I agree that the problem is not only uninformed parents, but parents that don't care AND those that don't realize what their kids are picking up on. I was watching 3 kids the other day, ages 4, 5, and third was about 7. All three were talking about how they love Halo 2 and they love going around and killing the other guys. That's not cool. Then later they were making guns out of tinkertoys and pretending to shoot each other no matter how hard I tried to get them to imagine building something else.
What makes it worse is that there are games that "Daddy plays it" but while they can't play it, they are still able to watch. Their dad's gives them high-fives when he does something good while playing Resident Evil 4. That's practically all the kids talked about, and there wasn't even a video game system in the room to get them to think about it. It's just on the forefront of their brains.
Kids soak up all sorts of information. Do we really want them to soak up blood, guts, gore, and killing?
What they desperately need are games that are rated E, but not only that they need to be GOOD games. Don't even bring in "pretty" killing without the gore. Don't enter that genre's mindset when making these games. It's not easy, I know. I don't think a lot of game companies are willing to go for that just yet when it doesn't mean immediate $$$ for them.
what amazes me is what people can do to modify one game into something completely different. I don't know how many of the Starcraft mods actually completed way back when, but there was a Star Trek one that I'd still love to see to completion.
I haven't even played Battlefield 1942 before, but from looking at the Star Wars mod on top of it, man, this might be something I'd want to check out! The whole thing looks fantastic.
burn+post may sound confusing to some. B+P stands for Blanks + Postage where a person mails out blank cd's and return postage to another person who collects the live shows, that person burns copies of the shows onto the blanks, and mails back the cd's in the provided packaging. I do this kind of stuff all the time with my collection, and it works well with helping out many people vs. trying to share up stuff to people via FTP or Direct Connect with my 40k upload cap.
Also, many may not have heard of SHN vs. mp3 (debates for or against these 2 can cause a war), but SHN is a lossless compression of a WAV file, and it compresses the wav file approximately 50%. This is compared to mp3's where they are lossly compressed about 90%, but it throws out information in the original wav.
A lot of the hard-core collectors of the live music refuse to collect mp3's due to the loss in quality from original wav->mp3, so that's much larger files that are dealt with when trading the live music. That causes a major strain on the bandwidth, and therefore makes B+P's a prominant figure in the live music trading world.
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I agree that the problem is not only uninformed parents, but parents that don't care AND those that don't realize what their kids are picking up on. I was watching 3 kids the other day, ages 4, 5, and third was about 7. All three were talking about how they love Halo 2 and they love going around and killing the other guys. That's not cool. Then later they were making guns out of tinkertoys and pretending to shoot each other no matter how hard I tried to get them to imagine building something else.
What makes it worse is that there are games that "Daddy plays it" but while they can't play it, they are still able to watch. Their dad's gives them high-fives when he does something good while playing Resident Evil 4. That's practically all the kids talked about, and there wasn't even a video game system in the room to get them to think about it. It's just on the forefront of their brains.
Kids soak up all sorts of information. Do we really want them to soak up blood, guts, gore, and killing?
What they desperately need are games that are rated E, but not only that they need to be GOOD games. Don't even bring in "pretty" killing without the gore. Don't enter that genre's mindset when making these games. It's not easy, I know. I don't think a lot of game companies are willing to go for that just yet when it doesn't mean immediate $$$ for them.
what amazes me is what people can do to modify one game into something completely different. I don't know how many of the Starcraft mods actually completed way back when, but there was a Star Trek one that I'd still love to see to completion.
I haven't even played Battlefield 1942 before, but from looking at the Star Wars mod on top of it, man, this might be something I'd want to check out! The whole thing looks fantastic.
hey look, a perfect way to start off posts about an article on spam, a comment full of spam!
burn+post may sound confusing to some. B+P stands for Blanks + Postage where a person mails out blank cd's and return postage to another person who collects the live shows, that person burns copies of the shows onto the blanks, and mails back the cd's in the provided packaging. I do this kind of stuff all the time with my collection, and it works well with helping out many people vs. trying to share up stuff to people via FTP or Direct Connect with my 40k upload cap.
Also, many may not have heard of SHN vs. mp3 (debates for or against these 2 can cause a war), but SHN is a lossless compression of a WAV file, and it compresses the wav file approximately 50%. This is compared to mp3's where they are lossly compressed about 90%, but it throws out information in the original wav.
A lot of the hard-core collectors of the live music refuse to collect mp3's due to the loss in quality from original wav->mp3, so that's much larger files that are dealt with when trading the live music. That causes a major strain on the bandwidth, and therefore makes B+P's a prominant figure in the live music trading world.