I found this interesting little article: Video-Game Journalism: A Joke
What particularly interested me was the snide comment 'published literature about games about games surely you jest'.
Firmly at the core of my passion for gaming is a deep rooted belief in the emotion games can evoke. I can not see why games are regarded as second rate media. Plots in games can be as involving and evocative as any cinema release or book published. Characters are deep and there is a genuine capacity to care for these computer generated images. Landscapes are breathless and limitless. What is the difference say, between Avatar and Gears of War? The interactive element? Surely that makes the medium more involving and adds interesting dimensions? Can it be said then, that video games are in fact a higher medium of entertainment?
One day, I will write a book about this sort of thing. Now that would be published literature about games.
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
I'M BACK!
Yes yes yes, I know it's been a bloody long time, but internet over the summer has been pretty limited. Even now I'm tapping away on Aarons laptop. Hopefully they'll be a new laptop in Satas sack for me :)
So what's prompted this dramatic return to blogging? I've just watch Panorama and the title of this weeks addition? Addicted to Videogames. Yeah, you heard right, more bad press for video games. Suprisingly however, video games weren't presented as being the most depremental thing to the youth generation since rock and roll. The focus was much more on the individuals who are 'addicted' (although the application of this term is debateable) to gaming and less of an attack on videogames themselves. All in all, fasinating stuff.
My thoughts? I think with everything the problem lies not in the medium but the individual. Show someone with an addictive personality cocain, and I imagine they'll become addicted. Show them a copy of World of Warcraft, I'm sure they'll become addicted to that too.
So there you go. What else... I'm currently playing Fallout: New Vegas, so once thats done, I'll post my thoughts on that. And I'll be starting my dissertaion proposal in the new year, which I fully intend on gearing toward gaming. Videogames as Valid Media or perhaps The Medias Portrayal of Videogames Through the Years... something along those lines. So you can look forward to a five thousand word essay sometime in the future.
Much love :)
So what's prompted this dramatic return to blogging? I've just watch Panorama and the title of this weeks addition? Addicted to Videogames. Yeah, you heard right, more bad press for video games. Suprisingly however, video games weren't presented as being the most depremental thing to the youth generation since rock and roll. The focus was much more on the individuals who are 'addicted' (although the application of this term is debateable) to gaming and less of an attack on videogames themselves. All in all, fasinating stuff.
My thoughts? I think with everything the problem lies not in the medium but the individual. Show someone with an addictive personality cocain, and I imagine they'll become addicted. Show them a copy of World of Warcraft, I'm sure they'll become addicted to that too.
So there you go. What else... I'm currently playing Fallout: New Vegas, so once thats done, I'll post my thoughts on that. And I'll be starting my dissertaion proposal in the new year, which I fully intend on gearing toward gaming. Videogames as Valid Media or perhaps The Medias Portrayal of Videogames Through the Years... something along those lines. So you can look forward to a five thousand word essay sometime in the future.
Much love :)
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