Not to nitpick, but the french term for "For example" is acoually "Par example", not "Pour example."

Yes, I'm a jerk.

Anyways, still haven't bought anything on Wiiware, gotta save my money for Lego Indiana Jones and Ninja Gaiden II coming June 3.

Ha! Blog interrupted. Oh well. Think of it as a comment.

Para ejemplo
I'm still too lazy to download ninja gaiden dragon sword so I'm not sure how good it is :p

Yeah, I'm aware of the proper French term. Instead, I used the popular misconception. I'm a bit different that way.

Love the comments, although I don't expect to get too many, what with there being *pauses to count*... 5 people on this forum?

Meh, I drift in and out

so make that 4 1/2

What's up Seraph, you're supposed to update this on Wednesdays. Well, whatever. Since you didn't, I've got a new piece of video game news/gossip to throw out there.


Rumour has it that Squenix (that's Square Enix for you non-abbreviators) is currently designing a Wiiware game that will make use of the Wii Balance Board. Details are sketchy, so we don't even know what type of game it'll be.

I pesonally have my fingers crossed for a revamped version of the FFVII snowboarding game.

Bah, for your information, I update on wednesdays after work. AFTER! AFTER!!!!

Anyway...

May 21, 2008: Why So Sluggish?

As far as I know, nothing at all intriging happened today. Or yesterday. Or... you get the idea. The only news I could find what what Scizzoman already said (rumour) and that DQ is being remade on the DS, which people knew for quite some time.

In personal news, I recently I procured Age of Conan for the PC. Needless to say, I am very delighted with the game, despite it running on a pretty bad framerate on my PC. One thing that you can be sure of in M-rated videogames, is that people are going to complain about it. The same can be said for AoC.

Whether it's the vulgar, barbaric-style language, the sexuality or the head-chopping, people are still going to ignore the game's finer points and focus only on the things that make it "inappropriate".

It isn't the first time this has happened. It happened with GTA back in the early 2000's, Mass Effect and Manhunt 2 just least year, and that's just the tip of the iceburg.

You might be wondering, what kind of content could this game contain to make people so angry? Well, I started the game off as a slave who's ship was wrecked. Immediately, some black guy helps me. Then I talk to a woman blocking my path. She's all... *cough* *cough* tied up. Apparently she was... ahem... abused. So I smash the face of the guy who has her key with a broken oar. Then, hoping for some money, she ends up being dead weight and follows me. Well, after killing my slave master (but not before using a few choice words like "whoreson" "discusting, swine of a bastard") she tells me that she can't reward me, but to come to the city later so we can "work out an arrangement". Now, I haven't gotten into the city yet, so I haven't found her, but I can only assume that she was offering sex.

With that in mind, I really don't think that the game is any different than most. It says right on the box: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Nudity, Sexual Themes.

So... why are people being pricks? Is it just a desire to make everything more complicated than it needs to be? Can parents no longer trust the ESRB? My answer to both is yes, but that's just me.

Anyway, I'm just a little pissed. I always thought of video games as being a way to convey an artistic vision to an audience in a way that revolutionizes interaction. If there can be X-rated movies, why can't people accept Ao-rated games?

Oh, and about my ESRB comment, I'll be putting a few of my thoughts on that organization into my next entry.

Until then,
Faram.
Death Seraph,
Bringer of Order

You make some good points, even if thety have been said before.

It seems to me that most of the people who go after video games are people who know nothing about them trying to get their 15 minutes of fame. I'm looking at you Jack Thompson.

It doesn't help that things are often blown way out of proportion by the media. The so-called "graphic sex simulation" in Mass Effect could've been in a PG-13 movie. It's nothing worse than something you'd see in a James Bond movie, yet they turned it into some huge scandal.

But whatever, nobody's ever going to take the media seriously on these sorts of subjects. Thry just don't sound like they know what they're doing half the time. When a Fox News report repeatedly (and I mean 10-15 times) called Grand Theft Auto IV "Grand Theft Audio", are you really going to take them seriously? I would hope not.

This article sums it up the best though. Basically refutes every popular misconception about games. A great read if you're interested in this sort of thing.

http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolu ... myths.html

wow expecting me to read all that?