It's a miserable sight when I go into GAME and see a row of those wonderful touch generation pieces of crap and a bunch of mothers oogling them to see which one would be best for their child for christmas. What the hell?
Sight training, Left and Right, Vocabulary bull****, cook yourself stupid...both on the Wii and DS. For godsake release some real games. I know we just had Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass which rocks so much face, but do we need any more of these self improvement 'games'. Are they even proven to work? If you're blind, you're freaking blind.
I don't want HER playing MY goddamn DS!
But the sad thing is that these are the games that are mostly advertised on TV to the mass public. Parents think that this is what little Timmy wants when really Timmy wants f***ing Mario or Metroid Prime 3!
I know I'm going a bit OTT on this subject but these games really do piss me off. Games are meant to be fun, not a chore to keep up to date with.
Unless Brain Training lets me mow someone down with a gatling gun, what's the point?
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personally i also didn't like it... but who cares?
from what i can see though, these educational games are pretty much the excuse for uneasy parents to buy it. I work at a games store, I'll suggest a DS and the parent gets shaky, i mention the 15$ brain age thats "educational" and they jump right on it. The educational games are gateway games, allowing kids to get the systems from their parents and thus start playing zelda and contra (and final fantasy 12).
That's why you don't see them on 360 or ps3, they work but they only work for parents buying. most people who own a ps3 or 360, either bought it themselves or have sweet parents.