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This may be an odd kind of opinion for some, but I felt I had to share my thoughts about videogames (or it'll just continue going round' my head til' I go crazy)...
The question that remains constantly in my mind (Being a person who constantly plays videogames.): "Why do I play videogames so much?" has continously bothered me. My decision to do so has left me in a position of having not much in a way of a social life. I only have a small group of good friends, I don't go out of the house that much. In fact, I am a bit of an anti-social person, or I'm just sometimes too shy to talk to other people. (Hey! This isn't an opinion about me!) OK, I'll stop babbling now, but even when all of the above are happening to me - and I know I should stop sitting in front of the TV, playing Metal Gear Solid for the tenth time, and start going to the cinema, or something - I still continue to play videogames.
Whenever I'm playing a videogame, I get to become more "alive" than I am in the real world. I'm doing things I should really be doing in the real world (Things like talking to people in a confident way, etc. Not things like saying "Eat This!" and pulling out a machine gun and start shooting everybody in sight!). It might be the fact that the characters I interact to are just bits of data, programmed to have a specific response to whatever option I selected, but at least I know that the response they give me will be something that will make me feel better. (There are times when I embarrass myself for trying to say something that should have had a good response...)
Also, there's the fact that I can release all my anger at certain games. (No, I don't mean the "throw the CD/Cartridge into the floor and continously stamp on it with all your rage and make an evil laugh routine".) I usually get annoyed with people I meet at school/public places/home I just then realise that losing my temper at them will have much worse consenquences than shooting the living $%!& out of the ugly enemy from Metal Gear Solid.
There's also the fact that certain games have a way of getting me out of this world of ours, which sadly, seems to bore me now (for reasons I won't bother to write). Fantasy games, such as Final Fantasy may have worlds based on ours, but at least they have something exciting and fun you can do on them without many annoyingly unfair restrictions. I get this feeling this world of ours seems to have a way of making things that should have been fun be wrong, when it should have been perfectly all right to do. Most notably the teachers on my school, all I can really do is just talk to my friends with all those teachers watching every student's every step and action, anything I do can be punished with detention...
Well, I suddenly read all what I wrote again then I figured out something, that's me I'm talking about. I then wondered why everyone else plays videogames. I then came to a simple conclusion, which I think is the reason why they made vidoegames in the first place (I hope it is anyways.). Videogames were created because they're fun! Once you think all those sounds, polygons and bits of data (and others) have joined together, they create something everyone can all enjoy.
That's why we play them, because it's fun, and something we can all enjoy for various reasons. Except there's a problem you see. Everyone else (with only a good few exceptions, you know who you are!) seems to be bothered about why this game's going to rock because it can run a billion polygons per second, or why this sequel will be the best cos' the first one was. No one seems to care about how much fun this certain game is going to get anymore. I just wanted everyone to remember that, and next time, try to not read the rating on a review of a videogame (Don't care if it was one star or five star.), instead, read what the review says about the game, and if you like what it's about, then get it. Maybe even if it really got a one star, you'll still enjoy it in that nice unique way, which is what really matters...
The question that remains constantly in my mind (Being a person who constantly plays videogames.): "Why do I play videogames so much?" has continously bothered me. My decision to do so has left me in a position of having not much in a way of a social life. I only have a small group of good friends, I don't go out of the house that much. In fact, I am a bit of an anti-social person, or I'm just sometimes too shy to talk to other people. (Hey! This isn't an opinion about me!) OK, I'll stop babbling now, but even when all of the above are happening to me - and I know I should stop sitting in front of the TV, playing Metal Gear Solid for the tenth time, and start going to the cinema, or something - I still continue to play videogames.
Whenever I'm playing a videogame, I get to become more "alive" than I am in the real world. I'm doing things I should really be doing in the real world (Things like talking to people in a confident way, etc. Not things like saying "Eat This!" and pulling out a machine gun and start shooting everybody in sight!). It might be the fact that the characters I interact to are just bits of data, programmed to have a specific response to whatever option I selected, but at least I know that the response they give me will be something that will make me feel better. (There are times when I embarrass myself for trying to say something that should have had a good response...)
Also, there's the fact that I can release all my anger at certain games. (No, I don't mean the "throw the CD/Cartridge into the floor and continously stamp on it with all your rage and make an evil laugh routine".) I usually get annoyed with people I meet at school/public places/home I just then realise that losing my temper at them will have much worse consenquences than shooting the living $%!& out of the ugly enemy from Metal Gear Solid.
