Video Games: Brainfood or Brainf***?

[Amethyst Phoenix]

They make you think, and are an enjoyable hobby.

 

 

Disregarding your duties in favor of games is not the game's fault, but rather the result of your weak-willed mind.

 

 

There is no chemical dependence as there is with drugs, and thus your personality was flawed from the beginning.

[Grunt Issun]

Pokemon: strength puzzles

Zelda, torch and block puzzles

every other game: some other kind of puzzle,

[Amethyst Phoenix]

Pokemon: strength puzzles

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Life itself is just a series of puzzles if you look at it that way.

[Grunt Issun]

Well what I mean is, you have to use logic alot in video games, which cant hurt your brain

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Pokemon: strength puzzles

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every other game: some other kind of puzzle,

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Life itself is just a series of puzzles if you look at it that way.

Congratulations, you have just found the meaning of life.

SPOILERS AHEAD

 

The solution is 42.

[Dr. Cakey]

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no logic is bad god ppl the govmnt is jsut brainwashign u i feel sory 4 u

 

Now I understand why people make double accounts to run around trolling. It's so god-damn fun.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

Well what I mean is' date=' [b']you have to use logic alot in video games[/b], which cant hurt your brain

 

Pokemon

The world is filled with mystical animals such as dragons. Some strong ones can shoot laser beams from their mouthes that destroy things upon contact. These bizzare animals, when killing a large number of other creatures, immidiatly mutate (a large number of them not using a chrystalis) to stronger forms, however if the trainer wishes to, the mutation somehow stops. And the government allows 10-year-olds to go out in a life-or-death quest. No trainer ever dies in accidents despite the danger of battling with bio-weapons.

 

Yugioh

In Ancient Egypt, what later evolved into children's card games was commonly played. Dark magic was practiced so much, these guys created many items of that power, and then sealed them inside these seven artifacts that didn't rot over the ages. Card games have the power to take over the universe. High-schoolers from a school specialized for these card games save the world.

 

Logic is needed.

[MortalKombatSmoke]

I'm an A student. And Play Video games, probably more often than I should XD. But seriously. It depends on the game. In every game, with a few exceptions (Saints row, Grand Theft Auto, ect) it usually forces you to use your brain! most games have missions that require thought to finish. Or in first person shooters it teaches patients and accuracy. In every video game there is something else to help increase your mental capability. It all depends on the game your playing and how you play it. The Silent Hill franchise is a great example.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Pokemon

 

The world is filled with mystical animals such as dragons. Some strong ones can shoot laser beams from their mouthes that destroy things upon contact. These bizzare animals, when killing a large number of other creatures, immidiatly mutate (a large number of them not using a chrystalis) to stronger forms, however if the trainer wishes to, the mutation somehow stops. And the government allows 10-year-olds to go out in a life-or-death quest. No trainer ever dies in accidents despite the danger of battling with bio-weapons.

 

 

Yugioh

 

In Ancient Egypt, what later evolved into children's card games was commonly played. Dark magic was practiced so much, these guys created many items of that power, and then sealed them inside these seven artifacts that didn't rot over the ages. Card games have the power to take over the universe. High-schoolers from a school specialized for these card games save the world.

 

 

Logic is needed.

Yes, because they're games -- Pokémon is a tactical deathmatch of party preparation and usage, and Yu-Gi-Oh! has so many strategies, counter-strategies, tactics, counter-tactics, and victory conditions that it's almost certainly the smartest TCG I've ever heard of.

 

BTW, your description of Pokémon is completely wrong.

 

And then you have games that make you really think.

The Silent Hill franchise is a great example.

So is Yume Nikki, Touhou, even The Legend of Zelda (dat timeline).

 

BTW, FPSs don't teach patience at all; well-made ones teach teamwork, maybe. Also, GTA =/= thinking.

[Grunt Issun]

in my oppinion, GTA is just a pointless shooter for fun, and isnt good for anything like what we covered

[Dark]

Regardless of whether you play Pokemon competitively or not, there is some sense of logic and strategy. You wouldn't use grass to put out a fire, in real life and in Pokemon.

 

Yugioh is strategy and stuff.

 

Online fps matches can teach strategy and teamwork, but I haven't played too many of those, so why is my opinion on that valid?

 

In essence, every non-puzzle video game has at least a small level of logic, strategy, or just common sense involved. Puzzle video games are lol, they basically thrive off of the fact that they are called brainfood.

 

Also, it should be noted that any text-based video games (not all or mostly text-based) can teach vocabulary. I didn't even have a clue to what a zephyr was until "You received the ZEPHYRBADGE!" from Falkner. And then I assumed it had something to do with aviation or wind. And hey, I was right.

[Yasu]

It actually depends on the content of said game and the person playing it.

That's why generalizations are selfish and make me sad ._.

[Dark]

As in, for the most part, video games help more than hinder.

 

If you are playing GTA, I don't believe that teaches you much of anything, except showing you that falling in water is insta-death.

 

Oh, and if you kill fifty police officers you only get a 100 dollar fine and are free to do whatever you want.

[Darkest Hour]

If you do the same thing over and over on a video game all you are doing is stressing your brain and not gaining new information. Shooting people in the same area on Call of Duty/Halo, levelgrinding on RPGs, Repeating combos on fighting games, etc.

[Dr. Cakey]

I miss Survivor. We need him back to tell us how the government is forcing us to play video games to become more violent...or something.