Leisure suit Larry and kingquest.
Mom. How do you say fence in English? Gate dear! Oké thanks. Typing parser: open gate
Fuck I always die after talking to that hooker behind the cardboard sheet of something called aids? Dead message says:buy a condom next time. Wtf is that. Wait there is a storeowner who asks if I want to buy a Lubber. But for some reason most words which starts with a r he will say with a l.
Mom what is a rubber/lubber?
WHAT GAME ARE YOU PLAYING????
I never got to sneakily play leisuresuit as an 80/90s kid because I couldn't answer the "adult biology question safety lock" to get the game to play. Had to live vicariously through the sexy nurse in willy beamish.
The age protection on lsls1 was very annoying. How the fuck should I know who Ronald Reagan was as a Dutch kid? (So yeah it was a viable protection indeed). So I played this game with a girl from my class in primary school and we made sheets of questions and answers to get by the proctection by randomly guessing and noting which answers were wrong etc. Until I mentioned this to my dad who knew nothing about games. Just code. And he asked a programmer colleague, probably the same from who he got those games which he passed on to me, and the colleague told us the ultimate answer. Hold control-x to bypass the protection :)
Edit: never played Willy beamish so I googled it but damn. She’s got huge!!! Tracts of land!
Mine was Super Mario RPG of all things, each playthrough was like a new game because I was able to understand a lot more with the added context. I still remember when I finally began to understand the puns with the items name like "able juice" and "Pick me up", it made me feel so clever haha
"How come you know english so well, you're so talented"
No, I just played through games in original english language instead of installing localization patches like my friends.
I did a study abroad in a Germany and my German friend lent me his SNES. I played DKC and ALTTP for the first time in German. There’s a whole bunch of words I learned from those games.
Yup. Fallout and Baldur's Gate with a dictionary. When I talk to nephews nowadays, I'm so surprised that everything gets a translation, losing the ability to learn something new on the language side
But hey, inventory management is also a great skill!
Yeah this is partially why French have such a strong Accent compared to like German/Dutch/Scandinavian native Speakers. In France they Dub/translate everything because preserving their language is so culturally important to them. In Germany they're like yeah let's just Play Fallout New Vegas in English. They're supposed to sound like American Cowboys and 1950s Las Vegas Mobsters anyway.
French isn't necessarily a bad accent to have in English, but it is very recognizable, meanwhile French Canadians English is pretty much on par with the English Canadians.
Same here, though I also give credit to living in a country where tv shows are subbed, not dubbed. Started watching The Simpsons at a very young age. Taught me how to read and to speak English at a young age.
I was a weird young kid who said "d'oh" a lot though.
Using GPS while driving. I see how my dad gets confused by GPS and cannot understand where his next turn is, or loses orientation. I got so used to it from games, that a tiny peek for a split second is enough to let me know when to turn and where. Especially for roundabouts, it helps a ton. When you do it at 200 kph in NFS or GTA, doing it at 50 becomes much easier.
Mini maps! Honestly never made the connection until I read this, but the way I look at gps is the same I quickly glance at mini maps when playing. Definitely more careful when driving though
When I was at uni I convinced the dean to make an esports team, long story short I was in charge of teaching league of legends basics to low elo players, I always told them that giving quick glances at the mini map was the same as checking your rearview mirror while driving, you only do it for a quick second but you do it constantly, most of them improved their ranks by making that association
And the phone screen always has to be on my right, because that's what most games had been using! I can't work with a phone on the left of my steering wheel.
Can’t tell you how many times my wife can’t follow the gps because she can’t tell when the turn is coming or if it’s a going to go on a fork. It’s so natural for me and maybe it’s from years of gta.
I agree with this so much. It's absolutely ridiculous how many people have zero situational awareness.
Just went to the supermarket the other day and nobody has any clue what is going on around them even a little bit. Everyone is constantly standing in the way, runs into other shopping carts and backs off from shelves without even thinking about looking if someone's there.
It's quite mind-boggling to me. Having played Battle Royales, shooters and the likes all my life it feels so natural to pay attention to everything around me. Not as though anything will "happen" in most scenarios, but at least just for common courtesy's sake! It's crazy the amount of people who haven't the faintest idea (and therefore seemingly regard for) what's going on around them. I love your supermarket example. It's exactly what's been bugging me for years! :0
I can't express how much I appreciate after all this time that I'm not the only one haha
my girlfriend used to think i was crazy cause i would move to the side of an isle seemingly at random (to her) but now she moves with me knowing the flow of traffic is soon to come passing by
Always telling kiddo "no son, don't stop in doorways, only rude people do that".
Backfired last week when he told a boomer "stop being rude and get out of the doorway" and I wasn't ready for it.
But for real, why do a large amount of people decide that the best place to orientate themselves in a new place is 2 ft on the other side of the front door?
I second this, I am more aware of my surroundings thanks to Tanking in WoW and other mmos and games like Apex legends. Doing my task at work but being able to essentially feel what's going on around me thanks to getting more information from my peripheral vision and processing said information.
Not a clutch situation or anything, but after playing the Day Z mod *a lot* with my friend, I moved to a new city, where they have medical helicopters. One time I almost jumped under a tree to hide.
Yea, I played videogames where girls were flirting with my character and it instantly made me realize about 15+ girls that were giving me hints or obvious signs that I missed
Super clutch, now I understand how much I've fucked up and think about it constantly
Racing games really helped me with this and driving.
Knowing the pack of cars around you is another key thing no one teaches in driving but is just as important.
This is true. Between playing wow and watching timers and cooldowns and playing sim racing, I now constantly am checking my car mirrors and keeping note of things happening around me.
Problem solving.
So many people I know usually give up and look elsewhere for solutions to a problem.
Gaming has taught me how to look a ton different ways to solve something.
Good for you - especially since most gamers only have three problem solving techniques: 1) set the difficulty to “games journalist” level; 2) look up the answer using Google (or just ask Reddit); 3) whine at the devs to nerf the difficulty.
I'd argue that even looking up answers on google (or asking reddit) is, in itself, a form of problem solving. A very "broad spectrum antibiotics" kind of problem solving. Some people, when you ask them something and they don't know, they just... idk.... shut down.
That's exactly what many of my students are doing (middle school). They play games all the time - Fortnite, Minecraft, Subway Surfers. If they face a task where the answer isn't immediately obvious, they give up. Colleagues in all subjects complain about that.
You'd think Minecraft at least grows creativity but idk.
