Assassin's Creed I and II helped me learn not to accept everything for what it is, and to question everything.
How has a game POSITIVELY affected your life?
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Well, games brought me into a positive contact with history, mostly by letting me kill nazis. And now I'm studying to become a History teacher... Also I spend most of my free time on games. so I don't heve to sport or something. awesome.
I learned to read.
I started playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time when I was 4 or so with my mum, and she would read out the text for me. I eventually got so frustrated with her slow reading pace that I taught myself to read. So that I could play Zelda. 8D
I started playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time when I was 4 or so with my mum, and she would read out the text for me. I eventually got so frustrated with her slow reading pace that I taught myself to read. So that I could play Zelda. 8D
Well acording to research, long time gamers brains are wired differently 'cos we use MK or controller to do something else without looking at it.
So 'cos we are wired like this we could help cure some brain problems, while lowering our chances of contracting them.
Does that count?
So 'cos we are wired like this we could help cure some brain problems, while lowering our chances of contracting them.
Does that count?
- Nostalgia, ambidextrous, exile, bilingual, dispel, fortitude, indomitable, proficiency (a word I use a lot in my resumes), zealot, archaic, infuriate, magnanimous, dexterity, intrigue, fervent, progeny, transient, nondescript, multitude, devour, dyslexia, atrophy, critical, nominal, agony, infernal, abyss, dominate, marauder, carnage, and exponentially, are among the many words that I've been introduced to through playing games
- I've started using the phrase "Much appreciated" after I took a liking to it after hearing it in Resident Evil 5 (Chris says it sometimes when you heal him)
- Through Age of Empires and Age of Mythology, I learned a bit of interesting information about history and mythology
- Playing Starcraft has made me better at multitasking (a useful skill for a radio announcer to have)
- Playing various action games has improved my reflexes (useful for sports and driving) and improved my ability to predict my opponent's next move (useful in sports)
- I discovered the awesomeness that is the song Painkiller (Judas Priest) through Rock Band 2, which I play almost all the time whenever I want to get pumped up to go running/boxing, or when I just plain feel like a badass. I also used it in a few of my college projects.
- Playing games often staves off boredom, which in turn keeps me awake and able to focus when I need to do homework (the more bored I am, the less productive I am)
- I've started using the phrase "Much appreciated" after I took a liking to it after hearing it in Resident Evil 5 (Chris says it sometimes when you heal him)
- Through Age of Empires and Age of Mythology, I learned a bit of interesting information about history and mythology
- Playing Starcraft has made me better at multitasking (a useful skill for a radio announcer to have)
- Playing various action games has improved my reflexes (useful for sports and driving) and improved my ability to predict my opponent's next move (useful in sports)
- I discovered the awesomeness that is the song Painkiller (Judas Priest) through Rock Band 2, which I play almost all the time whenever I want to get pumped up to go running/boxing, or when I just plain feel like a badass. I also used it in a few of my college projects.
- Playing games often staves off boredom, which in turn keeps me awake and able to focus when I need to do homework (the more bored I am, the less productive I am)
Pokemon is helping me get friends in college. Seriously.
Besides that, WoW helped me connect with my cousins through group leveling. God that game is fun with friends.
Besides that, WoW helped me connect with my cousins through group leveling. God that game is fun with friends.
Not a game as such, but a combination of games and an online forum..
I'd got myself into a serious amount of trouble legally and to avoid making my situation any worse, I'd withdrawn from my group of IRL friends and started forming new friendships via a website, whilst also expanding my game collection/playing games more.
Even after everything was cleared up, I still played games MUCH more than before and remained friends with the "new" group much more than my original buddies.
I'd got myself into a serious amount of trouble legally and to avoid making my situation any worse, I'd withdrawn from my group of IRL friends and started forming new friendships via a website, whilst also expanding my game collection/playing games more.
Even after everything was cleared up, I still played games MUCH more than before and remained friends with the "new" group much more than my original buddies.
well, outside star fox and half life getting me interested in sci fi and then science, age of empires peaking my interest in reading sun tzu's art of war and then confucius and then german philosophers...
yeah, im a total nerd to begin with i guess, but video games (reason im at college as well) also provided me with invaluable escapism to help me thru my bland and meaningless existence throughout my childh...actually, they still do.
between reading war tactics and escaping reality, im not really demonstrating a very positive effect, am i?
yeah, im a total nerd to begin with i guess, but video games (reason im at college as well) also provided me with invaluable escapism to help me thru my bland and meaningless existence throughout my childh...actually, they still do.
between reading war tactics and escaping reality, im not really demonstrating a very positive effect, am i?
happend to me, because of it i became friends with quite a few upperclassman when i was a sophomore in HighSchool. Also one of my teachers started playing, and my friends and I played with him, and it made me be sure to do all of my homework that year because if i didnt, he would know that i was on WoW instead of doing it.Virus49 said:
Now im a Freshman in College and for a while i didnt rly know anyone, then i saw a flyer for a Gaming Club, i went to the meeting and became friends with a bunch of people(all upperclassman) We get together once a week and play games(usually Gear of War2) for a few hours. It rly nice, because i can ask them about professors and who i should take for certain classes.
i'll start off by spouting the usual...better reflexes and reaction times...
now, I've learned a little about myself from really good fames like Silent Hill 2, and the mass effect series...Mass Effect is constantly making me think about how i could act in those moral decisions...
Silent hill 2 gave me a better knollege of what scares the fuck out of me, and how i can get over that shit (failing misserabley)
now, I've learned a little about myself from really good fames like Silent Hill 2, and the mass effect series...Mass Effect is constantly making me think about how i could act in those moral decisions...
Silent hill 2 gave me a better knollege of what scares the fuck out of me, and how i can get over that shit (failing misserabley)