There's also the fact that certain games have a way of getting me out of this world of ours, which sadly, seems to bore me now (for reasons I won't bother to write). Fantasy games, such as Final Fantasy may have worlds based on ours, but at least they have something exciting and fun you can do on them without many annoyingly unfair restrictions. I get this feeling this world of ours seems to have a way of making things that should have been fun be wrong, when it should have been perfectly all right to do. Most notably the teachers on my school, all I can really do is just talk to my friends with all those teachers watching every student's every step and action, anything I do can be punished with detention...
Well, I suddenly read all what I wrote again then I figured out something, that's me I'm talking about. I then wondered why everyone else plays videogames. I then came to a simple conclusion, which I think is the reason why they made vidoegames in the first place (I hope it is anyways.). Videogames were created because they're fun! Once you think all those sounds, polygons and bits of data (and others) have joined together, they create something everyone can all enjoy.
That's why we play them, because it's fun, and something we can all enjoy for various reasons. Except there's a problem you see. Everyone else (with only a good few exceptions, you know who you are!) seems to be bothered about why this game's going to rock because it can run a billion polygons per second, or why this sequel will be the best cos' the first one was. No one seems to care about how much fun this certain game is going to get anymore. I just wanted everyone to remember that, and next time, try to not read the rating on a review of a videogame (Don't care if it was one star or five star.), instead, read what the review says about the game, and if you like what it's about, then get it. Maybe even if it really got a one star, you'll still enjoy it in that nice unique way, which is what really matters...
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I play video games because there aint alot else to do!
I was something brought in my parents, who couldn't be arsed to take their kids to the park!!
I play games ... so I can beat my mates. ;o).
I play games ... so I can beat my mates. ;o).
to aleviate boredom, to have fun, to be challenged......
=reasons why I plaay computer games
=reasons why I plaay computer games
Shame that this post won't win though as it's newbie scum. Only kidding, I will agree with Myst though about this being a blatent GAD attempt, but then everyone does them from time to time.
As for the answer, why do we play them. Well that's a stupid question. It's to enjoy ourselves and to take ourselves to somewhere were we can never go, to experience something that is a thrill and we can only dream about.
As for the answer, why do we play them. Well that's a stupid question. It's to enjoy ourselves and to take ourselves to somewhere were we can never go, to experience something that is a thrill and we can only dream about.
Well there you go, you write a review for Your Honour and look what happens, you end up winning a DVD for it. Any more films you want to know about Your Honour whilst on the topic?
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because they are fun.
there, sorted that out.
there, sorted that out.
cough*blatentGADattempt*cough
This may be an odd kind of opinion for some, but I felt I had to share my thoughts about videogames (or it'll just continue going round' my head til' I go crazy)...
The question that remains constantly in my mind (Being a person who constantly plays videogames.): "Why do I play videogames so much?" has continously bothered me. My decision to do so has left me in a position of having not much in a way of a social life. I only have a small group of good friends, I don't go out of the house that much. In fact, I am a bit of an anti-social person, or I'm just sometimes too shy to talk to other people. (Hey! This isn't an opinion about me!) OK, I'll stop babbling now, but even when all of the above are happening to me - and I know I should stop sitting in front of the TV, playing Metal Gear Solid for the tenth time, and start going to the cinema, or something - I still continue to play videogames.
Whenever I'm playing a videogame, I get to become more "alive" than I am in the real world. I'm doing things I should really be doing in the real world (Things like talking to people in a confident way, etc. Not things like saying "Eat This!" and pulling out a machine gun and start shooting everybody in sight!). It might be the fact that the characters I interact to are just bits of data, programmed to have a specific response to whatever option I selected, but at least I know that the response they give me will be something that will make me feel better. (There are times when I embarrass myself for trying to say something that should have had a good response...)
Also, there's the fact that I can release all my anger at certain games. (No, I don't mean the "throw the CD/Cartridge into the floor and continously stamp on it with all your rage and make an evil laugh routine".) I usually get annoyed with people I meet at school/public places/home I just then realise that losing my temper at them will have much worse consenquences than shooting the living $%!& out of the ugly enemy from Metal Gear Solid.
