Persuasive Essay On Video Games

Individuals relax in many ways, but playing sports as well as playing video games are two of the most popular ways people spend their relaxation time doing. People assume that playing sports is healthier than playing video games, yet some studies have shown that playing video games is healthier.

Do you remember the first time you played a video game? Was it Super Mario Brothers, Call of Duty, or Minesweeper? How about the time your parents told you that video games will rot your brain? Well forget all that, this paper is going to tell you the benefits of playing video games. My claim is that video games can help you with leadership skills, problem solving, education, and cognitive function.

Often through the course of history new inventions drastically change elements of society. The printing press allowed the mass production of books, leading to more education for many people. Today’s world is rapidly changing, and new technology is being invented frequently. Video games should be used in school to promote teamwork as well as teach new skills and material to the student. Additionally, video games could become an invaluable tool for teachers and educators to assess the learning style of a student, and therefore better prepare them to help that student learn. As Andy Serkis put it “Every age has its storytelling form, and video

In life, you learn that certain things just don’t mix: Diet Coke and Mentos, cereal and water, drugs and good grades, and picnic tables and dancing, just to name a few. That last example might seem a little bizarre to you, but to me it hits very close to home. Throughout my childhood, we had this picnic table that sat on our back patio. We would have tea parties on it or use it as a place to color or do homework. Sounds pretty fun, right? Sure, as long as you were using it the way it was intended to be used. Throw in my sister and her aspiring dreams to be a dancer, and suddenly our story gets a little messy. So grab a snack, sit back, and listen to the story of how my sister drove me to start taking drugs.

Growing up as a gamer, I have experienced many new things in the video game industry. I’ve been playing video games since the Sega-genisis that I started playing when I was three years old. I’ve been gaming almost my whole life, I have watched new console been introduced, seen video games go from 1080p to now an amazing 4K which makes the graphics look amazing. Modern video games even have virtual reality that you as a consumer can now play in your own living room. But, even though we have amazing things in video games the modern gamer is being introducing to a new problem. The problem I am addressing of coarse is micro transactions in video games. Modern game companies are charging you $60.00 dollars for a video game. Once you purchase this said video game you have to grind countless hours in order to obtain specific items that will enhance your abilities in this virtue world, or you can turn your real life currency into this video game currency in order to potentially get these items early on. This concept is called pay to win. The definition of pay to win as stated in wikipedia “is In some multiplayer video games, players who are willing to pay for special items or downloadable content may be able to gain a significant advantage over those playing for free.” Though I believe companies should be allowed to do this in free video game, I think it is wrong to charge someone $60.00 and afterwords try to make them buy guns in order to enhance their gameplay.

Kids in schools often struggle with learning invaluable life skills. Life skills that are supposed to carry kids throughout the rest of their lives. The solution to this problem may be easier than we initially thought. What if we could teach these skills through video games? In Pamela Paul’s “Reading, Writing and Video Games”, Paul argues that video games are ineffective in the classroom and serve more as a hindrance rather than an asset. Classrooms should take advantage of the technological advances like video games that have the ability to positively teach young minds life skills.

Playing games has been proven to improve hand eye coordination , make learning history and science more fun, make new social connections, quicker decision making and teaches patience. On the negative side of playing video games there's a risk of addiction, pathological gaming (a social disorder), depression, anxiety, and, relationships issues . Pathological gamers recorded more time playing video games and seemed to have impulsive behavior and were more likely to be less social compared to people who were not playing video games and pathological gaming isn't something that people can not just outgrow of and forget about. Some people have been playing a variety of games including those in " open world" which means a player can move freely through a virtual world and is given freedom or "multi-player" games on XBOX or PlayStation which have a more linear structure to their gameplay . Video games have been around since the 1970's starting with Atari ,then Sony Playstation in 1994,and XBOX in 2001. In the earlier years the developer was the boss of the whole game and no more than a couple of testers were required. As games became more complex more publishers would hire more quality assessment staff for testing various games from different random developers. Now most game developers rely on their high technical game testers to fix glitches and bugs in the game. As time goes on the systems have just gotten more advanced with different controllers and better graphics. Computer size has shrunk and speed has increased exponentially . Virtual Reality which have 3-D headsets are also the new craze and knowing how they all work takes skill and learning. The number of positions in the gaming industry is probably going to grow faster than ever .Since 2014 according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) computer and video sales were around $ 7 billion up to the current $60

