Another gaming rant

smiaras

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mayordenis

well i'll put it this way i plat ALOT of games, spend alot oof time playing im on my way to training, ill probably head out and meet my mates later it doesnt effect your life really all you have to do is replace sleep with gaming, your not particularily social while im sleeping anyway.

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i love that line though its pure gold.

Pharcyde

I thought the irony(sp?) about that piece in the Herald was that it was all about the solitude of playing games and how it stifles young peoples interpersonal skills - why is it then that they chose a pic clearly promoting playing Top Spin on Xbox Live complete with Ms. Byram with her Xbox Live t-shirt and headset?!

The whole point of Live being to meet and befriend new people from all around the world!?

secret_squirrel

Pharcyde wrote:

The whole point of Live being to meet and befriend new people from all around the world!?

You dont expect a muppet journo from the herald to be able to make that distinction do you????

smiaras

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Pharcyde

With all the censorship on games, surely there should be some restrictions on that kind of uneducated ignorance!

flogen

yep, gaming stiffles peoples social skills... just like the internet, just like texting, just like television, just like movies, just like magazines, books or any types of reading. So does sleeping... and going to the toilet (except when drunk in a pub). Shaving... thats another one. Listening to music. Most hobbies too. Thinking. The radio. Walking on your own. Writing.

Jesus lads, I've spent so much time on the internet, listening to music and thinking I can't remember how to speak!


flogen

Tusky

Everybody plays games these days , from the popular kids to the nerds to the people who masturbate way too much ( If your playing multyplayer with that last kind you might want to bring your own joypad )

Waltons

If it wasn't games it'd be any other number of things as flogen said. I love the Herald, I do.

Jammer

i can fit college, sleep, food, work, pints and games into one day. i'm not the only one, surely?

ShiverinEskimo

no you certainly are not.
The funniest bit is how all consoles come with at least 2 ports. (most 4 now). If thats not encouraging social behaviour then is there any way the consoles can win this argument?
Its a bunch of parents looking to blame their failing as a parent on the electronics industry. "My son shot a kid, it must be the console - nothing to do with me keeping a loaded gun in a place where he can reach it and me not teaching him the rights and wrongs of life".
I reckon the age range of the target market for where these articles pop up is high enough to be talking to people who are likely to have never experienced a games console and therefore are likely to agree. Could you imagine FHM printing a story about the adverse effects of console gaming?
The whole thing of being afraid of the unknown comes into it for the target audience of the papers that print this crap. They play on the fears of their readers and make them believe that anything the kid wants to do is evil. Like the articles about teenagers on holiday doing drugs and shagging like rabbits and the rest. They find the biggest bunch of drunken slags and paint it out like every single one of us is like that when we go on holidays.
I try to ignore these articles but they really annoy me. Gaming should no longer be in a seperate category than movies and tv. violence and sex is available in all three areas and yet the newest and most misunderstood by the older generations is the one that is highlighted by the journo's as the most damaging and because most of the older generations are not in an experienced postion to have their own opinion on the subject they lap the stuff up and hence trust the journo and the paper and buy more.
The journo's should be asked to go through an entire game (fps preferably) and then make their decision based on their experiences throughout playing that game. Instead of making assumptions based on assumptions.

My god, looking back this is one helluva rant. sorry folks...

Horsefumbler

I'd say there has always been a small number of ppl who were lonerish and just stayed in their houses and played games and they're probably still around today. But they're in the vast minority. Pretty much everybody has a ps2 or something now so everybody can't all be billy no mates.

People who get that games are mainstream now are just out of touch

secret_squirrel

Horsefumbler wrote:

People who get that games are mainstream now are just out of touch

People who DONT get that games are mainstream - didnt you mean?

regeneration

Any journalist or academic who bothers researching the nature of video games, will find that social/multiplayer video games are the way the industry is developing these days, particuarly with the advent of the internet - NOT johnny loner playing the latest SP game (and anyone who still does prefer the solitary confinement of SP games is hardly going to be the type that otherwise would be out partying all night if it wasn't for video games). Ask any games company and they will tell you that with the average age of gamers going up and up, the market is for games that promote socialising, not distract from it. Aphra Kerr in this country is one of the few people being sensible about gaming research.