There's also the fact that certain games have a way of getting me out of this world of ours, which sadly, seems to bore me now (for reasons I won't bother to write). Fantasy games, such as Final Fantasy may have worlds based on ours, but at least they have something exciting and fun you can do on them without many annoyingly unfair restrictions. I get this feeling this world of ours seems to have a way of making things that should have been fun be wrong, when it should have been perfectly all right to do. Most notably the teachers on my school, all I can really do is just talk to my friends with all those teachers watching every student's every step and action, anything I do can be punished with detention...
Well, I suddenly read all what I wrote again then I figured out something, that's me I'm talking about. I then wondered why everyone else plays videogames. I then came to a simple conclusion, which I think is the reason why they made vidoegames in the first place (I hope it is anyways.). Videogames were created because they're fun! Once you think all those sounds, polygons and bits of data (and others) have joined together, they create something everyone can all enjoy.
That's why we play them, because it's fun, and something we can all enjoy for various reasons. Except there's a problem you see. Everyone else (with only a good few exceptions, you know who you are!) seems to be bothered about why this game's going to rock because it can run a billion polygons per second, or why this sequel will be the best cos' the first one was. No one seems to care about how much fun this certain game is going to get anymore. I just wanted everyone to remember that, and next time, try to not read the rating on a review of a videogame (Don't care if it was one star or five star.), instead, read what the review says about the game, and if you like what it's about, then get it. Maybe even if it really got a one star, you'll still enjoy it in that nice unique way, which is what really matters...
The question that remains constantly in my mind (Being a person who constantly plays videogames.): "Why do I play videogames so much?" has continously bothered me. My decision to do so has left me in a position of having not much in a way of a social life. I only have a small group of good friends, I don't go out of the house that much. In fact, I am a bit of an anti-social person, or I'm just sometimes too shy to talk to other people. (Hey! This isn't an opinion about me!) OK, I'll stop babbling now, but even when all of the above are happening to me - and I know I should stop sitting in front of the TV, playing Metal Gear Solid for the tenth time, and start going to the cinema, or something - I still continue to play videogames.
Whenever I'm playing a videogame, I get to become more "alive" than I am in the real world. I'm doing things I should really be doing in the real world (Things like talking to people in a confident way, etc. Not things like saying "Eat This!" and pulling out a machine gun and start shooting everybody in sight!). It might be the fact that the characters I interact to are just bits of data, programmed to have a specific response to whatever option I selected, but at least I know that the response they give me will be something that will make me feel better. (There are times when I embarrass myself for trying to say something that should have had a good response...)
Also, there's the fact that I can release all my anger at certain games. (No, I don't mean the "throw the CD/Cartridge into the floor and continously stamp on it with all your rage and make an evil laugh routine".) I usually get annoyed with people I meet at school/public places/home I just then realise that losing my temper at them will have much worse consenquences than shooting the living $%!& out of the ugly enemy from Metal Gear Solid.
There's also the fact that certain games have a way of getting me out of this world of ours, which sadly, seems to bore me now (for reasons I won't bother to write). Fantasy games, such as Final Fantasy may have worlds based on ours, but at least they have something exciting and fun you can do on them without many annoyingly unfair restrictions. I get this feeling this world of ours seems to have a way of making things that should have been fun be wrong, when it should have been perfectly all right to do. Most notably the teachers on my school, all I can really do is just talk to my friends with all those teachers watching every student's every step and action, anything I do can be punished with detention...
Well, I suddenly read all what I wrote again then I figured out something, that's me I'm talking about. I then wondered why everyone else plays videogames. I then came to a simple conclusion, which I think is the reason why they made vidoegames in the first place (I hope it is anyways.). Videogames were created because they're fun! Once you think all those sounds, polygons and bits of data (and others) have joined together, they create something everyone can all enjoy.
That's why we play them, because it's fun, and something we can all enjoy for various reasons. Except there's a problem you see. Everyone else (with only a good few exceptions, you know who you are!) seems to be bothered about why this game's going to rock because it can run a billion polygons per second, or why this sequel will be the best cos' the first one was. No one seems to care about how much fun this certain game is going to get anymore. I just wanted everyone to remember that, and next time, try to not read the rating on a review of a videogame (Don't care if it was one star or five star.), instead, read what the review says about the game, and if you like what it's about, then get it. Maybe even if it really got a one star, you'll still enjoy it in that nice unique way, which is what really matters...
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