Jason Kottke reports on Will Wright:
Notes from Will Wright’s keynote at SXSW 2007. "Movies have these wonderful things called actors, which are like emotional avatars, and you kinda feel what they’re feeling, it’s very effective. Films have a rich emotional palette because they have actors. Games often appeal to the reptilian brain – fear, action – but they have a different emotional palette. There are things you feel in games – like pride, accomplishment, guilt even! – that you’ll never feel in a movie."
#24 in a series of 50, and yes I do recommend you read the Wright speech, which deals with the human need for stories.
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I personally see gaming as more enriching than reading fiction or watching movies, at least you engage with the material and make decisions. Reading novels is so passive, it has more in common with its apparent arch-nemesis television than it does with cognitively demanding computer games. The usual argument for novels is that they ‘engage your imagination’, but why this is any different from daydreaming is beyond me. Of course some games are too easy and reward you for doing very little, but there are many complex and difficult ones out there.
Here is an interesting article: “Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.”
Final Fantasy XII for PS2 is very emotionally engaging, much like a movie, except you get to do stuff as well.
Now games will never undermine either reading or television, as humans seem to have an inbuilt need to passively absorb a good old tale, but they may get pretty close.
Yeah, in the extreme case, this is clearly not true. “Well, I was going to work my way through that book on mathematical modeling of evolutionary processes, but I decided I would improve my brain more by playing a lot of Doom instead.”
Books of various kinds activate different parts of your brain, right? A Jane Austen novel engages your people-modeling skills, forces you to keep track of somewhat complicated relationships (Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham had what relationship again? And how does this involve Darcy’s little sister?), and if you do it justice, makes you pay attention to the cool uses of language. But you don’t do much math, or get much exercise for your reflexes, or have to try to infer details of a complicated mathematical model that determines whether Joe Stalin will keep his peace treaty with you or not.
As a longtime video game player, and very infrequent reader, the reason why I hate those Final Fantasy type games is that they’re way too much like 80 hour bad soap operas in which you play a nearly freedomless part.
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