This article should be called "Explaining why gamers say Facebook games are not actually games, and they are not fun." Your description of how you spend your time with your games covers that quite well I'd say.
Facebook games do suck up people's time, and people get addicted to them far more then regular games. The reason this is so fascinating is the fact that there isn't an ounce of fun involved with those games either. Perhaps one day people will write down how they "play" these games like you did, read back over it, and then realize "Holy crap i'm wasting my time and my life with this terrible crap!"
Please post a link to a website that contains productive video games. I would love to hear about this other side...
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by that. As a student of the history of human warfare, I've certainly learned alot about various historical battles by gaming them. So in that case, you could try either Matrix Games or Battlefront as two examples.
On direct2drive you can buy a game called Peace Maker which can give you some idea about the challenges faced by both sides in the ongoing Isreal/Palestinian conflict.
I've learned a bunch about the age of sail and various pirates over the years simply because I like pirate games like Sea Dogs and its follow ups.
And certainly, if you wanted to learn the challenges faced by NASA during its heyday, you could always search for the DOS-box version of Buzz Aldrin's Race in to Space.
Interested in the physics of space flight? Google "Orbiter" a free and fantasic realistic space flight simulator.
Want to check out what it's like to fly an aircraft? MS Flight Sim X.
The smaller a community is, the more politics are involved and 3D games become as political and more social (and even threatening) than your mainstream game.
I was in four communities, which all shared the same thing about their games...A low population count. All of them shared a certain trend which I did not like..
1) In all these games few groups tried to use forumboards to control what a player can and can not do in-game...
2) Players from the same forums would "police" games beyond the 1st party company.
3) Players would be forced to become political to be able to play the game otherwise face their friends turning against them or their servers getting hacked.
4) Clans and Groups regardless how good or bad exercised opinion as fact and imposed them on everyong.
5) They used your presence and status in-game to JUDGE you outside the game like on Forumboards, Instant Messengers and other sites..
I dealt with these communities for years. This attitude has existed in online games for over a decade at least....
How many people play an MMORPG or a FPS game..They start out ok, and then eventually end up getting into some group or clan and now rather than physically play the game, these players play more time talking to people in these clans and trying to not make the clan look bad?
When does it go from "Playing the game and being free" to "Being in a group and spending more time covering your ass than actually playing the game?"
You talk of Social Games exploding, but its the same mundane and idiotic thing. People on some domain playing a game and using their accomplishments in-game to try to act like they should be treated higher than people who do not play those games.
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Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by that. As a student of the history of human warfare, I've certainly learned alot about various historical battles by gaming them. So in that case, you could try either Matrix Games or Battlefront as two examples.
On direct2drive you can buy a game called Peace Maker which can give you some idea about the challenges faced by both sides in the ongoing Isreal/Palestinian conflict.
I've learned a bunch about the age of sail and various pirates over the years simply because I like pirate games like Sea Dogs and its follow ups.
And certainly, if you wanted to learn the challenges faced by NASA during its heyday, you could always search for the DOS-box version of Buzz Aldrin's Race in to Space.
Interested in the physics of space flight? Google "Orbiter" a free and fantasic realistic space flight simulator.
Want to check out what it's like to fly an aircraft? MS Flight Sim X.
Learning things isn't "productive"?
You know...
The smaller a community is, the more politics are involved and 3D games become as political and more social (and even threatening) than your mainstream game.
I was in four communities, which all shared the same thing about their games...A low population count. All of them shared a certain trend which I did not like..
1) In all these games few groups tried to use forumboards to control what a player can and can not do in-game...
2) Players from the same forums would "police" games beyond the 1st party company.
3) Players would be forced to become political to be able to play the game otherwise face their friends turning against them or their servers getting hacked.
4) Clans and Groups regardless how good or bad exercised opinion as fact and imposed them on everyong.
5) They used your presence and status in-game to JUDGE you outside the game like on Forumboards, Instant Messengers and other sites..
I dealt with these communities for years. This attitude has existed in online games for over a decade at least....
How many people play an MMORPG or a FPS game..They start out ok, and then eventually end up getting into some group or clan and now rather than physically play the game, these players play more time talking to people in these clans and trying to not make the clan look bad?
When does it go from "Playing the game and being free" to "Being in a group and spending more time covering your ass than actually playing the game?"
You talk of Social Games exploding, but its the same mundane and idiotic thing. People on some domain playing a game and using their accomplishments in-game to try to act like they should be treated higher than people who do not play those games.