This afternoon I played Final Fantasy XII on the Playstation 3 while I waited for my daughter to call me so I could go over to see her new puppy. While I was there, she turned on the game … I think I saw a few of the commercials … I was not impressed … one had a guy talking about being a drug pusher and telling people to keep their kids safe from the prescription drugs in their medicine cabinet. I thought that was a horrible way to get people’s attention about the issue. Another one was for water … a lovely girl was dancing and so were a bunch of … lizards? … I thought it might be a Geiko car insurance commercial at first.
When I got home, I went back to playing the game – it is nice to just sit and play awhile … my hands and arms are still tired from winding the string on my new kite yesterday and it sitting there with a PS3 controller in my hands where I am not having to do real time battling … for the first time, I am glad that FF does not … most of the time, that is one of the big things I want them to implement … I am looking forward to the battle menu system going away though this one we can set to more or less auto and not have to worry about it … sometimes … but I am hoping it will not be full of nearly impossible for me skills movements.
I hope that game makers do not start putting in commercials in the console games – I was thinking about that on my way home from my daughter’s house … we are bombarded everywhere with commercials … yes, even here … 
….. a young man at Starbucks yesterday told me that “everyone” [I am NOT part of everyone] watches the Super Bowl even if they do not like football just so they can see the commercials. I was busy leveling my party up about 3 to 5 levels or so … I enjoyed that a lot more than I would a bunch of commercials.
Posted under Games / Gaming
This post was written by Barbara Burns on February 3, 2008
