Crouching!

A lot of games include tutorials nowadays, do we need them? Now I'm not about to go ranting on how we don't. RTS games, sports games, management games all need a beginner basic tutorial in my book, but playing a lot of first person and RPG's i feel not even my three year old son needs to be told which way to push the analog stick to look left and so on. I'm guess I'm just asking for some kind of "switch off" button or maybe a "dumb mode off" button maybe??
Tell you what developers, plop us in a area with no bad guys and leave us to have a quick button bash to learn what makes us jump,crouch,etc.. If we happen to wander out the area before we have learnt the fire button then more fool us!
You don't need to stick some pipes in our way to remind us we can crouch, like its the first time our character has done it in their lives.

I understand that there are people picking up the controller for the first time everyday and they may need to get to grips with how all this gaming malarkey works but i like to think everyone doing this has the simple ability to come to terms with what buttons do what by themselves given the time and space.

I am no asking for these tutorials to be removed , just that they are applied in a different manor maybe. Don't treat us like idiots. If your game has special features that set it apart from the average shooter then by all means show us how these work but let us learn to walk and crouch by ourselves, there is only around 14 buttons crouch could be, ill find it!

Summer and how i hate it..

OK people, its been a while but I've been busy doing a few things, playing games when i get chance being one of them!

First off, I'm going to be a dad again early next year! Thanks to all that left comments on my face book page.

Righto, well i find the summer always a bad time for games, not many good releases, they should know better than to think us gamers are out enjoying the sun, the last thing you will find me doing is playing football down the local park with my top sacrificed to make a goal post. But i suppose its times like these that give us a chance to go back and fully complete such games as Red dead, Red dead undead nightmare, Fallout, assassins creed etc.etc.

Recently Ive completed Assassin Creed: Brotherhood, now i never completed the original cos as most complained about i found it tedious, boring and repetitive. My,oh my how this game changed my opinion with the follow up and and this kinda 2.5 add on, i now count these games in my top 10 franchise's. Now I'm playing Halo:Reach again i am not a fan of the Halo games, i don't like the combat system, that's my main jib.
I find the whole run,jump,strafe,circle way you fight everything annoying. I like to take cover and pinch off shots. But it is the most enjoyable Halo game I've played yet, the storyline is great and the characters pretty well written.

Games I'm looking forward too on the run up to Xmas: dead island, raccoon city, sky rim, deus ex, battlefield3 and more..
Its going to a good end to the year for gamers!

Till next time, I'm going to revise these blogs in future, make them not so fleeting, ill put some more effort in i promise!

Gamer love from the core!

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