Archived First Person Shooters Cause Brain Damage According to New Study (cogconnected.com)
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Archived First Person Shooters Cause Brain Damage According to New Study (cogconnected.com)
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[–] ChanceofRain ago
It is interesting that the study targeted a specific type of game, rather than blanket use of video games in general. In general I prefer 2-D strategy or puzzle games. I stopped playing FPS somewhere around Goldeneye (1997). Maybe that's why it bored me a bit, the core gameplay didn't engage enough of my brain.
I used to enjoy Quake, but mostly for the level designing. The Beyond Belief series was pretty impressive for it's time. I played it more like an early Minecraft more often than not. One time after dying near the end of a hard level again, I created map where various mobs were trapped in different types of cages. Each cage had a button that would kill the monster in different ways, dropping into lava, crushed by spikes, etc. One thing I still regret to this day is losing the awesome deathmatch level I made, a four level arena with everything, blind corners, catwalks, hidden tunnels underwater... might have to look into starting up that program again.
I had a brief revival of interest in FPS when Halo came out, but it was purely social, and I enjoyed doing absurd things like hunting any of my friends who were in a vehicle, then parking it in the most inconvenient place possible. If given the chance, I would form a pile of vehicles at the exit to a building or something like that.