I didn't start gaming before I was 14 or so. Now I have a stable job that I love that pays very well and I play videogames regularly. Which is obviouisly because my childhood wasn't tainted by useless videogames so I had more time learning for school.
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| BraLoD said: As it helped you to learn to read, also it did to me, it helped me a lot on learning english. I was also always interested on numbers for some reason, since a little kid, and when I discovered RPGs it got me comoletely draw to it, both because of how important numbers are to those games and also because of the fantasy shock, being a curious kid it also helped a lot. Gaming was never an escape to me, it was a choice, I would choose gaming over a lot of other things, that's actually not a good point as I get easily addicted to it, when I find something interesting I usually do no moderation, as I kid my mother had to forcefully unplug my Master System because I wouldn't even remember to eat all day hahaha. Gaming can really open one mind, it's a bless for creativety, but also a very good place to experience a lot of things, emotions, feelings, thoughts. I'm all over for gaming, and will always be, gaming is a big part of my life and a pillar to a lot of stuff built on my character as an individual, and I can and do hold a lot of good memories and experiences I could never had anywhere else. It's also nice to have some fun xP |
like gaining an interesting personality?
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Gaming help me to learn English (and Japanese a little) and make me interested to technology.
A handheld gamer only (for now).
You never visited a school? You are so lucky believe me!!!
I've learned almost all my english with playing games, reading articles about games and talk with other english people about games.
Leisure suit Larry taught me about STDs and the importance of using a lubber.
Civilization taught me world history and never to trust other countries.
Everquest taught me to hate random people online.
Half-Life taught me to distrust any authority.
Carmageddon taught me how to drive.
Most of all games taught me violence is always the quickest solution. And that stealing is your right as a growing up gamer, copy everything, pay for nothing.
On a more serious note. It got me interested in programming. It taught me Basic by typing in listings for small games and altering them. Which led to making my own. Then I reverse engineered civ.exe and altered the run-time libraries to create many variations. Then Dune 2 got me interested in C to make a level editor with mouse controlled GUI, and so forth. So no surprise I ended up in software development.
The best thing that came out of it is that I met my wife on Everquest.
I learned Englisch basically through playing videogames.
Not only that, but games also helped me through hard moments in my life.Every time i was down because someone dissapointed me or made something to lose faith on him/her or in something i believed, the next game i played was always a game that spoke about the theme i was in conflict with, and always helped me get over it.
Not to mention gaming also bring me utter joy!
My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1
I almost always play English and American games in the original language, they help learning English and not forgetting what one learned, moreover, those with modern settings help learning jargon and commonly spoken, not just school English, while those with ancient settings help with some archaic words and forms not common, but still used in some contexts , like joking or refined ones or, like just said, to enhance immersion in ancient settings.
| Cloudman said: Gaming is likely why I got into drawing : ) I would draw Sonic a lot as a kid. |
Same here. I had TONS of sonic drawings and I actually still have them. That's when I learned a lot about colors and how to blend them. I might have to keep you in mind for a fan RPG Maker project that I'm doing. Really like your style.
Im from Ecuador and Gaming help me learning English, when i was in school every day and every year the classes were the same ( the colours, the days of the week, the months of the year, verbs... ) when i started playing games in my ps1 almost every game i had was in english so i played it with a dictionary next to me, thats how i learn english, i still have mistakes but without gaming i would not be writing this
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