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"I, for one, actually do enjoy the cinematic cutscenes or trailers. They're entertaining to watch and really get me excited for a game. That being said, they usually have so little to do with how the game actually plays that it can be very misleading, especially to non-gamers. I remember reading about some controversy when the Dante's Inferno CG trailer played during the Super Bowl this last year and people were pissed when the game looked nothing like that.
For me though, I say keep the CG cutscenes and trailers coming. I enjoy watching them."
Monday, August 09, 2010
"I stand by your last one the most. I've never quite understood why all players should have control. We all have that friend, or friends in some case, that love to mess with everything while you're trying to set matches up. Sure maybe it's funny the first time, but after that it's just annoying."
Monday, August 09, 2010
"I really liked tis article. Specifically I liked the part about hanging out with your friends playing FPS. I play WoW and have made some really awesome friends on there. I have a few of the on my facebook, and sometimes my real life friends will ask where I know these people from. I will tell them from WoW and they cant seem to believe that I could make real friends with someone I've never met. It's tough to explain that, while we may not have met in real life, that we have spent a considerable amout of time getting to know these people. I guess its a gamer thing, to be able to bond over the internet like this.
Great article thoug"
Monday, August 09, 2010
"Nice Article! I find myself much in that same position. I tack most of it up to having been let down by games that I really thought would blow my mind. I do still attend the occassional midnight release at Gamestop, but not nearly as often as I did in my teen days. The last midnight release I went to was for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for WoW.
Though, I'm sure I would have been there for SC2 if I'd have had a spare $60 laying around."
Thursday, August 05, 2010
"I consider myself very luck to have grown up in a family that was well off enough that I did not have to chose between one system or another. I was lucky enough to have owned both the PS and the Saturn. That being said, I too loved my Saturn. Many of my friends knocked it and couldnt comprehend my love for it. None of that mattered, because I understoond it.
After its death I late gave my love to another underappreciated Sega system, the Dreamcast. Which still sits in my memories as one of my favorite systems ever. VMU's?? Freakin awesome.
&nbs"
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Even though my dad is still alive, I too have never really been able to bond with him on a deep level; at least on one as strong as me and my mom bonded on. I did find, much like you seem to have, that there are certain games that allowed me and my dad to bond.
One of the first games that we ever actually played together was Mario Kart 64. Man my dad loved that game as much as I did, if not more. He would hang out with my and my friends and take turns passing the controllers around and just have a good old time with us. After the N64 came and went I found myself with a Dreamcast and the game Soul Calibur 2. My dad never got very good at this game and I usually had to go easy on him, but that never distracted from the many hours of fun we had playing this game together.
My dad and I are not very close at all now a days. A lot of things have been said and done since my moms passing. It would be great to find a game that he and I could bond together over again and just have some quality time together without either one of us faking enjoyment.
On a personal note, I stuggled with my mom's death for a long time. It was a tough road for me, as I was very close to her. Do not let negative memories of your father during the time of his illness effect all the positive ones.
Thanks for opening up to us, I know it can be difficult."