Who here prefers Video Games over other forms of media?

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trashleg said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Lastgengamer said:

I do because they can combine music, video, reading, and of course game play. that's not to say other types of media aren't nice though.    

 

Agree? Disagree?

I prefer reality. 

It combines music, video, reading, gameplay, automatically comes in Hi Def for free, and has the best control setup ever.

yeah but it also has shocking charge times (8 hours out of every 24?! wtf? thats like a THIRD of the whole time!) and requires way too much manitenance = debugging, cleaning, energy supply, 100% failure rate eventually.

 

oh, and you only get one life.

Lemmy know how your Atari 2600 is getting on in another 40 years. The only thing I find annoying is all the fluid leakage that happens, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Some people reckon you get more than one life. Trouble is, if we do there seem to be very few who remember anything that happened before the save point, and it looks like you have to start right back at the beginning and even play through the tutorials again. And I still haven't figured out the cheat codes.

OP: Disagree. There is a lot to like about videogames, but when it comes to really hitting the right aesthetic buttons there are other medai (I assume you mean entertainment media) that do it better. In it's current state videogames lack sophistication in all aspects of aesthetics. Even interactivity is a mere shadow for actual human contact or contact with the world around us. If course it does allow us to shoot stuff, blow things up, kick the crap out of people and ride on the backs of dragons and unicorns, which, if your an uncoordinated 60kg weakling is pretty much all impossible to do.

The best, most satisfying media IMO is still books. The ability to turn black (usually) shapes on white-ish tan (usually) paper into a mindscape of the imagination is the greatest thing. No one is really missing out if they don't play videogames, or even if they don't watch movies or TV, but people who don't read are really missing out. Next, or even equal, is music. Music really touches the "soul" or whatever you want to call it.