Gaming

I've never been a big fan of video games. To the contrary, I've always been a bit skeptical towards their use to be honest. I suppose it goes back to my childhood and remembering the endless frustrations I had with my brother trying to communicate with him yet achieving nothing because his head was allways in the video game; leaving him completely numb every time he played a game it was as if he was in a paralel universe.

From then I'm simply unable to understand why people would rather stay indoors completely numbed by a screen than go out and actually experience life and interact with real people rather than man generated characters.


Having said this, I had no problem however trying out a video game for the assignment. I didn't however try the typical crazytaxi, grand-theft auto games, because I've played them before and gotten bored too quickly. So although some people may argue that its not an "actual" video game, I choose to try out the xbox kinect dance.

The question is would I consider this particular game to have a narrative? Not really, although it may have a backstory and somewhat of a goal in the game, which would be to win the trophy or the most amount of points. I feel that for it to have a narrative there would need to be somewhat of a conflict and resolution stage which I don't feel it has.

It may be argued that other games like counterstrike or world of warcraft do have somewhat of a narrative. I feel it depends a lot on the particular game however the one I chose to play serves two purposes, and that is for the person to learn the steps shown on the screen, and have fun none other.