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not when your addicted, not for children when they could be spending time doing better things, even as adults there are better things than games, like reading books, far better for you.
Games just hit the sweet spot, in terms of enjoyment, but you come away from them with virtually nothing gained other than an experience, which you'll quickly forget and aim to replenish with a new gaming experience and on and on it goes.I disagree. Computer games have long since moved on from being an interactive visual stimulus. I don't play games to shoot people in the face repeatedly, I play them to be absorbed into a story. Indeed, as technology advances, the video game industry attracts more and more people from the film industry as script writers.
Unfortunately, 90% of video games only have a story at all because it is now 'expected' of them. Any narrative acts simply as a thin veneer which is widely ignored, while people get on with shooting people repeatedly in the face. 6 or 7 years ago I would have been a staunch defender of video games, I would have poo-pooed any suggestion that they breed violence.
Now, I'm not so sure. The novelty of shoot-em-ups and sand box crime-spree games have long since worn off (not to say I don't indulge in occasional face-shooting), yet I still enjoy playing certain videogames for their ability to entertain you with a good story. Games like deus ex, which I can still happily sit and put hours into, regardless of the very dated graphics and creaky game play.
Anyways, I think it's wrong to dismiss games as simple attention occupiers. It might be all they are for you, but there is far more to (some of) them than that.
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I'd have to disagree with COD being tactless, it's just different. Rather than highly symbiotic team play, there's a lot of psychology involved. Double bluffing your actions, second guessing others, when to reveal yourself, when not to, luring targets without camping, flanking teams, hunting. I get my pure teamplay kicks on Left 4 Dead, which absolutely relies on it; in fact it can take a while to get into a decent team, since so many players are idiots with no headset and the inability to understand that running off on your own is only going end with you being savaged in a lonely corner of the map by a rampant Jockey.
definately, the number of times i've gone through Hard rain only to be left 4 dead at the gangway of the boat when i can see someone has a defib. No XP for me CNUT!
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Apparently ya'll are pretty sick and wee into milk bottles so you don't have to leave the game.
Errrrrrr....
sorts life out
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I wouldn't drink my 40oz out of anything else
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/the-wall-crysis-2/64319
Crysis 2 is going to be soooooooooooo good.
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CryEngine video
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-10-crysis-2/64317Will be interesting to see how the consoles stand up to the pc version in the end, from what I've seen and read it's looking very good!
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Posted this elsewhere but thought you lot might like to know too.
Football Manager out on the iPhone!
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Crysis 2 for pc, xbox 360 and ps3 announced. Oh, and there's a trailer too.
Oh, and its set in New York...
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04/first-look-crysis-2-comes-to-consoles-destroys-nyc.ars
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In the waiting room prior to surgery this morning the TV was on a 'Good Morning something-or-other-show' with a mom campaigning against video game addiction. Apparently ya'll are pretty sick and wee into milk bottles so you don't have to leave the game.
Get help. Please.