Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Why you so obsessed with Wii?

No, i'm not going with that title... maybe I might but not for the moment

He woke up the morning, glancing at the Xbox controller that he tossed aside the night before, he sluggishly picks it up, switches on his Xbox and spends another day, doing what he always does, his obsession.

Gaming has been around since 1972, when a console called: “The Odyssey”, was released and ever since then, gaming has advanced further than anybody over 30 had expected, under 30’s kind of expected it. It has since then become an entertainment value to all, to some people though, gaming is an obsession, a passion to strive for and the only thing in life that can keep them going, day by day.
As I browsed the internet for my research, I found a website that had a blog, a blog which contained from and image that had been print screened while on Amazon for a product for adult diaper, below with the Frequently Brought Together section was an image of the product on the page and a game called: Call of Duty 4, which itself just proves how far some people will go to play games all day, without any interruptions what so ever, even daily needs, kind of sad how the world has come, to a world where skills that are learnt during youth, are ditch for such an obsession.
I also found a forum and in this forum, I found a thread that gamers were talking about games in general, and somehow less obsessive gamers had found this thread. When these people mentioned if these obsessive people had been outside, there only responses were things like: "What is this outside you speak of?" and "Outside, is that a new Role Playing Game?", so one person took it to their liberty to tell them to “Go outside” and one gamer took the challenge and came back with the response: “Wow! Look at the graphics out there, they’re amazing!” Can anyone encourage these gamers off their chairs and experience the movement of their bodies and the feel of fresh air?
Yes because Nintendo did something clever and invented the Wii, which would require effort such as moving your arm, and moving both your arms, both these efforts required the gamers to stand up, but whenever you see the adverts for Mario Kart, JLS were sitting down, so deifier of logic win?
There are even games that can educate you as well such as: “How old is your Brain” which is a game that makes you do English, Math’s and all sorts of questions that help you to improve your brain age and make you more intelligent, but what is this compared to Halo? You can’t kill anything except your stupidity, I mean killing freaky alien things on a faraway planet is so much better math’s, silly creators, no one likes school, Killings aliens is more addictive then Sudoku, if your under 30.
However, Microsoft came up with a clever idea to help encourage lazy obsessive gamers, the Xbox 360’s Kinect, which is a camera, which you stick on top of your 42” HD TV, the user acts as a controller, so the user will have no other choice but to stand up. The Kinect has had positive review as it encourages even the laziest of gamers to stand up, quotes such as: "I've got a Kinect for the Xbox 360, which means I don't have to go outside anymore!" and also “I got myself an Kinect, so I don’t have to walk over to the door, open it and go outside, I can just skip all that and just switch on the Xbox and get straight to the exercise, who needs all that oxygen anyway.
And as the darkness falls onto the world, he continues his gaming into the cold and dark of the night, until eventually sleep takes over his obsession.

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