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People talk about games that are far to serious and that we need more humour in games these days, but I think it might be us that are too serious about games.
From the dawn of time (or at least the last few centuries) people have been obsessed with strange and unimportant things. Football is the biggy, although it is basically a game played by men (and nowadays by women too) kicking an inflated spherical object with the soul intention of getting it between two posts, it is seen as a way of life by many and has even started riots. Why? No one really knows why people treat it so seriously, just like many women can't miss their favorite soaps and some men religiously watch wrestling, although somewhere in the back of their minds they realise that it's all just actors and scripts, it's something better than their lives so they pretend it's real. Some people are even obsessed with war and join the army just to see some action. Now that's worrying.
What has all this got to do with games? Well, many of us here would confess to playing far too many hours on our PC or consoles, and those who don't usually have someone else telling them that they spend far too long on it anyway! Is this a good thing? Well, for the industry it's great. People obsessing over games means that they can sell more and appeal to an easy audience. It also means that the industry as a whole is fast growing into a giant to rival music and movies and now is recognised as an important sector of business.
For newspapers, of course, it's also an excellent reason to both sell more papers by putting in games reviews (even if half the time they don't know what they're talking about) and on the other hand sell papers by printing shock stories of the dangers of computers and children spending far too long bathed in dangerous TV radiation and not relating to human contact. Double standards? Maybe, but that's what tabloids are all about.
So what does it mean to us? Perhaps we should start breathing more fresh air and not spend far too long in front of a TV or monitor, lapping up the wonderful delights of games. Then again, what do the press know?! Perhaps it's all for the best and keeps people off of the streets. Either way, it makes people money and keeps an industry going. After all, looking at all the other things that people are obsessed with, I think games are pretty healthy.
You will have to excuse me now, I've just been forced to go off to interact with people and breath some of that fresh air that's apparently out there.
From the dawn of time (or at least the last few centuries) people have been obsessed with strange and unimportant things. Football is the biggy, although it is basically a game played by men (and nowadays by women too) kicking an inflated spherical object with the soul intention of getting it between two posts, it is seen as a way of life by many and has even started riots. Why? No one really knows why people treat it so seriously, just like many women can't miss their favorite soaps and some men religiously watch wrestling, although somewhere in the back of their minds they realise that it's all just actors and scripts, it's something better than their lives so they pretend it's real. Some people are even obsessed with war and join the army just to see some action. Now that's worrying.
What has all this got to do with games? Well, many of us here would confess to playing far too many hours on our PC or consoles, and those who don't usually have someone else telling them that they spend far too long on it anyway! Is this a good thing? Well, for the industry it's great. People obsessing over games means that they can sell more and appeal to an easy audience. It also means that the industry as a whole is fast growing into a giant to rival music and movies and now is recognised as an important sector of business.
For newspapers, of course, it's also an excellent reason to both sell more papers by putting in games reviews (even if half the time they don't know what they're talking about) and on the other hand sell papers by printing shock stories of the dangers of computers and children spending far too long bathed in dangerous TV radiation and not relating to human contact. Double standards? Maybe, but that's what tabloids are all about.
So what does it mean to us? Perhaps we should start breathing more fresh air and not spend far too long in front of a TV or monitor, lapping up the wonderful delights of games. Then again, what do the press know?! Perhaps it's all for the best and keeps people off of the streets. Either way, it makes people money and keeps an industry going. After all, looking at all the other things that people are obsessed with, I think games are pretty healthy.
You will have to excuse me now, I've just been forced to go off to interact with people and breath some of that fresh air that's apparently out there.
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hm.
Hey how is this a new topic then?
Edgy wrote:
No they
> don't! They say that games with humour and less seriousness are too
> babyish and they don't bother getting them!
e.g. Nintendo's full
> of humour and no seriousness at all games like the Mario series,
> Banjo Kazooie series, Donkey Kong series, etc
They just say Nintendo games are for kids...
