Is there a stigma against playing video games?

no.8 · 13-08-2018 06:09PM

DickSwiveller Returns wrote:

It's for children and teenagers.

Codswallop

kunst nugget · 13-08-2018 06:11PM

Niles Crane wrote: »

If people want to play video games that's fine but anyone who considers e-sports to be a sport is a complete and utter idiot.

I'd argue video games are a fairly empty experience, whereas books,music and TV/Film can make you think about the wider world and expand your mind video games don't really have that to them.

Gaming these days isn't just a one-note experience, there is a rich and varied library of games out there now tackling a wide variety of topics and genres and exploring ideas in a multitude of different ways. They can be as intelligent or as dumb as you want to be. You can spend your time killing demons in hell with Doom or explore notions of what existence and life really are in games like Soma. You can think in the beauty of a game like Journey and spend your time figuring out what it all really means in the end or you play soccer with cars in Rocket League. It's up to what you want from them and they can be as interesting or boring as any book or tv/film out there.

H3llR4iser · 13-08-2018 06:11PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’ve two sons. They are chalk and cheese. One is outgoing, plays some GAA and soccer, complete horndog, plenty of mates, well adjusted sort. The other lad is the opposite, and I strongly believe playing too many computer games has had a deep negative impact on him. He has a contempt for sport, all his mates are other fat lads with glasses, spots and fuzzy neckbeards; he prefers to spend his evenings locked in a room playing online shooting games than going outside, his studies are impacted, he has never brought a chick home.

There is a negative stigma around ‘hardcore gamers’ (as he told me he is) and it’s well grounded in reality.

Have you ever thought you might very well have cause & effect switched around? In my experience it's usually the case that more introverted, socially anxious people are driven towards games, especially in a mildly to severely obsessive fashion, rather than "games making them that way".

Lithium93_ · 13-08-2018 06:13PM

afkasurfjunkie wrote: »

Would you recommend max Payne then? Husbands’ birthday coming up and I usually try get him a game with a good story, open world type. E.g. horizon zero dawn and the last of us. Any suggestions?

Has he played the 2016 Doom? One of the best games I've played in recent years.

13-08-2018 06:13PM

Never really got into them. More into sport I guess. Don't see an issue with them unless it's an unhealthy past time.

Niles Crane · 13-08-2018 06:19PM

Campogna wrote: »

I appreciate what you've said but those points are completely shrouded in ignorance. Games like Fez are a testament to beautiful graphic design and unique artwork while other games like the Stanley Parable are story-dense. To say it is an empty medium is a gross error in judgement.

Also regarding the e-sports thing I am not totally sure, speaking from experience I have played games like Arma and DayZ where my heart is beating like crazy and it can be hugely competitive, giving a similar adrenaline rush to when I play (competitively) football. Obviously there is a lack of significant physical exertion but the reflexes and rapid processing of information required to play games like Call of Duty competitively are great.

Whatever about the lack of athleticism required E-Sports are not sports for the simple reason that they are not real.

13-08-2018 06:22PM

Elder scrolls for life.

Witcher 3 is brilliant. And no mans sky

ConnyMcDavid · 13-08-2018 06:22PM

I think we're transitioning into a time where video games can be played from childhood to late adulthood.
I remember thinking as a kid that it must be the thing that people grow out of it once the reach adulthood. But that is because there were no video games when they were kids.

There is studies that playing video games is good for the brain.

Niles Crane · 13-08-2018 06:25PM

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Classic argument from people who don't have experience with games or just don't understand them - it's not comparable. When playing, you're actually DOING something, rather than passively absorbing. You don't go to play football to learn the meaning of life, you play football to kick a ball around a pitch.

But it is passive, you are just inputting instructions into a computer programme, the computer programme just follows what you input.

There is barely any physical exertion involved, no fresh air, little proper socialising.

Most sports for example involve being outside exercising and socializing.

When you have psychologisst saying addiction to gaming is a condition then maybe it isn't necessarily the best thing in the world to get to into, you never hear of too much reading or playing sport being a problem.

begbysback · 13-08-2018 06:29PM

Ready player one - someday we will all play

freshpopcorn · 13-08-2018 06:37PM

I have no issue with it but I wouldn't be into it.
My only issue is when a gamer starts telling you about their adventures playing the game.

Ursus Horribilis · 13-08-2018 06:40PM

Is there not an option for people who play games but not "lots of games". I've been playing computer games since I was a kid and still do. Not for hours and hours on end though.

13-08-2018 06:43PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I have no issue with it but I wouldn't be into it.
My only issue is when a gamer starts telling you about their adventures playing the game.

They fixed the exocraft quest bug in the nms game so i was finally able to hand it in which is great because you can't get the landing pad blueprints til you close them off i dont think and trying to launch from the base is like 25% fuel cost every time and i know the resources are loads amd i have a teleporter as well but I'm low on inventory slots even though i have a class a ship which is awesome.

verycool · 13-08-2018 06:43PM

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Could care less really.

Sorry, had to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

begbysback wrote: »

Ready player one - someday we will all play

Isn't that just Second Life?

Burzum · 13-08-2018 06:47PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I haven't played games in nigh on 15 years.
I just might get back into it...

