I think games can and should teach us a lot of things.
My mother tongue is French and I pretty much learned English from watching Star Trek with my dad and playing video games (thanks A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time)!
Also, from playing JRPGs I learned some valuable lessons. Some games have a lot of heart to them, the Persona ones for example. I think the interaction with the different characters are so believable, I mean it can't be that different from real life!
From playing SHMUPs and other retro platformers (yeah, the ones with cheap deaths if you don't know what you're doing!), they helped me work my brains and memorize things and patterns and understand how and when to advance in certain situations. In real life, I compare it to when I'm doing a test and practicing before that test (and more).
Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...
