The Purpose Of Gaming

Well I’m sure you all have your own reasons for being a part of this vast industry.

So tell us. Why do you love gaming so much? What do you suppose is it’s true purpose?

For me, gaming is not only a source of great entertainment. I see it as a skill of the mind, what it is capable of. Sure it raises hand & eye coordination but you should also see it as a challenge.

I have often considered a career in this area so I see gaming as an opportunity too.
One more purpose it holds for me is that it earns me good grades in my Media course, lol. For I have to analyse such products and it’s also quite handy for learning how to critisise.

So do tell. ^^

It’s a good way to escape from the everyday chains of life. You know, most likely you’re never going to go out adventuring as a guy in a green tunic. Heck, you can kill people but keep it only inside videogames. >:D

I can get to be someone I am not, I love RPGs so much because of the story and how you are able to relate to them in what way ever. I like to get sucked up in the personalities of the characters and the situations they get. Though they seem they will not happen to you because of the different time settings or whatever, it might already have. And ofcourse break away from reality for as long it lasts.

Video games are fun.

I get to push it the block and win it the game.

Gaming gives the ability to not only let us hear, see, a different world, we have the ability to interact with it.

Gaming first started out as silly things such as Pac-Man and have now evolved into deep, story line, serious, cinematic and still playable experiences at the same time.

I believe that is what makes gaming so worth it. To play into another realm of ‘reality’ so to speak and not without the same constraint of the reality we live in.

People game for the same reason that people read books, and the same reason that people watch movies. It’s another form of entertainment and another medium for an artist to express himself. I game because it makes me happy… and women always have big breasts in video games.

People game for the same reason that people read books, and the same reason that people watch movies.

I can’t push it the block and win it the game while reading a book or a watching a movie.

you could if you had one of those computers that wrap around your head and you could read the book on the computer screen or watch a movie on the computer screen… then you could still push it the block and win it.

What an interesting forum! I’ll think I’ll add my 2 cents worth.

One could say that the purpose of gaming would be to let of some steam and relax. I say that the purpose of gaming is to promote good relations among people around the world.

One prove of a game that helps promote harmony among people would be the final fantasy series and the FFshrine stands as a testimony to it’s popularity. I mean people around the world actually come to this website and talk just about Final fantasy.

Another purpose of gaming is to let out the fighting spirit that is present in all of us and challenge other people. Something akin to gladiators 😀 . An example would be the clans formed by starcraft fans to challenge other clans.

The purpose of gaming is the same as movies/books, etc. It’s about entertainment and escapism (to me). Gaming just does it in a different way. One which involves blocks.

Originally posted by Duo
Gaming just does it in a different way. One which involves blocks.

Call me a internet idiot, but I don’t understand what do you mean by pushing it to the block?

"Push it the block" means that you control a person that "pushes" a "block" around the screen.

You mean as in tomb raider, using Lara to push a block out of the way like in the caves of viticamba, Just like that??

Okay……….:eye:

Originally posted by Zikan
Another purpose of gaming is to let out the fighting spirit that is present in all of us and challenge other people.

FIGHT SPIRIT! STRONG STYLE! BURNING! STERNESS! [insert silly Japanese wrestling slogan that makes no sense here]!

ROOOOOARING ERRRRRBOW!

Video games are either a way to waste time, have fun, or prove my superiority over my friends.

You mean as in tomb raider, using Lara to push a block out of the way like in the caves of viticamba, Just like that??

NO.

If Tomb Raider is the example that comes to mind for you, then you haven’t truly pushed it the block to win it the game. Play Soukoban or Puzzle’n Death(desu).

Sorry Rezo, But I haven’t seen those games in the store in my country. Maybe the censorship board doesn’t like those games or maybe the importers have never seen those games.

Damn! I wish I could at least see those games and find out what they are really about.

They’re about pushing blocks to win the game! Puzzle games.

Get some roms. Puzzle’n desu isn’t in print any more and it was for the super famicom. Soukoban is likely available as some form of freeware besides the various console releases. It came out in the US and possibly Europe as "Shove it!" on the megadrive. So if you know of a used game dealer you could likely snag it for a few bucks.

OH! you mean games like tetris! Those kind of games. Well I take those kind of games as stress relievers

heh tetris… young gamers will never understand.

😡 😡 😡

Hey! that was mean! I know I didn’t start playing until I was 8 years old but I have been trying to catch up! I do happen to read up on old games and follow up on new ones.

And Loki…… If you’re reading this, don’t think I’m A ANAL_RENTIVE Person just because of this. I just don’t like it when people make it an issue about the fact that I don’t game as hard as they do.

I’m not saying anything bad about you Zikan, but it is true that you will never understand what it was like to game in the days before pixels. You will never understand what it was like to play Mario Bros for the first time in the arcade with all of your friends surrounding you going "oooohhh". You will never understand the greatness of Wizardry, or A Bard’s Tale, or Zork, or Kings Quest.

That is all I meant when i say young gamers will never understand… they are experiencing everything secondhand.

OH! you mean games like tetris! Those kind of games. Well I take those kind of games as stress relievers

Neither game I mentioned is like tetris. Soukoban and Puzzle’n Desu involve actually solving puzzles and not seeing how many lines you can clear or how large of a chain you can create.

I’m not saying anything bad about you Zikan, but it is true that you will never understand what it was like to game in the days before pixels. You will never understand what it was like to play Mario Bros for the first time in the arcade with all of your friends surrounding you going "oooohhh". You will never understand the greatness of Wizardry, or A Bard’s Tale, or Zork, or Kings Quest.

People can enjoy text adventures now just as much as they could then. The experience is like reading and hasn’t been tainted by time for people that don’t mind it, whereas the graphic adventures and games like Wizardry may have been. Man, Wizardry. Apparently you were supposed to draw out physical maps yourself? I always sucked at those games because I refused to.

agreed rezo.

I found my old Gameboy. The first make. And a working copy of Tetris. I was seven years old all over again. Awesome, awesome stuff.

As for why I started gaming. At first it was something to do. Later on, it started to develop my imagination. I wrote stories, and I used Sonic and Mario as characters. I begun to refine my own writing style, develop it, work on it. Then I played RPGs and learnt more about storytelling. Now I can create my own characters that are reasonably realistic. I put that down to gaming.

There’s a Scholar article I wrote in which I spoke about this in more detail. Check the main page. It’s the one on Education.

It’s fun to game, but I only tend to play RPGs now, and the odd driving game in multi-player mode. It’s good fun.

Originally posted by Zikan
I just don’t like it when people make it an issue about the fact that I don’t game as hard as they do.

I dont think you should care if you dont game as hard as others. If you charted it on a graph, you would see that social interaction would increase, while video game playing would decrease.

Video games are good fun, but they can never replace social interactions.

Hmmmmmm………. Wwweeellllll, Meph, You are right. But then again I love to game, It’s just that my parents still keep a tight control over me, So I can’t go for gamoing thons. It’s pretty frustrating as I can’t keep up with my friends in their gaming records. I mean when I play with them, I get really trashed.

Then again, I have a better social life then them. Not that it is much of a social life but at least it is still better then them.

Part of is it entertainment, but it also nurtures my imagination and lets me escape from my otherwise mundane life.

STOP IT!

I just sent you a PM. You’d better check it.