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Kiss_my_AS
Toucan
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| I used to be heavily addicted (especially in the NES/SNES/Sega era), but now I only like portable consoles. And only sport-related games too, the joy of rpg and shooter games totally escapes me. |
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Fiat_Lux
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Joined: Dec 10, 2005
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Location: Singularity
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| spacemonkey wrote: | I am quite interested in the future of gaming.
Neuro/biofeedback, virtual reality etc. There is so much potential. |
I’ve just read an article concerning an on-line gaming fanatic who died after an uninterrupted 3-day session of playing ‘World of Warcraft’. Apparently, these Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Games (MMORPG) can involve many gamers and last for days. Each gamer gets so involved with their characters and the virtual world that they are gaming in, that some have difficulty distinguishing the world of the game from real life. One gamer was quoted as saying that MMORPG gave them:
“…a sense of achievement.... The results of your playtime will still be visible in months/years time…”
The article concluded by saying that games are not the problem; rather, the gamers real world alternatives to the games are so poor. I’ve never been into video games myself (pinball was my game of choice in my youth), and I wondered whether any WP members had been so into games that they preferred the game environment to reality. |
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