Gamers?

[Chris Johnson]

hey i know how to drive too

[Tampaboy19N]

but ur on restriction for abuse

[Chris Johnson]

how the hell did you know that?

[Tampaboy19N]

[quote author=~[C.J.]~ link=board=comments&thread=1094872067&start=47#3 date=1095617982]how the hell did you know that?[/quote]

funny how things work out?

[Chris Johnson]

why are you always on my case for?

[Tampaboy19N]

ur the one who keeps talking to me. i try to leave you alone.

[Ryan in the House]

tampaboy19n said:

i disagree, sorry

Disagree if you must, but I'll never be convinced that organization is a BAD idea.

[sephiroth]

i guess I kinda miss it

[l]

Video gaming is often childish? does anyone agree wih me?

[Fatal Rewind]

Purp said:

Video gaming is often childish? does anyone agree wih me?

Depends on what you mean...if it's been some trend in the gaming industry for the last couple of years to have some kind of game where farting is a character's main line of defense (like in the Beavis and Butthead game for the Genesis), then that would be pretty childish (I don't know, I've no idea what's going on in the gaming industry nowadays). Seems to me a lot of the stuff out now by reading the descriptions on game boxes at Wal-Mart and all seem to be first person shooters, strategy games that require 100 page booklets in order to figure out how to command your armies and all, compilations of video games from the 70s-80s (Atari and all), and maybe one or two other genres that I can't think of right off the bat (sports games).

Plenty of games out there require a lot of strategy, like the classic Lemmings games, where they can have over 100 levels, with little lemmings trapped in places on screens and you have to assign certain lemmings with certain abilities to safely get them out of the level...the Genesis version had 180 levels, and on a five day rental I got through I think 120 of them (which took a LOT of playing, but I had the week off, so why not?), several of which were real brainbusters to try to figure out. I need to eventually get that game some day...

And take my handle of a game for the Sega Genesis...here's part of a review that I wrote up (yet to go up on a gaming site) describing only part of one of it's levels, although it's not going to make much sense without the whole review to go with it, as you must transverse from level to level, shoot and collect things to make it to the top...but it's still a good example to see if it's childish or a difficult strategy/puzzle game:

After you blast open a canister, there’s a square key inside it; grab it. Insert the key into its keyhole. There’s a teleporter that sends you to another part of the maze; use it and grab the octagon-shaped key (and by the way, I’m leaving out several tidbits in regards to shooting open the canisters and jumping from platform to platform), then teleport back. Once that square key was placed into it’s keyhole, it activated a chain that lowered down, so climb up it and use the teleport at the top of that platform (this is a different teleport, unlike the one I mentioned earlier) and grab the round key, then teleport back again to use the key. Teleport back to the octagon key, grab it (and just to remind you, remember, you can only carry one key at a time), teleport again, climb the new chain that appeared from using the previous key so you can shoot a switch to raise the chain back up so you can grab a triangle-shaped key, shoot the switch again to lower the chain back down (the chain was blocking your access to the key), climb up the chain, use the (new) teleport there, insert the key, then teleport back, grab the key that’s shaped like home base in baseball, teleport, use the key, teleport back, grab the octagon key, teleport back, and then you will FINALLY use the blasted thing.

Doesn’t sound too simple, eh Einstein? And keep in mind, that doesn’t include all the HALFs that are attacking in the meantime, accidentally using the wrong teleport, which going back to use the right one will cost you time, the chains that allow you to climb higher in the maze can only be mounted from one side (so if you try to jump on the wrong side of one, you’ll fall), you have to make it to all of the keys before they’re covered in acid, you’re going to die several times before you figure out the moves outlined in the above paragraph AND this was only a small part of this level’s description…among other things. Like I said earlier, logic doesn’t always prevail, as the octagon key was one of THE first keys you picked up in that sequence, but then it ended up being the last one you used (insert exploding head image here).

If you're trying out video games and they seem childish, just look around and you'll find more challenging puzzle ones like this one above that will actually make you think before you can come anywhere close to beating it, which is a very difficult thing to do.

[Ryan in the House]

Purp said:

Video gaming is often childish? does anyone agree wih me?

Posting in a forum as an imposter reincarnation of a former member is often childish. does anyone agree wih me?