I think we need to look at the long term effects of some other game types as one time players grow up and get to make more decisions on their own.
1. Do civilization type games lead to an overall more repressive and warlike population. This is not a silly question, as many of these games have conquering the world/space as a winning condition, wars are often profitable, indiviadual suffering is not shown, and idctatorial and repressive governments are often viable strategies for winning the game. These values could be having negative effects on children.
2. Do the games simcity and simearth lead to cavalier attitudes towards devestating natural disasters, given their ignorance of individual suffering, and the common practice of setting off diasasters because, in the lexicon of children, they are "cool to watch"?
3. Do medevil fantasy games lead to an increase in rick taking and dangerous behavior? games such as Diablo and Lords of magic often feature characters engaging in such behaviors, including, but not limited to, fighting with multiple opponents, entering dangerous terrain formations, and consorting with otherwise dangerous wild animals.
(In other words, I don't agree with the attack on computer games either. I wrote this with bigger words than I would if I actually thought all this, since a lot of "values" people talk that way.)
edit: added "viable stratgegies" to civilization paragraph.
1. Do civilization type games lead to an overall more repressive and warlike population. This is not a silly question, as many of these games have conquering the world/space as a winning condition, wars are often profitable, indiviadual suffering is not shown, and idctatorial and repressive governments are often viable strategies for winning the game. These values could be having negative effects on children.
2. Do the games simcity and simearth lead to cavalier attitudes towards devestating natural disasters, given their ignorance of individual suffering, and the common practice of setting off diasasters because, in the lexicon of children, they are "cool to watch"?
3. Do medevil fantasy games lead to an increase in rick taking and dangerous behavior? games such as Diablo and Lords of magic often feature characters engaging in such behaviors, including, but not limited to, fighting with multiple opponents, entering dangerous terrain formations, and consorting with otherwise dangerous wild animals.
(In other words, I don't agree with the attack on computer games either. I wrote this with bigger words than I would if I actually thought all this, since a lot of "values" people talk that way.)
edit: added "viable stratgegies" to civilization paragraph.
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