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Oracle of Seasons, one of the most frustrating games in my memory but also one of my all-time favourites.
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It occurred to me recently that modern gamers are.... wimps. I'm not excluding myself here.
Whenever a gamer is punished for failure, such as a lives system they moan, they whine and they throw their controllers and say "games shouldn't have these features". The fact is that we are spoilt. A lot of next-gen games give players cheap thrills, immediate fun with no long-term fun or big hills to climb over.
The lives systems and game over screens give a game violent ups and downs, but I believe in some cases the pros outweigh the cons and I'd hate something so marvellous as this to be wiped from our culture.
Video games struggle with a very difficult fact: they have to oppose the player, but not make the player hate their opposition. It's hard to be an un-antagonising antagonist and sometimes it has to be hated to enjoy a victory over the game. Happiness can be brought through unity against a common enemy (in this case, the game), and unity is very rarely found without exclusion or shunning those who are not united.
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"Note" This article is for educational purposes only and should not be sold or edited for any other purpose. Thank you.
Now, where should I start... Okay. Fanboys are the most fat-headed, ignorant people you could EVER meet. If you don't know who or what a fanboy is then the picture above this article SHOULD give you a clue.
ARGUMENTS Anyway, let's start with reasons as to why they argue so much. Not to be confused with just a regular fan, the fanboy is the type of person to only have a desire for one certain game console/company and hate the rest for VERY unrelated reasons.
Example: Nintendo fanboys hate the PS3 because they think it's overpriced, while PS3 fanboys hate the Wii because they think it doesn't have any games that appeal to hardcore audiences.
As you can read, fanboys only focus on the positive reason for defending their favorite game console while completely ignoring the negatives. Instead they tend to fight back at fanboys on their opposite side with reasons as to why they hate the other's favorite. This may sound confusing at first, but it's VERY simple to...
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Now that can't be right....
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Yes, it’s that that time again when I spend ridiculous amounts of money on a console and whinge about it. Having now played and owning all three next-gen consoles, I’ll be giving a fair sum-up at the end, as last time I had to take a stab in the dark at the PS3 experience. A guided stab in the dark, mind you, having heard much about it and the game library (crickets chirping) it has in store for players. Anyway, let’s get right into it....
I’ll skip the description of set-up and online-sign-up, as I’d be reiterating what I said about the 360 with the exception of it being free. No money whatsoever for online play. Just shove the Ethernet cable into the back of your PS3 and give out your life story. Or in my case, tell it twice, the second time I claimed that I was born two months prior to my actual birth date. It seems that next-gen consoles have parental controls coating every corner of harmless fun. So much that I am still unable to play online games on the account which is aged 17 years and 10 months (my true age), rather I have to keep using the “Master Account”, an account for the head of the house or adult owner of the console to use. I have turned...
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