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11 years ago
I may be an average Joe that sits down and plays video games, watch movies or even reading. (Currently reading Bioshock Rapture, it's very rich in detail and explains a lot of what happened before the events of the first game.) But the one category I do spend the most time with is of course video games, hey I'm human, I love em. But I do treat them no different from movies or books, I think most of us know that the video games are becoming a more vibrant media rather than a toy, even toys can be considered more than a plaything in some points, as far as I see it, they can be decorations as well for a personal touch. I even have a few Sonic and Mario plushes in my den that I still put up on the DVD shelf for filling in that bland gap. Even the figurines I get from certain editions of movies and games I put them up on my huge CRT TV.
But getting back on track, the way I treat games are no different from movies or books, I think, I listen, I input, I critique and see what other people think but still keep in mind that I should not be afraid to say what I think, but respect the other's experience. (To a degree, no one likes white knights or fanboys/fangirls.) It's all about agreeing, disagreeing with dignity and agreeing to disagree. Like all three mediums, they have their good, decent and just pure insults to our intelligence. Every Call of duty game since Modern Warfare 2 and almost every Michael Bay movie made would be a prime example of the last statement, at least Bad Boys 1 and 2 made me laugh, they're popcorn movies at best. I've seen that games can be like both movies and books, intellectual, informative, creative and even teach us a lesson, in a lot of topics or subjects. I treat my collection like a library, different shelves for platform, alphabetical order and always put them away, never leaving them around the place. I know and look up trivia and how things happened behind the scenes. (You can't help but to know the working people's stories who make it happen.)
Like a normal bloke, I do keep in mind about my weight. I ain't at the peak of health, but I do walk and trying to find work. Why am I saying all of this? Well, I think I have mentioned that I hate current society. But I can't help but to heavily pity the current and the so called new generation. Games are a big part now a days, but now it's being blamed and categorised as one of the causes for how spoilt, unsympathetic and corrupt the generation is. There are other reasons, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot of problems that spawned from it, if there is one good argument for things like this happening is we just tolerated it, about the video that is mentioned on the subject name, here is almost everything that is listed about what I'm saying.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXqydQOz2o
You've seen that? The sad fact is, it's such a great idea, but I still see kids, even grown men like that kid in that one brief example that Bob gives. I don't agree everything on what he says, but he speaks a lot of truth in this vid. I remember playing Call of Duty: Black Ops (Last COD game I got. Thank crap my sanity and intellect was saved.) on Playstation 3. I encountered a kid that went by the name niko4life, when we where going to the next map, was Hanoi, you know, the map that was based of the NVA prison, the Hanoi Hilton. I was a huge war history reacher since I was seven, when I was 13, I took interest in the Vietnam War. (Second Indochina war) I knew the flags, guns, tanks, helicopters and all military aspect. That kid said, and I quote both me and myself.
Okay! We're in Japan now!
Uh, this is North Vietnam....
No! It's Japan, it's World War 2!
No mate, this is Hanoi, during the Vietnam War.
Nooooo!!! Japan! It's world war 2!!!!
Then why are we using 1960 gear? Why is there a NVA flag? Why are there helicopters?
Noooooooooo!
That was all in voice chat, I hated that moment where most of my hopes for the better gamer was lost, I can list a lot of encounters like that, but I might list that another time....
But I have met some intelligent and knowing people that don't need to be explained on what I say. That makes me smile a bit. Those I have met so far, thank you.
It's my first journal and I'm rusty with English, if I drag anything out or mistakes, let me know, but be dignified, we are human after all.
But getting back on track, the way I treat games are no different from movies or books, I think, I listen, I input, I critique and see what other people think but still keep in mind that I should not be afraid to say what I think, but respect the other's experience. (To a degree, no one likes white knights or fanboys/fangirls.) It's all about agreeing, disagreeing with dignity and agreeing to disagree. Like all three mediums, they have their good, decent and just pure insults to our intelligence. Every Call of duty game since Modern Warfare 2 and almost every Michael Bay movie made would be a prime example of the last statement, at least Bad Boys 1 and 2 made me laugh, they're popcorn movies at best. I've seen that games can be like both movies and books, intellectual, informative, creative and even teach us a lesson, in a lot of topics or subjects. I treat my collection like a library, different shelves for platform, alphabetical order and always put them away, never leaving them around the place. I know and look up trivia and how things happened behind the scenes. (You can't help but to know the working people's stories who make it happen.)
Like a normal bloke, I do keep in mind about my weight. I ain't at the peak of health, but I do walk and trying to find work. Why am I saying all of this? Well, I think I have mentioned that I hate current society. But I can't help but to heavily pity the current and the so called new generation. Games are a big part now a days, but now it's being blamed and categorised as one of the causes for how spoilt, unsympathetic and corrupt the generation is. There are other reasons, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot of problems that spawned from it, if there is one good argument for things like this happening is we just tolerated it, about the video that is mentioned on the subject name, here is almost everything that is listed about what I'm saying.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXqydQOz2o
You've seen that? The sad fact is, it's such a great idea, but I still see kids, even grown men like that kid in that one brief example that Bob gives. I don't agree everything on what he says, but he speaks a lot of truth in this vid. I remember playing Call of Duty: Black Ops (Last COD game I got. Thank crap my sanity and intellect was saved.) on Playstation 3. I encountered a kid that went by the name niko4life, when we where going to the next map, was Hanoi, you know, the map that was based of the NVA prison, the Hanoi Hilton. I was a huge war history reacher since I was seven, when I was 13, I took interest in the Vietnam War. (Second Indochina war) I knew the flags, guns, tanks, helicopters and all military aspect. That kid said, and I quote both me and myself.
Okay! We're in Japan now!
Uh, this is North Vietnam....
No! It's Japan, it's World War 2!
No mate, this is Hanoi, during the Vietnam War.
Nooooo!!! Japan! It's world war 2!!!!
Then why are we using 1960 gear? Why is there a NVA flag? Why are there helicopters?
Noooooooooo!
That was all in voice chat, I hated that moment where most of my hopes for the better gamer was lost, I can list a lot of encounters like that, but I might list that another time....
But I have met some intelligent and knowing people that don't need to be explained on what I say. That makes me smile a bit. Those I have met so far, thank you.
It's my first journal and I'm rusty with English, if I drag anything out or mistakes, let me know, but be dignified, we are human after all.
As much as I hate Call of Duty now with a passion, I still remember why I liked it when they where on the right track, a game about showing the POV of average men and women who, made history, no matter the side, showing the military aspect of the war, showing soldiers answer the Call of Duty, if there is one thing a game could at least do is live up to the title. But now, it's just a plaster that says "I'm the shizzle, buy me!" I'm not complaining about it's popularity, but Popularty does not equal quality. And what has Call of Duty got? Stories that are fictionized and full of bullshit in the plot, whining kids on multplayer that think that they are gods amongst men and no hope of it being fun or at least showing some teaching of what it was like for combatants in warfare. Sadly almost every other game in the triple A area is going down like Call of Duty, remember when Battlefield was smart and fun, if Hardline can't live up to what it's saying, I guess there is no point of return.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl.....ild-own-studio
I think he had a wikipedia page. But I do know for sure he worked on Padyday.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl.....ild-own-studio
I think he did have a wiki paideia page. But I do know for sure he worked on Padyday.