3 Ways Games Are Good For You! - Reality Check
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Cam scours the latest scientific research for positive news stories about playing video games, and comes back with three fascinating results for us.
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One thing I have noticed is that games teach people to make up their minds faster. Every gamer I know can make a decision, outside of games, at least 50% faster then non gamers. And gamers are also far less likely to back up, once they chose a path they see it to the end.
definitely agreed, My brother thought i would never get my gaming pc because i wouldn't have the patience for it and guess who's finally getting his gaming pc after 4 months of saving!?
mikail yumak nice profile picture ;)
jacarorosity I see what you did there ;D
Cliff Harmon How do you know he is broke because it took him four months to save? Maybe he only set aside a fraction of his paycheck or he built a $2000 PC. You don't know enough details to make such an accusation.
PeugeotRocket I kinda am :P . I saved money for my pc from what i got from my parents, hich isn't that much. But finally I'm getting my gaming pc and this is going to be my first big achievement in my life I really tried hard for! (i study the highest possible degree at school :P)
It's funny how there are people who say video games are a waste of time, and yet they watch TV all day like a vegetable...
+Nightmare on Nugatory Rd By the time any of us are dead...that number will probably be closer to 99%. So...damn...many.
Multiplayer=teamwork
Games like uncharted=problem solving
Horror games test reflexes so on and so forth
Problem solving fits games like Soul Reaver or Zelda more.
***** uncharted is the same thing u have alot of puzzles in uncharted
Uncharted has shit puzzles. Portal is for puzzles.
WaqasBoiiXBL o shit we got a badass in da house
matsta177
I forgot that one. I don't know why I would.
I think games have also helped me understand other languages. I remember many of the words and phrases from Assassins Creed 2. Video games could be a really effective tool in language learning, as it is interactive, and fun.
I remember that while at the peak of my AC2 playing extaravaganza when I played it nearly 4 times with a break of a month or two inbetween, by the fourth one, the Italian stayed with me. I didn't need subs. So I can totally dig what you're saying.
requisite in pace... Only says it when someone important dies :P
You're right. Example: Halo taught me the melting point of tungsten, and the kinetic energy output of an orbital strike, using a depleted uranium rod.
mikail yumak requiescat...
Chuby Hendrix i just typed resquirate in pace in google and took the first possible ''did you mean'' sentence. Probably another language...
One benefit that playing games had done for me is it taught me how to work hard and not give up. I remember I used to spend hours and hours and hours and hours trying to beat certain games like Metroid, Zelda, Final Fantasy VII, etc. and probably hundreds of games. But, I adapted some of that same work ethic, diligence, and not giving up into learning how to program and become a bit of game developer. I applied a lot of the same ethic in going through school; in fact, I'm about to finish my Master's degree.. Thus, what I'm saying here is another overlooked concept about people who play games. And the concept that I'm speaking of is certainly something that's not always taught in school either.
I remember when I was younger I would confuse the heck out of my school teachers because I could spell large words that were usually only taught at a higher education levels. Though, with the increase in English skill I did have a few embarrassing moments when I was younger as well. As a matter of fact, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to spell the word "again". I even had a bit of a 2nd grade break down when I couldn't figure out how to spell the word "of"... I mean straight up crying cause the teacher was being bloody stubborn. Another tid bit was that a lot of people notice I would figure out some kind of task, in very different ways then were taught just because I had a more creative perspective. Finally, I have also learned most of my life morals from Playing RPGs. So yeah, that is just my two cents. Love the vids guys.
The English language thing is certainly true for me. I remember in elementary and early middle school, I would sometimes use words that NONE of my friends knew and whenever we had vocabulary tests, I was usually the best in the class. You can chalk it all up to my love for video games as well as my desire to play story driven games at a very young age.
I take high level classes that make me write essays in 30-45min, I've noticed that I'm a lot quicker in brainstorm ideas and grouping before writing the actual essay, as a result I usually finish with 5 min to spare or as the first person done, it should also be noted nearly all the kids in the class are busy in school activities and not play video games
Im a filipino.. Movies and video games helped me on improving my English Skills, Im a hardcore gamer I play video games since The Nintendo Era and Counter Strike Era. Now I mainly play on PC anf my PS4.
me too , i'm a filipino it also helped me to improve my english.
I think that playing video games, particularly plot-driven games, can go a long way toward improving one's ability to write well and construct complex narratives. To quote William Faulkner, "Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." Like books, games are just another medium of storytelling and the more you expose yourself to great narratives like Mass Effect or the Last of Us, the better you'll be able to write powerful, compelling stories.
