Games you accidentally learned from

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

I learned alot from most ww2 games (like weapons, battles and geography)

Also from the total war series (like weapons, battles and geography)

I learned about artificial intelligence and science from mass effect

Oddly enough I also learned political structure and culture from all three of these games.

 

[Telasro]

Learned to touch type from typing cheat codes in starcraft when I was a kid :-D also learned my directions from a random pinball game when I was REALLY young.

Yep, started out nerdy and never really stopped...

 

[BishopofAges]

The Legend of Zelda (NES) taught me that there is ALWAYS hidden stuff in game, if you just know where to look. Also some critical thinking under pressure (but really, who uses that?)

The Illusion of Gaia (SNES) unknowingly taught me advanced reading and comprehension, both were required to understand and, by extention, play the game.

Super Bomberman (SNES) multiplayer taught me how to outsmart an AI who knows more about game mechanics than I do.

Parasite Eve (PS1) taught me about Mitochondria and how other cells function in certain ways.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete (PC) taught me about strategy and not just rolling around a map with one guy who holds me entire army.

World of Warcraft (PC) taught me that neverending games do exist and are pretty fun if you have the time and effort to play.

edit:

Orgen Trail taught me everyone, EVERYONE dies from dysentery.

Grandma dies of dysentery, cousin Joe gets hit be EVERY stray bullet fired, and everyone else gets scurvy because no one taught me to YAR HAR PIRATE-- I mean eat oranges and make it k.

 

[snave]

Enough basic Latin to help a friend studying the subject (at an introductory level) from old-school RPGs.

And Sim City taught me just how long the fallout from a nuclear "meltdown" takes to clean up.

 

[Scarecrow1001]

Assassin's Creed games.

Believe it or not, it's like playing a history lesson where you can kill people in a variety of interesting ways. I really think Assassin's Creed is one of the most educational games I've played - and that's saying something.

YES

 

[Chezza]

Medieval Total War 2 taught me geography. Perhaps I should update it. Constantinople for example.

 

[Kanatatsu]

Civilization taught me almost everything I know of world history.

 

[sniddy_v1legacy]

Civilization taught me a lot too.

Early history, famous leaders, and what surprised my geography teacher one day early settlements needs and why they were placed where they were and developed into the towns they are today

 

[LittleJoeRambler]

Age of Empires taught me a lot of history, especially AoE3, where you could find information on units and people in those slow times in each match, especially treaty games.

Fire Emblem and other games helped me score a 750 on the Verbal portion of the SAT... We would do SAT prep in class and I already knew most of the words' meanings because I had encountered them in-game.

The articles the World of Tanks guys put out every so often has deepened my knowledge of tank warfare from the WWII era. Interesting stuff right there.

 

[Guffe]

Welcome to the Escapist!

Well I learned English from games to a large extent, also from movies, series, book, internet and from school of course but games most I think.
Then from Mario games I learned that eating mushrooms makes you go down pipes...

 

[Darkmantle]

AoE has taught me soooooooooooooooo much about historical figures. It's nuts!

 

[ToAzT]

Age of Empires, man. It was the thing that got me interested in history in the first place.

 

[.No.]

ww11 weapons

The eleventh world war was by far the most tragic.

Oh GOD. That war was terrible. I'm really surprised that the solar system, let alone humanity survived that one.

 

[Sejs Cube]

Oregon Trail taught me that if you ever need to cross a river, have a bunch of people you don't like with you because nine times out of ten somebody is going to die.

 

[bauke67]

I'm not sure what game it was, but over the years, games are what thought me to speak English.
Besides that, Assasins Creed's got quite a bit of educational value, I think.

 

[Ruedyn]

2 people ninja'd me on oregan trail, so.... ummmm... I guess Too Human taught me some about norse gods. I knew most of it already, but at least I won't be ninja'ing anyone.

 

[Nydestroyer]

Well games have taught me a lot Xenogears helped me pass spelling tests oddly enough XD back when I couldn't spell the word "Gear" XD the final fantasy games helped me learn to read better. Pokemon did the same. Lets not forget strategy games that help you tune your mind without you realizing it till you read somewhere that it does somewhere down the road. Assassins creed is a more recent example where I learned about historical figures and bits of culture from a team of people who are quite good at there job putting everything into a period. Ceaser taught me that more plebs where needed... XD was too young to understand that game when I played it.

 

[Xerosch]

As a non-native speaker I've practically had my whole education in english through games and movies.

It started with english voice overs with german subtitles, then both in english and now I'm watching 98% of movies in their original language and don't want to play any localized version of games.

 

[Keymik]

I learned english from World of Warcraft, mostly due to being and roleplaying on a roleplaying server(And we all know how sensitive roleplayers are about grammar ^^) I was the ace of my class and was actually shocked that some people can't even get simple words like 'with' and 'you're' right..

 

[Nansen]

oh, I really loved Caesar and Pharaoh! the other games in the series, like Emperor (one of my all time favourite games) and Zeus actually taught me alot as well.
somebody already mentioned the Assassin's Creed games, especially AC2 - there are so many historical people and places, I also picked up a few Italian phrases, heh. Batman: Arkham Asylum taught me alot about the Batman universe as well in a really interesting way.