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Ishmael

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"Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Thu 9 Sep 11:59

Just curious, but did anyone see the two hour special on videogames that aired on PBS in the US last night? If so, do you have any thoughts on it?

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Cain Highwind

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"Re(1):Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Thu 9 Sep 13:19

quote:
Just curious, but did anyone see the two hour special on videogames that aired on PBS in the US last night? If so, do you have any thoughts on it?

Nah, I missed it, I usually don't watch PBS. What kind of stuff was it on?

Minuteman
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"Re(1):Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Thu 9 Sep 14:27

quote:
Just curious, but did anyone see the two hour special on videogames that aired on PBS in the US last night? If so, do you have any thoughts on it?

I did, by accident really. I only caught the final ~30 minutes of it, where they were talking about PC games online & MMORPG's. It discusses the addictions that players can develop, sometimes spending 36 hrs. straight playing Everquest. It touched on the psychological issues of players becoming so enveloped in their "avatar" online that they begin to feel as though they are part of the online world more than the real world.

Then it went into graphics and realism, and they had Miyamoto on talking about Wind Waker and his choice of "toon shading" instead of developing more realisic worlds.

Then it ended w/ a discussion on what's next in terms of levels of realism and one guy talked about our brains just controlling everything not just "in the game" but in a real "game room", that is one in which a human can enter and then say "take me to the forest" and the whole room becomes a wooded area, or "Xbox 5 will play Grand Theft Auto..."(I forgot what they called it) and then the room will place you in a dingy city street with a virtual criminal chasing you down, looking to knock your head off w/ a baseball bat.

Then the show ended! I'd love to catch the first 1.5 hrs if I see it on again.

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Maou

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"Re(1):Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Thu 9 Sep 15:15

Sounds interesting -- I wouldn't mind seeing a decently-made story on games, after all the braindead television news stories they get ("violent games are making our kids killers!!"). Something that could take an intelligent look at the industry, and not just at the three popular American games at the time...Mortal Kombat and GTA3 weren't the only popular games of their era, despite what press coverage would make you think.

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"Re(1):Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Thu 9 Sep 20:20

quote:
Just curious, but did anyone see the two hour special on videogames that aired on PBS in the US last night? If so, do you have any thoughts on it?

dumb

someone told me to watch it. i turned it on and there was a special on folk music :angry:

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Ishmael

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"Re(2):Videogames, PBS, and viewers like you" , posted Fri 10 Sep 07:52

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I did, by accident really. I only caught the final ~30 minutes of it,

Too bad, since I thought the final half hour was probably the weakest part of the show. I wish the show would have devoted some time to discussing massive, silent genres such as sports games or those funky things like on-line poker games or spent more time fleshing out the factoid that the average age for gamers is now 29 instead of following around some brat and his wishy-washy parents but that was just my take. Overall though I thought it wasn't a bad overview of the first thirty years of videogames, especially for an audience that probably isn't that familiar with that form of entertainment.

NeoRyu

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