Do Video Games Affect Personality?

[Harriet Swartout]

I tend to let the real me (mood-of-the-day included) influence my decisions in games, however, the knowledge that i can alway reload or restart or something makes decisions in games SO MUCH EASIER... For instance, Hitman: Absolution, it's a great game but failed to grasp my attention and "perfectionism" the way the rest of the franchise used to. The whole "just get to the door unnoticed" and "you're being hunted" totally killed the Hitman mood for me to the point that sometimes I see myself just shooting my way to the end of the level (something I'd never do if in other Hitman games). However, if a game truly pleases me and is genuine in making me feel like I'm in control, like Fallout 3, then I let the real take control and take the decisions based on what I'd do if I was placed in a similar situation.
I don't play MMORPG OR FPS Online, the lack of a story and "interactivity" takes away any pleasure in gaming for me. As far as online goes I only do co-op online and only if it's integrated with the campaign in some way.

would you say your gaming experiences relates to the level of immersion you feel then? there's a few studies along those lines that have been released recently in regards to Role-Play type games.

 

[Harriet Swartout]

I found it funny how I exceed the maximum hours per week for both genres.

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[Milanezi]

I tend to let the real me (mood-of-the-day included) influence my decisions in games, however, the knowledge that i can alway reload or restart or something makes decisions in games SO MUCH EASIER... For instance, Hitman: Absolution, it's a great game but failed to grasp my attention and "perfectionism" the way the rest of the franchise used to. The whole "just get to the door unnoticed" and "you're being hunted" totally killed the Hitman mood for me to the point that sometimes I see myself just shooting my way to the end of the level (something I'd never do if in other Hitman games). However, if a game truly pleases me and is genuine in making me feel like I'm in control, like Fallout 3, then I let the real take control and take the decisions based on what I'd do if I was placed in a similar situation.
I don't play MMORPG OR FPS Online, the lack of a story and "interactivity" takes away any pleasure in gaming for me. As far as online goes I only do co-op online and only if it's integrated with the campaign in some way.

would you say your gaming experiences relates to the level of immersion you feel then? there's a few studies along those lines that have been released recently in regards to Role-Play type games.

You could say that it's immersion, but immersion in the story itself: I would be immersed in a virtual reality shooter among tons of other players but still wouldn't be interested in it without a solid campaign to act as a good excuse for all the action. Maybe that's because I'm not only a fan of RPG, but ALSO f those old adventure games like Monkey Island.

 

[Auron]

I always enjoyed a good story in my games as well. It surely helps immersion even with online matches in RTS and such. But I don't really mind the lack of story if the game's good. I have been getting lots of single player games lately but I think that's due to a decline in good FPS and RTS games lately. RTS is on life support and other than Starcraft 2(which is right now heavily imbalanced I might add.) everything practically devolved to micro communities with schedules just to be able to play or branched out into dota-like stuff. And if you're not playing cod, most games are full of empty servers other than new releases which last a short while, or worse like Battlefield 3 which is completely filled with fast respawn 1500 ticket servers. Quake live still works at least I guess but every modern game with similar concept is tanking, I really don't know why.



more on-topic, I wonder if fps has affected me personally. I've first played Doom 2 at age 5 and have been gaming since then. It surely was used as an outlet for rage more than once, my forays into strategy were excellent recreational use of quick thinking and logic not to mention more often a better history teacher than school I developed such an interest with games like Age of Empires, Empire Earth Rise of Nations, Europa Universalis and so on that now I'm majoring on History. The music involved heavily influence the music I make too(even though being a singer means my main instrument rarely shows up on gaming.) so overall I could cite more than one positive gaming "influence" in my life. Not sure about direct behaviour changes though.

 

[Harriet Swartout]

I always enjoyed a good story in my games as well. It surely helps immersion even with online matches in RTS and such. But I don't really mind the lack of story if the game's good. I have been getting lots of single player games lately but I think that's due to a decline in good FPS and RTS games lately. RTS is on life support and other than Starcraft 2(which is right now heavily imbalanced I might add.) everything practically devolved to micro communities with schedules just to be able to play or branched out into dota-like stuff. And if you're not playing cod, most games are full of empty servers other than new releases which last a short while, or worse like Battlefield 3 which is completely filled with fast respawn 1500 ticket servers. Quake live still works at least I guess but every modern game with similar concept is tanking, I really don't know why.



more on-topic, I wonder if fps has affected me personally. I've first played Doom 2 at age 5 and have been gaming since then. It surely was used as an outlet for rage more than once, my forays into strategy were excellent recreational use of quick thinking and logic not to mention more often a better history teacher than school I developed such an interest with games like Age of Empires, Empire Earth Rise of Nations, Europa Universalis and so on that now I'm majoring on History. The music involved heavily influence the music I make too(even though being a singer means my main instrument rarely shows up on gaming.) so overall I could cite more than one positive gaming "influence" in my life. Not sure about direct behaviour changes though.

There have been a few studies on FPS and logic/spatial awareness as well as reaction speed so you could be right.