Poll: Your creativity

[darth.pixie]

People used to say that kids are less creative due to television. We will eventually have to accept that video games are the new boogie man of the media, you know.

I'm creative enough, I suppose. My imagination is always running faster than I could catch it and video games have not influenced that in the slightest. In fact, they augmented it with fantasy worlds and creatures.

 

[Royta]

It does make it less inviting. Tons of times I've had the notion to work on my novel, comics or scripts. Then i'd look in the closet, see a game, and play that. It's just that much more easy.
There's no thinking involved (not really). You just pop the sucker in and play the game.

Creative works require more effort, but have a bigger reward.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

90% Of my written works are inspired by video games.
She has been debunked.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Most of my music, paintings, stories and cloths (Yes I make cloths also as a hobby. Shit up! It is not as easy as you think) Are based on games I have played, they have given me ideas that I wouldn't had made without games (They are based on stuff like "What would I do different")

When I was 4-6 I made complexed machine that ran on water which I had seen in games, I was really good when it comes making them. Funny think is I don't remember anything about them, I never knew I made them until my mother found punch of old photos.

I started playing video games at the age of 3 or 4 m first game was Doom, and then I played everything from Warcraft to Simtower and I have never spend a month without playing some game. I Have always loved playing, always will and it has inspired my life so much. I even survived depression with help of games, I learned how to socially interact via CTF and similar games, I learned to speak and write English at the age of 8 (My mother tongue is Finnish and kids get taught how to read and write at the age of 6 and 7. English start at age 9-10).

I have always played alone at the nearby forests (One behind my house and one 2 kilometers away). I played all sort of things I saw in games. When I got 2 friends when I got to school we played RPG games at forst. We had lot of fun, we were happy. Thanks to games. Why do people want to destroy something that I so loved and still love.

Yeah games, have dulled me as a child.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Imagination doesn't equal creativity. Especially it doesn't mean that if you have imagination and ideas that you're actually going to create things and that's half of creativity.

There is truth behind what she said. Games offer a finished product to interact and have fun with and it might just mess with creativity.

I'd still say that military (and depression) kill creativity a lot more efficiently than video games.

 

[sumanoskae]

Creative people are creative.

They strive to push forward the expression of humanities innermost depths because they have no choice, it's as essential as breathing.

I think that a big problem is that people confuse novelty for creativity.

Take Avatar for example.

Avatar is not a creative movie, almost every aspect of it can be traced directly to somewhere else. It's a well executed film, and it took a great deal of technical prowess to engineer. But none of it was the work of the soul. All of it's bright colors do nothing to tell us something about the people who crafted it, because they just deduced from what they know how to make a competent film.

But people call it creative because it's pretty and makes them feel good, the 3-D and CG is impressive and that's new so it's creative.

Creativity comes from within. If a creative work of art bares resemblance to another one, you don't care, because the person making it didn't care, and didn't pay it any mind. It came straight from their soul, it was just something that formed out of their control and demanded to be given voice. It doesn't matter if it was influenced by other works, because what really matters is that what it's saying is clearly said, not how it's said.

The execution is a means to an end so that it can stand as a whole, not the other way around

 

[Merkavar]

i would say it is actually alot harder to be creative nowadays.

anything you come up with has been down before so your just copying others.

 

[Voodoomancer]

It's not that I'm not creative because of videogames, I'd like to thing of myself as extremely creative. It's just that I'm too busy gaming to express that creativity xP

 

[Jewrean]

I love creating things...

Music, movies, pictures, photos, home-videos, stories, etc.

I've been gaming since early DOS pre-Wolf3D Dave and have kept up with the majority of gaming consoles.

OT: People blame things they fear and don't understand. This teacher has almost got a point but because they are squarely blaming video-games, they are an idiot.

All forms of media sap our attention span and, as South Park teaches us, it's when we are bored that we should be learning a new skill or trying a new experience. Of course South Park was talking about drugs at the time but the point remains valid

 

[Dark2003]

My creativity extends from my dislike of most things, so i tend to analyze everything about it(oh i fucking love video games by the way)

I feel creativity can only be damaged if it allowed to be damaged, if you get sucked into those games or allow them change your perception, when your image or thought of certain thing become altered or replaced by things you've seen in other place.

 

[EboMan7x]

I'm more creative in the sense that I can take and use things I learned from video games and put them to use in real life. As for stuff that I have thought up creative wise, I have nothing. I am not creative at all in that sense.

Dangerous talk bro. Don't go saying stuff that can confirm all those thoughts about people not being able to tell the difference between violent videogames and real violence.

 

[The_Graff]

DEAR GOD ALMIGHTY, another clearly clueless adult doesnt have the faintest idea about gaming!!!! quick, stop the presses!

 

[Scarim Coral]

Video game is not solely to be blame for this. I remember watching this documentary age ago about these days parent had become more overly protective of their children from playing outside (they fear their children will get kidnap and what not).
While I suppose creativity does help develop while being outside but I like to say my creativity came from all of the drawing I did as a kid. I drew my drawing indoor not outdoor (before you say if it was related to outdoor activity that led me to draw it wasn't that. I like to draw airplane, made up animals etc).

 

[NathLines]

I've never been creative or imaginative, even as a child. But I'd agree that children are less creative, but video games aren't solely to blame, if at all. LEGO is a good example of the decrease in creativity. When I was a kid you could buy LEGO cars, airplanes, trains or just a big box of blocks, but what you built or did with what you built was up to you. Now LEGO comes as either a scene from a movie or has a book that gives you a story to go with your robot/racecar/spacestation.

What? I used to play with Bionicle. I took 5 or more of those mofos and made a robot half my own size. I wouldn't call that a decrease in creativity. I confronted any kind of LEGO the way I approach Bioware games; first I do it by the book, then I dick around.

Another kind of creativity maybe, but not a "decrease" in it. When I was a kid, I found the LEGO blocks that didn't have a "story", was bland and boring.