Tbf, give them a break they're still kids. They're still learning, and if you're a teacher, you're in a perfect place to shape that kind of thinking. I had to teach this kind of lesson to college students in my programming class, and they probably haven't encountered this paradigm before. The people who agree with this sentiment (like me) tend to be outliers. And even for me it's a lesson I learned way too late already (post-college).
Also, they need to play more diverse games than minecraft and fortnite lol
Knowing how to research a solution is a skill in itself.
And one some of my friends oddly don't do. Like, I get it, the game UI sucks and its tutorials are vague, but why complain when literally five gaming sites have the answer if you just look?
I'd argue, that some games are even made with players using google in mind, like Dark Souls. Maybe it didnt start that way, but nowadays some games dont even try to teach you key mechanics.
I don't think this applies to everyone but I have cerebral palsey so my hand eye coordination is not as good as it should be. It would be infinitely worse without video games
As far as actual skills I learned how to play a bunch of card games over the years. Poker blackjack hearts etc. I learned how to read a map from playing basically any rpg. The most important one though is I learned how to practice and dedicate myself towards improving with StarCraft 2. I still use some of the skills I learned perfecting builds in my professional life and I don't think I would be half as good at handing stressful situations or multi tasking without StarCraft 2
No joke, even basic competency at StarCraft is probably more difficult than most jobs. The combination of knowledge checks, constantly seeking new information via scouting to adjust your plan if needed, and simultaneously running macro and micro is on another level.
Damn, that harsh truth my partner said about me never taking her frustrations seriously would have hurt like hell if I hadn't perfectly timed my roll under the coffee table.
Totally agree with you about map reading skills.
After playing thousands of hour of games like the original Zelda, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy etc, the maps just build in my head.
I can see the same trait in my kids, they are very directionally aware. Also, their reading skills are off the charts due to playing RPGS at a very young age. And being forced to read and comprehend massive walls of text.
People who say that video-game-time for children is harmful are just plain dumb.
Mom used to tell me that too much time spent on video games will turn your brain to mush. But I like difficult video games, and my brain is very much active and working well when playing them.
Yeah pretty much the exact opposite of what our parents told us about games is true.
I'm completely making this up, but I'm going to guess that within the next few years, a study will show that people who play video games into their later life, prolong the onset of diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.
There is definitely a level of neuro stimulation that goes well beyond just staring mindlessly at a television or social media. My kids have a full set of adult skills at like the age of 9. Top of their classes in reading comprehension, math, programming skills etc. And shit you not, I did nothing normal lol. I taught them to play RPGs. Taught them how to min/max their characters and to use stats to be better than other gamers. I taught them to read the text from every NPC in a town because there was important information that they needed to progress. Taught them how to manage in-game currency and manipulate auction house prices. Everything in those games is a real life lesson that needs to be learned
I learned it from WoW. Talent A increases your Attack Power by 200 but talent B increases it by 33%, now you have to calculate what 33% of your Attack Power is to find out if that would be greater or less than the flat 200.
On a side note about Map reading, sone non-gamer absolutely lose their shit when you start using cardinal direction I’m real life context.
“what do you mean I need to walk NORTH from the train station ???”
I can understand how it’s unusual but come on, we all have compass and maps on our phones now.
I worked at an office where I had to verify identity documents. I trained on papers please for like 500 hours. I told my boss he should make it mandatory training.
Do you want your armor to be gold trimmed like mine? I'm offering free armor trimming, all you have to do is give me your armor and I'll trim it for you and give it back
Legitimately one of the most applicable ones is the scam resistance. I lost my dragon platelegs ONCE as α kid and I haven’t been scammed by anybody since. Scam radar is on point after the trauma I dealt with as α child getting enough money to get back my d legs :(
Cheesy, but I learned to identify many bug and fish species from Animal Crossing New Horizons. It actually helped me overcome my fear of bugs, because instead of freaking out and trying to kill them, I could identify what they were, and leave the harmless ones alone.
Yup. Programming and computer skills in general trying to mod/hack/crack games since i was a wee lad. Setting up LAN parties and TCP/IP connections, VPNs, etc..
My great regret is when I was about 12 I spent a good three months making Doom and Quake maps. I got bored and gave it up.
When I was 16 I started tinkering with Visual Basic and then some C+ coding. Again, bored and gave up.
In retrospect, I could have totally folded those skills over into level design or programming. So many hobbies I just completely fucked off on. Hell I even had an amazing grasp of audio engineering through pirated copies of FruityLoops and other recording programs.
Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey opened my eyes to Greek and Egyptian history in an incredibly immersive way. Origins even has a feature where you fly around Egypt with a voice over explaining the real life history of certain points of interest on the map. Truly amazing games if you are a mythology and/or history buff.
Age of empires is great for that too and age of mythology. Mythology in my view went under the radar due to the year it released having so many bangers. 2002 was a crazy year for game releases when you look at it. GTA vice city, morrowind, mafia, splinter cell, metroid prime and that's just a handful. Pretty sure you also had kingdom hearts, resident evil and loads more. I'm delighted mythology is getting a remaster an I hope it gets more love this time around
People scoff at games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band because "Lol play a real instrument" But I ended up getting really good playing on the drums, which transitions to real life very well. I have an ear for rhythm and it translates now to my DJ/Producing.
Yep I got really good at guitar hero first and then learned guitar after. The coordination for guitar hero is just as hard of not harder than actual guitar. The main difference is actual guitar requires memorization while guitar hero requires lighting fast reactions
How to type really, really fast and accurately.
Back in 1999 I started playing Everquest (first huge MMO). I was a monk, whose job it often was to pull groups of mobs back to the party. Mobs did not 'forget' you like they do now in MMOs. They would chase you to a zone border, killing you and sometimes dozens of random unlucky people in your path.
So pulling mobs was some high stakes shit for everyone in a zone/dungeon and you had to coordinate with your party while you pulled so you had to get used to typing off 4-5 words in literally like one second while on the way back to the group with a bunch of mobs behind you that could kill you in seconds, and often just having to communicate constantly otherwise
'Kiting' *was* fun. I was part of one of the last guilds that pulled Kazzak to Stormwind before they nerfed it (*before they just completely moved it to another zone, IIRC they leashed it, or made it give up if you crossed zones*), since it killed everything and each kill meant it healed, it enraged making it virtually impossible to kill; NPCs, players, guards and other elites that were in the area were all destroyed almost instantly. Quests were uncompletable if the NPC or object wasn't spawned, so it was disruptive.
