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death: the cure for life
- Dec 9, 2019
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What is the benefit? I loved to play MMOs and all sort of other game generes, but why?
Is that why so many gamers on here are so confident, smooth in social situations & great at survival in the real world?Successfully navigating a complex scenario provides a kind of self fulfilment and is beneficial to confidence building. All aspects of social and survival aspects of life in general. Its a multifaceted experience with multifaceted benefits.
Thats so true. I lived good portion of my life through escaping with videogames. I have problem with my imagination due to some aspect of autism so playing video games with excellent stories and world allowed me a distraction from mundane and boring reality. Maybe it is not a good thing. I dont know but I know a fantasy world is where I want to live in after I dieVideo games and fiction gives us opportunities to experience magical things we can't experience in the shitty real life. Video games aren't a result of evolution, it's the culmination of technology, art, science, skill, logic, emotions and many other things. Video games is like a glitch to escape the atrocious and oppressive life and that's one of the many reasons why it's loved. It's still depends on the brain chemicals but that's how everything else is. I wish I could play more games and even speed-run some and learn how to speed-run life and escape life. Thank you video games for being one of the interesting and lovely things that made me escape the shitty life and the atrocious planet.
Whilst it can be beneficial it also provides the opportunity to over isolate oneself and live in a bit of a bubble. I didn't claim it was a fix all panacea. Just a beneficia tool. It may be that a certain healthy overview and/or self awareness is needed in order to balance things and make best use of the tools it provides. Maybe it's not useful to everyone and suits people of a certain predisposition. Kind of like a chainsaw. One man chops wood and builds a home, the other loses control and accidentally chops a limb off and bleeds to death lol.Is that why so many gamers on here are so confident, smooth in social situations & great at survival in the real world?
Understatement of the century... I think that gaming fried many an SS member's brain & made them socially inept.it also provides the opportunity to over isolate oneself and live in a bit of a bubble.
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It's a shame that many games have become a bit repetitive and a series of over simplified quicktime events. I am quite salty over the muddying dilution that's occurred as a result of its mainstream success. Its that pop music effect where business and appealing to the lowest common denominator ends up superceding creativity and originality.I may have read somewhere that primates tend to prefer to do things that are entertaining. Presumably, doing mindless repetitive shit as a drone is not one of them, that's why we use video games to escape that shitty reality.
I agree with you . I was going to say the same thing. The curse of going so mainstream as opposed to the past has done more harm than good to video games as opposed to the 90s-early 2000s. I seen few good games come from none AAA developers recently and it was a breath of fresh air bringing back my optimism about the state of the game industry.It's a shame that many games have become a bit repetitive and a series of over simplified quicktime events. I am quite salty over the muddying dilution that's occurred of its mainstream success. Its that pop music effect where business and and appealing to the lowest common denominator ends up superceding creativity and originality.
Yeah, it's nice to see the indy scene being appreciated a bit again but their budgets don't allow them full scope in realising their visions. Hopefully the door is opening to them in order to allow for future gems to be made. I remember some really strange creations back in my earlier days. It was a labour of love to create a game back then and even though there were critically and financially successful games it wasn't the main goal of many developers. If happy to look into the past there's quite a library of great games to chose from for people that are just being introduced to it. Obviously it means having to get some older consoles or emulators if they're not available on newer consoles or whatever. There's an excellent emulator called bigbox which can be bought on ebay, preinstalled on a large hard drive and preloaded with a massive back catalogue of games and consoles. You just plug and play on a pc or laptop. I bought one a couple of years ago and revisited some fond memories from my childhood as well as giving some classics a go from a new perspective having either overlooked or missed them the first time around. It goes all the way back from the start of gaming, including arcade games and goes upto more recent consoles like the xbox, wii, gamecube and playstations. It includes hand helds too. I'm so gutted that my cognitive symptoms make gaming so much less doable or enjoyable now but it's great that people can play some of the classics they may never have had chance to play or even be exposed/introduced to. Can't recommend that emulator enough. It's excellent.I agree with you . I was going to say the same thing. The curse of going so mainstream as opposed to the past has done more harm than good to video games as opposed to the 90s-early 2000s. I seen few good games come from none AAA developers recently and it was a breath of fresh air bringing back my optimism about the state of the game industry.
Money ruins everything it touches when it becomes the be all end allWhen it comes to larger titles, like AAAs, gameplay is adjusted to suit psychology, risk / reward, addictive behavior, learning, etc... google "Flow theory" or video game psychology and there are a few studies out there that go over what some games do to keep people playing.
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Many good games incorporate features like this just because they're good games. Also when a company is spending 10s or 100s of millions on a franchise research like this is worth their investment because greed.Money ruins everything it touches when it becomes the be all end all
Correlation vs. Causation. If someone didn't choose the world of video games to retreat into then it would've been something else. Being socially inept wasn't invented in the 21st century.Understatement of the century... I think that gaming fried many an SS member's brain & made them socially inept.
I was going to say. Social withdrawal has many causes other than videogames autism is one example. I tried so hard to make it in the social world. No matter how much i try to put myself out there I am always met with rejection and being seen as a weirdo. Not that I am blaming society for my inability to blend in but at 36 I decided enough is enough and I decided to resign myself to world of seclusion and solitude. Being a video games hermit is sometimes is only option to experience the world without risking emotional hurtCorrelation vs. Causation. If someone didn't choose the world of video games to retreat into then it would've been something else. Being socially inept wasn't invented in the 21st century.
You dont believe me?I do sincerely believe that the real world is a shitty video game. What other explanation to having your inside nose hair grow so long that you have to trim them other than shitty character design
I returned to Castlevania about a year and a half ago. I'd forgotten just how good the music is in some of those games. It bought to light judt how lazy and unimaginative a lot of modern music is. Those early games had so much effort put into them. You can tell there was a real enjoyment and labour of love for the devs.I don't think evolution really factors in, for me it's all about escapism because even worlds that are falling apart or with 16-bit graphics can still feel way more appealing to live in than this one.
Video games are also the source of the only music I find appealing as well. Part of that is to further enhance the escapism.
All my Castlevania knowledge comes from Smash Bros and the Netflix show but I've always wanted to get into it. The music is very lovely I particularly like Richter's theme.I returned to Castlevania about a year and a half ago. I'd forgotten just how good the music is in some of those games. It bought to light judt how lazy and unimaginative a lot of modern music is. Those early games had so much effort put into them. You can tell there was a real enjoyment and labour of love for the devs.