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Why we enjoy videogames

Critical Gamer writes: I’ve recently started allowing my five year old daughter to play Red Dead Redemption.

Okay, I’ve immediately left myself wide open to accusations of bad parenting, but please; let me explain. She sees none of the sex (of which there is practically zero anyway), none of the violence, none of the blood, and none of the bad language. She saw me start to play it one night just before she went to bed, and loved it. She’s currently into the whole cowboy thing thanks to Woody from the Toy Story movies. A dream come true for her!

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DelbertGrady4972d ago

If she's just riding around not participating in any of the more gritty actions of the game then it might be ok. But there's still a chance that she might ride into trouble and her character gets killed. Seeing the horse getting mauled by a bear, considering the realistic nature of the physics and sound in the game, would be hard to explain to a five year old.

You mentioned Toy Story. Why not get her Toy Story 3? Not sure it features the riding part but it seems like more of a game that she can enjoy all aspects of instead of just the riding and potential bear molestation.

Jim Crikey4972d ago

I applaud you for finding a way to use the phrase "potential bear molestation".

I implore you all to use this phrase in your comments whenever possible; it will make N4G a much more interesting place.

bjornbear4972d ago

however, I agree. I let my nephews play RDR once, but i kept trying to avoid him from seeing messed up stuff (people shooting each other/killing a horse/ skinning, etc)

In the end:

We enjoy videogames because they give us a sense of accomplishment (problem solving) and humans find that fun, no matter how trivial =)

scruffy_bear4972d ago

I did get Red Dead because it lets me play as Clint Eastwood in a way

Alcohog4972d ago

The Man With No Name was way cooler than John Marston.

Pidgeridoo4972d ago

I love Mario! It's not just for kids! :)

Aleusia4972d ago

I don't believe in censorship anyway.

codehorizon4972d ago

Its an M rated game for a reason. Sure you can ride horses, lasso some wildlife, and so on. But sooner or later, the random activities while she is doing those things will give her a rude awakening. Also, todays five year olds are smarter than yesterdays five year olds, so she will start experimenting with the button combinations eventually.

In essence, you are basically handing your five year old a box of matches. Sure, she might look at and just play with the box, but eventually she will figure out how to open up the package and go from there.

despair4972d ago

"todays five year olds are smarter than yesterdays five year olds"

not really, 5 year olds are 5 year olds no matter what timeline they're from, its the fact that tech is more available now that they can get familiar with it.

And playing RDR is not like handing a child a box of matches, just pressing button combinations will not magically scar her for life, people treat kids like they're extremely fragile, they learn to fight and lie, get hurt and make mistakes all the time without video games but when it may have violence in it all of a sudden its child abuse to let them play it.

Some supervision and control on what she does in the game, like maybe just riding around or horse breaking, even hunting is not going to send her to therapy, its just about balance and limiting what she is exposed to in the game.

And all that talk about "the random activities while she is doing those things will give her a rude awakening" is nonsense, the game random activities is limited mainly to people and animals shooting at you or killing each other as you pass by, thats not something a 5 year old hasn't seen on tv on any PG rated show. And her character dying will only annoy her not make her cry and scared.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi9d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming8d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long8d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming8d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple1018d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor8d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing698d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming8d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno8d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming8d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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For just $6 you can play the Red Dead Redemption port on Xbox and PS5

Rockstar Games’ shiny new Red Dead Redemption port is now on GTA+, and you can play it while claiming some tasty GTA Online benefits.

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Profchaos22d ago

Rockstar still strying to make GTA plus work
Should be $6 for the rdr game on sale not 6 bucks for a months playtime

Exvalos22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

I hear ya, 49.99 or whatever the price on that game is, is a bit stiff seeing as it's just a port.

anast22d ago

Why would anyone rent this game?

jznrpg22d ago

One of my favorite games from PS3 generation. I have the remaster as there was a buy 2 get 1 free deal a while back but the price they are charging for the port is way too high although not surprising at all.

CobraKai21d ago

Still tryna milk a dried up cow

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Red Dead Redemption Title Update 1.04 Notes (PS4 / Switch)

Improvements have been made to the stability of the game

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OtterX38d ago

I still think this release was a big waste of time. I would have been a day 1 purchaser if they had redone the game w RDR2 graphics. I still own my PS3 copy, so don't see the point in picking this up if it's minimally improved.

CobraKai38d ago

I bought the game cheaper than the remaster on 360. There’s no reason in releasing the game at that price with so little improvements if any.

Profchaos38d ago

It's nice to have it as a handheld game I guess if you travel a lot but yes the ps5 release was a joke

kaos8938d ago

It plays at 60 fps on PS5 and a higher res if you value that.

OtterX38d ago (Edited 38d ago )

Yea, PS3 graphics at 60fps and 4k doesn't warrant the price. It was severely disappointing considering they already created so many of the assets north of the San Luis River (New Austin) in RDR2 and could have reused a lot of things, or reworked things bc they are the same area at different times in a fairly close history. It's friggin' Rockstar - you know they have the money and resources to have done it.

jznrpg22d ago

I like that I can play the game on current generation console but it would have been nice if they did more to make it look better.

Profchaos38d ago (Edited 38d ago )

They should have released the game in its current state not the state it launched in. Obvious we all wanted this to be a expansion to rdr 2 given that the original map was already remade in the game lots of people though this was just going to be added in later as paid DLC.

Now the game runs at 4k 60 fps on ps5 and can be brought on sale it's actually worth playing.

At launch the game was priced far to high and was a ps360 era game that couldn't run at 60 fps.

I'm in no way a frame rate snob I defended games like tears of the kingdom in the past for being 30 fps experiences but rdr was a joke at launch