Comments on: Video Games vs. Other Forms of Leisure

By: ninja.s

ninja.s — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:21:25 +0000

I totally agree with most of the post. But I don’t like multiplayer games as much as most. I don’t have a lot of friends.

By: Watch Free Anime Episodes

Watch Free Anime Episodes — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:26:22 +0000

I don’t know if Guitar Hero and playing guitar are perfect substitutes. There’s so much more skill involved in playing a guitar AND practicing SUCKS. Playing a guitar is fun, but to be able to do it, you need to log hours and hours of time doing scales. And it hurts your hand more.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:24:52 +0000

One from me and Tosh:

Tekken, Virtua Fighter etc compared to real life Martial Arts training.

I love MA training and nothing can replicate the buzz you get from pulling of a submission or doing a technique that you’ve struggled with for months, or the buzz from sparring.

Obviously playing Tekken or Virtua Fighter etc present less of a risk from injuries (apart from repetitive strain injuries), but despite my wrecked body, I wouldn’t give up my training for anything.

I don’t class Martial Arts training as a “leisure activity’ though.

By: SL33PY

SL33PY — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:44:58 +0000

As to the narative part, I think CoD4 fits in there perfectly. Instead of a good book I’ll take CoD4 (Single Player) any day. I don’t think that GTA really fits the category. Agreed there is a singular storyline, but there is so much other trivial stuff that interferes with the general storyline that some of the depth, the loosing yourself in the story, gets lost. Which is absolutely not the case with CoD4

By: Burten

Burten — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:56:04 +0000

Purist got a good point. Paintball is a a good parallell to games like COD4.
Just more fun