One of the biggest factors that video games have impacted is peoples health. Video games have good and bad factors to peoples health. For example some problems that video games have impacted are obesity, aggressive behavior and cognition, sleep deprivation and many others. They have also impacted the problem of addiction. One would figure out after researching this subject that just being a male gender increases addiction of video games. Video games can also be a healthy and therapeutic. Games also change how people think and how peoples brain works. They have enhanced peoples visual skills and actually make it easier to create new sensorimotor skills. Peoples thought process have also been impacted because of video games. People that play action video games are proven to have faster decision making but as accurate as people that do not play video games. Video game players interpret the world differently than non video game players. Nolan Bushnell once stated, “Video games foster the mindset that allows creativity to grow” (Colzato). This quote is stating that video games promote creativity and help humanity grow and become more creative in our world. We need creative people in our world to build buildings, become art teachers, and many more jobs. One might be surprised to learn that after researching this subject on how dramatically video games impacted the human

Video games get a bad name for themselves because some people will spend hours in front of a screen working towards a virtual goal. They are blamed way too often for making kids violent and giving them an unrealistic view of the real world. Video games such as Atari’s Pong and Tomohiro Nishikado’s Space Invaders only had one objective (Welch). Now there are games like Fallout 3 and Assassin 's Creed where there are many objectives, puzzles, and achievable items. When video games were first made they were seen as mindless entertainment for young and even middle-aged people. Now, there are games that give you entertainment, but also educate you in a fun and creative way. Video games should be played more because there are many lessons and educative tools used to help people learn and think while playing and also having fun. According to an article published by the private University of Rochester, cognitive scientists did a study on fast-paced games like Call of Duty and Battlefield, and they help players be able to think on the move and multitask. They also help students in classrooms by giving them the ability to have a better understanding of core materials and take tests easier. The human brain learns easier and retains information better when it is excited or entertained while learning. Video games such as the Assassin’s Creed Series can help someone learn about history and solve puzzles while enjoying every

Games are becoming more advanced and realistic every year, however, the violence in them are becoming more of a concern to parents because of the increasingly frequent emphasis on killing opponents in graphically gruesome ways. As time goes by games get more and more realistic and more violent. Parents think that today gaming just have killing and bad language. Children should be able to play video games cause its not just a negative effect on young people but positive to.

Many young children and teenagers have heard their mother’s incessant plead to get away from the screen and to go outside or pick up a book for once instead. The urge to play “just one more level” before starting that homework or doing those chores can be quite distracting. But are video games really as awful as Mom exclaims or as brutal as those TV ads depict? It turns out that video games can have a strong impact on participants’ lives in both positive as well as negative ways.

“I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a videogame where you help the people who were shot in all other games. It’d be called Really Busy Hospital.”-Demitri Martin. Role playing games have been a source of fun and entertainment for children and adults. There are more safe and calm games such as Just Dance, and there are more Perilous games such as Call of Duty. Role playing games such as killer are perilous for school age children putting them in danger, teaching violence, and teaching reckless behavior.

“The reason why people find it so enjoyable is that games are usually the right degree of challenging and the player takes an active role (unlike watching television) so there is an incentive to achieve” (Gee). Ever since video games were invented there was an immediate attachment and an unwillingness to release them. They present chances to accomplish things one may not be able to do in their life, and provides an escape from reality. Video games also imprint and teach new skills to the gamers who play repeatedly; these skills are very useful in later life and can be applied to nearly every situation in life. However, there are those who have differing opinions and, unfortunately, society and media have constantly berated video games, always painting them in a negative light, brainwashing people to believe that video gaming only harms them...this is incorrect, as video games are neither good nor bad and possess positives and negatives to them.

Gaming is on the rise and it is easy to fathom that the use of gaming in education is also increasing. Thus, educational gaming is listed as one of the “10 Major Technology Trends in Education” (Riedel, 2014). One reason gaming is increasing so rapidly is because “the very notion of what a game is has broadened to include a variety of experiences” (Jayanth, 2014). Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of Entertainment Software Association which conducts consumer research and analysis said, “Video games are the future. From education and business, to art and entertainment, our industry brings together the most innovative and creative minds to create the most engaging, immersive and breathtaking experiences we’ve ever seen” (Entertainment Software Association, 2016). We as teachers seek to engage our students. If video games and gaming can better involve our students in the lesson, it is my belief that we should absolutely use it in our classroom.

Video games have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years. They are already a 91 billion dollar industry and they’re not slowing down anytime soon. Kids, teenagers and even adults are spending couple of hours every week just playing video games. Though video games have been criticized for being mindless entertainment with no educational value, I disagree. They can be as effective or even more so than the traditional teaching methods we use to teach right now.