Difference Between Men and Women

As you may have notice there has been a lack of post over the last few weeks and the reason for this is because some of the idea’s that I did have and wanted to write about just didn’t sound good and second I just ran out of ideas. Now one topic that has been going round my head a lot lately and something that I wanted to tackle is the way in which we as human portrait woman within our society, so this week I will be looking at why I believe that woman are the superior species on this planet.

The first thing that I would like to put out there and something a lot of my friends know me for is the fact that I have always held women with the up most respect and without them I don’t think we as a race would be where we are now. Yes I know just by saying that a large portion of the men that will read this well disagree with me without even thinking about their answer and if they do I bet your the first response will be that they moan about everything all the time and then leave it at that. If that is want you think then you have just given them more credit than you realised, but before we go any fever I would like to give you a few example of why I believe woman are the better than men (and if you haven’t already guest by now I am a man and this is coming from my point of view.)

The first think to look at is the fact that when we men get ill we will sing and dance about the fact that we are ill and that we can’t do anything and nine times out of ten I bet you the words everyone likes to use when they are ill is that they have “Man Flu”. Sorry to bust your bubble but there is no such thing as “Man Flu” and the reason for this is because they are only varying degrees of colds and flu that go around and will effective everyone differently based on how good their immune system is. “Man Flu” is just a term that men like to throw so that they don’t have to do anything. To combat this term and so that men feel like that there is something that can help them pharmacy now stock medicine that says “Man Flu” on but if you take the time to read the back of the box you will discover that it contains almost the same ingredients that all the other cold and flu medicine contains. For women on the other had they will just get on with whatever is going on in their lives, and as I said if they do get a bad cold or flu then they may take the day off work and spend the day trying to get over it but do you hear them going on about how they can’t do anything.

(I should also let you know that I do know of some women that like to do what men do and sing and dance about being ill but if anything there are what I like to call exceptions to the rules which you will see again next week’s blog.)

The next example that I will using is something that I said at the beginning of this post and that is women like to moan, the one thing that I will point out is the fact that this will be made up of two parts. First younger men up until their forties will spend a lot of time complaining about sports while women of the same age range will start moaning about one another, then men, then what they want to do with their lives, followed by family matters and at the same time world events. Yes I am aware that men will also moan about world events but that tends to be later down the line once they have a family to look after and even then sports always seems to be the topic of choice when men want to moan about something.

The other part of moaning I also wanted to cover is how valid is some of the moaning that we men and women talk about, what I mean by this is did you do something that you believe was right but in the process caused a lot of moaning. An example of this would be you decided to do the washing up but you didn’t do it or you were asked to hover your place but you did something else, this is what I call valid moaning and is something that both men and women are guilt of doing. So the next time you are being moaned at listen to what is being said and you might discover that a lot of the moaning that gets throw at you from women is actual valid.

The last example that I would like to us is one that we all joke about, and that is their ability to multi task and balance their lives. I have a simple question to every man out there and that is how much are you involved in your family life. If you are wondering what I mean by this then take this scenario for a second, you are a father of one child and you also have a wife, your child is about three years old and your wife is also at full time work as are you. What do you spend your time thinking about, I will bet you that the your wife will be thinking about her work, child, married, what she needs to do when she gets home and what you are going to have to cook for dinner. While you are more than likely to spend your time thinking about your work, lunch, dinner and when the next sport game is going to happen.

The point that I am trying to make here is the fact that woman are the superior person on this planet and without them I don’t think we would be where we are today. One last question for you, if men had to be the ones that had to carry and give birth to a child do you think that they would be able to handle it? I know the answer would be no because they can’t even handle a simple cold or flu and I should also point out that there are always exceptions to the rules and some of those I will be looking at later down the line.

Until Next Time

Is This Really the Greatest Final Fantasy Game Released?

One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to complete Final Fantasy VII (FFVII) and to mark this achievement I have decided to write up my views on this game. I should also point out that this blog will contain spoilers from the game, so you have been warned.

