I was looking through this game's site, and was thinking this might be good to help with understanding social skills:
http://www.hasbro.com/dreamlife/
If you look at the video in the center here:
http://www.hasbro.com/dreamlife/default.cfm?page=video
The game is a plug n play game. Meaning it comes with a little round disc, you plug into the 3 red, white, and yellow plugs on the TV. So setup is a non-issue.
They show some sample dialogue, which seems like it would be good for understanding basic social skills. Like remembering things about people, for later conversation. I think they have something like this in Japan, dating-sim games? It seems like a take off of those.
The only problem, is it's only aimed at women. As in, the majority of the game involves going to school, but also stuff like clothes shopping, and stuff. I guess a guy could play it, if he wasn't concerned about what people would think of him playing a girl game. Frankly, since I've played mostly games involving a male main character and P.O.V., I don't think it could hurt for guys to see things from a woman's perspective. Even if it's something of a shallow version, I mean the game is aimed at teens.
Maybe if requested they'd add male characters to the game. You know, these companies are stuck in somewhere around the 80's mindset, when it comes to developing products.
I considered getting the game, but frankly..I really, really don't need another thing that will add to my time where I'm just sitting around. I mean, I already spend faaaarrrr too much time with that. LoL. You can save the game though, so maybe if it isn't like Animal Crossing where it's in real time I might get it.
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12 Sep 2006, 3:14 pm