I hate when people blame violence on video games like if violence didnt exist way before there was even tv. Jack the ripper never played grand theft auto and neither did vlad the impaler jus saying.
thanks i now have a weird thought in my head of vlad the impaler playing gta
Someone watched Video Games the movie i see ;)
Lol so true!
Exactly. They make it seem like gaming is the only outlet of violence in our culture, and that all games are violent. It's crazy.
Lol Video games actually decrease violence. When was the last time you saw a gamer in USA punch a gamer from UK? They are sitting in their rooms halfway across the world. In the meantime, those competitive sportsmen (soccer, boxing, water polo) involve physical hitting each other. People break bones, get red cards.
And yup, violence came way before games.
Learning English is definetly true, I'm not American nor from the UK and games helped me A LOT to learn English :)
There's a lot of other places where English is.
*definitely
guys... facts don't matter :p
me too
I come from Norway and i did learn english from the halo 2 game when i was 5 years, and now i am 15 and still a gamer
I can certainly attest to the second benefit, not only did my vocabulary increase from gaming at a young age, but my love for and knowledge of history came from games. And what didn't come from games came from latter history courses and books, that I wouldn't ave read or listened to without games like Rome Total War.
Am I the only one who thinks cod AW looks like titanfall without titans
It basically is.
You can get a titan or "juggernaut" for your kill streak, and entering it you even have almost the same exact visual cues as titanfall, four separate screens merge together to become one.
Wow, what a big surprise lol
No
not only language but history, i learnt so much from games like assassins creed or the early call of dutys and medal of honor. Games also help you with mathematical skills, playing games like portals help you undesrtand maths, in the way that you don't need to study some subject but you must learn the rules so you can solve every puzzle
Well, as a native spanish speaker, video games have made wonders to english speech and writing capabilities. Even up to the point that I just can't stand playing games in my native language.
Games also work as real life simulations very useful for specific skill training. Thats why simulator training is so widely used in many industries. I think there was a discovery channel show that talked about how shooting games do help in real life scenarios where gun firing is involved by someone without the proper training, being a shooter game player more effective than someone that doesnt have any training and also that doesnt play any shooting games. Flight simulators, heavy machinery operation, even operation supervision via virtual reality goggles and eye trackimg are a good example of this.
1. I've been gaming since I was 4 years old. I got my girlfriend to try FPS games once. I was shocked at her helplessness. She's artistic and very good with things that require general coordination, but she just could not get used to using the mouse to look around while using the keyboard to move around. So that first part is true.
2. I'm not a native English speaker, and I've been speaking it better than my teachers since 4th grade. In junior high and high school I would not participate in class at all, and instead just read a book. The teachers never minded. The main cause of this has to be games, since no other activity I had was in English.
3. I have several friends that are learning programming. In learning programming, you're constantly presented problems that you need to solve with code. It's pretty interesting to see how those who, like me, have been gamers from a young age, tend to solve those problems more quickly and usually more efficiently than those who do not play games. Heck, I've never studied programming and I helped some of them solve such problems. I'm not sure about concentration skills, but problem solving is a definite effect of gaming.
After about 15 years of gaming ive noticed that in general Im able to quickly pick up new knowledge, skills and adapt faster to different enviroments, for example when i first pick up a longbow at age 18 (Im currently 22) I had never even had a toy bow as a kid, and I nailed an impressive 90 points out of ten arrows at about 30 meters from the target, today im one of the best archers in my academy and university and I quickly fit in place handling various different machinery at my work, so yeah, Thanks a freaking lot gaming! :D
I think science has finally started to look at how games can aid people in developing. They need to look at the type of game (e.g. strategy vs fps vs mmorpg vs moba). I think they all affect our cognitive abilities such a problem solving, quick decision making, reflexes and hand eye coordination, aggression, communication with others, etc. I'm glad people are starting to delve into this more.
As a kid (I'm am now 16) I played a lot of strategy games like civilization and red alert. I feel like not only do the Language learning aspect is true, but I feel like I definitely had to be more flexible in my mental strategy. I also played the good games like Kirby and Pokemon which I feel also increased these areas
I skipped 2 classes in my English language school when I was a kid and I almost never studied. I was constantly playing rpg games while my mother was yelling at me to stop playing and study :P
I am from Hungary and gaming helped me a lot,when I went to primary school, and learned english. It just took me less effort to learn new phrases, becouse I already heard them in games, even if I didn't know exactly what they mean in the game.
