I hope you did lol.

A friend of me told me he won't buy GTA V because the graphics sucked and that the graphics of skyrim were much better. Then he continued playing minecraft. (This really happened)

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunatly the mainstream audience seems gaming as nothing more than Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto. What they haven't experienced is the Mass Effect trilogy's story or the relaxing playthrough of Journey.

Every time I despair about the public opinion of games, I remember how people viewed film in the 1930's and stuff like that. It takes generations for a new medium to be taken seriously, even under ideal circumstances.

When I try to explain why I love games, I explain how I view electronic games as the natural progression of various forms of art and entertainment, and how it is fascinating to observe a medium growing and changing visibly within the space of a single year. I compare current games to the black and white films of the early 20th century, and explain that even if there are a lot of bad games that waste time, that's only because the basic vocabulary is still in the process of being made.

Then, when they start to glaze over, I mention something about how video games are like movies "before Citizen Kane and stuff" and they suddenly get it.

Yes it takes time for people to adapt to new things.The videogames industry is still relatively new.More articles,surveys or tv shows should be a good step.There's barely any videogames dedicated show in tv.

I still don't really understand the appeal of videogames. I play videogames, but i don't get some reward or enjoyment out of playing them. I play them to waste time and nothing more. I pick the least difficult games and stop playing games when i get frusturated. If games were to not exist tomorrow i would not care.

When people tell me they enjoy games as a whole, i don't know what to think.

"It's like watching sports on TV but you actually have an impact on the outcome of the event."

That would be the shortest route to explain it: it's an involved, sometimes high-adrenaline, sometimes cautious and calculating, but wholly vicarious experience, except one that mandates user involvement.

Videogames offer an experience that doesn't really translate to any other medium.  Games are interactive in the way other forms aren't.  For those unfamiliar, it is hard to explain to them.  You can get an immersive experience, that is unique in it.  It will usually involve moving a character that isn't you, so it isn't like an escape fantasy either.

I am also curious why you think it is your duty to try to explain it to the world. 

Sometimes I feel like that also, but that usually just means I need a change of pace from whatever i've been playing. For instance, i've been playing RPGs or strategy games (or an SRPG) all year: Fire Emblem Awakening to Monster Hunter Tri U to KOTOR II to EarthBound to Pikmin 3 back to EarthBound, then i stopped to play some Super Smash Bros Brawl (focusing on getting the Challenges cleared instead of just screwing around in multiplayer), and it really felt like a breath of fresh air and reinvigorated my zest for playing such that i really want to play, instead of just feeling obligated to play (helps that i'm doing one of the "beat this challenge with all 39 characters" ones, so i feel like i have a lot of ground to cover)

There's still a general negative image about video games and gamers although most people equipped with smartphone or computer, which is also a majority of people in developed countries, play video games.

But at the time Cinema just started to go mainstream, cinema passionate were also called geeks, and still are.

I guess the image depends on the way you play and what you play.

I am myself a gamer, but for me a fat pork who mainly plays sports game or shooters is a couch potatoe, gamers who play fantasy or sim games online are virgin losers...

Videogames have become seriously uncool these past couple years.