Yesterday I met up with a friend of mine, who I haven’t seen for just over 6 years and he contacted me to see if we wanted to meet up since he moved back in the area. Like me he was an avid gamer and we always talked about games, so he was a really close friend. I was curious how much he had changed over the years. So I went over to his house, and we caught up on what we have been up. Luckily he was the same person he was when he moved and was still a gamer. When I went to his room the first thing that caught my eye was this . . . .

Honesty the amount of ps3 games he had was four times the number I currently have and he almost has every single ps3 game released to date. He told me hasn’t played them all and I noticed that some had their plastic wrapper on. The reason why he brought so much games is not for the fun of it but for the trophies and achievements he could gain and show on his profile. We got into a bit of an discussion with me taking an opposite view that games should be played for the interesting story, characters and fun of it.

Ever since the xbox 360 and ps3 was released every single games on these consoles have trophies and achievements for playing the game and meeting certain criteria. One way it is good because if you are a trophies/achievement fanatic such as my friend. It will make you play the games fully to gain 100% completion which can mean value for money and games have a longer life. But I find some of the conditions for achieving certain trophies/achievements pointless, but you need them to achieve full completion. However I am the type person that only play games once unless it is really good, and I only buy games that interests me. Since more and more games have some kind of good or bad element to it, especially on RPGs they make players want to play again. There are some games out there which I find pointless and that it is a waste of time and money. So I ask, are you the type of person that play games for the fun of it or just for the trophies/achievements?

Being a gamer myself, I am always expose to comments such as gaming is bad for you in various ways, especially if it affects your education. For me it is my main hub for enjoying myself. In recent years games have become more matured with content such as violence, sex and drugs becoming common themes in games. This has led to a variety of sources, such as newspapers to say that playing these games lead to increase violence, to people becoming hikikomori. One company, Rockstar games have made successful titles like GTA to the controversial Manhunt, especially the Manhunt 2 game received much press attention, which lead to a delay in the game being sold in the UK.

However in the past few years many game companies, especially Nintendo have turned their attention to the masses, normal people who do not usually play games. With the introduction of the Wii they have been very successful, also they have introduced motion sensor game play which has led to a new way of playing games. Games are becoming more expensive to make, so companies are trying to maximise the amount of profit they make by appealing to as many consumers possible.

Edge a really good magazine and website on gaming just written an interesting article on the benefits of gaming. The article is very well rounded, in providing a positive side to gaming. The one I found interesting is that surgeons using motion sensor games on the Wii, to help them train to have steady hands. Which is funny, because if you ever are in a unfortunate situation to have an operation, your surgeon could have been training on the Wii.  So whenever you are told gaming is bad for you could use some of the examples in the article to justify gaming.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lCF8O2N50

Had a rather uneventful day, summer is coming to a close and I really couldn’t be bothered to do anything. Spent the entire day surfing the net, its amazing what you can find on the internet and time just passes very quickly. Anyway came across this interested video on Youtube which I wanted to share. It is a really good piece, on the history of Sega Saturn and its mascot Segata Sanshiro. The adverts are genius, honesty why can’t British adverts be more like these wacky Japanese ones. The way they killed off the mascot was pretty lame, but I believe if Sega decides they want to bring out a console. They should bring back Segata Sanshiro, no way you can kill him off, the guy is a legend.

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Welcome to the start of what I hope will be a entertaining blog. Since this is my first entry on this blog, I am relatively new to this. The reason why I have decided to start this blog is by the influence of other blogs and I wanted to contribute to this exciting community. I wanted this blog to look different but with my lack of skill and knowledge of web design, I have gone for a plain look, hopefully I will be able to evolve this blog to something better as time passes.So what will this blog be relating to, well it will probably be your average anime, otaku and japan relating stuff. Looking around there are many similar blogs out there, but the main thing for me is that I would hope to enjoy writing and sharing my views on these topics with readers around the world.

I have been watching anime since 2003 and there have been some memorable ones and some that I wonder why the hell did I watch ones. Around the same time I have been reading blogs relating to anime. So I have a bit of knowledge in anime and blogs. Since I am beginning to waffle and boring you I will stop right here.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog.

later KC (Kaphillca)