So I've been doing something weird recentally.

[cWg | Konka]

I am a sophomore in high school and consider myself to be a very informed gamer and very intelligent for my age. I take psych and in the class we often have to write short papers or essays about the topic we learned that week. In the months of October through December I written every essay about video game characters, for psycho analysis I did a break down of team fortress 2 characters, for mental disorders I talked about Twisted Metal Black drivers, for an experiment on courage I wrote 3 pages front and back about Abe and Munch and their journey to save the Gabbits. Does anybody think this is strange? I can easily discuss the subtext in splatterhouse between man and mask for hours, but ask me to explain citizen cane and I couldn't do it.

id love to read some of them if you dont mind, they sould very intresting the tf2 are all a bit mad

 

[subject_87]

I commend you; taking a good, long look at game characters as complex characters is a big step in the right direction and will hopefully earn games some sort of academic respect.

 

[Sinspiration]

But in the end they're not real and the "What the hell, why not?" Question still stands. They're not real, their personality never developed due to being born and growing into what they are

True but

I still argue they are still simply characters in a fictional realm and aren't really valid targets to analyse.

The thing is, most of the time a psychologist won't have an entire picture of a person (whether it be because of lying, privacy issues, minor details, etc) and therefore being able to look at the limited histories and actions of a videogame character is very similar to analysing a real person. Because really, all you can do when observing someone else is look at their actions, reactions and history and form your own view of their psyche. So it isn't that different to a real person, analysing a character. And anyways, it can also be good to add new depths to your game (learning to create a psychological profile for your characters), as it would make them much more realistic. So triple-purpose: fun, grades and practice.

Oh, and also, videogame characters don't get pissed off when you start psycho-analysing them.

Hm.. I guess I cant argue with any of that, plus its a bonus they get tecked that you're analysing them. Unless there's some alternate dimension where they're aware that you are doing so (which raises hilarious images in my mind). But yeah.

Ultimately I dont actually have a problem with it myself, simply because of having dealt with 'Psych' students in the past (the douchey ones who think their superior intelligence bequeaths them with the authority to judge you and the belief that their superiority means that they could never be wrong).

So whatever I may say by technicality, good job buddee1.

 

[buddee1]

I am a sophomore in high school and consider myself to be a very informed gamer and very intelligent for my age. I take psych and in the class we often have to write short papers or essays about the topic we learned that week. In the months of October through December I written every essay about video game characters, for psycho analysis I did a break down of team fortress 2 characters, for mental disorders I talked about Twisted Metal Black drivers, for an experiment on courage I wrote 3 pages front and back about Abe and Munch and their journey to save the Gabbits. Does anybody think this is strange? I can easily discuss the subtext in splatterhouse between man and mask for hours, but ask me to explain citizen cane and I couldn't do it.

id love to read some of them if you dont mind, they sould very intresting the tf2 are all a bit mad

Basically I categorized them into maladaptive behaviors

 

[Biosophilogical]

[ltimately I dont actually have a problem with it myself, simply because of having dealt with 'Psych' students in the past (the douchey ones who think their superior intelligence bequeaths them with the authority to judge you and the belief that their superiority means that they could never be wrong).

Yeah, but most arrogance is annoying, the only type that sometimes, rarely isn't is the well-deserved kind, and even that is annoying the majority of the time.