Psychologists Claim Games Alter Personal Reality
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Sounds about right; although it only works with some things. I don't play a lot of shooters and then go out trying to kill people [sub](although if someone's pissing me off I will think of how I -could-)[/sub], although I do think a lot about the mechanics. For instance, I tend to look at architecture for hand-holds after playing Assassin's Creed, and I start to think of how best to turn the area I'm in into a safe-house if I'm playing a zombie game. Although I do that all the time anyway... 
The bleeding effect was the first thing I thought of and OH GOD YES.Tommeh Brownleh said:Oh so many times.SilentRuss said:It's the Animus bleeding effect!
Anybody else "gentle push" people to get past?
The closest I've ever come to it is noticing people in real life are wearing the clothes of a character in a game, or seeing someone wearing clothes that give me an idea on how to pimp out my character in Saints Row 2. Also I've closed my eyes while bored and imagined I was building in Forge or playing Tetris, but that was a self induced day dream.
I have to agree, as especially of recently, when I watch a movie and someone dies a particularly gory/violent death, I am automatically inclined to say, in my best Shao Kahn voice, "FATALITY".
I agree with the article though, although I might as well add something else to it: maybe because it's FUN. It's fun to occasionally make a morbid/ironic statement in GLaDOS's voice. It can be fun to try and sneak around like Sam Fisher or Solid Snake. I've found myself holding household objects like weapons and whistling the Doom "E1M1" song (I'm mentally stable, I assure you)
I agree with the article though, although I might as well add something else to it: maybe because it's FUN. It's fun to occasionally make a morbid/ironic statement in GLaDOS's voice. It can be fun to try and sneak around like Sam Fisher or Solid Snake. I've found myself holding household objects like weapons and whistling the Doom "E1M1" song (I'm mentally stable, I assure you)
This sounds eerily similar to the phenomenon known as the Tetris effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect].
I will admit that I've encountered some of this to a degree, but it was just once and I blame other factors into it.
Back in my heavy WoW days, I did a four day straight binge of WoW without sleep. Over the course of this, I would often hear WoW sound effects in other aspects of my daily life (school, work, etc). Other than this incident I haven't encountered anything like this ever again, so I blame the sleep deprivation on this.
Since we're on this subject, has anyone else noticed that after a handful of rounds on DDR, you start seeing the arrows fly by when you close your eyes? Just wondering if that happens to anyone else. It usually goes away in an hour or so.
I will admit that I've encountered some of this to a degree, but it was just once and I blame other factors into it.
Back in my heavy WoW days, I did a four day straight binge of WoW without sleep. Over the course of this, I would often hear WoW sound effects in other aspects of my daily life (school, work, etc). Other than this incident I haven't encountered anything like this ever again, so I blame the sleep deprivation on this.
Since we're on this subject, has anyone else noticed that after a handful of rounds on DDR, you start seeing the arrows fly by when you close your eyes? Just wondering if that happens to anyone else. It usually goes away in an hour or so.
I'm pretty sure EVERYTHING alters personal reality, but hey, makes sense that an alternate controllable reality would affect your "true" reality pretty well.
Well ofcourse they alter Personal Reality because everything you know shapes your personal reality.
Movies, books, music, and pretty much any other piece of information alters it... oh but they forgot to mention that didn't they.
Movies, books, music, and pretty much any other piece of information alters it... oh but they forgot to mention that didn't they.
After Assassin's Creed 1 cam out and I finally ran out of food, when I left the house to get something to eat I kept thinking about how difficult it would be to climb the buildings I passed x3. Of course when Assassin's Creed 2 came out and started talking underhandedly about a bleeding effect, I was plagued with even more bleed over symptoms. GEE THANKS, UBISOFT. I LIKE HALLUCINATING GHOSTS AND PERCEPTION METERS. SO FUN. YOU JUST HAD TO GO AND SAY THAT.
I just read that and I realized I experience that ALL THE TIME. Generally different things, BUT ALL THE TIMES. When I was little and tortured ants as a kid, it was ants. When I was in biology, it was biology. When I was in forensics, it was forensics. When I was in calculus, it was calculus. It's been Minecraft and Paper Mario and Assassin's Creed, and a shit ton of other things. Didn't know it had a name.Scrythe said:
Yeah I have to agree, the results of the test seem a tad redundant. If something exists in your reality, then it is affecting your reality by existing within your reality, and if it is something like a hobby, such as gaming, then it will influence you just the same as anything else will when it exists in your life in such a prominent way.thaluikhain said:
I can only really one time I've caught myself thinking something like this however, which was when I'd just finished a three hour stretch on oblivion and caught myself trying to save my game IRL.
Everytime I play a game I enjoy it effects how I look at everything, like L.A. Noire making me examine peoples faces more. I would only add that this doesn't occur when the actions you do in the game directly contradict your personal morality it's kind of like how hypnosis is supposed to work.
That's actually precisely what I was thinking. I wouldn't say anyone who plays a shooter is going to shoot lots of people to death in real life, but it's kind of obvious that people are affected by their environment and their experiences, not exactly a ground-breaking statement.thaluikhain said:
im going to chalk that one up to poor choice of words... the kid simply imagined health bars. he didnt actually see them, as if he was in that Nickelback music video or something.Earnest Cavalli said:
anyway, this same thing happens when people go to the movies. a lot of times, when someone goes to see an action movie, they will come out feeling like a badass for no reason whatsoever. its not just videogames.
personally though, this article doesnt apply to me at all. the most i do is think of Master Chief every time i see the number 117.
I find it hard to believe that my playing Halo has influenced the way I percieve reality in any way.
Now if you don't mind, I must return to High Charity and report my findings to the Covenant high command.
But anyway OT:
Yes it's true, I often find that I think about the world differently when I play games for a long period of time, but I'll often feel the same way after watching a movie or reading a book. Reality is what you make of it, I guess.
Now if you don't mind, I must return to High Charity and report my findings to the Covenant high command.
But anyway OT:
Yes it's true, I often find that I think about the world differently when I play games for a long period of time, but I'll often feel the same way after watching a movie or reading a book. Reality is what you make of it, I guess.