Lately in the little shell i live in i have noticed theres been an increase of.....

People who critcise games without ever understaing that doing so is like saying...."That sandwhich tastes good" without even picking it up to take a bite from it.....

(sorry i had the link to a clip but i accidentally closed out the window which im sure this is old anyway but im linking it anyway!)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/80900-EA-Responds-to-Mass-Effect-Report-on-Fox-News

what amused me was that one of the news reporters in the clip (that i couldnt find) actually said that all the members of the ESRB should have their heads examined. Even more so however that they had Geoff Keighley there and while he was explaining things their "ANTI-VIDEO GAME" logic said "sex is right out there in the open, MUST FIND BAN HAMMER".

I'm used to alot of people not giving the credit it is due...mostly to bad parenting...which leads me to this new topic i have just come acrossed while randomly surfing the net while thinking of something to type.

The Environmental Alliance of New Mexico is calling for a new tax on televisions and videogames, which will be used to fund outdoor education programs.

The group is seeking the implementation of a 1 percent levy on game consoles and televisions, which it says will raise $4 million per year that could go toward the "Leave No Child Inside" initiative. Studies have linked videogames and television with poor academic performance and increased rates of obesity and attention-deficit disorder, according to a report in the Huffington Post, while a study funded by the Sierra Club, which also initiated the tax plan, determined that one week of outdoor education offered the same "beneficial impact" as six weeks of ****oom time.

Once again it shows that parents just let their kids do whatever...you can have the strictest parents int he world, but what about when parents arent home what are the kids going to do. Parents cant have eyes everywhere (invasion of privacy or some such...whatever). regardless if kids aren't on the couch at home...they are on the couch at a friends couch. Then again this cant just be blamed on the parents, maybe if teachers made homework more dun then feeling like a chore thats boring that noone wants to do..why would a kid do it when theres a perfectly good mediocre game sitting in front of them and a "Mom Can you bring me a snack?" right around the corner?

Kids use video games to escape reality..pure and simple..maybe homelife isnt so great..parents fighting and whatnot (which im sure causes more violent behavior in people then a grand theft auto game ever will). Well either way it comes down tot he person playing the games cause no matter what you do the person is going to play the game anyway (my parents didnt care what i played when i was younger, but I dont have the urge to go out and randomly hit people with baseball bats...etc). I dont know much about AD-HD or whatever it is..but i think whatever meds those people use might be the the issue. The other day i saw a commerical for some pill that was supposed to help restleg leg syndrome or whatever it is..however one of the side effects was "urges to gamble" or along those lines..ok if a pill for restless leg could increase gambling urges who knows what those with ADHD will experience when playing games (which may or may not be a good idea as it is...but i cant say.)

Everyone experiences games differently....

Multiplayer

I have this to say about multiplayer "Meh" and people who review games and use "lack of multiplayer online or offline causes this game to get...3 or 4 stars" or whatever need to wake up...a game DOES NOT NEED MULTIPLAYER. Sure a game COULD have it but it doesnt NEED IT...most of the time a multiplayer feature causes the already short game to become even shorter... Example Halo 3....we all expected something truly epic...but we got a short campaign mode and multiple multiplayer options (the Co-Op Campaign feature i do like however). Bioshock didnt seem all that long (sorry havent played it in a while...and my 360 pulled the Red Ring of Death recently....yay for towel trick..boo that it didnt last long) but then again Bioshock didnt seem to off much as a challenge but thats one of the games I would have hated to see multiplayer on...*shiver*. In my opinion all games should be 2 discs...One disc for an epic nice and long single player...story/campgain and the second disc dedicated to multiplayer.

This offers i dunno more options i suppose since there can be more disc space for both items to vastly improve both...

Games will be longer (lets face it games are slowly getting shorter and shorter...)
then the other Disc for Multiplayer which can offer more features then...Capturing control points and flags in like.....3 different settings (I'm looking at you Team Fortress 2....wish it had more to offer but my grilfriend plays it more then i do).


I suppose I'll end this here im sure I already got the "Too much text did not read" message a few times. -_-

So until i get another idea...TTYL

I would like to know what is so great about Gears of War. I have had it since release and i dont see the "greatness" that everyone talks about. 
No i dont have High defenition..but i have seen it in High definition...and everything looked like plastic to me. I beat the game...havent touched it since. Had a friend play it and he says it is the greatest game ever. Come to think of it people say its the greatest game ever then why do at least 80% of people say Gears of War is a FPS (First Person Shooter), when it is clearly a third Person. 
I still dont understand....

Finally figured out how to get my gamercard to display the games played thing.