Matthew on 17/9/2010 at 15:51
The Sims 2 can be a pretty hardcore strategy game, look you.
Ulukai on 17/9/2010 at 16:13
It's all about balancing the poopy-time with the fraydashays, neh?
demagogue on 17/9/2010 at 20:35
ok, ok, I didn't really mean to knock The Sims 2, anyway. I thought the study was dumb for other reasons. Smelt too much like "So all these psych studies want to say playing FPS's makes people more violent. Well *we* say playing FPS's actually makes you smarter, so take that!" I mean, I share the sentiment that, minus the extreme cases of people obsessing too much, playing games is probably better for you than worse, or at least no worse than any other hobby... And I like studies that explore how our minds work with games. I guess I just didn't like how the article portrayed it, as if the point were mostly about just getting more ammo for your side on the political issue, rather than how people really interact and develop with games. I don't like politics posing as studies, and would probably prefer just giving the anti-gaming side the finger and game-on.
That said, the one thing they did find is kind of interesting, though, that FPSs improve your decisions better than strategy games. (I still wish they'd open the field to more kinds of strategy games to explore that more, though... What about FPSs and strategy games contribute to that?) It makes me think that being human is more about acting in the moment than dealing with abstract problems from an abstract distance ... which makes me think we're tuned a little better for immersive gaming; it gets deeper into our minds the more immersive it is. It's a good argument for why making games more immersive is a good thing.
Matthew on 18/9/2010 at 19:54
Quote Posted by Ulukai
It's all about balancing the poopy-time with the
fraydashays, neh?
It's all about the woohoo, I think you'll find
demagogue, you could also argue that it means that QTEs are the order of the day instead.
Ulukai on 18/9/2010 at 20:06
The problem with the woo-hoos is that they inevitably stick their arms in the air simultaneously (no pun intended), which makes them look like they're doing the world's worst Mexican wave in front of the paperboy and/or are trying to have someone's eye out. It just makes a mockery of the whole thing.
For this reason - personally, I like to closely control the fun to avoid the woo-hoos :cool:
