Phreaky from PS3 Attitude writes: "While carrying out some research for another article, I found myself sidetracked looking into gaming addiction. As with most other forms of addiction, most people don't know that they have a problem. Further reading surprised me in that I display one or two of the symptoms of gaming addiction. Should I be worried? And how common is gaming addiction anyway?
According to the Byron Report, gaming addicts are far less common than people think. Apparently you need to display a number of the following criteria in order to be considered a potential addict. Click through for the skinny on the signs and find out if you class as an addict."
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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ive known many who have let gaming detract them from studies, work and even partners. There's an even bigger addiction out there though and that is 'gaming site addiction' this addiction can change even the most rational and sombre people into raging fanatics;)
hahaha that was good.
as per article yes we area gaming addicted i guess. thats why we want new games and whenever have a spare time we just hold the controller and on the system.
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Nope wouldn't categorize myself as a gaming addict, maybe enthusiast but that's about as far as I would go. I could never let games take over my life, they are merely just entertainment "things" in which I get relaxation from after a stressful day at school or work. Usually playing RB2, and now that it's out a little bit of LBP before hitting the hay (Though I'm sure others have their own games in which they play to get relaxed). Granted I may stay up a few extra minutes to an hour, but that's it.
notice how there is none of the regular trolls here? know why? they don' t f*cking game!
I just love games so much, just because this gen has made a lot of features easier like online gaming..something i couldnt do on PS2 even though i had an internet connection.
Games like COD4 have hit that addictive level, tbh its a good and bad thing. What some developers do is good for gaming and thats why i enjoy games that die out after so i can trade them. if developers didn't avoid the addictive level, we will find a lot of people in messed up situations.
wow am writing an essay XD
p.s take breaks man it helps.