is there something exciting about shooting someone and then the blood is all over the ground like in real life. I have played Resident Evil and that is just plain gross. I think the violent games are a waste time.
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I have also wondered why there needs to be so much violence, not only in games but also other media, and worse, real life. As my boys grew up I refused to allow them to have any gun toys in the house or even to "pretend to shoot" with hand gestures. Of course they moved out of my control fairly early. I was shocked when I heard the sounds of the dying on "Doom" coming from the computer in the basement playroom. I realized that they had decided their own way by then and though I continued to express my distaste for the first person shooter . . . ultimately they made their own decisions.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of transportation to another "space" is very intriguing. What is the mechanism by which we are transported to this "other" place?
ReplyDeleteThe way in which the user is asked to be more involved is something different than our classics, isn't it? The question of complexity is certainly one that changes things: complexity of story, complexity of graphics, complexity of interface. If you think abou Ryan's week 2 post, if one takes the music away from a game, then is the game still a game? If we reduce the complexity of something like The Sims 2, then what do we have left? Are we pandering to make something less complex?
Is the "rambunctious, troubled kid who plays video games" simply a stereotype to scare parents? I wonder sometimes if we should give kids less sugar instead of worrying about less video games...
I love the idea that a noob perspective is better/ more objective. I have some thoughts on this that I'll share later in the quarter, but in the meantime, I'm sure we'll have some people who disagree.
I'd like to see some use of the actual texts, ie "When Ben Jones writes of DONKEY KONG, he notes...." Otherwise, it appears as if you did no reading.