As per my username, was a big Final Fantasy (VII & VIII) fan back when they were released, and for a few years afterwards too to be honest.
Any suggestions what I might like now, and what console would be good to go with??

Replay FF8, I am doing it now for the 100th time

Fuko200 · 13-08-2018 06:48PM

I play a LOT of video games daily - mostly playing the Witcher 3 and replaying Okami for the 8th time.
Id say there is a good bit of stigma regarding video games but it doesnt bother me one bit.
Id rather play video games and get immersed in a well thought out story then sitting and watching tv or getting drunk with friends.

freshpopcorn · 13-08-2018 06:52PM

bluewolf wrote: »

They fixed the exocraft quest bug in the nms game so i was finally able to hand it in which is great because you can't get the landing pad blueprints til you close them off i dont think and trying to launch from the base is like 25% fuel cost every time and i know the resources are loads amd i have a teleporter as well but I'm low on inventory slots even though i have a class a ship which is awesome.

Is your name Eddie?

Church on Tuesday · 13-08-2018 06:52PM

verycool wrote: »

Sorry, had to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

Isn't that just Second Life?

Ah look, it's a Monday, we are allowed a few grammatical mistakes.

13-08-2018 07:01PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Is your name Eddie?

No is your name eddie

13-08-2018 07:08PM

Well, I'm 41 and still love to play PC games. Never got into the console side of things. I wouldn't be playing games daily but I'd definitely have one or two days a week to play depending on what genre I wish to play.

I have a interest in Strategy games, which tend to take a long time, especially the Paradox games. Hearts of Iron 2/3 would very high on my list since I love the complexity and the historical aspects. Stellaris because it's simply beautiful and has since improved a lot with patches. And then, the time required once multiplayer is factored in... yikes.

As for being a waste of time... I don't see it. Oh, sure, I've had periods in my life where I played mmo's extensively and my social life suffered, but live and learn... I've learned a load of history from well researched/balanced games, and my interest in Game development came from playing games, and I've made money from game app development.

The funny thing is in spite of my gaming habits, I probably spend less time playing computer games, than other people spend talking about soccer or watching it. I could say the same about many other forms of hobbies that other people enjoy... and with similar lack of definitive gains from doing so. At the end of the day, I enjoy gaming and, honestly, anyone that begrudges how I spend my free time, really is a wanker.

verycool · 13-08-2018 07:11PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I haven't played games in nigh on 15 years.
I just might get back into it...

As per my username, was a big Final Fantasy (VII & VIII) fan back when they were released, and for a few years afterwards too to be honest.
Any suggestions what I might like now, and what console would be good to go with??

Legend of Dragoon!

Heard Lost Odyssey was good (Xbox 360 / Xbox One). Was released a while ago for free but I couldn't get in to it.

Reviews seem to be good for Octopath Traveller (Switch).

freshpopcorn · 13-08-2018 07:12PM

I find their is a lot of women my mothers age in her fifties who are always playing apps on their phones.

begbysback · 13-08-2018 07:13PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I find their is a lot of women my mothers age in her fifties who are always playing apps on their phones.

Don't think candy crush is within context here

freshpopcorn · 13-08-2018 07:16PM

begbysback wrote: »

Don't think candy crush is within context here

I know but it's another form of it.
These woman would never consider themselves a gamer tough.

Star Bingo · 13-08-2018 07:49PM

ConnyMcDavid wrote: »

I think we're transitioning into a time where video games can be played from childhood to late adulthood.
I remember thinking as a kid that it must be the thing that people grow out of it once the reach adulthood. But that is because there were no video games when they were kids.

There is studies that playing video games is good for the brain.

Thing is a lot of us have grown up with them since their inception and only seen them develop at a faster rate than ourselves

also gaming arcades peaked as hangouts back then they were cropping up in every small town and village sometimes two at a time and every business had a coin-op or two in the corner as a nice little earner on the side I mean you couldn’t go to the chipper; the shop without being confronted by these cabinets they were everywhere

it got so much that your da might take you to the pub for tk and a packet of crisps and am not joking joysticks were even poking out of the fùcking tables but eventually more powerful home consoles begin to emerge with enough horsepower to make all that redundant.

Keepaneye · 13-08-2018 08:29PM

I always get a laugh out of people making fun of me for gaming. The same people watch a bunch of idiots make fools of themselves on love island.

13-08-2018 08:37PM

I play an awful lot of games but would be reluctant to bring it up in my day to day life.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 13-08-2018 08:45PM

All your hobbies are a waste of time too.

Time enjoyed is not time wasted.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-08-2018 09:14PM

verycool wrote: »

Legend of Dragoon!

You legend! I loved that game, under rated gem!

I love the Final Fantasy series and Japanese Rpg's in general, they'd would be the games I mostly play, Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've played in a long time, I love that game, never got the hang of the in game card game gwent though

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I play games for maybe an hour a night during the week and a bit more at the weekends but I find these days I have to be in the mood for them otherwise I just won't enjoy the session and would be better off doing something else.

Playing God of War atm

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TheValeyard · 13-08-2018 10:08PM

Just finished The Witcher 3. Awesome game.

Is there a stigma against playing video games?

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