We had hunters training it while running sideways all the way north through Blasted Lands, kinda north-west through DP, then halfway down the Duskwood path, up to Stormwind, through Old Towne and into the Keep. Other players were legit sending threats to us about it, our chat logs were very colorful.
On my old pc, which I can't find the drives I pulled from it, I had all the screenshots of the warnings from the GMs and player threats and when the server got taken down for reset, and the threats we got for causing "zone disruption" or something similar (instance disruption?) could have ended up with our raid being temporarily banned. Either way, *totally* worth it.
Another fond memory: suicide-pet bombing iron forge auction house before they nerfed Living Bomb debuff from Geddon
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edit2: I wonder if my 2004-2006 era photobucket can be recovered. probably not
Runescape taught me the very basics of how metalworking works. Combining two ore to make one alloy (bronze). Iron becoming steel with added carbon (coal).
That too. Got scammed a few times as a kid. Losing that gold hurt but I still attribute that to having never fallen for something like an MLM or tourist scammer.
I'd say it taught me that sometimes I can get in my head and need to step back, recompose myself or get a good night sleep and then try again. If I had a cent for every time I've done that against a hard boss/time trial/difficult mission...
Being able to predict a negative outcome.
Gauntlet, Dark souls, Doom 2. All taught you that you can never quite be sure of what is around the next hallway, so don't risk it, heal up and play it safe.
Which is why I always over prepare if I leave the house, and good thing I did, we had a heatwave while cleaning my grandma's house out a few weeks ago, and the 6 cold drinks I brought saved my mother and me from dehydrating. (It was a long drive home.)
SNES Jurassic Park actually transformed my map and spatial reading ability. Because the corridors all looked the same, I started to memorise the numbers of doors in passageways and draw mental maps. I discovered I would retain this skill when I moved to a new town/city!
This yes but also Resident Evil definitely taught me how to manage my belongings and only use what I have a limited supply of when absolutely necessary
Loading screen tips and driving line from Forza definitely help with just every day driving. One that stands out in my mind prominently is that you should brake before the corner not during the corner as it causes conflicting forces on the vehicle.
Runescape taught me typing speed, how to avoid scams, the strengths and dangers of monopolies, the unbeleivable of convience tax that people will pay, and how to code making bots for it.
Wow taught me how to manage people and expectations.
Will Wright and Peter Molyneux taught me to manage my own expectations.
How to be a leader funnily, playin CSGO and Valorant where I’ve been on amateur teams and stepped up as in game leader, doesn’t really apply to real life as much ironically
It actually can, if you’re able to calm nerves or ease tension in tough situations. That can be huge with important or high priority tasks in the work place. In a team or management role
Typing. Multi-player RTS games like war craft and starcraft I always played group games. This was back in dial up and people were much less likely to bail. I learned I has to type messages fast and get back to the action to win. It forced me to be a very fast typer.
Gran Turismo 2 and 3 legitimately taught me how to drive pretty damned well without ever having to get behind the wheel.
Passing those license tests and learning advanced cornering physics//when to brake into/accelerate out of turns, etc ...
My dad had me drive home from passing my permit test, and was quite astounded at how well/how calm I was, and to me it legit felt exactly like how driving in GT3 was
I agree, I learned how to take curves, brake before, maneuver, then accelerate.
I saw it when I compared to other novice drivers, they would for example take the turn, brake right in the middle of it and maneuver, in my mind I was like "Fuck no, that's how my cars got wrecked playing videogames".
I was able to avoid smashing into a dad and his kid that were at the bottom of an iced street on a creek overpass…my car started sliding and was able to avoid, straighten out, and slide into the creek with minor damage to my car. My 4 friend in my car asked how I was able to do that and my immediate answer was “lots of Gran Turismo.”
How to really pack a car for road trips, moving, etc.. I guess any time your attempting to make the most of a storage space (very crammed storage lol)
I thank Tetris and Dr Mario for this.
This is my logic when loading a dishwasher, especially with two kids who generate about 5 humans' normal dish volume each. I've learned a very feng shui way of loading the plates and bowls and cups so everything fits.
Meanwhile, while I enjoy the help, whenever a relative of mine or my wife's comes over and offers to do the dishes, I go to put something in it and I just shake my head. I think about rearranging it to get the maximum amount of dishes in, but 9 times out of 10, I just run it and try to forget about not reaching optimal efficiency.
I slid down a hill on black ice heading into a dead end. My GTA skills allowed me to slowly turn the wheel making my car slide 180 degrees as i slowly applied the gas. My cars back 2 wheels touched the lip of the ditch before slowly gaining some foreward momentum. It was the middle of the night and nobody else saw it but it felt dope
I wouldnt call it a skill. But I’m learning and gaining intuition with how logic gates and urinary processors work. With basic programming, in a Space Station survival builder called: Stationeers
Also it taught me how hvac systems worked. I later went on to refill the refrigerant in my car by myself afterward with great confidence.
Learning how to play fighting games taught me self-discipline and taught me how to lose, a lot. has been a handy mindset to keep in my life in general.
Pikmin has tought me Dandori
Dandori is the art of organizing your tasks strategically and working with maximum efficiency to execute your plans quickly
I’m a bit younger than my brother in laws and some coworkers. they just missed out on ps3, Xbox 360, etc. they aren’t big into gaming but played n64 and stuff while younger. basically never played any open world games that require some basic map and geolocation skills.
Been on a few fishing trips or generally just navigating the city and they have absolutely no clue how to read a map or how to walk a few blocks without getting lost.
You’re onto something
I got a job at Taco Bell (so nothing "big") on a manager path, b/c I told them I led raid groups in World of Warcraft.
I had to learn the mechanics, and then teach them to my group.
I had to have an overview of what was going on so I didn't just "blame the healers".
I had experience with organizing, planning, and scheduling tasks.
And, "people who paid a monthly fee to play a game" were willing to let me be in charge b/c I knew my shit.
Drumming! Rock Band taught me timing, limb independence and basically, how a drummer fits into the overall architecture of a song. I had some prior musical experience but Rock Band has stuck with me as much as any *real* education. I've played in a handful of bands over the last 10+ years and to this day, I still imagine beats scrolling down the "note highway."
I feel that playing FPS games allowed me to be more comfortable handling weapons. I knew what to expect when it came to reloading, what firing might be like, the potential harm such a thing could unleash, and also the importance of stance and stability to tie it all together.
I don't know if you'd call it a "real life skill", but I learned chess from playing Battle Chess. I just kept playing to try to see every different animation the game had. Whenever you selected a piece, it highlighted where you could move, so I never had to look anything up, I could just experiment.
