Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Ooh, it's going to be a busy month. I may not be able to post more because there is work to be done on my major project and to finish this dissertation. However I will try my best to post if I am able. That's all, folks! Thank you for reading.

Thursday, 1 March 2012

The experiment with 10 participants is almost done but yet to be analysed. It has been a tough week organising this, but I've almost done it. The results seem to be quite surprising, but lets not get too ahead of ourselves yet. Anyway, the 3 consoles I used were PS1, PSP and Nintendo Gameboy SP (with the exception of the PC for one participant).

The games used on the PS1 were:
- 'Evil Zone' (an anime sandbox fighting game just like soul caliber but less spamming involved),
- 'Hogs of War' (good old politically incorrect fun with pigs), and
- 'Digimon Rumble Arena' (yes, it's not a very good game but I don't have that many games that are not violent).

The games used on the PSP were:
- Loco Roco (a very fun kids game that many people, including adult, enjoy despite first impressions)
- Tekken Dark Resurrection (typical sandbox fighting game, popular and violent)
- Wipeout Pure (futuristic racing game, not very violent and various people have mixed views on this game)

The games used on the Gameboy SP were:
- Warioland 2 (fantastic beat 'em up adventure with Wario, he is also invincible in the game....)
- Megaman/Rockman 2 (people really hate this because it is so hard)
- Tetris (a great grandfather game)
- Bust-a-move (a good puzzle/accuracy game - an exception to another participant who didn't want to play megaman)

Exception to PS1 - PC games:
- Minecraft (survival mode)
- Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (strategy game, futuristic setting)
- Half-life 2 (fantastic first person shooter game for its time)