Like actually going to class. The game won't be able to give explanations beyond its programming. Learning games are good, such as the ones that help you refresh basic math skills, but the game won't be able to answer questions or explain everything or help you directly.
Plus one of the things I found about learning is how effective social interaction is when doing it. It is sooooo useful to think of how to explain something to someone or to talk about something with another person, especially for revision.
Well Strategy games can make you think, just like chess does, so it become a skill, like learning science, math...
Looking at the intricacy of why Zerglings are ineffective later game isn't really all that beneficial - a great methodical way of thinking, surely, but still.
Zergling = Fast melee unit, cheap and fragile, spawn in twos.
Two Zerglings beat one Marine - thus the Zergling is cost efficient.
But because Marines are ranged, if they're say, in a group of 10, where 1-3 of them are not targetable and a full surround on a single Marine is impossible, it could screw over the 14 Zerglings because of the relatively shorter surface area available to attack from.
Also playing fast paced video games does improve your reflexes.
Not necessarily. Keeping the idea of shooting a guy in your head will just maintain your reflex rate, but being alert as usual and simply being ready for what could come at you is equally effective in my opinion.
Yeah, but that's not replacing the courses, it's just improving the way we handle new information.
Kind of. But that's one of the things I mentioned - social interaction. Why is it remembering things about actors/resses, games or TV shows is significantly easier than quadratic equations or Pythagoras' Theorem? You generally talk about it and because:
1) You're not confused about it
2) You enjoy it.
I've learnt to enjoy the work I do and to see its practical use aside from simply school (even though some / many I may not use), and draw from that. Already I'm intrigued by the subject, but my last year of school I was confused as hell with Maths, when all I had to do was swipe my memory and think about it a little, it took such little time to pick everything back up this year and all the information is firmly locked into my head because I was not confused.
Talking about it with my teachers and on occasion my friends (generally with homework, but most lessons I help explain) has been SUCH a significant benefit. Half the gargantuan lexicon I may include in my vocabulary on Armor Games isn't acceptable in common terminology and thinking of unique ways to explain the formulae has been essential for me to think of things in new ways and generally (happily) dwell on it. Great way of revision for me.
And it helps them, which is great in itself.
Don't know how well studied it was, but I read a study saying that watching fast-paced cartoons like spongebob temporarily reduced childrens abilities, like concentration and such^^
Games are an interactive media. I think one that requires you to pay attention would be cool but even so... meh. :/
When I started playing Morrowind in English version, I didn't understand a word and my brother had to translate everything for me. With time, I could understand the basic message even though I didn't udnerstand each word (misinterpretations were still frequent :S). By my first English course I already had a good basis^^
I also learned a few historical things with Empire Earth, though those were just details and really didn't help at all for the exams :P
Nice, I want to learn a secondary language, though it would probably be Korean being as I am interested in Taekwon-do and the Starcraft II professional scene (Taekwon-do is deriven from Korea and Starcraft I / II is a national eSport in Korea), learning a secondary language would always be interesting to me.
Right now I'm trying to learn to type with all 10 digits though.
That never helped me, I find that I actualy have no reflexes when it comes to playing video games,
When I'm playing a relatively foreign game (which for me is Call of Duty 4) I am nowhere near accustomed to it and my "skill" in general dwindles down to nil, including common reflexes. Being as I play Battlefield as my FPS I think it's worth mentioning that I have not yet experienced a moment where I didn't aptly expect something (although in FPS's if I'm going into unknown territory I am always alert and expecting something) and was able to quickly respond.
Even if I know an enemy is around the corner on CoD though I go braindead because they generally do an action that I would expect from a CoD perspective (and do expect) but because reacting to it is now so alien to me I just... die.
like I can't play fast paced games because whenever I find enimies poping out of nowhere, I have to figure out what character to point my screen at first.
Try to learn doing that sub-consciously because I don't think that you'll do well in a
fast-paced game deciding which pretty face you want to take off...
If you do want to do it more methodically then I would suggest simply being calm as you do it, with little adrenline going through you because rational thought (or the idea of using such a thing) goes entirely out of the window - keeping a cool head is key in any video game and of course I have stayed completely on topic discussing this.
- H
