My son, the gamer....

[Phelonious Ponk]

I'm not a gamer, but my 14-year-old son is deeeeeeep into his PS3. So deep that we have to limit his time to keep him from sinking in! I watch over his shoulder a lot, and the graphics are pretty stunning. He is a RPG gamer -- the Batman series, the Assasin's Creed Series, Infamous, Skyrim...and from my point of view (again...over his shoulder) the best are the ones that look as if you've walked into a great comic book or graphic novel. I'm particularly a fan of the look of the Batman Arkam Asylum/Arkam City games. For my own part, the only one I ever got into was Gran Turismo, an incredible car racing simulation. Great stuff. I also think the iPad is very rapidly developing into a great gaming platform, though it lends itself to different kinds of games with it's very different interface.

Tim

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

I have a 7 year old daughter who is seriously into Angry Birds. She has played all 15 levels in 17 different Angry Birds series. Thankfully, she's finally moved on to other stuff now. My wife has the use of her Android tablet once again, after many months in Amanda's charge.

When I think back to my one gaming experience with MYST, around 1990, having lost 7 hours and not realizing how much time had passed, I was so scared that I'd lost my sense of time and space for that period, that I quit playing any videogames from that day forward.

 

[carolkoh]

Seeing as I review games on a freelance basis, I'm happy to recommend games I come across that are really neat.

 

[Dimfer]

some members of my family are taking the game seriously ...foreign language warning

 

[Steve Williams]

Seeing as I review games on a freelance basis, I'm happy to recommend games I come across that are really neat.

Carol

That would be a wonderful idea if you are up to it

 

[Steve Williams]

I have a 7 year old daughter who is seriously into Angry Birds. She has played all 15 levels in 17 different Angry Birds series. Thankfully, she's finally moved on to other stuff now. My wife has the use of her Android tablet once again, after many months in Amanda's charge.

When I think back to my one gaming experience with MYST, around 1990, having lost 7 hours and not realizing how much time had passed, I was so scared that I'd lost my sense of time and space for that period, that I quit playing any videogames from that day forward.

MYST

there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I played that game forever and could never have finished would it not have been for others' clues

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

MYST

there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I played that game forever and could never have finished would it not have been for others' clues

I found you have to get into a certain mind set to play MYST. A kind of "ESP" mode of sensing where the next clue might be. It's weird, like a kind of fuzzy reasoning, but if you can get the mindset, you can find the clues. That's what's so addicting about MYST.