VIDEO GAMES QUOTES II

quotations about video games

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As long as games are part of a thinking person's culturally balanced diet, I don't worry too much.

TOM BISSELL
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54% of gamers surveyed said video games provided better value for money than movies, music, and DVDs.

JAMIE MCKANE

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Ever since gun violence became "normal" in our society, video games have been pointed to as a reason to explain real-world murders. I'm not here to say what causes people to shoot each other down in the streets, but I know one thing: Video games are not the problem.

JAKE MAGEE

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Like any entertainment medium, there are a huge variety of genres in video games. Therefore, when working out what your next favorite game will be, you first need to decide what kind of genre you want to be playing. From high-octane first person shooters like Battlefield, to highly engaging historical strategy games like Civilization V, to even time-wasters such as Candy Crush Saga. Before anything else, it's important to work out what genre of game you want to be playing.

TECHAERIS

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There are types of narrative that video games are not as adept at telling as a medium such as film or literature -- narratives that benefit from having the author maintain direct control over the story at all times (an impossibility in a video game, where the player has active agency). And, there are a number of major video game releases where the fact that they were trying to too hard to be movies, or relying too heavily on cutscenes, is a valid criticism. But this is far from an absolute, particularly in a medium that, particularly through the indie scene, is growing and developing storytelling tools in leaps and bounds.

ROBERT B. MARKS

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I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?

JOEL SALATIN

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Video games keep getting more complex and visually appealing, so it's no wonder more people are drawn to them nowadays. But this new era of compelling digital entertainment could have a dark side for unemployed young men. It might sound like something an old man shouts from his rocking chair, but kids these days appear to be more interested in escapism than diving into the job market. A preliminary report from economists at Princeton, the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago, suggests a strong link between electronic leisure activities and unemployment rates for men in their 20s.

PATRICK ALLAN

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Video games are part of a trend in cultural history that started 20,000 years ago, as the number and types of symbolic codes external to the individual mind went from none to few to many. In a world in which devices for external memory storage have become increasingly important, video games socialize the minds of players to deal with the symbolic systems of the computer, society's latest form of external memory storage.

BARRIE GUNTER

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There have actually been interesting studies that 62 percent of executives at work play games online and they do it to feel more productive. That's because when you're trying to do real-world work it's frustrating; we don't see the results of our actions right away. So games give us that sense of blissful productivity.... Neurochemically we're kind of fired up ... to take on challenges.... Games take us immediately out of a state of paralysis or alienation or depression and they switch on the positive ways of thinking. They trigger the brain to a state in which it's possible to do good work.

JANE MCGONIGAL

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The combination of low culture and high technology is one of the most fascinating social features of the video game phenomenon. Computers were invented as super drones to do tasks no human in her or his right mind (much less left brain) would have the patience, or the perseverance, to manage.... Now our robot drones, the ones designed to take all the boring jobs, become the instrument for libidinal extravaganzas devoid of any socially productive component. Video games are computers neutered of purpose, liberated from functionality. The idea is intoxicating; like playing with the help on their night off.

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

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Just because several mass murderers liked violent games doesn't mean the games themselves caused the men to become violent. Isn't it more reasonable to conclude that mentally unstable men with the potential to kill would be more attracted to violent video games than the games brainwashed everyday dudes into becoming heartless killers? If a seemingly normal person went from playing a gory shooting game to killing people in real life without so much as batting an eye, I'm willing to wager mental illness played a much bigger role than harmless digital entertainment.

JAKE MAGEE

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Gamers have had enough of reality. They are abandoning it in droves--a few hours here, an entire weekend there, sometimes every spare minute of every day for stretches at a time--in favor of simulated environments and online games.

JANE MCGONIGAL

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Video games are no substitute for real world pleasures (marriage, the birth of a child, spiritual enlightenment, what have you), but they do provide a nice reprieve from real world woes.

BRETT WEISS

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Video games are better without stories. Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative?

IAN BOGOST

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon ...

TERRY PRATCHETT

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Now that I've worked on a few games, I've grappled with the degree to which games are not really a writer's medium. Film's not really a writer's medium, either. Good writing certainly doesn't hurt, but it's not the thing that saves the day.... Games are primarily about a connection between the player, the game world, and the central mechanic of the game. They're about creating a space for the player to engage with that mechanic and have the world react in a way that feels interesting and absorbing but also creates a sense of agency.

TOM BISSELL

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In a way, trying to impress people with design or personality or whatever works to promote movies doesn't work with games because it takes the focus off the player who is supposed to be the star. The more the player is the star, the better a game you have.

SID MEIER

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I think good game writing is a process of getting out of the player's way. You give him or her just enough to work with narratively, but ultimately you let the player tell his or her own story.

TOM BISSELL

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Basically, video games are a fun way to pass the time and feel good about yourself when you have too much free time forced into your life.

PATRICK ALLAN

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As animation develops and video games approach films in the quality of their images, it seems likely that video games will evolve into a new kind of adventure film in which game players become the lead actors and actresses.

ARTHUR ASA BERGER

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