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The Triumph of the Computer Games!

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Did you know that Computer Games are more than a billion dollar industry?

Did you know that Computer Games sales outstrips music CDs, film DVDS put togehter?

Did you know that latest game "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare" made billion dollar of sales which is same as the film Avatar!

Did you know that the average age of the modern game player is 35!?

So eat your heart out you Anti-Computer Gamist!

Computer Games is no longer the preserve of socially-inept-spotty-teenager locked in his room with his Joy Stick! :-)

Todays games are using the same narrative drive and plot that a film or book uses to enage you in a story. In fact with release of the film Avatar Computer Games and Films are converging into one!

And visually they are stunning!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ephE0HMts0

Updated 03-17-2010 at 08:48 AM by Lote-Tree

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  1. TheFifthElement's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lote Tree
    Did you know that Computer Games sales outstrips music CDs, film DVDS put togehter?
    That's only because they're 4 times the price.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lote Tree
    Did you know that the average age of the modern game player is 35!?
    proving that boys never grow up
  2. qimissung's Avatar
    Um, Lote-Tree? "Lights, camera, action!" does not a plot make. And I'm referring to a screenplay, not the director's directions.
  3. Lote-Tree's Avatar
    That's only because they're 4 times the price.
    So was CD compared to a casette but that did not stop CD sales did it ;-)

    proving that boys never grow up
    Growing up is so boring isn't it? ;-)
  4. Lote-Tree's Avatar
    Um, Lote-Tree? "Lights, camera, action!" does not a plot make.
    Neither does standing in one place and spouting poetry ;-)

    And I'm referring to a screenplay, not the director's directions.
    Some modern games have excellent immersive screen play... :-)

    In fact in the game "Gears of War" there is a rousing speech worthy of Shakespreare's "Band of Brothers" ;-)
  5. TheFifthElement's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
    So was CD compared to a casette but that did not stop CD sales did it ;-)
    And I thought you were a mathematician There are a couple of factors at issue here. For example:

    - if, for example, CD sales were $1,000,000 and Games sales were $1,000,000 and games are 4 times the cost of CDs then CDs are selling more. N'est pas? Because cost is a factor. Which was my point. Which you avoided (as usual )
    - CD and movie sales figures are all seriously affected by illegal downloads. If you factored in the amount of music/movies stolen then the likelihood is that music and movies are still more popular. The only difference is that people aren't paying for them, or they haven't found a way to illegally download Bioshock yet.

    So you is not comparing eggs with eggs.
  6. qimissung's Avatar



    Growing up is so boring isn't it? ;-)
    True, that.
  7. Virgil's Avatar
    Only a billion dollar industry? I would have guessed much much more. Almost everyone I know have computer games. I'm like the only person who neither has one nor cares about them in the whole world.

    Actually just looked it up and Wikipedia says it's an $11.7 billion industry in the United States alone in 2008. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry) A billion dollars doesn't go very far these days.
  8. Lote-Tree's Avatar
    I'm like the only person who neither has one nor cares about them in the whole world.
    If you are interested in films and enjoy the art of the narrative to a story and want to be the hero (or the villian ;-)) then I am sure you will enjoy it :-)

    Go on dip your finger in ;-)

    You might love it :-)

    Visually Computer games are an art in themselves! :-)
  9. Lote-Tree's Avatar
    And I thought you were a mathematician There are a couple of factors at issue here. For example:

    10 cds = £100
    10 games = £200


    even if they sell same number of units -
    games SALES tops the cd SALES ;-)
  10. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    Yah, duh to all above.
  11. OrphanPip's Avatar
    I have a cousin who works for Ubisoft Montreal, the industry has been good to our city. Ubisoft has one of the largest video game studios in the world in Montreal, and there's an EA studio here as well. Anything that brings 10,000 jobs to the city can't be all bad.

    Although, I'm not liking the new Final Fantasy all that much. I find the narrative particularly flat for an FF game and the cut scenes tedious at times. The gameplay is enjoyable, if a bit linear though. With the sandbox emphasis in modern games seemingly increasing every year, it's odd to see a series so well known for its open ended endgame period so cut down.

    Edit: My favourite FF is still FF 6 for the Super Nintendo, I wasted so many hours on that game as a kid. FF 7 on the Play Station was good too.
    Updated 03-18-2010 at 10:48 PM by OrphanPip