Video games, speed and the clash of thinking styles

[Voltaire]

My Son plays a lot of Xbox....my gut feeling is that its not making him any smarter.....unlike me who knows my Airfix Tiger 1 from a Tiger 2.....useful stuff.
Give me a garage full of 'stuff' any day.

[Mushu]

My Son plays a lot of Xbox....my gut feeling is that its not making him any smarter.....unlike me who knows my Airfix Tiger 1 from a Tiger 2.....useful stuff.
Give me a garage full of 'stuff' any day.

What is he playing on his XBox? Have you tried playing it with him, I always enjoyed giving my Dad a massive advantage playing Gran Turismo so I could play out my Initial D fantasies and kick his ass with a Corolla.

[Scuba_Steve]

My Son plays a lot of Xbox....my gut feeling is that its not making him any smarter.....unlike me who knows my Airfix Tiger 1 from a Tiger 2.....useful stuff.
Give me a garage full of 'stuff' any day.

Games have limited use in smarts dept, there are games that can teach you a bit, Assassins creed for example has taught me a bit of history like the Catholic Church once approved of & even supported brothels, until one day they turn their backs on them & denounced them in favour of little boys*
Games improve the hand/eye reflex abilities rather than the smart abilities (as a general rule) so there's definitely a place for them IMO but they should NOT be THE place, just as TV & books should not be THE place.


*2nd part of sentence may turn hollywood "based on true story"

[Mushu]

They also did Motor Toon Grand Prix on PS1 but they were still SCEJ at that stage, there was once plans to add the bikes to GT, maybee it just hasn't happened yet due to the excessive time it took to get GT5 out the door? They haven't ruled out a sequel or possibility of adding bikes to the GT universe
Polyphonic Digital are after all game devs, gamers & auto lovers.

I had a feeling there was another one, never played it though. GT6 has been announced, pretty sure it's supposed to come out this year but surely if they had added bikes it would have been one of the first things they revealed.

[Voltaire]

What is he playing on his XBox? Have you tried playing it with him, I always enjoyed giving my Dad a massive advantage playing Gran Turismo so I could play out my Initial D fantasies and kick his ass with a Corolla.

No, have never played Xbox. Until this year we used to go skiing together that was fun. He is now a far better skier than me,older brother snowboards and I taught him the basics on how to play a guitar, and how to drive a manual car....each to their own I suppose
Neither of them has an interest in motorcycles....thats what the old guy in the shed does

[ducatilover]

Surely it's no worse a use of my time than posting all manner of crap here and other forums.

I would have to agree with that lol