I have just spent the last 30mins wrighting an email about the Panorama show last week about Addicted to Games (LINK)
I've been a gamer for over 20years of my life and seeing as I'm only 26 thats proble the longest hobbe I have had apart from walking and making trouble, I'm just posting it on the blog to show it to some other people and ask one simple thing.
Do you think this show is one sided?
Please leave a comment as coming from a gamers side of thinking I just wanted to see what other people think... Even if you don't play any games at all or only a little when you were a kid or even any full time gamers... I would love to hear what you think of this show.
I think although the facts in the programme are all true, It was indeed extremely one sided.
ReplyDeleteDid he actually make the programme with the sole intent of scaring his son out of playing his console so much?
Hidden agenda dad.
I don't think Panorama, put a one sided view of gaming over but it did put a heavy biased view over to support its point.
ReplyDeleteThere seemed lots of little tricks used to give the impression that something sinister was going on. The interview with *Ian Livingstone gave, I presume only used certain quotes from what would have been a longer interview. The way the interviews were shot using hand held and a low camera angle(reminiscent of the style used in exposures where a hidden cam is used) Also if you look at pretty much all the footage of gaming used. they are all violent games, Again aggressive music was used to makes games look more sinister (The Prodigy's Spitfire).
I am sure that the Panorama does have a point about addiction but the subject is much more complicated than just what a half hour program can portray. I don't think the program told us anything that we didn't know already, but it did mainly try to show the world of gaming to be violent, aggressive and quite seedy.
*Ian Livingstone from Eidos, actually has been in gaming for an extremely long time, starting with Roleplaying (He was the first person to bring D&D into this country, he creating Games Workshop and wrote some of the Fighting Fantasy novels which were big in the eighties)
I just felt insulted after watching it. It felt like he had his idea of gaming and was only showing what supported his view.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked that he did not bring up The doom and the Columbine massacre as that has been a target for almost any anti-gaming show for years now, When are is the rest of the world going to wake up and learn that its far better someone sitting indoors gaming without drugs and booze then in his word "go out with there friends and drink".
Gaming is not an single, lonely person any more, W.O.W(World of Warcraft) is an MMO and they really did not bring that up at all,making it look like he was addictive to the evil programming of the game dev team but what is an MMO Game?
Simple... Massively multiplayer online game.
There are 1000s of people logged in at any one time and the total number of WOW players is more then the pop total of Sweden, 11.5 million - Sweden's 9.3 million.
So much for all alone in there bedrooms.