• 26Aug 09

  The Games that Kids Would Play

  I wish I could write a lengthy thought provoking article about the following subject, but I just don't think it is within my literal capacity to achieve. So I will keep this short.

  There is a lot of banter between video game fans now about what is and isn't acceptable to play without the attached stigma of it being "for kids". A term which is becoming more and more contradictory of itself, I mean exactly how do you measure the so called childish factor of a game. It is be difficulty, body/blood count, the ability to stab people, the ESRB rating? I'm not sure about you guys but I'm a 23 year old IT tech and my work colleagues don't exactly sit around all day discussing the best way to rip off a human head. What I'm getting at is as much as you may like to think it, that chainsaw wielding, macho dismemberment fest of a game you are playing isn't really considered cultured adult entrainment.

  While the 14-18 years olds blow up people and cut off heads talking about how "not for kids this is", their parents are down stairs playing Brain Age and Wii Fit.

  To be perfectly honest if video game were ever to become a more acceptable form of entertainment for adults, I would stop playing them. Gamers, all gamers, at heart are just big kids regardless of age. The more seasoned of us started back in the NES and Atari years, were there was no blood or gore or any of the other element that go into making so called adult games. But we still played them, and they were just as enjoyable then as modern games are now.

  I guess what I am saying is that next time you try to utter "the Wii is for Kids" or try to decide just how "kiddie" a game is, give yourself a damn good slap in the face, because at the end of the day all games are.

  • Posted Aug 26, 2009 4:28 am GMT
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• 11Jan 09

  My Gaming To Do List (for the next month or so)

  1. Get WoW Rogue to level 80 (done)
  2. Get WoW Death Knight to Northrend. (done and way more so)
  3. Place pre-order for Killzone 2. Also find out about the CE version (got, played, completed, playing online)
  4. Complete Prince of Perisa (done)
  5. Complete last setlist in GH:WT (done, apart from satchboogie)
  6. Start Condemnd 2
  7. Put game discs back in boxes (like 25 of them I took on holiday with me) (done)
  8. Order Motorstorm 2 at some point
  9. Start doing Northrend instances with 80 Warrior. (done, sorta regearing war to tank now)
  10. Play Street FIghter 4! (played completed)
  11. Change my profile banner

  • Posted Jan 11, 2009 12:09 am GMT
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• 9Oct 08

  My Completed Games (A Neverending List)

  Got the idea for this from someone on my friends list here. Now most of these are from memory and there is no way I will be able to remember or even have the time to add them all at once.

  Edit: OK I have added the first batch. The lists that are complete are Xbox 360 and PS3 since all I have to do is go through my collections for each. The rest I will probably never all of them but it will be fun trying.
  PS.The Gamecube collection I think is also complete.
  PPS. And PSP.....maybe

  NES
  Duck Tales (2 times at least), Blades of Steel

  Sega Mega Drive

  Game Boy

  Game Boy Advance
  Tekken Advance,

  Dreamcast

  PSP
  Metal Gear Acid, Metal Gear Acid 2, Syphon Filter Dark Mirror, GTA Liberty City Stories, Killzone Liberation, Tony Hawks Underground 2, NFS Underground Rivals, Daxter, Burnout Legends, X-Men Legends 2

  Playstation
  Metal Gear Solid (22 times roughly, I lost count around number 18), Vigilante 8, Syphon Filter, Final Fantasy 8, WWF Smackdown,

  Playstation 2
  Psi Ops, Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater (2 times), Shadow of the Colossus, Street Hoops, Devil May Cry 3 (2 times), Onimusha 3, Onimusha 2, Onimusha 1, Killzone,

  Playstation 3
  Resistance Fall of Man, Guitar Hero 3, Unreal 3, Uncharted (2 times), Ratchet and Clank Future, Heavenly Sword, Rachet and Clank Quest for Booty, Metal Gear Solid 4, Guitar Hero Aerosmith

  Xbox 360
  Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway, Halo 3 (4 times at least), Call of Duty 4 (2 times), Assassins Creed, Perfect Dark Zero, Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet, Gears of War (4 complete play throughs at least), Bioshock, Spider-Man 3, Saints Row, Crackdown, Need for Speed Most Wanted (2 times), Dead or Alive 4, Fight Night Round 3, GRAW1 (2 times), GRAW2 (2 times), Turok (2 times), Just Cause, Oblivion, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Splinter Cell Double Agent (2 times), Orange Box (all games once I think), Tomb Raider Legends, Tomb Raider Anniversary, FEAR (3 times), Dark Sector, Timeshift (2 times), Condemed (3 times), NBA Street Homecourt, Dead Rising (2 times), Army of Two (2 times), Call of Duty 2 (2 times), Call of Duty 3 (2 times), The Darkness (2 times), Rockstar Table Tennis, Strangle Hold, King Kong, Burnout Paradise, GTA 4, Guitar Hero 2, Star Wars Force Unleashed, The Godfather, Rockband

  Xbox
  Halo (3 times), Halo 2 (4 times), Black (2 times), Ninja Gaiden, GTA San Andres, Unreal 2, Munch's Oddesy, Jade Empire, Mercenaries, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Prince of Persia 3 (2 times)

  Gamecube
  Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Prince of Persia 2, Eternal Darkness, Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4 (2 times), Spider-Man 2, Metroid Prime, Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes (2 times), True Crime Streets of LA, SSX 3, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0, Zelda Wind Waker

  PC
  Crysis, World of Warcraft (if getting at least 1 level 70 counts), Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast (2 times), Gears of War, Command and Conquer Generals, KOTOR (2 times), Halo

  • Posted Oct 9, 2008 7:37 am GMT
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