The Emotional Help
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In this day and age, everyone is gullible. The media and everyone else who are against video games say there is nothing beneficial to playing video games, and many people believe them. They all fail to see how playing certain games help people mentally. In other words, people go for video games to help them with their emotions. An article written by Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels titled, “The Benefits of Playing Video Games.” The article is based on all the positive impacts video games have on the players. It explains that people play games to regulate their mood, “it may simply be that positive moods and game playing co-occur, and players report retrospectively that experiencing positive emotions was a conscious motivation that preceded play” (Granic 72). Playing certain games gives people this sense of joy and happiness while playing the games. In retrospect, video games make people smile. Video games are just overall fun to play, they kill time, and there are some games that connect people to past life events.
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For example, a group of buddies play Mario Cart: Double Dash in their college dorm room every week. Once graduation passes, the group comes together to relive the old days. By them playing that one specific game, it helped them remember the good times in college and smile back on it. Certain games cause people to have an emotional connection. From past gamer experience, when I used to play Call of Duty: Black Ops all day long with some friends in the summer of 2011, I got emotionally attached to the game. Nowadays everything is different, but when I look back on that one game, all that I remember are those sleepless days and hour long playing. I remember being so happy though, and that makes me smile a little every time. It is true that video games help people with emotions because I can relate. Moreover, another addition that comes out of video games are the skills learned.