Poll: Your creativity

[Hookman]

Just this morning I was listening to the radio and heard an american teacher talk about how children don't play outside anymore because "They are too busy on their Nintendo...Xbox." I'm not here to discuss how she obviously hasn't played a video game since Space Invaders because theres something else she said that interested me. She went on to say that as a teacher she had noticed a big change in the current generation of schoolchildren. According to her, children are now less creative because of video games. I call bullshit! I can't talk for every gamer in the world but I'm sure that I would be much less imaginative if I didn't play video games. What do you all think?

 

[SovietSecrets]

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.

 

[Dimitriov]

Regurgitating other peoples ideas is not equal to creativity. I don't know but I would not be surprised if that were correct.

 

[YouCallMeNighthawk]

I'm not really all that creative, i mean i'll have a moment of creativity every now and again, but nothing major.

My girlfriend on the other hand is incredibly creative with food. Give her 5 ingredients and she'll have sooooo many ideas of what to cook and different ways to cook it and present it

I am fed much .... and well therefor i am a happy man

 

[JemothSkarii]

I've played videogames basically my whole life and my friends find me the most creative, imaginative guy around, so I doubt video games would be the cause of lower creativity.

 

[Watchmacallit]

I've noticed things about people that do and don't play video games. A person that plays a lot of rpg's tends to have more creativity and a much better vocabulary. Creativity stems from experiences.

In what world would I have thought up the story line for FFX, that was hard to comprehend but now that plot is added to my pool of thoughts.

 

[Akytalusia]

It wouldn't suprise me if that were true.

 

[Veldaroth]

I actually owe most of my creativity to Ocarina of Time.

 

[dbmountain]

I can accept that children these days aren't all the creative. But it's a pretty bold statement to claim that videogames are at fault; she is making this claim on what basis exactly?

 

[Vault101]

I would consider myself creative, I think there are games that promote that, such as minecraft or spore

and when I realised I could pick up objects and dead bodies in Fallout NV you wouldnt belive how creative I could be re-arranging corpses into all kinds of scenarios, liek theres a headless guy sitting outside the saloon in goodsprings also I put to white glove society members in a sugestive pose on a bed after I had to kill them.....Dont look at me like that

also There is alot of fan art for games, that said though I think it depends on the game, I wpuldnt let my chhild play COD all the time

anyway right now Im making a model NCR ranger, all my creative engergys flowing there, in fact it feels liek an addiction when Im working

 

[Smooth Operator]

That may be true, creativity needs an empty space where you make your own sh*t, being flooded with movies/games can stifle that space and only fill it with other peoples ideas.

When you give someone a toy car you gave him a dead end product it is set as a car and that is all he will get out of it, giving him a box of legos to make a car is a completely different thing, that car can be made in all shapes and sizes and the best thing is it doesn't haveto be a car at all.

That's why all my toys were in pieces after one day when I became bored with that single form, I just wanted to know what makes it tick, what can I add, what to improve,... and those components usually ended up taped into one lego contraption or another.

 

[Lizardon]

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.

 

[oplinger]

Actually...for as much as I want to say no. I'm going to have to say yes, that video games could possibly murder creativity. In games, you don't have to create. You just have to know what the creator created. Everything is set out for you, with very few exceptions. Limits to what you can do. Everything is done for you on some level, there isn't any real room to -be- creative.

Video games aren't the only fault though. I mostly blame the internet. The Great Distraction. Who needs to be creative when you have youtube? Sure you can look up -how- to do things, but that's not being creative at all.

I'll have to say I am not all that creative when I'm asked to say...build something, or come up with a person..or ...name my characters <.< but something games have trained me to do? Solve problems. I can't create jack shit, but I can explain how you can get an engine out of a car with a house plant, a ladder, a pair of pliers, 3 rocks, a rolex, a plank of wood and half a ratchet strap. Or I can use my other talents of cynicism and take someone else's idea, point out everything wrong with it, and make it better. It's a different -sort- of creativity, one that most people refuse to really see...

Really it's not just video games...It's just where our culture is going. We stifle creativity by constantly distracting ourselves with...anything. It's only going to get worse too.

 

[Fishyash]

I play lots of video games yet I am a music student at college.

But yeah I am pretty creative tbh.

 

[TriggerOnly]

I personly draw inspirations from all things in life, Moives,music,games,art and life its self, and mutch more. If all you do and if all your world is, is games then your abilities to see from many angles would depend on what games you have played and if you take in there "massage" or "flavor" and if the gaming world has even touched on it.

So really I think it depends on the person. If some american 16yr kid just plays COD:BO all day, and thinks about it all day, yer that kids not going to think out side the window looking at the box ya know ?

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I would like to think that whether or not you play video games has absolutely no effect on your level of creativity.However, not only am i pulling that out of my ass, I would actually not be surprised if i was wrong.

 

[Feline Jaye]

Kids are less creative because of video games? Stuff that - I have drawn work inspired by games, writing things inspired by games and I love some games so much that I've actually been inspired to try make one myself.

Sill radio woman.

 

[Zeema]

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Im Creativity See i Said 'HI'

And plus if you play minecraft and all the stuff you have seen in it is very creative


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[brumley53]

I think I am fairly creative, although lots of kids these days aren't. I would guess it's probably because parents these days are extremely cynical towards their kids saying they should be more "realistic" with their dreams.

 

[inkheart_artist]

The trouble isn't that people or kids are less creative but more that they're over-indulged. It becomes hard to decipher what is your own and what you are simply regurgitating when you're being bombarded from all sides with media. Its hardly something that can be layed solely on video games. Its more of a societal thing in the digital age.