Well, you have to realize that your question is pretty biased. People aren’t born exactly the same. We are born primarily knowing two different mentalities, but we each develop different ones as our minds mature. There is the physical side of the mind, that always needs to be doing something, that is the athletic, the scientific, etc. while the other half is the more intellectual, the artistic, the creative side.
Strategy games effect different people in different ways. I for one, don’t ever get anything good out of strategy games, there is no strategy in sending dozens of men to their deaths wastefully. Strategy is what REAL SOLDIERS do for our country each day, ACTUALLY RISKING things that are important, namely, their lives. So how can you mention anything good from simple simulations that arent even accurate depictions of what STRATEGY really is. We have soldiers that are trained to enter your house and kill you before you even wake up and realize you are dead. That is STRATEGY, the part of the human brain that tells us that we need to be silent in order to attain victory. Marines are beaten that harsh lesson, they don’t play video games to learn it, and neither do you or i. We obtain the mentality through PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, not a shallow simulation that offers nothing to us.
For those people WHO DO live off of Strategy games, they are the ones who generally are good at mental games, like chess or things like that, they end up being your scientists, your computer techs, they are good at mentally analyzing and experimenting all in the name of doing what they do.
I suppose it gives SOME people experience, while at the same time TAKING away REAL EXPERIENCE. Without this true experience, we are just living in a fantasy. So to me, Strategy games don’t really do anything constructive, but are rather destructive on that part of our brains, because we BELIEVE we know what we DON’T KNOW.
While this is all philosophical and such, you really can’t just address the positive end of the spectrum without needing to explain the potential and very real negatives. Just because someone is good at Halo Wars, doesn’t mean they can shoot a gun and take another man’s life. It’s foolish to think that way, and that’s why we need to get our minds out of the computer and the television, and actually EXPERIENCE what it means to be HUMAN. We can’t all keep living in our technology because one day or another, that will all come to an end, and we will be left with nothing.
Basically, what i am saying, is that relying on simulations isn’t nearly as effective as relying on personal life experience. It may scare people to want to go into the army, it may inspire others to want to protect all they have, and others are undecided.
Strategy games, quite simply, give us a chance to think about things that we would never think about normally, but instead of thinking from the inside, we think objectively, we think long term, not short, we think three steps ahead, not two, and we always wish for the BEST way to WIN, not the WORST way to LOSE.
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they can give you a better understanding of almost any stradegy based game, but dont spend all your time on them, not good for you
Well, you have to realize that your question is pretty biased. People aren’t born exactly the same. We are born primarily knowing two different mentalities, but we each develop different ones as our minds mature. There is the physical side of the mind, that always needs to be doing something, that is the athletic, the scientific, etc. while the other half is the more intellectual, the artistic, the creative side.
Strategy games effect different people in different ways. I for one, don’t ever get anything good out of strategy games, there is no strategy in sending dozens of men to their deaths wastefully. Strategy is what REAL SOLDIERS do for our country each day, ACTUALLY RISKING things that are important, namely, their lives. So how can you mention anything good from simple simulations that arent even accurate depictions of what STRATEGY really is. We have soldiers that are trained to enter your house and kill you before you even wake up and realize you are dead. That is STRATEGY, the part of the human brain that tells us that we need to be silent in order to attain victory. Marines are beaten that harsh lesson, they don’t play video games to learn it, and neither do you or i. We obtain the mentality through PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, not a shallow simulation that offers nothing to us.
For those people WHO DO live off of Strategy games, they are the ones who generally are good at mental games, like chess or things like that, they end up being your scientists, your computer techs, they are good at mentally analyzing and experimenting all in the name of doing what they do.
I suppose it gives SOME people experience, while at the same time TAKING away REAL EXPERIENCE. Without this true experience, we are just living in a fantasy. So to me, Strategy games don’t really do anything constructive, but are rather destructive on that part of our brains, because we BELIEVE we know what we DON’T KNOW.
While this is all philosophical and such, you really can’t just address the positive end of the spectrum without needing to explain the potential and very real negatives. Just because someone is good at Halo Wars, doesn’t mean they can shoot a gun and take another man’s life. It’s foolish to think that way, and that’s why we need to get our minds out of the computer and the television, and actually EXPERIENCE what it means to be HUMAN. We can’t all keep living in our technology because one day or another, that will all come to an end, and we will be left with nothing.
Basically, what i am saying, is that relying on simulations isn’t nearly as effective as relying on personal life experience. It may scare people to want to go into the army, it may inspire others to want to protect all they have, and others are undecided.
Strategy games, quite simply, give us a chance to think about things that we would never think about normally, but instead of thinking from the inside, we think objectively, we think long term, not short, we think three steps ahead, not two, and we always wish for the BEST way to WIN, not the WORST way to LOSE.