Its not because their humerous, though it may be the style of humor... I cant imgaine Nintendo allowing a Father Ted /Black Books game :)
No they
> don't! They say that games with humour and less seriousness are too
> babyish and they don't bother getting them!
e.g. Nintendo's full
> of humour and no seriousness at all games like the Mario series,
> Banjo Kazooie series, Donkey Kong series, etc
They just say Nintendo games are for kids...
Its not because their humerous, though it may be the style of humor... I cant imgaine Nintendo allowing a Father Ted /Black Books game :)
Edgy wrote:
>No they don't! They say that games with humour and less >seriousness are too babyish and they don't bother getting >them!
>e.g. Nintendo's full of humour and no seriousness at all >games like the Mario series, Banjo Kazooie series, Donkey >Kong series, etc
When I said, in a different topic, that people wanted games to get more serious, lots of people corrected me and said they wanted to see more humour and less of the dark conspiracy type stuff.
Seems like I can't win! ;-)
I, and lots of other people I hope, like the Nintendo type of games as well as the realistic stuff. Without the mix it would be boring.
>No they don't! They say that games with humour and less >seriousness are too babyish and they don't bother getting >them!
>e.g. Nintendo's full of humour and no seriousness at all >games like the Mario series, Banjo Kazooie series, Donkey >Kong series, etc
When I said, in a different topic, that people wanted games to get more serious, lots of people corrected me and said they wanted to see more humour and less of the dark conspiracy type stuff.
Seems like I can't win! ;-)
I, and lots of other people I hope, like the Nintendo type of games as well as the realistic stuff. Without the mix it would be boring.
No no no no! (no) I read the Anti-social topic after writing this, when I had more time to browse the forum, and it's not the same thing at all. It does mention the point that people are stuck indoors all day etc, but if you read my original post, then you will see that this is the newspapers view of things, not mine or indeed most gamesplayers.
Sorry if any of it seemed like 'going over old ground' to you, it's not my intention to re-write something that's already been said (although it's difficult not to do these days with so many topics) but I try to show things in a different light and maybe a different point of view.
This is a similar problem to the various violence topics that did the rounds. Some of you didn't understand that I wasn't writing about violence in games making people bad, but something attached to the same argument which I felt needed a seperate topic. I try to reply to the original topic where I see fit and start new (and hopefully interesting) topics from my own thoughts on gaming etc, which I like to share with you (whether you like it or not, it seems!)
Sorry if any of it seemed like 'going over old ground' to you, it's not my intention to re-write something that's already been said (although it's difficult not to do these days with so many topics) but I try to show things in a different light and maybe a different point of view.
This is a similar problem to the various violence topics that did the rounds. Some of you didn't understand that I wasn't writing about violence in games making people bad, but something attached to the same argument which I felt needed a seperate topic. I try to reply to the original topic where I see fit and start new (and hopefully interesting) topics from my own thoughts on gaming etc, which I like to share with you (whether you like it or not, it seems!)
yes that control V made it so much clearer!
:P
:P
SNIPER wrote:
> PB this is a copy of the anti social topic argument! Your just
> wasting more space!
Yeah, but pb puts it a lot more clearly!
> PB this is a copy of the anti social topic argument! Your just
> wasting more space!
Yeah, but pb puts it a lot more clearly!
The Game wrote:
> Don't worry old boy...We will soon see some humor when Conker comes
> out...Trust Nintendo
Saying "old boy" reminded me of Star Trek Deep Space 9 where Sisko calls Dax "old man"
> Don't worry old boy...We will soon see some humor when Conker comes
> out...Trust Nintendo
Saying "old boy" reminded me of Star Trek Deep Space 9 where Sisko calls Dax "old man"
Don't worry old boy...We will soon see some humor when Conker comes out...Trust Nintendo
SNIPER wrote:
> PB this is a copy of the anti social topic argument! Your just
> wasting more space!
Wasting space? Freeola or whoever has control of the webspace for Special Reserve has as much as they like (just add some more hardware to the server which Special REserve probably sells or can get very cheap)
> PB this is a copy of the anti social topic argument! Your just
> wasting more space!
Wasting space? Freeola or whoever has control of the webspace for Special Reserve has as much as they like (just add some more hardware to the server which Special REserve probably sells or can get very cheap)
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