Making use of gaming experience in real life (feat. Dark Souls).
For several year I’ve been thinkin on how can gaming experience be used in daily life.
For now I suppose, that mostly the games can’t help you succeding in other tasks, but a few titles are pretty close to that point. One of them is Dark Souls, and I think that it can teach us a thing of two.
First of all you comprehend a concept that everything good takes big effords and patience. Also you constatly try to calculate risks: in many game situations you’ll decide will you play risky, but with more interest (but that tactic pretty often can be dissapointing), or in a more stable, but more boring manner. The thing, that’s at stake is your lifetime. So in your daily life - you can try risky things like startups, a job in new field, some weird relationships and so on, but in the end they can be a waste of time. On the other hand life without severe risk is more stable, but can feel more boring.
Secondly, every time you face something new at the game, you learn to ask yourself a question “What am I looking at?”. Through the game you get help from a lot of weird creatures, but some more normally looking ones can betray you, causing additional difficulties. Also when you meet a monster you never know how dangerous it is or will it respawn after killing, but still you try to guess. I think that this mindset can help you to take people and different events of your life with a lower bias and constatly ask yourself “What am I looking at?”.
And one more thing I’ve constantly asked myself during the game is “What state I’m in?”. In modern world of internet and Hadron Colliders we live like omniscient beings. But there’s still so much to discover! And no one can surely tell you what to do with your life for you to be happy. When you’re playing Dark Souls for the first time (especially without online manuals) you feel a really strong frustration. You literally have to fight for knowledge about this odd hostile world and constantly look for different patterns. Some world’s laws, like how exactly held humanity affects the gameplay, will most likely stay obscure to the player. I think this virtual scientific work can make you more attentive to your real life and it’s patterns.
I’m making a detailed video on these, where I’ll look closely at each of these points and some more.
What do you think about using gaming experience in real life? Do you have a story of your own? Tell me, I’m really into that topic.
Thank you for reading! You can find my game analysis Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk6ebZC3j08AkE2vH9sBxlQ
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