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"Playstation for kids."

Due to popular demand I am not going to write about Nintendo, instead I am going to attempt some controversy. For those who don't know the Playstation is a console for the less mature person, some say kids but I will stick with less mature...

Now before someone like Turbonutter starts complaining and giving me a list of adult titles I need to ask you are they really adult. "OH so cool I blew his head off, tee hee", yes games filled with gore has an age certificate slapped on it but the amount of people I know who buy games because heads get blown off is amazing. "Is the game any good" I ask, "yeah it's all right, but I managed to pull this fat old lady out of her car and then I filled her full of lead". Wahey how erm mature, it isn't that I find senseless violence dull but it isn't this mature adult image everyone believes the Playstation has.

And then there are those who laugh as a Nintendo fan buys Pokemon. Now all Nintendo do as regards Pokemon is cover the senseless violence with cute graphics and it becomes a kid’s game when theoretically it isn't anything different to what you see on the Playstation, just cuter. And then it thoroughly frustrates me when the claim Mario and Yoshi are children's characters whilst they brush Teletubbies and Tweenies under the carpet. I see the Playstation as a system for 12 year olds who giggle at the site of Lara Croft's breasts and find Fear Effect 2 cool because it has lesbians in it...

But then I get confused at the Playstation's obsession with realism. GT3 is a realistic car sim, ok well then thought about driving a car? Admittedly that isn't probably the best example FIFA (despite being multi-format) is a mature realistic football game, yet for some unknown reason people play FIFA rather than grabbing a football that costs £30 less and kicking it around in the park. Meanwhile Sega Smash Soccer is a football game where you beat up your opponents, immature it maybe but at least it is different from real life! I'd choose Mario Kart over F1 World Grand Prix as if I want to be an F1 driver i will learn to be meanwhile no matter where I look being able to drive around a desert firing shells at my mates is something I just can't do.

So ok I am bound to dislike the Playstation being a Ninty an all but people who say to me Playstation is mature I disagree, and those who say Playstation rules as it is more realistic than the others then I think to myself... that guy has got his priorities wrong.

Here’s to the future

Dringo.

PS2 the place not to b wrote:
> the only mature console now is the microsoft xbox it is frickin amazin the only
> must have console on the uk market come the 14th

Yeah but it bought its way in... read can't by me love.

PS2 the place not to b wrote:
> the only mature console now is the microsoft xbox it is frickin amazin the only
> must have console on the uk market come the 14th


are you bill gates??

the only mature console now is the microsoft xbox it is frickin amazin the only must have console on the uk market come the 14th

Res€vilfan wrote:
> Dringo don't take this the wrong way I respect you and all but GIVE UP with
> these Nintendo Support, Sony suck type topics, please.

I very rarley make a sony sucks topic...

Res€vilfan wrote:
> Dringo don't take this the wrong way I respect you and all but GIVE UP with
> these Nintendo Support, Sony suck type topics, please.

And the way it works
> with age ranges I think you'll find most senior adults are PC Gamers followed by
> PS users, then Nintendo sitting right down at the bottom.

So you're saying Dringo can't express his opinion?

I'n not against Sony fans doing the same the other way round mind! I'd be arguing against their points, but I wouldn't be complaining about the topic. His point is quite an interesting and original point, and I agree with it!

Dringo don't take this the wrong way I respect you and all but GIVE UP with these Nintendo Support, Sony suck type topics, please.

And the way it works with age ranges I think you'll find most senior adults are PC Gamers followed by PS users, then Nintendo sitting right down at the bottom.

Mature/immature who cares if it's fun?

I believe that there are more options with fantasy as opposed to reality, as you aren't held by any realistic constraints, but for now there's plenty of new ground to cover with realism, so it's not like all realistic games are the same is it?

here's a quick equation for you:

If x=y then a>b

With x representing games, and y representing fun. a represents playing the game, b represents playing something else.

Now add this into it.

If x=r then a=a.

r is realism. If it's realistic, you won't play it anymore than you would have done had it not have been, but as we saw earlier, if it's fun, you do play it more.

That depends on the game though. Every game loses its appeal, it just depends how long. Right now I'm completing GTA3 for the third time, and I have the urge to play GT3 and Half-Life too. However I got bored of Mario and Yoshi very quickly. Does thsi disprove your point? Of course not, it's just the way things go.

I tend to find that realistic games are ver addictive to start with, but sooner or later they lose their appeal.

Realistic or not, If the game is fun then I will buy it and play it.


My most played games on the PS2?

Pro evolution soccer and GT3. Not becasue they are realistic, but just becasue I find them to be good games.