It has been a couple of months now since the ever so popular Microsoft game, "Halo 3" has been released. However, in September when the game was released, it "ranged up a record-smashing $170 million in retail sales within its first 24 hours in U.S. stores" (Los Angeles Times) which is definetly impressive. Even now, the game deems to be very popular and enjoyable to young teens and adults. Truthfully, I have never gotten myself a copy of this game which is really strange since I consider myself a pretty intense gamer. The real reason why I haven't is because I don't own an Xbox 360 and I would rather play Counter Strike over Halo 3 for an FPS game on the computer.
Watching movies with friends and family is really popular in today's society however video games are just more superior. I strongly believe that most people around my age would rather play a game over watching a movie. Of course, there are hundreds of amazing movies out there that I would consider watching but I find games to be, just more entertaining. When I play video games, I feel an intense rush going through my body and it's just amazing. Playing video games gives me the same thrill as playing sports such as basketball and badminton since there is a lot of competition and strategy involved. To be honest, the only thrill I get from movies are the fight scenes or the really intense love scenes. Even sometimes when movies have an amazing story line, I'll merely applaud it and probably be hyped up for the next couple of hours but that is it.
People today are obssessed with video games especially online ones. I can say this because I personally am obssessed with games. I can play online games for hours and not get tired which is why I enjoy them and would prefer them over movies. However there are millions of other teenagers as well as adults out there in the world who are worse than me and would even skip school or their jobs to play online games (MMORPG). There is a MMORPG game out there called World of Warcraft and people make the game their life. I even heard that about a year ago that someone died from exhaustion from playing the game for the whole day. I doubt that any citizen today would go out and watch movies for a whole day and die from exhaustion. Thus the reason why video games have outgrown movies in popularity is since "People are just gamers."
Watching movies with friends and family is really popular in today's society however video games are just more superior. I strongly believe that most people around my age would rather play a game over watching a movie. Of course, there are hundreds of amazing movies out there that I would consider watching but I find games to be, just more entertaining. When I play video games, I feel an intense rush going through my body and it's just amazing. Playing video games gives me the same thrill as playing sports such as basketball and badminton since there is a lot of competition and strategy involved. To be honest, the only thrill I get from movies are the fight scenes or the really intense love scenes. Even sometimes when movies have an amazing story line, I'll merely applaud it and probably be hyped up for the next couple of hours but that is it.
People today are obssessed with video games especially online ones. I can say this because I personally am obssessed with games. I can play online games for hours and not get tired which is why I enjoy them and would prefer them over movies. However there are millions of other teenagers as well as adults out there in the world who are worse than me and would even skip school or their jobs to play online games (MMORPG). There is a MMORPG game out there called World of Warcraft and people make the game their life. I even heard that about a year ago that someone died from exhaustion from playing the game for the whole day. I doubt that any citizen today would go out and watch movies for a whole day and die from exhaustion. Thus the reason why video games have outgrown movies in popularity is since "People are just gamers."
1 comments:
The story about the person who died from exhaustion is ver yinteresting. So it IS possible to die from exhaustion in video games. That hwoever doesn't change the fact that yes, videogames are better than movies, and nothing will change that.
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