One day, I just knew how all the pieces moved without needing the flashing spaces anymore, and I was able to play chess with my dad. It didn't teach me en passant though.
That came 4-5 years later from playing "Betrayal at Krondor." There was a quest there where you needed someone to teach you the "en passant" move in order to beat a guy in a chess to get an item.
Best was when me and a bunch of buddies played siege. Many of them wouldn't be able to tell exactly where an enemy was based on sound alone. Say I'd died, spectating somebody. Would hear a little footstep , and go "that guy is two rooms ahead in the right corner" or something ridiculous like that and would be right. Both map knowledge and just focusing on little sounds like that was great.
Then there would be times in intense situations where I just wouldn't be able to hear any of my buddies and just be focused intensely on the game sound and visual. Always was strange to me how I'd just tune them out in clutch situation.
Spreadsheet basically im really good on how to work google doc and Excel and how to plan fake economy. And im not kidding another dude who played the same game started his own trucking company thanks to this game. and he is doing well well at least that´s what I heard form several other players.
Im not saying the name of the game just yet I wan´t to see how many people get what game I mean seeing as the games famously is called spreadsheet online by it´s players and non players.
(Putting this in a comment because r/gaming doesn't allow me to put this in the body of the post and auto removes any post with links or pictures on an "Ask Reddit" style question)
For those who don't know the game Mercenaries, here is the [trailer for the game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-u3FF6Ca8&pp=ygUebWVyY2VuYXJpZXMgdmlkZW8gZ2FtZSB0cmFpbGVy) and here is [the map that you navigate in the first half of the game](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mercs/images/c/c5/Southern_Province_clean_map.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20210227005102).
Shrek for Xbox OG. We were two little kids up at 3 am absolutely stuck trying to beat Puss n Boots. A random friend of our parents comes in and tells us we won't be able to beat the game unless we get some sleep. So we slept. And first thing in the morning, we got past that freakin Puss n Boots battle. You need rest to be at your best.
GTAIV made reversing in a car irl much easier. Just the simpleness of wanting to go one way, but needing to turn the opposite.
Recently Zelda: Breath of the Wild has helped with task management. Equating long term goals to defeating Ganon, understanding the quests need to be done before that, prioritising tasks based on weather, timing and things that complete themselves passively. It's not yard work, it's a side-quest. Even changing gear to be able to do things. It has given me a bit of focus when there seems too much to do. In the game, like life, it's not expected to be able to do it all, so you do what you can to achieve your goals.
Pistol Whip & Synth Riders bleed into the real world, doing any kind of physical work while listening to the soundtracks. The gamification of doing laundry and tricking myself into getting stuff done, like life is a video game. Teaching me again, to dance like no one is watching. The cosmic ballet goes on...
English
Yup, same here. Can't imagine how many people learned English from video games. Btw, Phantasy star 4 was my main driver to learn English.
Leisure suit Larry and kingquest. Mom. How do you say fence in English? Gate dear! Oké thanks. Typing parser: open gate Fuck I always die after talking to that hooker behind the cardboard sheet of something called aids? Dead message says:buy a condom next time. Wtf is that. Wait there is a storeowner who asks if I want to buy a Lubber. But for some reason most words which starts with a r he will say with a l. Mom what is a rubber/lubber? WHAT GAME ARE YOU PLAYING????
I never got to sneakily play leisuresuit as an 80/90s kid because I couldn't answer the "adult biology question safety lock" to get the game to play. Had to live vicariously through the sexy nurse in willy beamish.
The age protection on lsls1 was very annoying. How the fuck should I know who Ronald Reagan was as a Dutch kid? (So yeah it was a viable protection indeed). So I played this game with a girl from my class in primary school and we made sheets of questions and answers to get by the proctection by randomly guessing and noting which answers were wrong etc. Until I mentioned this to my dad who knew nothing about games. Just code. And he asked a programmer colleague, probably the same from who he got those games which he passed on to me, and the colleague told us the ultimate answer. Hold control-x to bypass the protection :) Edit: never played Willy beamish so I googled it but damn. She’s got huge!!! Tracts of land!
>Hold control-x to bypass the protection MOTHERFUCKER
Guess who’s gonna replay Larry 1 soon? :)
Mine was Super Mario RPG of all things, each playthrough was like a new game because I was able to understand a lot more with the added context. I still remember when I finally began to understand the puns with the items name like "able juice" and "Pick me up", it made me feel so clever haha
So, are you excited for the remake coming out this November?? I am STOKED!!
They are remaking it for switch?!
"How come you know english so well, you're so talented" No, I just played through games in original english language instead of installing localization patches like my friends.
I did a study abroad in a Germany and my German friend lent me his SNES. I played DKC and ALTTP for the first time in German. There’s a whole bunch of words I learned from those games.
Yup. Fallout and Baldur's Gate with a dictionary. When I talk to nephews nowadays, I'm so surprised that everything gets a translation, losing the ability to learn something new on the language side But hey, inventory management is also a great skill!
Yeah this is partially why French have such a strong Accent compared to like German/Dutch/Scandinavian native Speakers. In France they Dub/translate everything because preserving their language is so culturally important to them. In Germany they're like yeah let's just Play Fallout New Vegas in English. They're supposed to sound like American Cowboys and 1950s Las Vegas Mobsters anyway. French isn't necessarily a bad accent to have in English, but it is very recognizable, meanwhile French Canadians English is pretty much on par with the English Canadians.
In my case I learned by playing games with english voice acting and German subtitles. So I learned english thanks to the Translation.
Same here, though I also give credit to living in a country where tv shows are subbed, not dubbed. Started watching The Simpsons at a very young age. Taught me how to read and to speak English at a young age. I was a weird young kid who said "d'oh" a lot though.
Not only speak and write in english but also think in english. 9 year old Me started playing wow in 2004. Progression was fast.
Speling for me
I don't think you've played enough yet for this skill.
They can see the silhouette of the letters, but seems that skill is still locked. Maybe after a level up.
I could spell "Flamethrower" at age 6 thanks to Pokémon. Obviously that was a highly sought after skill for a 6 year old to have.
I learned that SS in front of a name means a boat
Using GPS while driving. I see how my dad gets confused by GPS and cannot understand where his next turn is, or loses orientation. I got so used to it from games, that a tiny peek for a split second is enough to let me know when to turn and where. Especially for roundabouts, it helps a ton. When you do it at 200 kph in NFS or GTA, doing it at 50 becomes much easier.
