I'm diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and I'm definitely not the most socializable guy in places like school.
During elemntary school, even though I was extremely shy at first, video games was one way that I was able to easily talk to other kids without really worrying about these differnent sort of social factors, like how I look, or how I act. We would always talk about Pokemon, and whenever we were able to play our GBAs on certain occasions, it allowed us to talk about a hobby we like. We played a lot of Pokemon, and we were also able to bond over games that were completely new to us, such as Kirby and Fire Emblem.
A lot of the friends I made in elementary are pretty much gone now, as they pretty much moved to another country, or a completely different area in my state. I still have a friend in high school that I talk a lot to, and we like talking about games, such as Pokemon and Undertale. I still find it interesting that Pokemon, despite not really being a franchise I care for, still helped me to develop social relations, as it was still something a lot of people were interested in.
"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."