A big pro to gaming is hand-eye coordination. Getting used to controls and controllers/keyboards really help.
I used to be a rather shy and reclusive person with no friends. But then after a year on xbox live I learned how to interact with people. Made many friends and now I am very well known throughout my school
Ever since I started playing video games, my grade in AP calculus has improved.
A few years back, I was riding my bicycle with my wife and her friend to the movie theater, when a van ran a stop sign. I had between 3-5 seconds to make the realization that the vehicle wasn't going to stop in time, and hit both brakes while turning away from the vehicle. She still hit the front tire of my bike, and I still wound up on the hood of the van, but it would have been much worse had I not played the sorts of games that improve reaction time.
I was once able to control a skid in a van I was driving because I'd learned how to powerslide on a rally driving game. Van hit a mud patch and I instinctively knew how to control the skid.
This reminds me of the game that i played, Where a character was travel to another parallel universe where their is no high tec games or roller coaster. They play this simulator that require fast action like FPS, those that was not used to our culture, felt really sick when they played it.
Problem Solving is definitely an ability I've improved on since I played a variety of puzzle games.
Actually, games have taught me how to get good at things - I've used to practice combos in tekken for hours when I was 10 years old. Then, when Ive picked up guitar in later years I knew that in order to get good at it I needed to practice, practice, practice.
As long as you're not one of those people who gets angry and rages at a game or other players, gaming is good for stress and high blood pressure. Keep yourself nice and relaxed.
Action video games can help people affected by dyslexia.
when i was young, i played a lot of pokemon and other games on english and it actually really helped me when i started to learn english in school
Im a Counter Strike Player,
and what i just realised is, that i got faster in overall reaction time.
I tested it over and over again, and my human benchmark results of reaction is about 180 ms.
That was tested on a school computer system, where the monitor just had a reaction time of 5 ms. So if i remove these 5 ms from my overall 180 ms reaction time, there is just 175 ms left.
The point of this is, all of my mates in class had minimum results of 230 ms +, so i think its about the thing that im playing these fast games.
Sure Cam, your FRIEND failed to learn how to ride a bike. RIGGHT. :P
I have a friend who simply cannot ride a bike, he is in his thirties now and has never been able to ride one. It aint that uncommon
lol
My mom can´t ride a bike, seriously, I tried to teach her once but she couldn´t and gave up
I am 22 and I can not whistle for the life of me. Stuff like that isn't that uncommon. XD
I can't whistle either XD
My English improved so much, since I play every game in english (sometimes with german subtitles). And games like Super Hexagon trained my reflexes.
I feel that gaming has helped me interact with people, have better reflexes, and better problem solving, people always think I'm crazy when I tell them this but now I have some evidence to back me up thanks!
I'm from Chile, and the overall english level here is pretty low, I was incredibly bad at english when I was younger, but now I can safely say videogames were a major help at learning
There is one more advantage, as UK military had made a comment that they would prefer recruiting a player who plays game like battlefield( controlling tanks, helis and jats). This is due to the fact that in future there will be tanks like these who can be controlled by a few buttons, from a control station. And who will be better than a skilled player.
All my gamer friends and me too have a much larger vocabulary than all my non-gamer friends. English is not my original language and it took me only 2 weeks to fluently speak English. Gaming also taught me how to type fast (obviously).
RPG can make you faster in taking decisions and accepting responsabilities. They can help you think with a wider range than your person.
Challenging games can help you dealing with the concept of defeat, but how you deal with it, in the end, depends on who you are^^
Online games helps with social skills (in some ways), and can improve leadership for example during a WOW's raid.
And that's only what came to my mind while i was writing this comment xD
The list can go on and on and on and on etc
Games are a very good way to learn English, I'm a non native speaker. and Ive been playing videogames since I was a child (Most of them in english) also you can see the difference between someone who plays games and someone who does not in a english class (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation)
Was hoping for citations of the studies. Here's the first study about the square tracking task: Gozli, D., Bavelier, D., & Pratt, J. (2014). The effect of action video game playing on sensorimotor learning: Evidence from a movement tracking task. Human Movement Science, 38, 152-162.
I've learned my english my playing video games
+BossPL4Ever Good english there XD
***** Yeah, it was a typo but some people are just dumb.
+BossPL4Ever yeah, but it was just funnilly ironic how you said you learned english, and had a mistake
+BossPL4Ever hey me too. fist pump
+BossPL4Ever me too!