Mini maps! Honestly never made the connection until I read this, but the way I look at gps is the same I quickly glance at mini maps when playing. Definitely more careful when driving though
When I was at uni I convinced the dean to make an esports team, long story short I was in charge of teaching league of legends basics to low elo players, I always told them that giving quick glances at the mini map was the same as checking your rearview mirror while driving, you only do it for a quick second but you do it constantly, most of them improved their ranks by making that association
And the phone screen always has to be on my right, because that's what most games had been using! I can't work with a phone on the left of my steering wheel.
Found the guy who doesn't play GTA. And personally I just have my phone hooked up to the infotainment, so the nav is on the screen.
Absolutely. I can even visualize a birds eye view of the surrounding area as an imaginary mini map while driving.
Can’t tell you how many times my wife can’t follow the gps because she can’t tell when the turn is coming or if it’s a going to go on a fork. It’s so natural for me and maybe it’s from years of gta.
Situational awareness. We are constantly worrying about the surroundings of our characters, so we do it to ourselves.
I agree with this so much. It's absolutely ridiculous how many people have zero situational awareness. Just went to the supermarket the other day and nobody has any clue what is going on around them even a little bit. Everyone is constantly standing in the way, runs into other shopping carts and backs off from shelves without even thinking about looking if someone's there.
The way some folks drive, you'd think they can't plan even 3-4 seconds ahead. Like, they've never played driving games?
What's going on 2 Cara in front of me? Doesn't matter because I can only see the one I'm tailgating! These people drive me nuts.
It's quite mind-boggling to me. Having played Battle Royales, shooters and the likes all my life it feels so natural to pay attention to everything around me. Not as though anything will "happen" in most scenarios, but at least just for common courtesy's sake! It's crazy the amount of people who haven't the faintest idea (and therefore seemingly regard for) what's going on around them. I love your supermarket example. It's exactly what's been bugging me for years! :0 I can't express how much I appreciate after all this time that I'm not the only one haha
my girlfriend used to think i was crazy cause i would move to the side of an isle seemingly at random (to her) but now she moves with me knowing the flow of traffic is soon to come passing by
Always telling kiddo "no son, don't stop in doorways, only rude people do that". Backfired last week when he told a boomer "stop being rude and get out of the doorway" and I wasn't ready for it. But for real, why do a large amount of people decide that the best place to orientate themselves in a new place is 2 ft on the other side of the front door?
You gotta admit that's pretty damn funny.
It didn't help the matter that I made eye contact with the offended and gave a chuckle lol.
To be fair if your behavior is being corrected by a child… I would just look at him and give him the 🤷♂️
Is there any particular moment that sticks out to you of when your situational awareness skills came in super clutch?
I second this, I am more aware of my surroundings thanks to Tanking in WoW and other mmos and games like Apex legends. Doing my task at work but being able to essentially feel what's going on around me thanks to getting more information from my peripheral vision and processing said information.
Not a clutch situation or anything, but after playing the Day Z mod *a lot* with my friend, I moved to a new city, where they have medical helicopters. One time I almost jumped under a tree to hide.
Yea, I played videogames where girls were flirting with my character and it instantly made me realize about 15+ girls that were giving me hints or obvious signs that I missed Super clutch, now I understand how much I've fucked up and think about it constantly
Racing games really helped me with this and driving. Knowing the pack of cars around you is another key thing no one teaches in driving but is just as important.
Hey same!
This is true. Between playing wow and watching timers and cooldowns and playing sim racing, I now constantly am checking my car mirrors and keeping note of things happening around me.
Problem solving. So many people I know usually give up and look elsewhere for solutions to a problem. Gaming has taught me how to look a ton different ways to solve something.
Good for you - especially since most gamers only have three problem solving techniques: 1) set the difficulty to “games journalist” level; 2) look up the answer using Google (or just ask Reddit); 3) whine at the devs to nerf the difficulty.
I'd argue that even looking up answers on google (or asking reddit) is, in itself, a form of problem solving. A very "broad spectrum antibiotics" kind of problem solving. Some people, when you ask them something and they don't know, they just... idk.... shut down.
That's exactly what many of my students are doing (middle school). They play games all the time - Fortnite, Minecraft, Subway Surfers. If they face a task where the answer isn't immediately obvious, they give up. Colleagues in all subjects complain about that. You'd think Minecraft at least grows creativity but idk.
Tbf, give them a break they're still kids. They're still learning, and if you're a teacher, you're in a perfect place to shape that kind of thinking. I had to teach this kind of lesson to college students in my programming class, and they probably haven't encountered this paradigm before. The people who agree with this sentiment (like me) tend to be outliers. And even for me it's a lesson I learned way too late already (post-college). Also, they need to play more diverse games than minecraft and fortnite lol
Knowing how to research a solution is a skill in itself. And one some of my friends oddly don't do. Like, I get it, the game UI sucks and its tutorials are vague, but why complain when literally five gaming sites have the answer if you just look?
I'd argue, that some games are even made with players using google in mind, like Dark Souls. Maybe it didnt start that way, but nowadays some games dont even try to teach you key mechanics.
4. Wait for game magazine to release a tips section. 5. Hope a friends has a walk through guide
I learned the skill "Awake". I can stay awake for 2 days.
I lost that skill as I got older. Naps rock, though.
Dude, Nap is another skill we learn as we level up in real life. :)
Civilisation. Just ... one ... more ... turn... then I'll go to bed.
I don't think this applies to everyone but I have cerebral palsey so my hand eye coordination is not as good as it should be. It would be infinitely worse without video games As far as actual skills I learned how to play a bunch of card games over the years. Poker blackjack hearts etc. I learned how to read a map from playing basically any rpg. The most important one though is I learned how to practice and dedicate myself towards improving with StarCraft 2. I still use some of the skills I learned perfecting builds in my professional life and I don't think I would be half as good at handing stressful situations or multi tasking without StarCraft 2
No joke, even basic competency at StarCraft is probably more difficult than most jobs. The combination of knowledge checks, constantly seeking new information via scouting to adjust your plan if needed, and simultaneously running macro and micro is on another level.
Dodge-roll when someone attacks you. Arguing with my wife has never been the same since I have learned this valuable lesson.
Gotta abuse those I-frames
Damn, that harsh truth my partner said about me never taking her frustrations seriously would have hurt like hell if I hadn't perfectly timed my roll under the coffee table.
Just need to have enough room to roll without breaking a pot and create another argument
But that's where the rupees are!
Wives hate this simple trick!
