Playing action video games may be bad for your brain

Re:Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – lo... by AnotXOR on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:18AM (#14969951)

Wondering this as well. Most games do use spacial memory although some shooters are pretty mindless and navigating requires very little thought or effort (think Diablo 3's more linear maps where it's see enemy, shoot, move forward, see enemy, shoot, move forward, etc).

It seems to me like games like Portal / Talos Principle / Amnesia would rely on spacial memory more than most games out there. Can anyone confirm or deny if this hypothesis is correct?

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Re:Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – lo... by zitterbewegung on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:22AM (#14970012)

Playing counter strike professionally requires spatial memory. Even regular competitive play does this. So does Titanfall.

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Re:Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – lo... by drngdds on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:27AM (#14970097)

Yeah. I would expect all competitive gaming to have a much heavier mental load than lower-level gaming.

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