1. focusing wich your eyes on something 2. strategy 3.communication 4.discussions 5.reaction skills 6.making plans / know what to use 7.---)fantasy(--- 8. (I tryed to look for this and I found out that gamers understand more about the world and what the world supposed to be) , discussions white games get faster solved , teamwork eich gamers is faster and easier than which non-gamers , non-gamers have slower brains by thinking and understanding something (just like understanding why games are fun and good for you --) after showing them 7 video's about why gaming is fun and why it is good for you they still don't understand it) I have tested this things on my parents friends gaming friends and normal random pouple . all I found out is all this things I just typed .
I've noticed that I can type faster, much more accurately, and without many mistakes, since I play f2p shooters, you need to type as fast as you can, clearly, and to be easily read by teammates.
I think that gaming has made me better at typing, and with English, unlike the typing classes, and English lessons in elementary, middle, and junior high.
I was able to understand the English language at the age of 8, which may not seem impressive, but I am from the Netherlands, so games helped me develop a second language at such a young age!
Same, I'm polish, and I learned the language (or at least the basics) in about a year, and I knew it perfectly by 8 (my rather minor stutter not withstanding, and this was largely because I had just gotten an Xbox (the original one) for my birthday, and a bunch of English games (halo 1 & 2, destroy all humans 1 & 2, spyro) which helped me learn VERY fast.
Kamil Osoba I was on PC and Age of Empires, and Call of Duty helped me alot
Playing Grand Turismo 5 made me a better driver.... A little while ago I bought a racing wheel for GT5, and I noticed that I got better at driving in real life. As a learner driver, I had trouble trying to keep the car at a certain speed, it would always fluctuate... Once I started playing GT5 with a wheel and peddles, I became much better at it.
Okay that is pretty damn cool
That's true, I'm brazilian and all I know about english I learned by playing games, mainly RPGs like Final Fantasy.
And if you want to learn fluent russian just play a bit of Dota 2
lol ahaha
or cs go
Gamers also have an accelerated rate to learn. I don't know by how much, but it's a bit faster. It's caused by the fact that we don't play just one single game, which causes us to have to learn something new once we load up something different.
Another thing gamers have an advantage in is tactical thinking. Strategy games.
One surprising thing, gamers are more social. By a very, very large margin. Non-gamers have a few friends. Gamers have 5+ on average + their local in real life friends. That's not even brining up the random encounters through the internet. Non-gamers, well, how many people do they interact with on their couch?
Those are 3 more examples.
+Anthony Hayward This is true and my main method of learning is actually observation.
Another way that gaming could be benificial to us is by increasing our hand-eye coordination. Say something on the screen moves, and you need to perform an action to continue or solve the problem. Would that not be extremely useful in everyday life? That, I think, is one of the most useful things that gaming provides.
I came to UK when I was 9 and pretty much had no English skills other than "hello, how are you?". But I firmly believe that pokemon games really helped me boost up my English!
What was the calmer music towards the end, not the reality check theme the one before it??
I'm a goalie and I play call of duty(well used too) and battlefield and when a player pops out and tries to kill me I've groan fast and carefull reflexes to play and dive better
The English thing is certainly true. My native language is Spanish and I've had one of my English teachers tell me that I know English more than most of her native-speaking students. I think games with a lot of dialogue and text like Skyrim (for example) helped enhance my English.
I can confirm my English is much better than anyone else's around me, be it my family or coworkers. The only person as good as me is my brother and he plays video games on daily basis, just like me.
I always translate texts at work.
Props for Halo 3: ODST in thumbnail! Haha :)
***** its both , really. It was in both games.
I know English entirely because of games. I'm Danish. The English lessons in school were utterly useless. I know this because I still have some custom map creations for StarCraft 1 as well as a GameMaker game I made with well written English tutorials in them, made before I had my first English lesson in school. :)
Language learning I agree with - but even then it's only specific games that do that (mostly role-playing) cos of all the reading.
As for the sensorimotor test - it's disappointing that the gamers performed the same as the non-gamers when the box moved around randomly. I wouldn't expect that.....and it's ironic that that whole test can be deemed a game itself.
As for the puzzle games - most games have basic or simply annoying puzzles (where you have to find an item) or move shapes around. Cut The Rope is a distinct example to have used - and it's hard to generalise its findings to games in general...so I disagree with number 3.
I know for a fact that gaming improves hand to eye coordination. Apart from that I think Assassins Creed 2 greatly increased my knowledge of the Italian Renaissance.