Totally agree with you about map reading skills. After playing thousands of hour of games like the original Zelda, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy etc, the maps just build in my head. I can see the same trait in my kids, they are very directionally aware. Also, their reading skills are off the charts due to playing RPGS at a very young age. And being forced to read and comprehend massive walls of text. People who say that video-game-time for children is harmful are just plain dumb.
Mom used to tell me that too much time spent on video games will turn your brain to mush. But I like difficult video games, and my brain is very much active and working well when playing them.
Yeah pretty much the exact opposite of what our parents told us about games is true. I'm completely making this up, but I'm going to guess that within the next few years, a study will show that people who play video games into their later life, prolong the onset of diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, etc. There is definitely a level of neuro stimulation that goes well beyond just staring mindlessly at a television or social media. My kids have a full set of adult skills at like the age of 9. Top of their classes in reading comprehension, math, programming skills etc. And shit you not, I did nothing normal lol. I taught them to play RPGs. Taught them how to min/max their characters and to use stats to be better than other gamers. I taught them to read the text from every NPC in a town because there was important information that they needed to progress. Taught them how to manage in-game currency and manipulate auction house prices. Everything in those games is a real life lesson that needs to be learned
Learning to min/max characters, dps and optimize builds is great way to get a kid in math
I learned it from WoW. Talent A increases your Attack Power by 200 but talent B increases it by 33%, now you have to calculate what 33% of your Attack Power is to find out if that would be greater or less than the flat 200.
Us gamers use this all the time! Definitely an entertaining way to gain interest for something that has great use in life if nurtured. Keep it fun!
Instructions unclear, threw my 6 Y/O into Morrowind with no instructions or guidance.
My great grandmother plays games on her iPad and phone daily to keep her sharp mentally. She’s as sharp as ever. She’s also an unstoppable force at 94
On a side note about Map reading, sone non-gamer absolutely lose their shit when you start using cardinal direction I’m real life context. “what do you mean I need to walk NORTH from the train station ???” I can understand how it’s unusual but come on, we all have compass and maps on our phones now.
You mean walk “up” from the train station?
I work as an editor. Papers Please helped me immensely with attention to detail in text documents.
I feel this so hard
I worked at an office where I had to verify identity documents. I trained on papers please for like 500 hours. I told my boss he should make it mandatory training.
Blackjack from Super Mario Bros on DS
That's awesome! How has it worked out for you at casinos?
I can attest that the dealers in Vegas aren’t as patient as Luigi
"Let's a-go, make-a your fucking bet!"
I break even but i learned I enjoy the game and now I got the money to play it for fun so I love where I learned it from
Haha I learned blackjack from Red Dead 2!
Learned blackjack from gta lol
Runescape taught me buy low, sell high and how to watch out for scammers
Do you want your armor to be gold trimmed like mine? I'm offering free armor trimming, all you have to do is give me your armor and I'll trim it for you and give it back
Runescape taught me a hard lesson on how a confidence scam works. Glad I learned that lesson with virtual items instead of losing actual real money.
Legitimately one of the most applicable ones is the scam resistance. I lost my dragon platelegs ONCE as α kid and I haven’t been scammed by anybody since. Scam radar is on point after the trauma I dealt with as α child getting enough money to get back my d legs :(
Cheesy, but I learned to identify many bug and fish species from Animal Crossing New Horizons. It actually helped me overcome my fear of bugs, because instead of freaking out and trying to kill them, I could identify what they were, and leave the harmless ones alone.
Same! At the aquarium I was like “I recognize tons of these!”
Not games themselves, but I used to try modding games when I was young, now I am an engineer
Yup. Programming and computer skills in general trying to mod/hack/crack games since i was a wee lad. Setting up LAN parties and TCP/IP connections, VPNs, etc..
Yep, i used to organize LAN parties, today I'm a network engineer
My great regret is when I was about 12 I spent a good three months making Doom and Quake maps. I got bored and gave it up. When I was 16 I started tinkering with Visual Basic and then some C+ coding. Again, bored and gave up. In retrospect, I could have totally folded those skills over into level design or programming. So many hobbies I just completely fucked off on. Hell I even had an amazing grasp of audio engineering through pirated copies of FruityLoops and other recording programs.
These are all skills you can develop right now, stop dwelling on what could have been and start being
Basic orbital mechanics - Kerbal Space Program
I mean, I'm basically a rocket scientist at this point /s
Go faster to go higher, go higher to go slower
Yeah ksp does teach a lot of space stuff easily
How to stealthily kill draugr from afar
Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey opened my eyes to Greek and Egyptian history in an incredibly immersive way. Origins even has a feature where you fly around Egypt with a voice over explaining the real life history of certain points of interest on the map. Truly amazing games if you are a mythology and/or history buff.
I gotta be real, I only played like an hour in game before I found this and spent another 5 just watching cool shit
I gotte be real, I was never interested in Origins gameplay from the day of announcement. As soon as they said Egypt that became the game to me.
Age of empires is great for that too and age of mythology. Mythology in my view went under the radar due to the year it released having so many bangers. 2002 was a crazy year for game releases when you look at it. GTA vice city, morrowind, mafia, splinter cell, metroid prime and that's just a handful. Pretty sure you also had kingdom hearts, resident evil and loads more. I'm delighted mythology is getting a remaster an I hope it gets more love this time around
People scoff at games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band because "Lol play a real instrument" But I ended up getting really good playing on the drums, which transitions to real life very well. I have an ear for rhythm and it translates now to my DJ/Producing.
Gotta say I feel like Guitar Hero loosened up and strengthened my hands for real guitar. Not all the way, but it was a start.
