Blog Assignment

The battle of learning versus amusement is over. For so long we, the students, had been hoping for a fun writing assignment and the blog assignment was it. Not only are we allowed to write what we want but we have an outlet to improve our writing skills. The blog assignment gave students a grade for just the small act of writing about something and everyone has something to write about. Some people chose to try and solve the problems of the world, others write about their adventures or misadventures, and some even wrote reviews or stories for their futures. The only improvements that I would recommend would be one, check to make sure everyone is on track and doing their blogs and two, have less assignments and more freedom on what to write. When I think about writing a blog I try to think about what I like, what I am complaining about recently, or even just what has been on my mind recently and this gives me ultimate freedom on what to write about. Every blog I write is another chance to write a review for a game or write another introduction to a game and by doing those I get to write what I really want to write about and improve in the career I wanted to go into. I really enjoyed this assignment and I hope that the fact that not every student did there blog every week doesn’t ruin it for the rest of us who really worked and had fun doing it.

Mini Manifesto

I’m sick and tired of this ridiculous notion that just because a movie is coming out that a video game can be made about it. These games tend to be poorly made, poorly designed, with poor art, lousy controls, and simplistic plot and gameplay. The primary reason for this is that the person who plans on making the most money on a film feels that they can bank on the hype of the movie and decide to go for more. They give money to a low-level cheap game company and also give them an unrealistic release date, ninety-nine percent of the time near when the movie premiere. These companies in turn throw out a piece of junk to the public filling our new release shelves with so much crap that a gem of a game is buried beneath al the filth.
In the past few years I have seen 300 6, X-men 3: Last Stand 6, The Matrix Trilogy 6, Star Wars Episode III 6, Transformers 6, and Spider-man 3 just to name a few movies and I have seen each of there counter-parts: 300 for PSP, X-men 3: Last stand, Enter the Matrix, Lord of the Rings series, Star Wars Episode III, Transformers: The video game, and Spider-man 3: The video game. Although the movies are of both good and bad quality, none of the games scored higher than a 6.6 out of 10 and anyone who has ever been to school knows that that is a D or less average. What is the remedy? The remedy is these game companies growing a spine.
Accept the job but on the demands that you won’t release the game unless it is for sure to be good or at least playable. If every game company agreed to not settle for less than an acceptable game then a higher degree of excellence will be expected from these companies and better games will be made portraying our favorite movies better. Then the ones who pay to have these game companies make these games will understand that to have a game come out with the movie it must be started when or even before the movie starts being produced. In the end, a better gaming experience will be had for everyone and they will be one step even closer to feeling like their favorite hero.

Perfect Sentence

"You are not the father."
-Maury Povich