What about reflexes? My reflexes are monstrously fast. I remember this time when i was crossing the street, and a thing came at me sideways. After a 10th of a second my foot stopped me from continuing. It was a bike btw.
for me i can understand 3d object a lot easier so mechanical drawing classes were really easy for me also drawing a portrait become easier due to the same reasons playing a lot of poorly modeled old games thought me how simple shapes build up complex things and how can i cheat in drawing the same way as game developers do :D
I get panic attacks every so often. I find that sticking on the 360, and focusing my mind on something else, will generally deminish the feeling. Same as playing an instrument actually. :)
I'm from Sweden and learned to speak English when I was 5 years old cause in havebeen playing video games since i was 3
How about showing a link of the research you mentioned?
Racing games actually saved my life more tan once by increasing my reaction timeon dangerous situations. I´ve avoided more than 5 grat accidents thanks to that.
My english vocabularies expanded because I've played a lot of final fantasy rpgs and some other ps1 rpgs. hint: very long dialogues... :D
I can see how good you are...(sarcasm)
+Kim Jong Un I only noticed one mistake, are you really going to ridicule him for that?
2 mistakes
Kim Jong Un Name it.
My english vocabularies expanded
Hint very long dialogues
LOL Gates. SHOTS FIRED.
I love video games and I learnt a lot of english from those! I'm one of the best in the class if it comes to translating or talking (I'm 17 and I study in high school with 5 english a week sooo yea :D )
Some professors at a university discovered that playing fast pace games like cod improve reaction time
The second one is true. Im a finnish 13 year old boy, and i learnt english so well that i was the best out of over 300 students. It sure is very helpful. :)
I'm better at english thanks to gaming and I'm fourteen. You really notice the difference between gamers and non-gamers in english-class.
My reflexes are extremely good (i think its because i play the Counter Strike series for 12-15 years now!)
Medal of Honor series taught me all about the World Wars. RIP MoH
Ohh i remember when i was a kid my language wasn't english so i need to learn it when i play games i start playing games at about 4 years playing V-rally and NFS Underground 2 and such and when my parent heard me speaking english they said "how do you know english that good we havent teached you much" i said "Games mom" and yes i'm young
These videos make me happy, we really need more positive views on gaming.
The non-native english speakers in the comments are really funny :D Just to prove them wrong, I'm from Hungary, located in Central Europe, and unlike them, I'm actually able to speak english almost fluently thanks to video games.
same here but im from hong kong
gotta love the gate reference.
The language learning is true.
I learned english from gaming , Im actually dutch.
Now im really good at english , Thank you videogames!
The english learning is true i live in finland when i started gaming in english games now i am one of the best in my english class
! watching this video or not... i'm proud to be Gamer forever
also i'm an Arabian and i didn't study or learn English in my entire life and Suddenly when i'm in age 7 started to know something called "Video games" and after it i learned how to understand and read and lastly writing English until now i'm in 25 and it never came into my mind to enter an English school or learning with an official education cuz games give me everything i want from this cool and awesome language
Stress relief, imagination, and money management skills. I need to save 50 bucks for the next major title time to budget my week.
Yeeh. ALL english I've learned I've learned mostly from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and other games later on x3 and movies. But Zelda was the game that really made me want to learn since it was all text xD
CIV2!!! Still one of my favorite games.
Im from belguim and im playing on ps3 xbox 360 for over 4 years 1nd my english is improved by alot of cool EA DICE and other games with english :D
World at War taught me about WW2 at a young age.
Dating sims are a pretty good physical workout.
playing a fps on a console (aim assist) won get you anywhere so dont get excited
It will, just not as well as a mouse
im sure most of these people were playing on console.
Aiming with a mouse is ten times easier then aiming with a controller with aim assist.
Aiming a mouse is 10 times easier, you won't learn anywhere near as much with a mouse.
ARE YOU ALL SERIOUSLY ARGUING ABOUT THIS?
When I'm stressed, I play video games. I quickly lose the feeling of stress
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You the man Cam!
I've had learning englisch with playing video games
Games are good for people with learning disorders such as dispraxia be ause it effects reaction time so playing video games helps inmprove that
I learned the word "obsolete" from Civilization many years ago
Minecraft taught me how to type fast.
+PieNinjaProductions | Gaming and IRL! minecraft thought me to pick up a pistol and a bunch of ammo and go on a mass killing spree, collecting peoples left hands on the way...
+PieNinjaProductions Starcraft 2 and Heroes of the storm gave me the ability to type ridiculously fast.
hand eye coordination
I'm 9 and I play cod,bf4 and gta!
I dont understand how video games are bad for you. Its the same training for your brain except its also fun. Of course some people may get too much addicted to it but that's their problem not video games'