Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W...
by c3534l on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:05PM
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Even something like Civilization can be expressive and educational. I mean, I also loved Mortal Kombat as a kid, before my parents figured out it was a game where you could punch a man so hard you could pull his beating heart out of his chest. But I also remember learning about ecology from SimEarth, and learning how to balance a budge from Theme Park.
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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W...
by bwang29 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:04PM
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I think combat games teach a lot about improvisation, especially if you're playing against another human, you'd have to adapt in realtime the pattern the other person is using and trying to develop a strategy to counter the other person's attack/defense. In recent combat games, the startup/cooldown time are so precise that pro players literally need to remember, compute and combine maths in their game plays in real time into combos.