If you have been reading my blog over the last year you would know that while I was growing up I did everything that I could to stay away from anything that could be classed as popular or well talked about and this is true for the Final Fantasy series. I did while I was growing up play a bit of Final Fantasy VI/III on the SNES but I never fully completed it back then but when I look back on it now I can see that I wasn’t too far from the finishing the game, but with the hype around Final Fantasy VII onwards I just stayed away from the series.

Now back in February I decided that I would start playing Final Fantasy VII and didn’t finish it till the end of April, it has now taken me till now to write up this blog due to that fact that every time I ended up writing about FFVII my opinion ended up changing. The reason for this was the fact that the more I wanted to how good this game was the more I discovered that I just couldn’t didn’t like it.

Yes this may come as a shocker to all those that love FFVII and those that like all types of RPG’s (Role-Playing Game (like myself)) but every time I through I liked something and then tried to explain why I liked it I discovered that I just didn’t. You could say that it was because I was over analysing the game or looking for away to dislike the game but that wasn’t the case because while I was playing the game I made sure that I had my Laptop with me writing everything that had happened at each point of the game, from characters to story.

After I completing the game I discovered that I had more questions than answers when it came to the story and the only way that I could get those answers was to spend a few days after completing the game looking for those answers on the Internet. While reading up on the story I discovered that some of my questions could have been answered if I went and completed some of the side quest that I didn’t find or know about while I was playing.

An example of this was when it came to how Tifa was able to get out of her home town of Nibelheim after Sephiroth attacked and destroyed the town. You only find out the answers to this questions when you go back to Nibelheim and start examine Tifa old house, while examine you will discover a note that has been placed on her Piano which examples how she got from Nibelhiem to Midgar. I understand that an RPG needs to be open so that everyone can play it in their own way but I just found that a lot of the questions that I had were to do with the story and it would have be nice if at some point in the game it actual mentioned this side quest a bit better.

If there was on thing that really put me off the game was the main character Cloud, the problem that I had with him was the fact that he had no interest what so ever with what was going on around him until he hears the name Sephiroth. I am aware that Cloud makes it very clear in the first hour of the game that he will only do jobs as a long as the money is good but when you are given a choice and his top answer is him not wanting to help why would give me the chose. The best example that I could give would be when Cloud has to save a young woman called Percilla by perform CPR on her but Cloud makes it very clear that he doesn’t want to help her but the game will only allow you to continue if you do choice to help her. I know that RPG’s are all about giving the player a choice but why made me play as character that doesn’t want to do anything.

There are other problems that I have with the game, which start with the story and go all the way down to the some of the controls. What I mean when it comes to the story is the way in which it is told to us, an Example of this would be that Cloud has a problem with Sephiroth but it doesn’t explain why Cloud has this problem with Sephiroth till much later in the game but when you do learn the truth you also discovers that everyone that did survive the events at Nibelhiem were then experimented on or killed which then leads to how did Tifa get away and why does everyone believe that Cloud is a clone and so one. There are so many twist and turns within this game that you just get lost as to what is true and not and a lot of what needs to be explained isn’t explained in the main quest or side quests.

Yes there was a lot wrong with this game but there were some stand out points that I really enjoyed. Some of the best bits came from the other characters that are within your party, good examples of this would be some of the other characters had believable past which made you relate to the characters more and you could see why they were upset or why they wanted to help. Examples of this would be Tifa, Barret and Cid and the reason for this was because you could see how much they had been thought to get where they are now.

Another part of the game that I did enjoy was the music, in some parts of the game the music fitted the mood perfectly but there were one or two tracks that to me I just didn’t like but that is normal for most games.

I wanted to believe that this game was as great as everyone had made it out to be but deep down I didn’t like it and the reason for that is because I have played better JRPG that have been done better in every way from the characters to the story. This game may have allowed a lot of people to get into JRPG’s and this could be the reason that this game is praised so highly but for me this game just didn’t know where it was going and made you control a character that just didn’t care about anything else than revenge. I will admit that revenge can be a very powerful way to push a story forward but if your story is all over the place and the main character doesn’t want to get involved in what is going on you just feel disconnection from the game and its characters.

I have always classed RPG’s as a way in which we can escape our world and feel like we are doing some good in another world but when it comes to FFVII I just felt like I wasn’t doing any good and that I had to fight the wishes of the main character himself. Should this game be classed as the best JRPG and used as a template for all RPG’s in the future? My answer would be no and my reasoning behind this is that there are far better JRPG’s and WRPG’s out there now that have better story than this game.

