What about ending the game and actually kill everyone ? Every npc, every guards and every fish ?I did so in my last playtrough of Fallout 3, I just tought the wasteland should have been less populated...
Oh and btw when I was 12 I ended Resident Evil 4 at all difficulties, I also played GTA San Andreas like everyday with my friends, And when I was 14 my first 360 game was Dead Rising and then Gears of war. It's not like all this violence screwed me up, but it surely got me a lil insensible about real violence.
First: the audio sucks when going in "videogame mode".Second: I totally agree on the Cod rage thing, not only that, but my 14 year old cousin is so fond of the game he said he wants to become a soldier .-. . Anyway it's not very smart to always bring up cod while comparing old and new games, its a cheap shot, and there are other games on the market nowadays you know...
A game that can teach a lot about history and culture is Civilizzation Revolution IMHO. Not only you can associate great discoveries, scientist and other things to different cultures, but you can also get deeper into a specific subject by accessing the in-game ecnciclopedia that also has videos, images and stuff. It actually helped me writing an essay about war and nuclear weapons. But minecraft ? I think that this is just screwing around. Not only that, but computer games designed for learning already exist, they aren't even all that boring, but the truth is that teachers don't give a damn about those things.
Personally I only raged at Dark Souls PvP, the single campain wasn't too hard, and even tough sometimes the game played cheap indeed (by putting a monster on a very small platform where you can easily fall the game makers really were bastards), it was just a total waste of time to go back to the boss once you already did the whole thing. When I died during a boss fight my thought wasn't "F*** this s***", it was more like "Aaaaaaaaaaw , I don't want to do the whole thing again, it's so booooooriing",it was a sense of emptiness.
Most of the rage comes from online games. But also some cheap ass bosses can do the trick. Sometimes I even rage at Monster Hunter when for example the dragon hits me, I get up, it hits me gain, I get up but I'm stunned so he hits me AGAIN, but then I run and while I'm drinking a potion to recover he kills me with a ranged attack. DAFUQ!! Gimme a sec to recover. Anyway COD is gamer's rage hell, and in most FPS if your internet connection isn't perfect you have a hard time accepting to die because the guy you were shooting wakes up after 2 seconds and headshots you.
As much as getting a new console were the indie games will be everything you get sounds interesting lets not forget it runs on android 4.0 and has a tegra 3. It means that it will run those kind of phone games you'll get bored after 5 min and your android device can probably already play all of them without any upgrade. You want to play on the big screen ? Just get a mini HDMI cable and a bluetooth controller. This console is the equivalent of a giant cellphone you plug into the TV. Indie developers already have the PC to program on, and they don't need a pseudo console for that purpose. Getting low cost games might be the only true advantage, but still a game like minecraft (actually the only indie game worth to mention) will probably still cost around 10$ which is the standard retail price, and the free 2 play model is what is really destroying the market, along with DLCs, you don't want to support that.
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