Gamernode: News - Attention television: that's (still) not how games work

That has got to be the most inaccurate representation of gaming I have EVER seen! I mean, Christ, who the hell wrote this crap?

I am thinking the same thing wasabi. I"ve played prince of persia before, I have yet to see "you have reached level #" appear on my screen.

It's not like a computer, it is a computer. It's really just a harddrive with games on it.

Basically this is what my experience gaming has been like.

i like how when she beats a normal character a large "YOU WIN!! LEVEL 3!!!" ummmmm, i dont hitnk its like that. and also, who stands there and pretends to play a game in the back? Only people who play ddr do that, and i hate them, with a passion, they look retarted.

I wasn't sure whether to laugh, cry, or vomit. I almost did all three at once.

And that "game fingering" in the back is... Just awful. I've only done that while waiting for my turn when a bunch of me and my friends are playing swap-off with Guitar Hero.

Man, I too was engrossed at the marvel of Prince of Persia...*mouth open*

What about the Microsoft Excel files appearing in the end? Ridiculous...

Wait, what does his Captain Kirk costume have to do with anything?

And why is Prince of Persia so hard?

Man, his xbox must be really modded.

That pissed me off, Brendon; how do you know what pushes my angry buttons?

This has GOT to be satire. Either that or these actors HAD to have been completely embarrassed by this process. It really felt like they were making fun of stupid detective shows or something....

Unless he wears a William Shatner mask he just has a "Star Trek" costume.

It would be nice if there were some tangible rewards to beating a video game. Like one of those restaurants where if you finish your 5 lb burger and 2 lbs of fries you get it free.

I don't actually see what the problem your having is? Just because they used a real game for their show, and had to add some sort of titles in order to show the audience what was happening, and made up the whole idea a game could be used to unlock encrypted files. "See for yourself" is some brilliant writing yourself.

man that sucked, which sucked more because the ginger dude was in band of brothers and he was really awesome in that :(
now whenever i think of dick winters ill thinnk of crappy prince of persia people and stupid tv....:(
(is it sad that i can remember the guys name after this long?... i dunno)

I can't believe how fake that was. Did the writers do any research before they wrote the episode or did they just come up with it on their own. Anyone who knows anything about video games knows that there are no girls who play xbox. It is a proven fact. Sheesh.

Say what you want about the level thing, which I can accept as a necessity for the average viewer (I don't think that shows market is the 18-24 crowd.). Say what you will about the imaginary controller. That has a rationale too (even if it is only to cater to the idea that women actually *SHOCK* play games and are good at them, though I've yet to find a female who can put up a decent fight at Halo...).

No, the big problem? A kid keeps his files on his game console, and sets it up so he has to spend presumably a half hour to an hour getting to them EACH AND EVERY TIME HE WANTS TO DO ANYTHING WITH THEM. Now, that alone wouldn't be bad (no, it'd be terrible.), BUT a lot of people game, does your friendslist outnumber your "encryption experts" list? I'm going to venture a no.

*dies*

Lawl, the doors open and SURPRISE, SPREADSHEETS AND EXCEL FILES, CAUSE THAT'S TOTALLY HOW VIDEO GAMES WORK. Noobs.

I will give them credit for actually being able to pick up an Xbox. That thing is huge.

I will admit that this isn't entirely bad, though; just "haha, wow..." bad. It does show the girl being good at games which goes against stereotypes, and at least it uses an Xbox which is much easier to mod than something like a PSX or PS2.

You can't deny it's bad writing, though. You just can't.

The problem here seems to be the impression that a fictional show is somehow designed to be teaching truth. It's a show about things that have not actually happened, about things that are not meant to necessarily be possible, but bozos still find it within themselves to lash out that a fictional show is inaccurate. That's like arguing that it just seems unrealistic that Gaia from Captain Planet would ever say something like that. Oh? And the fact that 7 kids in the show have rings whose powers that can transformed into an ecofriendly superhero wasn't the first unlikely thing to catch your magnifying glass there, Sherlock Hemlock? Egad.

Haha, oh god

I guess at least they aren't trying to "firm up the graphics on level 3" but still thats pretty awful. It may have been explained in the full episode (doubt it) but how the heck did they figure out playing to "level 10" would magically get them the data? Wouldn't a sane normal procedure be to first hook up the xboxs hard drive to a computer and see what's hidden on it?

LMAO thank goodness they managed to run Excel on an xbox........Holy crap now that freaking spaz can go put on his damn captain Kirk uniform and high five the chick that said" it's a hardrive with games on it". I freaking hate that show anyhow.

Like a commenter said earlier, a good producer would have hooked up an xbox and did targeted study to get the lifestyle and habits correct before he filled a TV show with a bunch of crap.

Plus, How exactly did they know that it was THAT game that'd unlock the files? (Thats assuming that they pulled the idea that Video Games unlock things out of their ass without being told.)

Notice how he just picks it up off the tv and leaves without video/audio cord, I want a wireless XBOX!!