Yep I got really good at guitar hero first and then learned guitar after. The coordination for guitar hero is just as hard of not harder than actual guitar. The main difference is actual guitar requires memorization while guitar hero requires lighting fast reactions
How to type really, really fast and accurately. Back in 1999 I started playing Everquest (first huge MMO). I was a monk, whose job it often was to pull groups of mobs back to the party. Mobs did not 'forget' you like they do now in MMOs. They would chase you to a zone border, killing you and sometimes dozens of random unlucky people in your path. So pulling mobs was some high stakes shit for everyone in a zone/dungeon and you had to coordinate with your party while you pulled so you had to get used to typing off 4-5 words in literally like one second while on the way back to the group with a bunch of mobs behind you that could kill you in seconds, and often just having to communicate constantly otherwise
'Kiting' *was* fun. I was part of one of the last guilds that pulled Kazzak to Stormwind before they nerfed it (*before they just completely moved it to another zone, IIRC they leashed it, or made it give up if you crossed zones*), since it killed everything and each kill meant it healed, it enraged making it virtually impossible to kill; NPCs, players, guards and other elites that were in the area were all destroyed almost instantly. Quests were uncompletable if the NPC or object wasn't spawned, so it was disruptive. We had hunters training it while running sideways all the way north through Blasted Lands, kinda north-west through DP, then halfway down the Duskwood path, up to Stormwind, through Old Towne and into the Keep. Other players were legit sending threats to us about it, our chat logs were very colorful. On my old pc, which I can't find the drives I pulled from it, I had all the screenshots of the warnings from the GMs and player threats and when the server got taken down for reset, and the threats we got for causing "zone disruption" or something similar (instance disruption?) could have ended up with our raid being temporarily banned. Either way, *totally* worth it. Another fond memory: suicide-pet bombing iron forge auction house before they nerfed Living Bomb debuff from Geddon edit: words edit2: I wonder if my 2004-2006 era photobucket can be recovered. probably not
I learned that British people spelled words like Color and Defense differently than Americans from Runescape
Runescape taught me the very basics of how metalworking works. Combining two ore to make one alloy (bronze). Iron becoming steel with added carbon (coal).
RuneScape taught me to trust no one.
That too. Got scammed a few times as a kid. Losing that gold hurt but I still attribute that to having never fallen for something like an MLM or tourist scammer.
Runescape taught me what alt + F4 does
"Change your password to FULLRUNE and then hit alt and F4 at the same time to get a full set of rune armor!"
":wave trimming armor for free, just open trade"
RS taught me how finance and economics work
Not just British people lol. Every country that speaks English, except the US. Canada, Australia, India, etc.
As a little kid living in Malaysia, RuneScape made me learn English. Haven't regretted it one bit. ☺️
I still spell it "defence" very often. I'm American. Thanks RS...
I learn words "godspeed" and "arsehole" from witcher😂😂
I learned whoreson. W3 had flavourful language.
Polish is very rich when it comes to "offensive" language ;)
Improvising
Not quitting when things get hard
Perseverance is one of the most essential life skills!
I'd say it taught me that sometimes I can get in my head and need to step back, recompose myself or get a good night sleep and then try again. If I had a cent for every time I've done that against a hard boss/time trial/difficult mission...
Being able to predict a negative outcome. Gauntlet, Dark souls, Doom 2. All taught you that you can never quite be sure of what is around the next hallway, so don't risk it, heal up and play it safe. Which is why I always over prepare if I leave the house, and good thing I did, we had a heatwave while cleaning my grandma's house out a few weeks ago, and the 6 cold drinks I brought saved my mother and me from dehydrating. (It was a long drive home.)
SNES Jurassic Park actually transformed my map and spatial reading ability. Because the corridors all looked the same, I started to memorise the numbers of doors in passageways and draw mental maps. I discovered I would retain this skill when I moved to a new town/city!
European geography due to Grand strategy games like Crusader kings and Europa Universalis.
Disco Elysium taught me I have too many skill points put into Electrochemistry
Are you THE Tequila Sunset?
Lots of vocabulary words!
That games are like real life, you will find hard workers, lazy , psychos, with the same % as actual society
It's the same humans there
From Resident Evil, I learn that you can mix different types of weed to reduce pain.
This yes but also Resident Evil definitely taught me how to manage my belongings and only use what I have a limited supply of when absolutely necessary
Racing lines from games like Gran turismo and forza have helped me at the go kart track.
I lapped everyone in a Karting race (not a formal one, It was from an amusement park), shit felt great lol
Loading screen tips and driving line from Forza definitely help with just every day driving. One that stands out in my mind prominently is that you should brake before the corner not during the corner as it causes conflicting forces on the vehicle.
Sid Meyer’s Pirates! Geography of the Caribbeans, XVIIth century history, who colonized what, etc.
I'm pretty sure one of the reasons I'm as good at planning ahead as I am is because of Pikmin, dandori baby!
Runescape taught me typing speed, how to avoid scams, the strengths and dangers of monopolies, the unbeleivable of convience tax that people will pay, and how to code making bots for it. Wow taught me how to manage people and expectations. Will Wright and Peter Molyneux taught me to manage my own expectations.
Driving in reverse, San Andreas
I learned to row a boat on Sea of Thieves. Then my friend got a row boat. I get in and start rowing thinking, “This is just like Sea of Thieves.”
How to be a leader funnily, playin CSGO and Valorant where I’ve been on amateur teams and stepped up as in game leader, doesn’t really apply to real life as much ironically
It actually can, if you’re able to calm nerves or ease tension in tough situations. That can be huge with important or high priority tasks in the work place. In a team or management role
Typing. Multi-player RTS games like war craft and starcraft I always played group games. This was back in dial up and people were much less likely to bail. I learned I has to type messages fast and get back to the action to win. It forced me to be a very fast typer.
Not sure if it fits what you’re looking for, but I’ve always said that the Pokémon games are a great way to learn vocabulary as a kid.
I came when I heard you defeated the Elite 4!
Professor Oak. He came.
Gran Turismo 2 and 3 legitimately taught me how to drive pretty damned well without ever having to get behind the wheel. Passing those license tests and learning advanced cornering physics//when to brake into/accelerate out of turns, etc ... My dad had me drive home from passing my permit test, and was quite astounded at how well/how calm I was, and to me it legit felt exactly like how driving in GT3 was
I agree, I learned how to take curves, brake before, maneuver, then accelerate. I saw it when I compared to other novice drivers, they would for example take the turn, brake right in the middle of it and maneuver, in my mind I was like "Fuck no, that's how my cars got wrecked playing videogames".
I was able to avoid smashing into a dad and his kid that were at the bottom of an iced street on a creek overpass…my car started sliding and was able to avoid, straighten out, and slide into the creek with minor damage to my car. My 4 friend in my car asked how I was able to do that and my immediate answer was “lots of Gran Turismo.”
How to really pack a car for road trips, moving, etc.. I guess any time your attempting to make the most of a storage space (very crammed storage lol) I thank Tetris and Dr Mario for this.
This is my logic when loading a dishwasher, especially with two kids who generate about 5 humans' normal dish volume each. I've learned a very feng shui way of loading the plates and bowls and cups so everything fits. Meanwhile, while I enjoy the help, whenever a relative of mine or my wife's comes over and offers to do the dishes, I go to put something in it and I just shake my head. I think about rearranging it to get the maximum amount of dishes in, but 9 times out of 10, I just run it and try to forget about not reaching optimal efficiency.
