Videogames for Me…

I am a person who is not really like playing videogames, and also not good at all playing any of them even the simplest one. For me, to figure out how to play a videogame and master those playing skills are pretty difficult, and I am also too lazy to do that. In my leisure time, I would prefer to lie down in my couch or bed to watch some movies and TV shows, or even only sit there staring blankly. Videogame, for me, is not attractive, and it is not a good choice for relaxing and entertaining. Besides, I do not have enough patience to replay and retry a game after each time’s death. Just as Kevin said in this week’s lecture that playing a videogame is not like watching a movie or a show that allow you to skip some parts and details of the story that you do not like; if you want to finish a game or acquire higher score in a game, then you have to play it step by step and level by level. This should be also one of the most important reasons why videogames can capture its players, since you, as players, are never allowed to easily and quickly see the end of the games. Videogames give you the feeling of challenges, the feeling of curiosity, and the feeling of accomplishment. In addition, one more reason why I am not interested in playing is the unreality and virtuality of videogames, no matter from the perspective of characters or from the perspective of story narration. As to characters, how they look, what they wear, and how they behave are different or even totally different from what we do in real life; as to the storylines, I just feel most of those stories are totally “fake”, which I mean those stories are totally not relevant to and based on our daily experience and life. Videogames do not provide me the feeling of reality and the feeling of immersive, since for me everything in the videogames, not only the characters and stories, but also the graphic, the color, the sound, the location, etc., are completely “fake”, but in movies and TV series I can find the sense of reality. However, the virtuality of videogames are also one of the reasons why lots of people love to play them, since it allow you to participate and do something that you cannot do in your real life, and also it does not really require you to be responsible for what you do in the virtual world.

However, I have to say that seldom playing videogames does have bad influence on my current social life, since I cannot join my friends’ conversations when they are talking about videogames; I have nothing to do when all of them are focusing on their own phone videogames during the dinner. Videogames, in current society, can be considered as a significant and even necessary social method or social tool that helps you to connect yourself with others.