Christmas at GamerDad Central
Posted on December 25th, 2007 by
After a rainy weekend December 25th dawned bright, sunny, crisp, and beautiful. “Mommy! Daddy! Santa came!” cried Henry, age 4, and ardent Santa believer. “Yeah,” said his sister, Maggie, age 7: “And you weren’t very good this year!” That’s what Christmas morning was like at GamerDad central.
Maggie got a remote control Donkey Kong Kart, a couple DS games (including HighSchool Musical), CDs, a calender, dresses, etc., Henry got a Mario Kart, Cars: Mater-National for the Wii, and assorted little boy items. Now Linda and the kids are delivering meals to elderly shut ins (I’m not kidding) and I’m doing some work I won’t be able to tackle during the long Christmas break.
Merry Christmas
Love, GamerDad
December 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Thank you, Thank you, thank you. It’s christmas time once again and trying to figure out what may be appropriate Games for my son has been on my mind. Thanks for taking the time to discuss all the games and explain each one in detail. BTW do you think the ESRB ratings board would accept (or the Gaming Companies) a 2 version Game, one regular and one without the profanity? The amount of disk capacity has drastically changed in the past several years. Sounds simple enough…
December 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
That’d be expensive to do at retail – 1 sku becomes 2 skus and everything gets harder – but this could be done within a menu or as an option. I don’t quite get it. Profanity is the least of my concerns and any game that has it gratuitous likely has a whole lot worse you can’t toggle off. It’s sort of like the blood question I often get.
I agree, blood and gore are worse than people being shown shot to death without gore and blood. I see that. But is it really all that much better to take the red stuff out? Ragdoll physics, etc., keep the violence at the same level as before. Just wondering.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
A T-rated Bond game, with no gore, bothers me because you’re using realistic weapons to kill real-looking people; but, the M-rated Dungeon Siege doesn’t bother me even when your enemies explode in to quivering red pixels. I call it “the level of disconnect”–in other words, how far the game is distanced from reality affects how much it bothers me, far more than splashes of red textures. Now, some games can walk a fine line such that the gore setting does affect how I like the game. Jade Empire is a good example–since you’re fighting other humans most of the time, having blood splash around when you karate-chop them bothers me; but, you can turn the gore off and then the fantasy setting is far enough from reality that I’m not affected by the violence.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:17 am
That’s not you dressed up as Father Christmas, is it?
December 27th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Nope, that’s the Mall Santa this year. However, that other post….
December 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Never again GamerDad, never again.