Do you think that Video Game skills relate to combat skills?

[swolf]

When i joined the rifle & pistol club, i thought i'd be a crackshot because of all the shooter games i'd played over the years.

How wrong i was. So very very wrong.

My shots were all over the place and it took a lot of practice, concentration and patience to get to the standard i am today. Video game skills are non-transferable to the real world. What it does do is give you a rough idea of what it is trying to imitate. For example; playing Modern Warfare 2 hasn't made me into a soldier by any means, but i have a good idea of what being in a war would be like.

I've got to ask for an explanation. How did playing Modern Warfare 2 give you an idea of what being in a war would be like? I mean, I've played the game and done battle simulation training and there's a HUGE difference. In the game, you can make a mistake and survive to continue fighting. In the simulation, any mistake would mean that you "died" or were "injured". It's not fun when your squadmates have to carry you out because a mistake was made. I'm not trying to flame you...just confused. (Though I would love to see a game which tries to accurately portray what war is like.)

I apologise. I meant to stress that games in general give you a very rough idea of what they are trying to imitate. This does not mean it simulates what it is like to be an actual soldier in an actual battlefield, but you have very basic demonstration of the setting and what is happening in a fight. Maybe Modern Warfare 2 was a bad example, and i should have picked Call of Duty 2 instead or another WW2 shooter. It's not a representation of what it's like to be a soldier, but of what they experienced. The endless shooting, the chaos, the explosions, people dying all around them and so forth. I'm not talking simulation style representation.

Oh...well, now that I see what you meant, I agree. It is a rough idea.

 

[esin]

Think specifically about what part of your body you use while gaming.
Video game experience will likely help in tasks that involve or focus on precise thumb or wrist movement.

 

[lacktheknack]

Um. No. There isn't a lot else to put here.

I guess I'll add to this.

Playing Big mother trucker. Truck me Harder does not help you in learning how to drive a truck or to truck other people.

One, two, THREE double entendres!

OT: Only in the most mild sense possible. You might learn the skills in real life quicker, but you don't have skills gained from video games themselves.

 

[Last Bullet]

Tactically, maybe. But any example I can think of (use cover, get to higher ground, don't get shot) is pretty much common sense. Maybe I'd feel more comfortable with the basics of gunplay, or I'd at least pick up on it faster, but I don't really know. So, I guess my final verdict is, "not really."

 

[Varun Garuda Maharaj]

if your plioting this

 

[presidentjlh]

Video gaming is often said to greatly improve hand-eye coordination.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Absolutely not. My finger strength and accuracy with a mouse doesn't equate to my accuracy with a rifle and how hard I can punch someone.

 

[flangleelgnalf]

the REAL question is beating time crisis 3 with 5 bucks using only the pistol have any impact on your gun skills in real life?
i say no.

 

[Timbydude]

Actually, I think people who play Left 4 Dead would be a little better at strategy in the zombie apocalypse. But, they wouldn't be better at shooting a gun.

That's actually one of the few scenarios where that applies. Call of Duty has you believe that warfare isn't dangerous as long as you give your battle wounds ample time to magically heal.

 

[RatRace123]

My aiming skills are probably better due to my 10 years + of video game playing but that's it.

Although it did actually help my fighting skills, I actually have a correct fighting stance because of what I've seen in games.

 

[YouCallMeNighthawk]

No that's just silly, firing a gun on a game has no kick back which makes you a lot more accurate, plus in a real war zone you would act completely different as you very well may ..... die! (with no delayed respawn)

 

[Goldhawk777]

Okay, when a person starts running at you, your thumbs go to the B-button, to bash him away, but wait....there's no controller! NoooooooooO!!! Ahhhh Stop eating my spleen! I need that!
*Dies*

 

[TheTurtleMan]

Not at all, unless you try piloting a uav or something of the sort. I've played Assassins Creed to death and I still wouldn't feel too confident free climbing a building and then jumping from the top into a four by three bale of hay.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Haha. My SRPGs might have given me a keen tactical mind (when it comes to playing SRPGS) but I wouldn't expect turn-based combat to improve my actual hand to hand skill. Same deal with playing with mice or analog sticks. You might be tactically better, or maybe have a keener eye for targets compared to a non-gamer (any of those left?), or just twitchier reflexes, but it doesn't mean you know how to use a gun or do tae-kwon-do.

(I mean, aside from the Novint Falcon, how many game controllers accurately give you an idea of what it feels like to shoot with recoil? How many game controllers accurately simulate the experience of fully arming and operating a firearm? Certainly not anything that would be competitive in Modern Warfare 2)

I think being genre-savy would help you survive a zompocolypse than video game skill.

 

[F-I-D-O]

When i joined the rifle & pistol club, i thought i'd be a crackshot because of all the shooter games i'd played over the years.

How wrong i was. So very very wrong.

My shots were all over the place and it took a lot of practice, concentration and patience to get to the standard i am today. Video game skills are non-transferable to the real world. What it does do is give you a rough idea of what it is trying to imitate. For example; playing Modern Warfare 2 hasn't made me into a soldier by any means, but i have a good idea of what being in a war would be like.

No. No. NO. NOOOO.
That is nothing like a real war. That's a game. A real war is gritty, chaotic, no time, one shot can and will kill, you don't usually have time to fine aim. Seeing a buddy lose half his arm in real life is nothing like a game. In a game, you have practiced, you can know where people come from, and all it requires is two thumbs of movement. In a war, you're entire body must be honed to perfection, and half the time it barrels down to luck in whether you live or not. Driving in a war zone, to suddenly see the truck in front of you explode from an IED, then having to get out of your vehicle, with the heat of the flames, dust in your eyes, screaming people, huge noises, adrenaline pumping can not be replicated in a game.
You were right about skills in games being non transferable to real life. But your comment about war is wrong. A game has the niceties of war, where you shoot and are shot at. Simple. Real life has everything else.
Luckily, I have not seen war, but my father has. Please don't believe playing a game would prepare you for the horror of reality.

The only skill that has helped in real life is holding a wiimote steady for extended periods. It did steady my aim with a pistol. That's about it.
Oh, and the really realistic flight sims with the joystick and that lever thing. Some piloting places do count those as actual practice hours (if you're using the right software of course)
EDIT: Saw your reply to the other guy. IT does give a rough idea. A better example may have been America's Army 3, where it goes so far as having to visually confirm kills. It's meant to be realistic.

 

[Hman121]

Not even close. But some of the more realistic styles in fighting games can teach you a few moves.

 

[TG MLPDashie]

well i play FPS games all the time and i went to a weapons simulator when i was in Cadets, i scored an accuracy of 45/50 with a F-88 assault rifle. (btw im only 14)

 

[YouEatLard]

Combat skills.... if you're talking about anything involving you physically causing harm to another individual, then I'd say no.

There are "games" out there that are for nothing other then to build skills away from the computer.... but they usually call these simulators. RealFlight is an excellent example of this and Varun Garuda Maharaj called it dead on.

 

[Littlee300]

The kinect could if it works really good. Like dodging balls in kinect takes your whole body and those balls could be arrows or missles.
Videogames can teach you war tactics like how to use suppression to move other units in better positions.
Edit: The motion controls can make you stronger