The Changing Face of Video Games

I can relate to this post very well since I am also a gamer. I started playing video games while I was about 7 years old when my mom bought me a “Gameboy”. I really liked playing with that but my mom also balanced my activities such as playing outside with neighbours or playing badminton and basketball with my family.

Games today are very much evolving from the Nintendo Gameboy to the Nintendo DSi, the Playstation to the PS3 and PSP, and the Xbox to the Xbox 360. For every console people are making big changes so that more people would buy the product. Probably the biggest change so far is the 2D games turned into 3D. This change is why most people are persuaded to buy game consoles. They changed every type of games from racing to shooting games. In the old days racing games were just in 2D and you move left and right to keep your car between the sides of the road. Shooting games were also in 2D where you point and shoot your gun to your enemies. Now racing games are in 3D and when you drive you need to know a lot of things like brake, acceleration, engine, and a lot more just like you are driving a real car. Shooting games are also in 3D where you will see a real shooting experience where you reload, change guns and have a certain amount of life. These games are putting all of the youth inside their homes preventing them to do outside activities, homework and certain responsibilities. But not all games are doing this; one game console called Wii made by Nintendo is a video game but uses your body to play. This is a fun exciting console because while you play you move around your body for example while playing bowling in the game you need to move your arms like you are really swinging a ball.

Not all video games are bad for us. It depends on how you use it and how long you play with it. There’s nothing wrong with having fun in your life, just don’t overdo it.

Social Awareness Contradiction

1.)

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty was an excellent idea to promote self confidence amongst women all over the world. It started on 2004 and launched 3 phases of their campaign. The first phase is about a much-talked-about ad campaign featuring real women whose appearances are outside the stereotypical norms of beauty. The ad then asked the viewers to judge the women’s looks and invited them to casts their votes on the website. The 2^nd Phase was advertising featuring six real women with real bodies and real curves. This was created to discredit the stereotype that only thin is beautiful. The 3^rd phase was a global study where it is revealed 91% of women ages 50-64 believe it’s time for society to change its views about women and aging. Today the Dove Campaign’s focused on how girls today are bombarded with unrealistic, unattainable messages and images of beauty that impact their self-esteem.

2.) The Axe Effect Campaign was a smart way to advertise their product to men. The campaign really made me laugh hysterically and also made me amazed on how they came up with that idea of advertising. The commercial made me laugh because on how exaggerated the advertisement was. There are a lot of exaggerations in these commercial; how could there be a million of women in their bathing suits in an island, how could all of them smell the scent of one guy while spraying axe all over his body, and why are the women act like wild animals in the clip. These things make up the commercial really interesting and a bit of humour.

3.) I think the parent company has some responsibility to ensure that all of their different sectors uphold the same sort of beliefs and values. The views of the sectors should be the same because it reflects the views and mission of the company.

Response to Ads of the Past

Ad #1

The 1st ad is telling us that tape worms will help us stay thin even though we always eat. They are right but they are somewhat wrong because having worms in your body can cause you a lot of diseases. You can just eat right and exercise regularly to keep your body fit.

Ad#2

The 2nd ad tells people that if you smoke the cigarette in front of women’s face, they would eventually be attracted and tend to “follow you anywhere”. It is stupid because if you do that to the women, instead of being attracted to you they will be disgusted.

Ad#3

The 3rd ad shows us that a family is happy because they eat lard. This is not a bad thing but the ad is making people think that the only source of happiness is lard. Too much lard will cause obesity and some other sickness.

Ad#4

The 4th ad tells us that doctor advises that smoking a cigarette called Camel is better than any other cigarettes. Doctors do not advise smoking any cigarettes because it is bad for our health. They used doctors as examples of people who use Camel because almost everyone knows doctor knows what is good.

I think that all of the ads are not appropriate because all of them have irony on them. I think money and power allowed these types of ads to run. By looking at these ads I think America's society is greedy for money that they will try to convince people to buy their product by using false ads. In today’s advertisements almost all of them have false information or sometimes impossible situations but not really obvious. The second ad is saying that women are really weak when their face is blown by a smoke of the cigarette.