Entertainment: Movies, or Video Games?
The Halo Trilogy is one of the most popular video games in entertainment today. The latest installment, Halo 3, "rang up a record-smashing $170 million in retail sales within its first 24 hours in U.S. stores" (Los Angeles Times). And this is in the U.S. alone!
Halo 3 did better than the top grossing movie "Spider-Man 3" which only made $151 million in its opening weekend!
It seems that video games are becoming more and more successful than movies. I mean, Microsoft's Halo 3 made more money than the most popular, highest grossing movie ever made! But does that mean that people in the movie industry will lose their jobs? Most certainly not. Not all people are gamers and interested in video games, but not all of those will go crazy buying all these different video games.
I think that video games are more entertaining than movies because instead of yelling at the movie screen, trying to tell the character what to do, in video games, you actually control every move that your character makes. With movies, you can pay a small amount to watch a movie only once. But if you want to see the movie again, you have to keep paying. The amount of money that you use accumulates, and you eventually lose a large amount of money, depending on how many times you see the movie. But with video games, you can pay a large, or small amount, depending on the game, only once and reuse that same game multiple times. And since there are many levels in video games, you never get bored of doing the same thing over and over again. I like video games better than movies because it is practical and inexpensive.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Journal Entry #1: "Halo 3" Be Thy Name!
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Video games are a 50/50 chance of being very good, or very bad. If you don't like a game you have bought, you mostlikely wasted 50-70dollars.
Video games are a 50/50 chance of being very good, or very bad. If you don't like a game you have bought, you mostlikely wasted 50-70dollars.
Hey Breanna,
I agree with your opinion, I also believe video games are more enjoyable and less expensive. However you stated that you have to keep paying for movie and that isn't really true. You can rent or borrow movies from friends or simply download movies off the internet which is free.(pirating)Also, there are some video games that you have to keep paying such as World of Warcraft and online games on the PS2.
well like what if you buy the movies, then you can watch them over and over again as well. also, bootleg movies are much cheaper than video games. bootleg video games are dumb; its better to buy originals. but i also like video games better! see in halo 3, you can take out your anger but in a movie, you can't!! XD
Hey Breanna,
This one is hard, I think I like both video games and movies. The thing about movies is that I can keep watching them over and over again if its really good. But with video games, after you beat everything once, you won't play it again. And what you said about paying each time you want to re-watch the movie, well you wouldn't have to if you bought the DVD!
And it's true that in video games you get to contro the character. But in movies you get to watch what people would do. Also because of that, you get so many different emotions that you wouldn't be able to find in video games, well at least I wouldn't be able to.
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