Have you learned anything useful from games?

[The Wykydtron]

Well, playing League of Legends is a lesson in human psychology. You have those peope who can't recognise that they made a mistake and have to blame every single other person around. You have people who are on some sort of egotistical rampage to prove that they r teh baist every single game (supreme try hards if you will) and your standard ragers who can't seem to realise that raging only makes you more likely to lose.

And much much more!


I would say games expanded my vocabulary but the huge amount of books I read when I was younger got there first.

 

[hazabaza1]

Certainly helped me to learn read. Don't know if anything else was too useful though.

 

[crazyrabbits]

The original Deus Ex taught me that the truth is often much more complicated than just "black or white". It also taught me to try new avenues of discovery when replaying video games.

 

[CAPTCHA]

As an adult, yeah I've learnt some things through playing games. Mostly techy stuff like writing XML and Scripting. Although I learnt this stuff outside of gaming, modding has given me a good place to practice and see results.

 

[Squilookle]

Sure. It taught me a sense for ballistics that complemented my real life experiences. Real world geography and in some cases history. My overall hand-eye co-ordination has been sharpened, and my views on consequences have been reinforced. Driver and GTA taught me that once you step over the line in the eyes of the poliice, you -will- eventually be stopped one way or another. Operation Flashpoint taught me orienteering in a way school never managed to, either. (For a start it made it interesting for once)

I've learned to lead targets. Feint. Cause diversions then attack from a different direction. I've learnt the very basics of aircraft control, and how to conserve energy when using an aircraft in combat, along with learning through experience aerial combat tactics that seem so static in books. Driver also taught me how to reverse a car properly and easily. Maybe Tricky Truck can one day do the same for reversing trailers

As already said, Pirates! proved very educational. I know what shot to use to damage sails, or whittle down an enemy crew. Mount and Blade has taught me a ton about Feudalism, and how powerful cavalry can be.

The list goes on.

 

[DanielBrown]

They taught me English, though at first only how to read it, which is why I can't say melee right. That's gotta count for something!
World of Warcraft(which I started playing at the age of 15) taught me how to type really fast on the keyboard. I played as a warrior first and got used to answering, or chatting in general, while in combat. Forced me to type faster and faster so I wouldn't lose too much time with the action keys. When people hear me type they think I'm just randomly smashing the keyboard. D:

 

[teqrevisited]

It's taught me a lot of interesting things but they're not usually useful. World locations, ancient deities etc. Out of all of the things I learnt the two that are relatively useful are the ability to read (Very slowly) katakana & hiragana and how to pick simple locks.

I've yet to put the first skill to use but I used the second to get back into the house when I locked myself out and to get into a shed that we lost the key to. After the first incident we bought another lock for the second door.

 

[Lizardon]

I learnt so much from the Fact Core in Portal 2. It taught me everything I know

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  [li]To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.[/li]
  [li]Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes.[/li]
  [li]89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.[/li]
  [li]According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.[/li]
  [li]At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.[/li]
  [li]Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians.[/li]
  [li]Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.[/li]
  [li]The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general.[/li]
  [li]The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.[/li]
  [li]Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out.[/li]
  [li]Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium.[/li]
  [li]Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks.[/li]
  [li]During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice.[/li]
  [li]Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.[/li]
  [li]Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.[/li]
  [li]It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize.'[/li]
  [li]The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison.[/li]
  [li]In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this.[/li]
  [li]If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.[/li]

 

[Amaror]

Actually yeah. Quite some stuff about this one nemesis family from assassins creed 2 is actually true. Of course not all of it, but i was suprised how much.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I learned that all that war stuff is not all it's cracked up to be.

 

[Catfood220]

learned how to properly alliterate.
"Oh I get it, Colette's Current Condition is Caused by the Cruxis Crystal."
"What's this? Why is there such a Crude Key Crest upon the Cruxis Crystal?"

Huh, I never noticed that when playing the game, who'd of thought that game could be educational, I just thought it was a typically cheesy JRPG story.

I suppose, what games have taught me is to multitask and to some extent be ambidextrous. At this moment in time I am typing with one hand stroking an affectionation cat with the other. I have learned a little history and the Uncharted series has taught me that a snarky comment really takes the edge off sneaking up on an unsuspecting bad guy and snapping his neck.

 

[Xenosion]

Starcraft really pushes and tests your multitasking abilities.

 

[GBag_20]

playing quake helped me with accuracy and reactions, also helped me learn to use my left hand, seen my dad using his left hand for the mouse and as a child wanted to do the same, now i can do just as much with me left than my right....can use the mouse better with my left now, thanks quake!