Let's face it, most video games are intended to be little more than amusing distractions from life. Pure escapism designed to hook you and buy the next game. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, as they bring a lot of pleasure and allow us to have experiences that we would otherwise never have (exploring space, fighting a dinosaur, living in feudal Japan, killing nazis in WW2, surviving a zombie apocalypse, being a blue hedgehog that can run 200 mph, playing for your favorite sports team, being a cowboy in the wild west, etc). I think it was Shigeru Miyamoto who expressed (paraphrasing) that the human mind needs moments of recreation/play to be healthy, which makes sense.
But are there also games that have made a profound, lasting impact on your life? Challenged you intellectually, changed the way you look at the world for the better, have cultural value and/or give you an emotional experience rivaling music and film? Taught you insightful things about life the way your favorite books and plays might have? Etc. If so, what are they and/or what impact did they have on you specifically?
But are there also games that have made a profound, lasting impact on your life? Challenged you intellectually, changed the way you look at the world for the better, have cultural value and/or give you an emotional experience rivaling music and film? Taught you insightful things about life the way your favorite books and plays might have? Etc. If so, what are they and/or what impact did they have on you specifically?