Virtual Reality Gaming
Virtual reality gaming is a scary concept but incredible in practice
Seeming a little bit strange as the having the entire world around you seem so real while you're wearing this specific headset may cause people to detach from reality
However for the hard-core gamers this is going to be able to give them the exact experience that they have always wanted.
Not only can this exact technology be used for gaming but it can also be used at a military level and an educational level for a younger generations to come.
Monday, 31 August 2015
Weekly Reading Discussion (Week 8)
Video Game Addiction
Psychological addictions to video-games is an epidemic recognise worldwide. There are many cases of younger generations sitting at the computer all day only playing video games and not being productive with the rest of their life. An example of this is, in Korea, children basing their lives around the game called league of legends. They spend countless hours around the game, so many hours that they actually had to open a rehabilitation clinic for video game addicts.
Psychological addictions to video-games is an epidemic recognise worldwide. There are many cases of younger generations sitting at the computer all day only playing video games and not being productive with the rest of their life. An example of this is, in Korea, children basing their lives around the game called league of legends. They spend countless hours around the game, so many hours that they actually had to open a rehabilitation clinic for video game addicts.
Weekly Reading Discussion (Week 7)
Violence in Videogames
Violence in video games has become a growing concern within families and households throughout the world.
games such as call of duty and grand theft auto have caused a lot of controversy due to the aggressive nature of play style of the game leading kids to believe that shooting guns and hurting people is unacceptable thing to do in societyThere is even one case of a child saying grand theft auto drove him to shoot someone
Violence in video games has become a growing concern within families and households throughout the world.
games such as call of duty and grand theft auto have caused a lot of controversy due to the aggressive nature of play style of the game leading kids to believe that shooting guns and hurting people is unacceptable thing to do in societyThere is even one case of a child saying grand theft auto drove him to shoot someone
Sunday, 26 July 2015
Weekly Reading Discussion (Week 5)
Verisimilitude vs Stylized Graphics
There shouldn't really be any comparison between these two styles. Both are incredible in their own rights and show exceptional amount of talent to make them look as beautiful as they do.
Verisimilitude refers to something being realistic or as close to real they [developers] make it, whereas stylized refers to graphics being purposefully not realistic.
The obvious "head to head" in my eyes would be any of the recent Call of Duty titles vs Boarderlands. Both are an first person shooter with fast paced game play but the realistic graphics from Call of Duty set it apart from the semi cartoony look of Boarderlands.
Boarderlands plays more into a fictional scenario where you're shooting monsters and upgrading your gear and all that good stuff but the cartoony element make the fact that it is intended to be sci-fi more prominent.
When looking at C.O.D, the highly realistic graphics cause the player to feel a sense of immersion.
There shouldn't really be any comparison between these two styles. Both are incredible in their own rights and show exceptional amount of talent to make them look as beautiful as they do.
Verisimilitude refers to something being realistic or as close to real they [developers] make it, whereas stylized refers to graphics being purposefully not realistic.
The obvious "head to head" in my eyes would be any of the recent Call of Duty titles vs Boarderlands. Both are an first person shooter with fast paced game play but the realistic graphics from Call of Duty set it apart from the semi cartoony look of Boarderlands.
Boarderlands plays more into a fictional scenario where you're shooting monsters and upgrading your gear and all that good stuff but the cartoony element make the fact that it is intended to be sci-fi more prominent.
When looking at C.O.D, the highly realistic graphics cause the player to feel a sense of immersion.
Weekly Reading Discussion (Week 4)
Ludonarrative Dissonance
Ludonarrative dissonance is essentially a fancy word for when the story-line and gameplay show no correlation. The only game that springs to mind in reference to this is Bioshock Infinite. The gameplay itself and 'missions' were often way too violent for what was expected from the cutscenes and story-line, it just didn't make sense.
The cutscenes were peaceful and lovely, yet the gameplay was morbid and almost a bit TOO full-on.
Friday, 24 July 2015
Weekly Reading Discussion (Week 3)
First Person Shooters VS Third Person Shooters
The debate of FPS v TPS is one I don't care too much about given that they are not the game styles I play.
That being said they appeal to different different audiences given that FPS give the sense of being the character, it's more immersive and personal.
Whereas TPS seem to be more story based than actually BEING the character.
The debate of FPS v TPS is one I don't care too much about given that they are not the game styles I play.
That being said they appeal to different different audiences given that FPS give the sense of being the character, it's more immersive and personal.
Whereas TPS seem to be more story based than actually BEING the character.
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