Action gamers make faster and better decisions

Okay what about the all around gamer? But this is interesting cause I am sure I've read it somewhere before, or they did a similar study before, as I was discussing this with a buddy while driving the one day.
 
Cool Article.

Makes alot of sense. The brain is a muscle and like all muscles it gets better with excersise.

Glad to hear Games arn't just turning us all into mindless psycos....
 
Lupus said:
Okay what about the all around gamer? But this is interesting cause I am sure I've read it somewhere before, or they did a similar study before, as I was discussing this with a buddy while driving the one day.
Click to expand...

Yeah I also remember a study of a few years ago talking about gamers showing a marked increase in cognitive fuctions appose to non-gamers.
 
Lupus said:
Speak for yourselves guys, I am not mindless ;-)
Click to expand...

All the Haters are always saying how games are turning us into mindless, violence obcessed, murderers looking for victims. Personally I blame the Looney Tunes, have you seen how violent those shows are?!:eek:
 
I might not have killed anyone before, but I sure could think of a few individuals whom I'm sure wouldn't be missed... :p
 
I mindlessly kill mosquitos, but they deserve it.

Heres an analogy of how games are zombifying us:
Games like sims turns you into a lowly shuffler while CoD turns you into a licker.
 
Well, I suppose that those silly quick time, button-mashing events would be useful for something along the line :P

I don't think it's just action games that would help with decision making. I just think about all the complicated decisions I have to make playing RPGs when it comes to statistics and all that jazz. you have to weigh up what's going to be the best for your party and you need to be careful about it otherwise you'll suffer for the rest of the game.
 
powderbucket said:
Well, I suppose that those silly quick time, button-mashing events would be useful for something along the line :P

I don't think it's just action games that would help with decision making. I just think about all the complicated decisions I have to make playing RPGs when it comes to statistics and all that jazz. you have to weigh up what's going to be the best for your party and you need to be careful about it otherwise you'll suffer for the rest of the game.
Click to expand...

Powder I think they ment like FOF regognition and stuff like that, not complex moral choices. Ill use the example of a Firefight match in Halo ODST me and Grimspoon had last night. As we play we do threat assement and FOF (Friend or Foe) recognition. We dodge grenades thrown and dudes with big ass hammers. As a result our brains are more accustomed to processing audio and visual information on the fly. If that makes sense.
 
Last edited:
OmegaFenix22 said:
Powder I think they ment like FOF regognition and stuff like that, not complex moral choices. Ill use the example of a Firefight match in Halo ODST me and Grimspoon had last night. As we play we do threat assement and FOF (Friend or Foe) recognition. We dodge grenades thrown and dudes with big ass hammers. As a result our brains are more accustomed to processing auditore and visual information on the fly. If that makes sense.
Click to expand...

It does make sense.

Also- maybe RTS games helps you to think about the bigger picture of a situation better as well :D. I don't think it's only FPS games that helps with "whatever" functions.
 
to0kenZA said:
It does make sense.

Also- maybe RTS games helps you to think about the bigger picture of a situation better as well :D. I don't think it's only FPS games that helps with "whatever" functions.
Click to expand...

I do think that RTS style games could help with thinking more strategicly, however looking at SC online or any RTS, players very rarely use high strategy to beat their oppponants. Tank Rushing or "Cheesy" tactics dont really teach us anything new. I think platformers help with timing.
 
You take in a lot of visual and audio with very little time, that what it sums up to. Helps you act fast in worse case if something.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top