The Friday Debate – Have You Ever Learnt Anything From Playing A Game?

There’s a list of things which I am very interested in because of games. Other cultures, martial arts, 3d modelling, voice acting and the entire media industry alltogether, really. I’d say there’s a lot of FPS players who know a lot of different types of guns.

I’m a little better at reading maps thanks to games. Although I don’t think you can learn a LOT from playing games I do think your knowledge in just about everything rises somewhat.

absolutely, from facts about historical things, through knowing more about NFL players and enhancing my reaction time over the years gaming’s been so much more than a hobby to me.

videogames have made it easier for me to sit through boring activities without complaining.i mean if you sit for hours in an rpg grinding to find an item why wouldn’t you do something like the mechanical design for school :p

english, and I took a sudden interest in italian renaissance after ACII.
Saying you’re actually getting better at stuff from games feels like a weak excuse to play them though.

I learn a lot of english in movies and games, because I’m portuguese, and I think some games can exercise our mind to make it better, others make it worse, but only if you do not separate the game from tehe real world. If you separate those two things, you will notice that games can help you in many ways and not make you violent like some people say, games only make you violent if you can’t separate it from real life or if you play a game bot for your age.

i lerned to talk english very good buth mi writing is bad but that dont care its good if u know wath i say now so if im online i lerned to talk it

i lerned to talk english very good buth mi writing is bad but that dont care its good if u know wath i say now so if im online i can talk enlish very good i have a britis accent like i cant instad of i cent you know cent like i can not do that

AC 1 got me interested in the Crusades and the Knights Templar & Saracens. Learnt quite a lot about the World Wars from the Medal of Honor series, and I learnt from GTA that eating pizza heals gunshot wounds.

Scratch the last one, I just tested it and am in intensive care…Still, gotta love Pepperoni

Yeah I learnt something VERY important form playing games

That I want to develop them

Hence i’m going to Uni. I thank games for giving me this knowledge and guiding me in my career path. They vadum ago pro infinitio.

I learnt it’s not wise to turn on your console at 3.00am in the morning, my wife has magic reflexes you know.

I learnt with Fallout 3 that if you drink water from a toilet you get more health! LOL

I learnt’ a lot from the metal gear series (well, the three i played) and cannot play the PS2 ones.

i learnt a lot about nature v nurture from metal gear solid, war from MGS4 and the cold war from peace walker.

would love to see the ps2 classics on ps store, the games are so hard to find now

Playstation also improved my eyesight, as soon as i got in to games, my vision has slowly increased to that of almost perfect.

good ol’ sony

Its very odd what was said about Broken Sword in the opening part of this, as thats exactly what happened to me! It also taught me what a theodolite is…

I never play games in my native language it just is not that great in dutch don’t know about other countries.. And yeah it definitely helpt me with my English.

On my first driving lesson (well, when I restarted when I was 30, I’ve had some lessons when I was 19), my driving instructor nervously asked me if I could please use more than 1cm margin when driving along the curbs. Soon after I had adjusted to a margin he was comfortable with, he complemented me on my impeccable steering. A little later during the driving lessons we were in the middle of nowhere, and to test me he asked me to drive as fast as I dared. I dared to go up to 160km on this 80km road (completely open field, vision about 10km all around, so pretty safe at least to others ), when I started feeling the grip and stability decrease so that was the max. My instructor told me that was just about the limit he dared to go at as well.

Obviously as you’ll have guessed by now by this time I’d had about 15 years of Geoff Crammond’s Formula 1, 2 (from here always with wheel peripherals), GTR and various other F1 2k/GP Mods and above all, loads of Gran Turismo 3 and 4.

As a bonus, I go karting every other year or so on average, with colleagues or for a party or whatever, and I have a nice pile of little trophies and sheets with best laps to show for it, all thanks to virtual track training.

When I was a young kid, I also learnt quite a few English words from playing the various Sierra adventures. I remember that the very first that I played (leisure suit larry) we all had to play with a cheat guide downloaded from a BBS because we didn’t know any English at that point yet. So much like MrLopes in that respect …

Great now also that with many PS3 games on BluRay you can select various languages to play in, so you can practice other languages as well.

I learned English through videogames when I was a child. When we finally got to study it on 3rd grade, I already knew more words and phrases than the rest of my class.

Also, small things like historical info (AC and AC2 for example) and.. roman numbers. It took me ages to figure them out, but thanks to certain online game (used roman for numbering the skill levels) that’s not a problem anymore.

Could be interesting to turn this one araound a bit Sony are you ever gonna learn to listen to your customers ?