Video games have allowed me to use my imagination just as much as books have. I have spent countless hours drawing, doodling and sketching my favorite characters from different games, writing stories about the before and after events of games, and dreaming of what could been in the game if I had done something different. Don't you dare tell me I don't have an imagination because I prefer acting out my story rather than reading it.
Have you even played a game? A set storyline, sidequests that don't even affect the game, and physics so bad they don't get an explanation.
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Not all games are like that, timebender. Maybe you've just been playing the wrong games. Some of them have amazing stories and graphics. That's like picking up Twilight and then saying all books are awful based on that one example.
I don't look at graphics or physics when I play. That's like not liking a book because it's printed on different paper or its not hard back. When I play a game I look at the story and it's characters. Some of the best games have the worst possible physics and graphics. When I say I would make a different decision I mean I as the character. What if it wasn't a set storyline, what if I could make up my own ending based on something different I did. Well I can imagine that, since I do have an imagination. Clearly you have never actually played a game.
Sorry, I didn't know
The Sims Series (Simcity included)
Minecraft
Every single game on the Atari
Mario Kart Wii
and a bunch of other games I don't know
have a set storyline, side quests, etc.
Banana, I never said all games were good and perfect. Also there are different types of games like there are different types of books. There are a bunch of books that don't have story lines as well.
My point was games can also create imagination. People HAVE to have an imagination to create things on Minecraft. People have probably designed their own race tracks from racing games and people have designed homes for their Sim characters. You can't tell me there is not imagination potential in video games.
Don't get me wrong, I never said books aren't a great source of imagination because they totally are, but games are also sources of imagination. Just look at all the mods for games like Skyrim, you can't make those without imagination, granted it might be based off something else.
They are different forms of imagination. Books you direct a movie in you head(Which I constantly do. Every time I read I have no memory of the book in front of me. I have the memory of a movie. Not even joking.). Games are more, interactive. You can watch it pan out in front of you're very eyes.
We're both right. And I'm slightly wrong(You have NO idea how hard that is to say.).
Assassins Creed (Single Player)
XCOM
Uncharted
The Last of Us
Driver San Francisco
Mass Effect
All story driven. Your idea of "surface" is just games popular among 13 yr olds (not that its an issue, its their genuine demographic). You haven't scratched the surface
Its not like you're at the tip of the iceberg, no, you're not even on the icebergs, you're looking at an iceberg through a fucking TV.
I don't play many multi player games (I do still play a couple), but most of my games are story driven.
Just Cause (Debatable)
Mad Max
Transformers
Ace Combat (all time favourite)
IL2 Sturmovik
Birds of Prey (Birds of War (not sure))
Metal Skies
Secret Weapons over Normandy
I bet you didn't even know half of those existed. I'm not usually too aggressive, but if you enforce your ides that books are better than video games, well then, fuck you.
I do both, play and read, and neither of them are superior. If you enforce the idea that games or books are better, fuck you.
I know I come across as strong, and you won't like me for it, but I've been told by almost everyone I know that books are better or whatever. And its stupid.
You can have your opinion, but don't try an impose it on other people with little research and little creditable evidence.
So, all y'alls main complaint about books is that they're story driven? Than in the way your deciding "story driven", Books are story driven too. They're just not visually driven. Now, i love both equally. Yet, when i read books, sometimes i can never pinpoint the facial features of any characters or places due to poor description
Skyrim
Oblivion
Minecraft
Terraria
And that's only the surface.
The Sims Series (Simcity included)
Minecraft
Every single game on the Atari
Mario Kart Wii
and a bunch of other games I don't know
have a set storyline, side quests, etc.
We're both right. And I'm slightly wrong(You have NO idea how hard that is to say.).
XCOM
Uncharted
The Last of Us
Driver San Francisco
Mass Effect
All story driven. Your idea of "surface" is just games popular among 13 yr olds (not that its an issue, its their genuine demographic). You haven't scratched the surface
Its not like you're at the tip of the iceberg, no, you're not even on the icebergs, you're looking at an iceberg through a fucking TV.
I don't play many multi player games (I do still play a couple), but most of my games are story driven.
Just Cause (Debatable)
Mad Max
Transformers
Ace Combat (all time favourite)
IL2 Sturmovik
Birds of Prey (Birds of War (not sure))
Metal Skies
Secret Weapons over Normandy
I bet you didn't even know half of those existed. I'm not usually too aggressive, but if you enforce your ides that books are better than video games, well then, fuck you.
I do both, play and read, and neither of them are superior. If you enforce the idea that games or books are better, fuck you.
You can have your opinion, but don't try an impose it on other people with little research and little creditable evidence.
You're an asshole.
Sincerely, spacedino.
Thank you for noticing! I try.
Sincerely, Time