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Wish they had looked at type of games. I would imagine something like call of duty and factorio don’t necessarily have same impact on brain
by Havoc 2y ago
Wish they had looked at type of games. I would imagine something like call of duty and factorio don’t necessarily have same impact on brain
- TheBigSalad 2y agoWhy do you think that?
- Filligree 2y agoBecause they’re… completely and utterly different in every way except for both involving photons?
- TheBigSalad 2y agoOh that makes sense. I assumed the comment was lumping those two games together and implying they wouldn't have a positive impact. My mistake. But they may! In both games you have to conceptualize the world around you. Both games are abstractions over real life problems. In both you need to create your own mental abstractions and think about the world around you in a simplified form and react. Obviously one is "fast thinking" and one is "slow thinking" but both skills are important. Even in games like CoD you do some slow thinking to devise a strategy for certain events you'll encounter. Then you need to quickly recognize those events and react in the way you planned on. A common thing in CoD is that two enemies might pop out, how do you deal with it? Maybe try to focus on the closer one first, or the one that seems more likely to have seen you. You need to think about how you'll handle situations in advance. It sounds simple but left to my own devices I tend to shoot in between the two of them (and then get killed). And there's 100 other situations like that. You encounter them, die, and think about how you could have handled it better.
- nottorp 2y agoI'd say CoD type games improve spatial awareness and hand eye coordination. While factorio improves what we commonly think of when we say IQ.
- briandear 2y agoCoD also requires strategy, planning (specifically configuring weapons and equipment based on mission parameters, as well as coordination abilities.) It’s a lot more than simply running and shooting.
- briandear 2y agoCall of duty is incredibly rich and complex. The various strategies, loadouts, various characteristics of the weapon configurations, the different maps. It’s a very complicated game that requires considerable reasoning and spatial awarensss skills. To be really good at it requires a depth of thinking. Just comparing the elevator pitch for CoD vs Factorio doesn’t really do it justice.
- mckirk 2y agoAnd don't forget the rich vocabulary you pick up over voice chat. ;)