snypershot wrote:Are video games a form of art? The University of Calgary seems to think so.
Ah funny you should bring that up, California doesn't think so anymore...
Currently California is in debate with the ESA, ongoing actually, about regulating title sales/rentals... The main issue at hand involves minors and M+ rated titles, then everything else happens afterwords... Of course gaming falls into the 1st Amendment of free speech, expression, etc., but California thinks gaming is in violation of it and should fall into a different category than "art" or what not...
I've only heard bits and pieces of this since it was pushed back into our minds, but with the Supreme Court trial coming November, inevitably the topic sprouted up again... I'm actually getting caught up with everything, so don't take my words as absolute just yet...
The ESA website is here if you want to follow the legal docs presented so far,
http://theesa.com/policy/scotus.asp, but simply put that if the Bill passes to regulate M rated games to minors, it will cause a flux in the gaming world...
How? Well instead of being reprimanded verbally or whatever, you could be convicted a felon because THAT is now illegal... So M rated games will be treated like cigarettes, alcohol, porn, etc., which is a hassle that some distributors don't want in their venues... Ironically, they'll have to conform some way if they want the games, that is, if the game companies produce them anymore... "Geez, you know what kind of badass you'll be when you tell your prison inmate that you're doing time for selling a M rated title to a minor? Very hardcore..." HA HA! Yeah you can say "Well check ID's more closely", but the risk for the venues is entirely different than personal conflicts...
But no worries, last time I was informed of this topic, a majority of the voting parties were against the ban, so there's a good chance this won't even be an issue... LOVE THE 1st AMENDMENT!!!
So my debate: None, California is run by a bunch of bigots... HA HA!
Plutonium wrote:@Lale: What lol.
Video Games test many things, like reaction times, multitasking, problem solving, how fast you can calculate things, and memorization.
Games that fit these categories:
FPS games (CS, CoD, Quake, etc), RTS games (Warcraft, Starcraft, and even Chess), games from Brain Age to the Zelda series, they all help us in ways that will benefit us in the future.
But all good things always come with negatives. But I won't speak the negatives, because I like playing games.
Recently some University here in the States conducted a test on it (isn't there always?) proving that... I think it was mainly with FPSs, testing an active gamer on reaction time, decision making, etc., as opposed to a non-gamer... I don't know how it was tested, but the gamer came out on top... HA HA!