6 reasons to start to understand in video games

Games / by admin / December 19, 2019

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Games just for kids and those adults who have problems with socialization? From games tupeyut and become aggressive? Festival Team Geek Picnic convinced that it is not. Below - six reasons why you should learn more about the video game.

1. Games are closely intertwined with other areas of our culture

Only lazy provincial entrepreneur is not used in its advertising image of Walt-fight. In the rare city with no advertising plumbing Mario. Games get into more and more everyday, and have enough to raise an eyebrow in surprise when someone compares the complexity of life with the passage of Dark Souls.

We live in a cultural space, where he successfully lost originals: most of us are unlikely to uglyadite reference to the Polish philosophical work of the XIX century and the French film 20s.

But finding Easter eggs, To understand where it came from one or another context - some varieties of irrational pleasure. Because everywhere and shoved those "biblical reference." Thus the author indulges the audience.

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With video games, things are better. This stratum of Culture just forty years. You may well not like to read about all the most important, but even have time to get acquainted with it and not die of old age. And then with the air of a connoisseur to smile when you see a kiosk with shawarma with Pudge from Dota 2 on the door.

2. Games broaden your favorite universes

If you love "Star Wars"Then you know what we do. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Battlefront, Republic Commando, and other games are united by one thing: they all allow you to More for some time to be a favorite of the universe and not just see a new story, and become its direct participant.

Do you like board games or a movie, most likely in the world of video games will find them full transposition. With special effects, interesting characters and the ability to personally manage the Space Marines of the Ultramarines Order.

3. Games are useful for the brain

Yes Yes. Apart from the fact that they are helping older people to restore reaction, they will not harm the body and younger. During a typical shooter game in your head formed a whole bunch of new neural connections and achivok system motivates acquired skill at the game not to lose. Thanks to all this increases the speed of decision-making: fans of shooters on average 25% fasterVideo Games Lead to Faster Decisions that are No Less Accurate decisions than those who are not playing.

And that's not to mention the most obvious benefits of computer fun - an attempt to take the stress. Better to shoot a dozen other NPC in the GTA, than take it out on the furniture and even more so in humans.

And if you talk about the children, for them all a mountain of advantages, starting from the fact that games helpVideo games 'help reading in children with dyslexia' struggle with dyslexia, and ending with the development of imagination. So, if you are under the age of eleven so, it's time to start moderately sit at the computer.

4. Games - a pleasant pastime

Life is such that we either squirm like a squirrel in a wheel, or do not know what to do. And in the second case it is a question YouTube, Looking into the distance under a post-rock and scrolling tape in social networks. But as an alternative to TV series and social networks it is possible to choose the video.

Do not say that in a multiplayer session in the project will make more sense, but you are likely to spend more fun time - it first. Secondly, again playing well in multiplayer mode, you will definitely achieve certain goals, height, and the results - albeit virtual. Third, the game time will fly by faster and more - which is very good when we have to wait for something.

5. Games are still able to surprise

Of course, the time to occurrence of the first game's been a lot. The main genres, techniques and mechanics have long been developed. Nevertheless booming indie projects in recent years, the continuous development of the iron and increasingly serious attention to video games developers are felt. Each year there are, if not the whole new trend, some interesting projects that stand out from the crowd. Occasionally the developers even get to "reinvent the wheel". For example, not so long ago, such a "wheel" was VR technologyThat really gives an entirely new and unique experience.

In film and literature have long should stop hoping for something new. But computer games even half a century ago did not exist. In fact, video games (not all, but most) embody the main principle of the postmodern, when the history of a work of art creates the reader. Even if the intermediary becomes the text, and the interface is a turn-based strategy.

And just the qualitative development of the gaming industry far more noticeable than the development of the graphics in the film. Just compare, look like games in 2005 and 2017. And such sophisticated approaches to narrative, especially in indie projects, and David Lynch never dreamed of. Example - simulator walk like What Remains of Edith Finch or the same series of Dark Souls, where the whole story - in the description of the subject.

6. On games you can earn

The video game industry money just a gigantic amount. Giant - is 91 billion dollars for 2016. If anything, it's about five times the GDP of Moldova. And every year the number is only increasing. And included in those billions of not only the game, but also, for example, video content on them. And remember, the most popular blogger on YouTube - letspleer PewDiePie.

Not to mention the stream, e-sports, Merche - one Fallout 4 in the framework of the company's marketing produced even socks and beer. Maybe you will be able to capitalize on some streamers or gaming site. Identify the most trendy and popular games, broadcast them, collect thousands of rubles to Donato or write articles - try. And if you are particularly resistant, you can even go to a game company. In general, the mass of options.

I think that now doubt the benefits of computer games have already left. Keep track of what's new, and spend a great time. And come August 11-12, in Kolomenskoye: this year geek Picnic You will have to wait a whole area old-school games.