Didn't convinced me at all. I want to play games that are fun! Kill people, crash cars, build armies, take over the world or just solve a little fantasy puzzle game. Let's get this strait, games are made to break rules that you normally can't in real life. Physical or social rules. Sure there are ways of making games "good" for the world, but it's main role will always be to entertain.
Btw the over use of the word "epic" is kinda lame and a bit annoying. And the "epic meaning" isn't true. I don't mind the magnitude of my importance In a game.
Well, that your perspective of your experience as a gamer but, it is a fact that there are those players that have those "Epic Experiences" and there are people that like the online world better than the real world and they spend their money. I mean look at the cell phone it main purpose was for the military but now everyone has one
and there are people that like the online world better than the real world and they spend their money. I mean look at the cell phone it main purpose was for the military but now everyone has one
That's what I said. Entertainment. The real world will always be reality and the escape virtual world will always be an escape.
But hey, I'd take a few days off school to play some Xbox. I don't really see though how playing Pac - Man or Call of Duty will spark the mind of somebody and he/she comes up with the cure for cancer.
RPGs that are not "shoot that old lady she has a sudan!" games. gift of the mage is a game that I want to make, that has "honer". with "honer" we can get along.
The link is messed up, and I think that video games are a good thing. I think they help keep kids off the streets, doing crimes and doing drugs. Just a speculation
It not the game that makes someone be able to solve problems its the "Epic adventure" you guys are confusing 2 different things what this women is saying that she wants to put that same feelings that gamers have the feelings that makes them want to do another quest that feeling that makes them want to be social with other people online the feeling that makes them feel good about themselves into reality not the game if not the experience
I don't have time to watch a video so I'm not sure how relevant my post will be, however my friend told me of this programmer who was payed to play call of duty and other video games 80% of his day and program 20% and he had the best code because he thought about everything he was going to program before he did it.
I understand what the lady is saying, and in a way, it could work out. But reality isn't as simple as getting quests all the time. The game does lots of calculation to put the right quest at the right time. And you can just press dismiss quest or something. Life isn't that easy. There will be situations that you don't want, the process of completing is more complex and so on. Same thing with bigger political issues. You can't just say: "okay let's apply this and move on." Like in video games.
Well, remember these quest on the guys arent easy either just how the lady explained they dont do the quest because just to do it they do it to get stronger and when they win they never in a million years thought they would have won we need people like that in real life to do things people would have never thought was possible
I'm not saying that everything that she's saying is wrong, the core is interesting, but games are leisure activity (yes, leisure; it's a whole lotta easier to spend 22 hours a week leveling a virtual char, than being successful in real life), and people who take games too seriously have a problem in real life. I think it's a bad idea to want to make everyone game as much as possible; who will take care of the world when everyone is in front of the PC saving a virtual world over and over? Nah, I don't think that works well.
Also, when she made the comparison with the cumulated time all WoW players spent and the moment of humans walking upright, I felt the urge to bang my head on the wall...
