Life’s Best: Video Gaming (and the benefits too!)

Video Gaming is like watching an action-packed, story-driven, ornate-animation blockbuster movie, but with a challenge.

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You are the main character, you control him, you do the nonsense and awkward jumping and jogging around. It’s interactive, you choose the way you want the story to fulfill.

Parents say it promotes violence. There’s a reason why certain games are age-restricted. There are video games for kids – Mario and his unending quest to save a princes or Hannah Montana dream show. The hardcore ones are for the emerging adults to adults. And like Hannah Montana, we know it’s a dream world. What we do in the games doesn’t necessarily reflect how we function in society.

People say it’s a waste of time. Nothing is a waste of time if you enjoy every second of wasting it. But I understand where this is coming from; there are professionals who risk their jobs by shutting down his life for video games. It shouldn’t get in the way of responsibilities, be it work, school, and relationships. Like in any areas of life, moderation is key. Too much of anything could bad for you, so it’s all about managing time.

In playing video games, there are numerous instances where a person’s decision making is tested. That’s where one’ll get to know that certain decisions have hefty consequences, so next time you will decide better. And of course, the slower you are, the lamer you are in the game. Video gaming improves your reflexes, making it quicker and faster.

It also works your problem solving skills, creativity, self-confidence and in recent years, fitness. On top of all, it incomparably improves mood. It is among the best stress reliever out there!

Researches as proofs, Nintendo Wii can help improve motor functioning for recovering stoke patients; kids “soar” with their grades; and quite contrary to beliefs, video gaming aren’t so geeky. It improves social skills rather than keep you on your own. There are many more benefits, but this is not a psychological report so I’ll stop there.

And by the way, if it helps the gaming industry, I will continue buying $60 games – it’s well worth my money and time. $0.99 speaks for itself, you get $0.99 value of pleasure – repetitive, quite boring.

Why do you play video games?

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Sources:
Grandma had a stroke? Teach her to play Wii; CNET News
Surprising Health Benefits of Video Games; Yahoo! Health

iPhone Gaming Bore

iPhone gaming, or any smartphone gaming, is boring.

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I have been an owner of iPod Touch since first generation up to the fourth of today, and it is exciting to try for the first time the touch screen gaming on a mobile. It feels like an innovative breakthrough to pinch, zoom and throw some angry birds. But after 5 years of iPhone gaming, its prevalence widespread, it became tiresome and uninteresting. 

What’s the best games it offers? Infinity blade is a series of repetition. EA and gameloft games are sluggish. It’s a laughable move to bring games to the iPhone and earn extra bucks in their famous titles. It’s a disappointment. Even angry birds, where’s my water, or tiny wings, and most of physics and puzzle games that are mostly known and bought, are games of similar denominator – games of trial and error. It is mostly up to chance to get 3-stars in each angry birds stages. iPhone games are simplistic, repetitive, and not worthy of gaming time for avid players.

Nintendo is right in saying that iOS gaming is destroying the gaming industry openly because it lowers the expectations on gaming. It pushes developers to submit to the simplistic demands of iPhone gaming, but these games aren’t really worthwhile. Portable gaming is PSP and NDS. They are the ones with titles worthy of the playing for the sake of playing; unlike iPhone games that you play for the sake of burning time in queue.

I chose immense gameplay and richly made storylines of console gaming. They have the real games, worth of my money and time spent. Call me old fashioned but I always loved buttons on my gaming device.

Gamers, do you agree with what I’m saying?

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