ralphwiggum 6 Posted July 7, 2003 @ May 29 2003,17:34)]Games have improved my tactical knowhow immensely. In fact, I think I'm the only kid in my class who knows how to conduct a battalion-sized attack on a fixed position  Pfff - I was reading Clausewitz and von Moltke (the Elder) when I was ten. I could conduct CORPS sized attacks.  pfffftttt.. i was reading SunTzu and Rome-Carthage war at young age. I do it on INTERNATIONAL level i guess democratization of games makes more people accept games as part of life. in older days, being a kid with a game console meant you spend too much time playing and not play baseball outside. but now that gaming consoles are cheaper, more socialbe people are also in the pool? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ran 0 Posted July 8, 2003 @ May 29 2003,17:34)]Games have improved my tactical knowhow immensely. In fact, I think I'm the only kid in my class who knows how to conduct a battalion-sized attack on a fixed position  Pfff - I was reading Clausewitz and von Moltke (the Elder) when I was ten. I could conduct CORPS sized attacks.  pfffftttt.. i was reading SunTzu and Rome-Carthage war at young age. I do it on INTERNATIONAL level     heh , when i was 14 , my father offered me an old edition of one of the Sun Tzu's art of war translations , but it wasn't my favourite kind of reading -edit- wrong thread Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hellfish6 7 Posted July 8, 2003 @ May 29 2003,17:34)]Games have improved my tactical knowhow immensely. In fact, I think I'm the only kid in my class who knows how to conduct a battalion-sized attack on a fixed position  Pfff - I was reading Clausewitz and von Moltke (the Elder) when I was ten. I could conduct CORPS sized attacks.  pfffftttt.. i was reading SunTzu and Rome-Carthage war at young age. I do it on INTERNATIONAL level     i guess democratization of games makes more people accept games as part of life. in older days, being a kid with a game console meant you spend too much time playing and not play baseball outside. but now that gaming consoles are cheaper, more socialbe people are also in the pool? Well, the consoles are cheaper and people are finding they can't live without the internet (requiring computers - and let's face it, you can surf the net on a 100mhz 486, but everyone buys 3.2Ghz Pentium IVs for the games) but I think the big thing that is bringing gaming into the mainstream is multiplayer. You can sit down in your living room with three friends, drinking cheap cans of beer and listening to music playing HALO against each other. It's a lot less expensive than going out to a bar, you don't have to compete for the attention of the bartender, you don't have to yell to be heard, and you don't have to worry about driving home. That's entertainment! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tex -USMC- 0 Posted July 8, 2003 There are few things more fun in gaming than a multiplayer game of Halo. Trashtalking, yelling, killing, doesn't get much better than that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tovarish 0 Posted July 8, 2003 @ July 08 2003,00:35)]There are few things more fun in gaming than a multiplayer game of Halo. Trashtalking, yelling, killing, doesn't get much better than that. We hooked up an X-box to a projector in a lecture hall in college last semester and played HALO - 2 vs 2 CTF . I remember at one point we all were laughing so hard at the spectacle of one guy running with the flag, repeatedly dodging an oponent who was trying to run him over in one of those jeeps, that we just couldn't play for a few minutes. Good times Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FSPilot 0 Posted July 8, 2003 My friend and I used to waste time on HALO when I lived in New Jersey. Man that game is fun. We'd just go through all the maps and do one big deathmatch. Of course it always ended up jeep vs. jeep trying to ram each other Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hellfish6 7 Posted July 8, 2003 I think that's the first time FS and I have agreed on something. Â Â Â Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FSPilot 0 Posted July 8, 2003 Once again video games have proven their usefulness. Now if we could only teach women how attractive men look with 3d goggles and headphones on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
USSoldier11B 0 Posted July 8, 2003 I've played violent video games since they came into exisistence. There's nothing wrong with me... ::caresses HK:: Seriously, if parents would raise their children instead of leaving the job to Madonna and Axle Rose we wouldn't be having these problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tamme 0 Posted July 8, 2003 Exactly. Parents should make it clear to the kids that it's a game not real life. I've played games since I was.. what 5 yrs? I'm not sure, but the point is that I've played Doom since I was 6 or 7 and it's quite violent, and I've never even been in a fight. It's not the games that make kids shoot each other it's the bad parent's. Without Rainbow 6 I'd know nothing about guns. Without SWAT games I wouldn't know how to clear a room or a hallway. I would now nothing at all about WWII warfare without Combat Mission. (well I would a little, I read Commando) Â Games can teach you a lot of things. I haven't learnt my english in school but from games and TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FSPilot 0 Posted July 8, 2003 If it weren't for video games I wouldn't know the difference between a Mauser 98k and an Enfield. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
booradley60 0 Posted July 8, 2003 Videogames are the essence of my deepest fantasies. I can manipulate a world with the push of a button. Screw all that hard-labor crap of the so-called real world. With all the people and the noise and the sun... who needs it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harnu 0 Posted July 8, 2003 OFP and the forums taught me that if you're not American, you're a socialist communist bastard! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLight 0 Posted July 8, 2003 OFP and the forums taught me that if you're not American, you're a socialist communist bastard! Â Â Â Hooray!! ...Hold on!... I'm not american!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NurEinMensch 0 Posted July 8, 2003 OFP and the forums taught me that if you're not American, you're a socialist communist bastard! Â Â Â You take the bastard back ! ! ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallenPaladin 0 Posted July 9, 2003 I've played violent video games since they came into exisistence. There's nothing wrong with me...::caresses HK:: Seriously, if parents would raise their children instead of leaving the job to Madonna and Axle Rose we wouldn't be having these problems. Absolutely true. I played all those "terrible" shooters, too, and I still don`t like hurting people in real life. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallenPaladin 0 Posted July 9, 2003 OFP and the forums taught me that if you're not American, you're a socialist communist bastard! Â Â Â You take the bastard back ! ! ! Â Â Â Actually that expression would be socialist communist left-wing Euro bastard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