I know that a lot of fans of this game will say that I am wrong but I ask you to go back and play this game again as if you have never played it before and then tell me what you think of it, don’t allow your nostalgia of this game cloud you.

Until Next Time

Are there any standout titles when it comes to Zombies?

If you are like me you might have noticed that over the last five or more years there has been an increase in the amount of content across all forms of media when it comes to Zombies. This is fine with me even though I am not a massive fan of the genre but there has been one stand out piece that everyone has been talking about for the last three years and that is The Walking Dead.

Today I will be looking at the point and click adventure of The Walking Dead the video game that was released last year by Telltale Games but before we get into the game itself let me mention that The Walking Dead started off as a graphic novel that was created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard back in 2003. Then in 2010 AMC then released a television adoption of the comic book which from what I have read and hear has been met with very high praises.

With all this praise it was only going to be a matter of time before someone decided to make a video game out of it and nine times out of ten that video game is going to be nothing like the show that it was created from but lucky for us Telltale Games decided that they would make a game based on The Walking Dead but as a point and click adventure.

Now I have never seen or read anything to do with The Walking Dead but from all the praise that the show and the game have received I knew that I would have to have a look at it at some point, lucky for me all five chapters went on sale back in March so I decide then that I would pick it up but have only just finished playing the game.

I should point out that from this point onwards there could be a chance of spoilers, so you have been warned.

Now as I said moments ago I went into the game completely blind and I had no knowledge of what I was getting myself into but that didn’t really matter because the game starts just as the Zombie outbreak happens. This to me was a good way to start the story because it allows for those that are new to the series to understand what is going on and enables you to experience what the characters are experiences as they learn something new about their surroundings.

Now without giving too much away for those that haven’t played the game yet, this is a story about a group of characters trying to survive the aftermath of the Zombie apocalypse, at the same time you will be playing as Lee Everett and making choice that will effect the group and Clementine who you find at the start of the game and have taken it upon yourself to protect.

As I have just mentioned this game allows you to make choice that can be carried over from one episode of the game to the next. Now if you have read any of my Mass Effect blogs that I released back in March you will know that I enjoy playing games and watching Television shows that show you the consequences of your actions. In this game these choice you make may not appear till later in the game which is good because you will never know on your first play through when these choice will come back to haunt you.

The way in which the game plays also is very good for a game that is based on a point and click adventure, what I mean by this is the fact the game makes you feel like you are in the games world looks for items that will enable you to survive.

The last part of the game that I enjoy was the way in which the characters develop throughout the game, as the game goes fewer on it throws in events were you have to make hard decision and because of these decision you as a character and those around you change as the story goes on.

So with a game that has been praised so much what were the problems that I had with this game, well one of biggest problems that I encountered was with the conversation options. The reason for the problem was the fact that it would give you up to four options when you are having a conversation with someone along with a time limit in which to give one of the four responses to them. Now I will admit that I am not one of the fastest readers and because of this I sometimes didn’t get the time to read all the options that where present to me and because of this sometimes I didn’t chose anything which just left my character saying nothing.

The next two problems I had with the game was to do with the story itself, I am not saying that the story was bad because to me it was very good but there were parts were I knew what was going to happen before it happened and that wasn’t because I had read up what was going to happen. Examples of this would be when you leave the motel in episode 3 and arrive at the train that is blocking the road, another one for me was also at the end of the fourth episode where you see Clementine’s hat next to a dumpster.

This also leads me into the final problem with the story, you are given the choice to go it alone to save Clementine which was what I decided but before I could go I had to have a chat with everyone were they would tell me if they are coming with me or not and even then when the final chapter gets started you end up coming back to the group that you left in chapter four to find Clementine.

Apart from very long conversation sections of the game and the small grips with the story the game as a whole was brilliant and because of that I now have an interested in The Walking Dead. If you are a fan of the show and haven’t played the game yet I would recommend you do so and if you are a gamer that likes a good story or a good game in general then I would recommend that you go and play this game right now.

Until Next Time.