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To bloody hate games console adverts that claim to 'bring the whole fmaily together'?

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itsbrandybutterandtinseltime · 08/12/2011 15:04

I hate them. I really do.

ESPECIALLY that awful advert with the Dad and son, where the Dad is going 'Oh Santa, let me be his hero one more time...' whilst playing some kind of sword-fighting dragon-conquering shitty game together.

I hate it. I hate how games consoles are being sold as the 'solution' to a harmonious family Christmas. I don't doubt that there's a time and a place, but these adverts are bloody nauseating! Anyone agree with me?

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itsbrandybutterandtinseltime · 08/12/2011 15:04

Sorry, should be family in title there!

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Kladdkaka · 08/12/2011 15:08

YABU The family that games together stays together. We're a family of WoWers.

LeQueen · 08/12/2011 15:19

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itsbrandybutterandtinseltime · 08/12/2011 15:21

I could just about live with the adverts. Then they brought out that horrid one with the man playing with his teenage son, 'Oh Santa, let me teach him how to win a virtual geeky battle and let me be his hero again...' God. Needy...

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Kladdkaka · 08/12/2011 15:21

We're autistic, we don't do talking. :o

fuzzynavel · 08/12/2011 15:22

I personally don't like gaming and my DS does so it certainly doesn't "bring us together"

GypsyMoth · 08/12/2011 15:23

Op, do you have teens?

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itsbrandybutterandtinseltime · 08/12/2011 15:25

sara nope, don't have teens. But don't have an actual issue with consoles either; there's a time and a place. I just don't like them being sold as something they're not. And I hate the advert...

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valiumredhead · 08/12/2011 15:31

YABU we play talk, play board games and we LOVE a gave of bowling on the wii Grin

winterfox · 08/12/2011 15:33

well we've just got a wii and it has brought us all together so to speak, we're having a laugh playing it together.

guess unless you understand gaming it probably sounds twee.

horses for courses

winterfox · 08/12/2011 15:34

lequeen we do talk also, the gaming is just another way to have a laugh, you know have fun together in these dark miserable days

Cherriesarelovely · 08/12/2011 15:35

YABU and YANBU! We don't have any of those things in our house yet but when my brother brought one to my mum's last christmas and we all did the dancing thing on the Wii it was hilarious and great fun for all ages. I know what you mean though, I think it is funny that people do a running programme on a Wii when you can just get your trainers on and go for a run outside but to each their own!

valiumredhead · 08/12/2011 15:35

The wii is great for winter days - tbh we rarely use it in the summer.

mayorquimby · 08/12/2011 15:37

yanbu
Zelda is a solitary pursuit which should lead to isolation and lost days.

bruffin · 08/12/2011 15:37

"just don't like them being sold as something they're not."

They are not being sold as something they are not. Last christmas Nanny, 2 daughters and 4 teenage grandchildren all playing along to one of the Wii Dance games, that was until Nanny twisted her leg dancing to ThrillerGrin
Then all the cousins were playing guitar hero together.

DD and I often play the dance games or singing games together.

NeuromanticisedVisionsofXmas · 08/12/2011 15:38

WE can play AND talk, its not an either or situation.

Its called fun, perhaps you should try some and you'd be less uptight.

knockneedandknackered · 08/12/2011 15:39

i was thinking of buying a will for christmas but seen has some of the family are competative i think it could end in diasaster.

aldiwhore · 08/12/2011 15:43

Klad I WISH my family loved WoW as much as I did... but either it went or they did in the end... it was a close run thing.

We play a lot of games together, I don't see why its different than sitting around a table playing a bored board game, oh that's why, because board games are shit and a compute isn't keeping things fair.

squeakytoy · 08/12/2011 15:48

It is the modern day equivalent of board games. We have great fun playing the games, and it is a laugh that can bring the family together... as well as cause tremendous fall outs with people who are bad losers having a sulk Grin

aldiwhore · 08/12/2011 15:51

But even the bad losers can't argue as much as in a board game... we play Wii Party a lot with the kids, they still sulk if they lose, but they can't blame us and it soon blows over.

pinkhebe · 08/12/2011 15:52

we love a good game of mario kart Grin

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 08/12/2011 15:52

I hate the advert, too.

Also it assumes everyone lives in a roomy house. My front room is the size of a small work cubicle. With a small sofa and two chairs in, and the world's smallest TV, it is now full.

NeuromanticisedVisionsofXmas · 08/12/2011 15:53

it doesn't assume anything, obviously the idea is to show it to full advantage, since they are trying to sell it.

valiumredhead · 08/12/2011 15:58

It doesn't assume anything. What an odd thing to say Confused

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 08/12/2011 16:03

We talk and play games together. It's not mutually exclusive. However Christmas advertising on the whole is fairly nauseating regardless of the subject matter.