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Why I Love Video Games

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Why I Love Video Games
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I love video games for the interactive experience in combining, art, music, and technology together to create an experience like no other. Video games give its audience a chance to feel what it is like to be in another person's shoes. It gives you control over your actions and what the outcomes could be. Like every other creative medium, there is an aspect to it that teaches you life lessons, hardships, friendships, life and death situations that can crossover to the philosophy of what goes on in our actual daily lives.

Growing up, there was this "ick" factor that some individuals would shake their head in dismay when you proclaimed that you played video games, but the young loner in me did not let that worry me. When it came to being in certain environments of exclusion, I'd keep back to gaming. There is a peace and solitude knowing that you have chances to redeem yourself in new environments, and the obstacles that you must face to solve them. Nothing is ever set in stone, and the individuals who look to an old level in your life, as a defining stance against you as an individual, are not to be worried over. These are lessons that can be applied to daily life, and is a perk that I believe that gamers learn earlier on. Just as it would for book readers who read the choice book genre.

Playing video games has its benefits when it comes to accessing a task and relaying it to problem-solving in a challenging matter that encourages the viewer through a reward system. In particular, video games have proven to enhance brain cognition. According to a study,video games have proven to enhance brain cognition in decision-making to achieve a goal. It may sound silly, but growing up as a gamer, and being a college student now, I've been the one to always analyze the situation at hand, and thinking about how it effects me and others around me, just as it did in games. Even though I walk through life believing that I am only responsible for my choices, and that I am the only one effected but it is not actually true; you affect everyone around you, which is why I believe that there is a universal consequence in everything you do.

The reason why I love video games is the sheer amount of interactivity that you can attain, unlike sitting down and watching another individual's story from an outsider's view. You can be the character in a game, and depending on the game's rules, there are decision-making challenges that can affect the outcome of the game's story line. These choices can help us evaluate how a character's perception of their worldly-view, background, or even faults can shape up the world in the biggest ways through the smallest actions. While, these perspectives come from the designer's imagination, art imitates life. It makes me ponder about how, in real life, we may think that our gratitude, belief systems, environment doesn't take up too much space about who we are as a people. However it does.

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