Things you learned in video games that you normally would have learned in school.

[scorptatious]

What are some things you have learned in video games that you than find in school?

For me, I learned about percentages in Spyro the Dragon. They became pretty apparent when I was trying to complete the game.

 

[steevee]

The definition and application of a lot of RPG terminology. Agility, Stamina etc when I was about 5.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

I recieved some Sexual Education from playing Conker's Bad Fur Day at the age of 10.

Also; I learned what H2O was from a puzzle in LoZ: Majora's Mask.

 

[xDHxD148L0]

Fractions, decimals and percentages I guess, but then I figure thats the same with most people.

 

[Irridium]

History.

I have Civilization and its Civilopedia to thank for that.

 

[SirNerd]

I learned how to read with the Spyro series, nearly all the dialog has text under it, and I would read along the character speaking.

 

[Nargleblarg]

Other than all my math skills coming from Bethesda , Bioware, and Black Isle studios combined.

I learned about economics, supply and demand, primitive trade warfare and technology, and some history from Age of Empires.

 

[robert022614]

i learned a lot from metal gear solid. i mean you have to be able to split the fact from fiction, but that's not too hard and many actual events are referenced.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The basics of economics, supply and demand, and other money-related things from Rollercoaster Tycoon.

 

[Rawb0906]

A ton of history from Age of Empires, a ton mythology from Age of Mythology. The basic idea of world war 2 from Medal of Honor and the first CoD. A bit more history from all of the Total War saga and Civilisation.

 

[kampori]

As others have said, maths and the likes from a lot of games.
Morality from BioWare games.
History from Civ games, coupled with mythology. Also things such as economics, basic understandings of diplomacy & politics. (actually this was probably the reason I decided to get a politics degree in the 1st place)
Basic instincts & common sense from almost every game.

Oh, and also to think less of women with nothing short of massive boobs.

 

[MrGalactus]

I learned diplomacy from Duke Nukem.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

To read. When i was young i more or less taught myself to read by playing FF6+7 in an attempt to understand what was going on.

 

[DocMcCray]

Some history from Call of Duty: WaW

Specifically that Russia was responsible for Germany's defeat in Berlin.

 

[dystopiaINC]

basic math skills, a lot of vocabulary and grammar, and principles of saving and spending money...

 

[Hippobatman]

Well, kinda overlapping, but English.

Without video games, I doubt my English would be at the level it is now, IE top grades through 13 years of school.

 

[pyrosaw]

I learned driving skills in GTA.

 

[Vault Girl]

I learned about Objectivist Philosophy from Bioshock, since its a play on Ayn Rand's Book Atlas Shrugged and is all about individualism. That got me through a political literature essay that game.

 

[Vault Girl]

Also learned a lot about the fallacy of Capitalism from GTA IV. I have an essay to do about Moral panic and violence in the media and it's all absed on GTA

 

[urahara75]

Back during my adolescent years I learned about the ceaseless persistence a bully/rival poses to his/her/its/their victims until they get their asses handed to them by either you, or the local Big Bad, from JRPGs.

No... seriously... I had an annoying bully from middle school that liked to occasionally inflict me w/ the "pain" status, usually w/ blunt objects, until I indirectly caused him to have a little meet-&-greet with a local bunch of gang members. Gang members that I'd describe as "chaotically evil" to anyone not as "chaotically evil" as they were...

Yeah... I'm a tad "deviantly minded"...