JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for December 09, 2012
December 08, 2012
December 10, 2012
Transcript:
This is the video game I want for christmas. "call of code red black ops" Can you handle it? this is that video fame Jojo wants. Id snatch it up if I were you. Its hot this year. I don't know, joe... too expensive? Too realistic! Im a cop, Marcy. you're a nurse.... our jobs are realistic! this is only a game. good point plus mojo will be so excited. like you are. You saw this?
Michael Thorton almost 12 years ago
The sadder thing is that the story elements of these games are being overlooked and discarded by halfwit gamers.
There’s a reason these games are rated “Mature” and it’s not because of the blood and gore. There are adult issues that have to be faced in these games and the stories are written to reflect that.
Academics in Oxford are trying to pioneer the idea that video games should be treated and studied as an academic discipline.
ewalnut almost 12 years ago
I wonder if kids would enjoy these types of games so much if they had to write “game reports” on them after playing them — talking about story, themes, characterization and such — the way we had to do with “book reports” in school.
hippogriff almost 12 years ago
Karl Fairburne: The American Psychological Society refuse to acknowledge that video games are addictive, despite studies showing they are; yet they describe the psychiatric specialty of treating this addiction as a “hot career”. The tabletop role-playing games, originally targeted for every crime and abnormality, actually avoid these problems by involving more than one player. It is hard to get even a small group to go for double-digit hours on a game, and thus creates a cap on involvement.
tegm almost 12 years ago
hehehe, sounds like a pretty cool game!