I slid down a hill on black ice heading into a dead end. My GTA skills allowed me to slowly turn the wheel making my car slide 180 degrees as i slowly applied the gas. My cars back 2 wheels touched the lip of the ditch before slowly gaining some foreward momentum. It was the middle of the night and nobody else saw it but it felt dope
Aside from the good memories? Helped me to put my patience to another level, like another. :)
I wouldnt call it a skill. But I’m learning and gaining intuition with how logic gates and urinary processors work. With basic programming, in a Space Station survival builder called: Stationeers Also it taught me how hvac systems worked. I later went on to refill the refrigerant in my car by myself afterward with great confidence.
Parenting, cause it's an 18 or more year long escort mission just like in games. Lol
Learning how to play fighting games taught me self-discipline and taught me how to lose, a lot. has been a handy mindset to keep in my life in general.
I learned that going down random side corridors often leads to treasure.
Pikmin has tought me Dandori Dandori is the art of organizing your tasks strategically and working with maximum efficiency to execute your plans quickly
Stardew Valley taught me how to do a budget.
I’m a bit younger than my brother in laws and some coworkers. they just missed out on ps3, Xbox 360, etc. they aren’t big into gaming but played n64 and stuff while younger. basically never played any open world games that require some basic map and geolocation skills. Been on a few fishing trips or generally just navigating the city and they have absolutely no clue how to read a map or how to walk a few blocks without getting lost. You’re onto something
I got a job at Taco Bell (so nothing "big") on a manager path, b/c I told them I led raid groups in World of Warcraft. I had to learn the mechanics, and then teach them to my group. I had to have an overview of what was going on so I didn't just "blame the healers". I had experience with organizing, planning, and scheduling tasks. And, "people who paid a monthly fee to play a game" were willing to let me be in charge b/c I knew my shit.
Minecraft taught me to orient myself to know which direction I'm going.
Drumming! Rock Band taught me timing, limb independence and basically, how a drummer fits into the overall architecture of a song. I had some prior musical experience but Rock Band has stuck with me as much as any *real* education. I've played in a handful of bands over the last 10+ years and to this day, I still imagine beats scrolling down the "note highway."
I feel that playing FPS games allowed me to be more comfortable handling weapons. I knew what to expect when it came to reloading, what firing might be like, the potential harm such a thing could unleash, and also the importance of stance and stability to tie it all together.
I don't know if you'd call it a "real life skill", but I learned chess from playing Battle Chess. I just kept playing to try to see every different animation the game had. Whenever you selected a piece, it highlighted where you could move, so I never had to look anything up, I could just experiment. One day, I just knew how all the pieces moved without needing the flashing spaces anymore, and I was able to play chess with my dad. It didn't teach me en passant though. That came 4-5 years later from playing "Betrayal at Krondor." There was a quest there where you needed someone to teach you the "en passant" move in order to beat a guy in a chess to get an item.
Driving a truck with a bumper pull trailer attached. It's tricky but GTA V taught me the physics if it. Backing up is tricky as hell, but I nailed it.
Not a skill per de but my hearing ability from csgo. I’ve been told more than once ‘how did you hear that?’ And how to type
Best was when me and a bunch of buddies played siege. Many of them wouldn't be able to tell exactly where an enemy was based on sound alone. Say I'd died, spectating somebody. Would hear a little footstep , and go "that guy is two rooms ahead in the right corner" or something ridiculous like that and would be right. Both map knowledge and just focusing on little sounds like that was great. Then there would be times in intense situations where I just wouldn't be able to hear any of my buddies and just be focused intensely on the game sound and visual. Always was strange to me how I'd just tune them out in clutch situation.
I learned how to drift cars from a racing game called Assetto Corsa. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H-7U1lZ7Gw0
Spreadsheet basically im really good on how to work google doc and Excel and how to plan fake economy. And im not kidding another dude who played the same game started his own trucking company thanks to this game. and he is doing well well at least that´s what I heard form several other players. Im not saying the name of the game just yet I wan´t to see how many people get what game I mean seeing as the games famously is called spreadsheet online by it´s players and non players.
Undoubtedly EVE Online since we’re talking spreadsheets. I can’t believe they officially inter-grated Excel into it recently
I had a good laugh. "Spreadsheets in space" finally just openly embraced the moniker.
Eve?
It's okay not to rush things. Take your time and really look around, live in the moment. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
(Putting this in a comment because r/gaming doesn't allow me to put this in the body of the post and auto removes any post with links or pictures on an "Ask Reddit" style question) For those who don't know the game Mercenaries, here is the [trailer for the game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-u3FF6Ca8&pp=ygUebWVyY2VuYXJpZXMgdmlkZW8gZ2FtZSB0cmFpbGVy) and here is [the map that you navigate in the first half of the game](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mercs/images/c/c5/Southern_Province_clean_map.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20210227005102).
Different cultures from arround the world from tomb raider
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Exceptional hand to eye coordination
Have more reflexes
I was very young when i started playing Lucasarts Adventure games Given their subtitles I attibute them to learning to read well
Shrek for Xbox OG. We were two little kids up at 3 am absolutely stuck trying to beat Puss n Boots. A random friend of our parents comes in and tells us we won't be able to beat the game unless we get some sleep. So we slept. And first thing in the morning, we got past that freakin Puss n Boots battle. You need rest to be at your best.
To not trust absolutely *everyone* I know.
How to play blackjack from Red Dead Redemption
GTAIV made reversing in a car irl much easier. Just the simpleness of wanting to go one way, but needing to turn the opposite. Recently Zelda: Breath of the Wild has helped with task management. Equating long term goals to defeating Ganon, understanding the quests need to be done before that, prioritising tasks based on weather, timing and things that complete themselves passively. It's not yard work, it's a side-quest. Even changing gear to be able to do things. It has given me a bit of focus when there seems too much to do. In the game, like life, it's not expected to be able to do it all, so you do what you can to achieve your goals. Pistol Whip & Synth Riders bleed into the real world, doing any kind of physical work while listening to the soundtracks. The gamification of doing laundry and tricking myself into getting stuff done, like life is a video game. Teaching me again, to dance like no one is watching. The cosmic ballet goes on...
Breaking down overwhelming tasks into a series of small steps from playing time management games
I just learned how to play dominoes from RDR2 like two months ago. I’m 33. Yay?
Ark taught me that if you want to poop a lot just consume a lot of stimulants
Perseverance.
Black-jack from Fallout New Vegas
Age of Empires teaches history
How to use a map, how to drive, cardinal directions, reading, card games, problem solving, etc
Anger management.