I have never been really into gaming, neither on the computer nor the TV. I enjoy my share of FreeCell, Mario Party and Tetris but only when I’m bored and have nothing else to do. A lot of people I now however play a lot of video games. COD, WOW and FIFA are a normal part of their everyday life, and they can play for several hours per day. Most normal people can easily separate fantasy games from reality. I don’t think you get more violet if you play violent videogames, you know what’s right and wrong and your personality stays the same. However, I do believe that if you play too much and you get too attached to your cyberspace world, it will affect your life – and not in a good way. The danger occurs when the virtual world gets more exciting than your own life, and you therefore choose to “leave” the real world except when you have to eat or sleep.
Gaming has become so normal that there has been made a reality show called WCG Ultimate WCG Gamer. The concept is that the contestants must master real-life challenges that relate to a video game challenge afterwards. When the producers try to transfer the video game into a real world challenge, how do you know what’s real and what’s not anymore? You have to know have to play in the real world, and the virtual world to win. What’s the price? You will become the ultimate gamer. Isn’t that what everybody’s aiming for these days?
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About the show, viewed August 22 2011, http://www.fox8.tv/shows/wcg-ultimate-gamer/about
I personally think that gaming is a predominantly masculine activity... When I was younger I would play a little bit of Playstation with my brothers, but that stopped before I was 10 and ever since I've never had an interest in it, pretty much like what you were saying at the start of the post. My brothers and previous boyfriend are still addicted to Xbox 360 though, it gets pretty boring when you actually want to do something.
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