I've noticed a trend that may be starting when it comes to advertising video games. If the game is violent in nature, the game companies will put relaxing music with the game. I think the reasoning behind this is to draw more emotion regarding the character/people involved in the games environment. I think this is very well thought out, as it lays a groundwork for actually caring about the situation you're supposedly in control of. Here are some examples:
And another
I can't really find any other examples at the moment, but I think I much prefer that type of advertising as opposed to something like this:
That ad reminds me of the cliche "Man loses family/child/someone special and goes on a holy crusade with tons of weaponry while taking out half a city" 80s movie. They could have done so much more with that storyline....
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Diablo
Ok, it's nerd time.
Anyone who knew me back in 2000 knows that Diablo 2 was a crack addiction for me back then. Luckily, half the gaming world loved it too, so I wasn't alone in this. I would tell everybody I knew about the game, even if they didn't care at all about gaming in the first place. Some members of my family ward at the time (who will remain nameless, but we'll say they were part of an Inquisition of Ignorance) would disapprove of the game almost to a heretical level because there were demons in the game (lets all just forget that you're the one killing the demons).
So in their quest for global domination, Blizzard decided to give me an FYI on how my social life is going to officially end in a few years by announcing Diablo 3 . The timing of this wasn't very good, because I had to prepare a sunday school lesson that same day and couldn't concentrate.
So why all this Diablo talk? As far as how much a person can like this game is concerned (we're back at Diablo 2 now), I've just met my match and then some. A good friend of mine who has never claimed to be much of a gamer has surprised me by playing it with me and another friend. Normally when we get past a significant point in the game, all of us except him want to take a break. Our brains have turned into jelly, our eyes are red from staring at the screens, and he STILL wants to play! I think our only hope of giving this friend back to his (very patient) girlfriend is to hurry and beat the game ASAP.
Just to prove that I'm not nerdy all the time, here are some pictures of a very sad (yet cute) looking pug done by Christopher Michael .
Anyone who knew me back in 2000 knows that Diablo 2 was a crack addiction for me back then. Luckily, half the gaming world loved it too, so I wasn't alone in this. I would tell everybody I knew about the game, even if they didn't care at all about gaming in the first place. Some members of my family ward at the time (who will remain nameless, but we'll say they were part of an Inquisition of Ignorance) would disapprove of the game almost to a heretical level because there were demons in the game (lets all just forget that you're the one killing the demons).
So in their quest for global domination, Blizzard decided to give me an FYI on how my social life is going to officially end in a few years by announcing Diablo 3 . The timing of this wasn't very good, because I had to prepare a sunday school lesson that same day and couldn't concentrate.
So why all this Diablo talk? As far as how much a person can like this game is concerned (we're back at Diablo 2 now), I've just met my match and then some. A good friend of mine who has never claimed to be much of a gamer has surprised me by playing it with me and another friend. Normally when we get past a significant point in the game, all of us except him want to take a break. Our brains have turned into jelly, our eyes are red from staring at the screens, and he STILL wants to play! I think our only hope of giving this friend back to his (very patient) girlfriend is to hurry and beat the game ASAP.
Just to prove that I'm not nerdy all the time, here are some pictures of a very sad (yet cute) looking pug done by Christopher Michael .
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Not so water proof.
Ever have the feeling that your life goes into certain stages that have a theme to them? Kind of how I managed to make milk tart for the first time by myself, and how I had to make millions of them just so the world could have a taste. The current life theme is that I'm having waterproof items die on me from water exposure. I couldn't tell you when some waterproof device has failed at ANY time in my life if you had asked me a few weeks ago. And yet, during the last week, I've had my very nice Nike (waterproof) watch and a (waterproof) electric tooth-brush die on me.
How do I know the water did it?, in both cases the screens seriously fogged up, and there were water droplets inside. The tooth brush has stopped charging, and now the watch won't shut up. What do I mean by the watch not shutting up you ask? Somehow the water is causing the thing to shriek like a banshee and I just can't get the alarm to shut off. So now the watch is sitting under a bean-bag in a long forgotten room of our house (Ashleighs room). It's probably still going now, let me check...hmm, it seems to only be making clicking noises now, and the display is totally dead too, maybe the battery has had it.
So now I'm a skeptic as far as water proofing is concerned. Epic fail on QAs part.
How do I know the water did it?, in both cases the screens seriously fogged up, and there were water droplets inside. The tooth brush has stopped charging, and now the watch won't shut up. What do I mean by the watch not shutting up you ask? Somehow the water is causing the thing to shriek like a banshee and I just can't get the alarm to shut off. So now the watch is sitting under a bean-bag in a long forgotten room of our house (Ashleighs room). It's probably still going now, let me check...hmm, it seems to only be making clicking noises now, and the display is totally dead too, maybe the battery has had it.
So now I'm a skeptic as far as water proofing is concerned. Epic fail on QAs part.
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